The American Standard
Translation
of
THE
HOLY BIBLE
CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES
BEING THE VERSION SET FORTH A.D. 1611
COMPARED WITH THE MOST ANCIENT
AUTHORITIES AND REVISED A.D. 1881-1885
Newly Edited by the American Revision Committee
A.D. 1901
Standard Edition
NEW YORK
THOMAS NELSON & SONS
385 MADISON AVENUE
This Standard American Edition of the Revised Version of the Bible, and editions in conformity
with it published by Messrs. THOMAS NELSON & SONS and certified by this indorsement, are
the only editions authorized by the American Committee of Revision.
GEORGE E. DAY, Secretary of the Committee, and of the Old Testament Committee.
J. HENRY THAYER, Secretary of the New Testament Company.
From the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible
COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
TO INSURE PURITY OF TEXT
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
A FEW statements need to be made respecting the origin of this edition of the Revised Version of
the English Bible
In the course of the joint labors of the English and American Revisers it was agreed that respecting
all points of ultimate difference, the English Companies, who had had the initiative in the work of
revision, should have the decisive vote. But as an offset to this, it was proposed on the British side
that the American preferences should be published as an Appendix in every copy of the Revised
Bible during a term of fourteen years. The American Committee on their part pledged themselves
to give, for the same limited period, no sanction to the publication of any other editions of the
Revised Version than those issued by the University Presses of England.
There still remained the possibility that the British Revisers, or the university Presses, might
eventually adopt in the English editions many, or most, of the American preferences, in case these
should receive the approval of scholars and the general public. But soon after the close of their
work in 1885 the English Revision Companies disbanded; and there has been no indication of an
intention on the part of the Presses to amalgamate the readings of the Appendix, either wholly or in
part, with the text of the English editions.
The American Revision Committee, after the publication of the Revised Version in 1885, resolved
to continue their organization, and have regarded it as a possibility that an American recension of
the English Revision might eventually be called for. Accordingly they have been engaged more or
less dilligently, ever since 1885, and especially since the year 1897, in making ready for such a
publication. The judgment of scholars, both in Great Britain and in the United States, has so far
approved the American preferences that it now seems to be expedient to issue an edition of the
Revised Version with those preferences embodied in the text.
If the preparation of this new edition had consisted merely in the mechanical work of transferring
the readings of the Appendix to the text, it would have been a comparatively easy task. But the
work was in point of fact a much more elaborate one. The Appendix was itself in need of revision;
for it had been prepared under circumstances which rendered fullness and accuracy almost
impossible. This work could of course not be taken in hand until the revision was concluded; and
since it required a careful consideration of discussions and decisions extending over a period of
many years, there was need of many months' time if the Appendix was to be satisfactorily
constructed, especially as it was thought desirable to reduce the number of recorded differences,
and this required the drawing of a sharp line between the more and the less important. Manifestly
such a task would be one of no little difficulty at the best. But when the time came for it to be
done, the University Presses deemed that the impatient demand of the British public for the speed
publication of the Revision must be respected; and they insisted on a prompt transmission of the
Appendix. Prepared under such pressure and in such haste, it was obviously inevitable that it
should be marked by grave imperfections; and the correction of its errors and the supplementing of
its defects has been a work of much time and labor.
When the Appendix was originally prepared, an effort was made to pave the way for an eventual
acceptance of the American preferences on the part of the English Presses, by reducing the number
of the points of difference to the lowest limit, and thus leaving out much of the larger part of the
emendations which the Revisers had previously by a two-thirds vote pronounced to be in their
opinion of decided importance. In now issuing an American edition, the American Revisers, being
entirely untrammelled by any connection with the British Revisers and Presses, have felt
themselves to be free and to go beyond the task of incorporating the Appendix in the text, and are
no longer restrained from introducing into the text a large number of those suppressed emendations.
The remainder of this Preface has special reference to the Old Testament. Nothing needs to be said
about the various particular proposals which are found in the Appendix of the English Revised
Version. But some remarks may be made concerning those emendations in this edition which are
additional to those prescribed in the Appendix.
I.
The change first proposed in the Appendix-that which substitutes "Jehovah" for "L
ORD
" and
"G
OD
" (printed in small capitals)-is one which will be unwelcome to many, because of the
frequency and familiarity of the terms displaced. But the American Revisers, after a careful
consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which
regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the
English or any other version of the Old Testament, as it fortunately does not in the
numerous versions made by modern missionaries. This Memorial Name, explained in Ex
3:14, 15, and emphasized as such over and over in the original text of the Old Testament,
designates God as the personal God, as the covenant God, the God of revelation, the
Deliverer, the Friend of his people;-not merely the abstractly "Eternal One" of many French
translations, but the ever living Helper of those who are in trouble. This personal name,
with its wealth of sacred associations, is now restored to the place in the sacred text to
which it has an unquestionable claim.
The uniform substitution of "Sheol" for "the grave," "the pit," and "hell," in places where these
terms have been retained by the English Revision, has little need of justification. The English
Revisers use "Sheol" twenty-nine times out of the sixty-four in which it occurs in the original. No
good reason has been given for such a discrimination. If the new term can be fitly used at all, it is
clear that it ought to be used uniformly.
The use of "who" and "that" for "which," when relating to persons, should commend itself to all as
required by grammatical accuracy. The same remark applies to the substitution of "are" for "be" in
indicative clauses, the omission of "for" before the infinitive, the change of "an" to "a" before "h"
aspirated. The latter change was made in the English Revision of the New Testament, but not in
that of the Old. Likewise we have uniformly adopted the modern spelling in place of antiquated
forms. No one would advocate the resumption of the exact orthography of the edition of 1611.
The mere fact that in a few cases an older form has happened to be retained constitutes no reason
for its perpetual retention.
II.
Inasmuch as the present edition differs from the English Revision not simply in presenting
in the text the American preferences as given in the Appendix, a few remarks may be made
with regard to the additional variations which will be found to exist.
1.
As has already been intimated, this edition embodies a very considerable number of renderings
originally adopted by the American Old Testament Company at their second revision (and so by
a two-thirds majority), but waived when the Appendix was prepared. These represent the
deliberate preference of the American Company; but for reasons already assigned, they were
not included in the Appendix.
2.
Partly coinciding with the foregoing is a number of alterations which consist in a return to the
readings of the Authorized Version. While in some cases the older readings, though inaccurate,
seem to have been retained in the English Revisions through an excessive conservatism, in
others they have been abandoned needlessly, and sometimes to the injury of the sense and the
sound. In such cases fidelity to the general principle that has governed us has required us to
give the preference to the rendering of the Common Version. Among the many instances of
these restorations we may note: Exod. 20:4, 13; Lev. 16:22; Psa. 68:1, Ps 104:26, Ps 114:4, Ps
116:11, Prov. 8:15; Amos 6:5.
3.
Sometimes we have found occasion to recede from proposals originally made when a more
careful and mature consideration required us to do so. Besides individual cases like Psalm
128:8; Ezekiel 5:13, may be mentioned the fact that the requirement of the Appendix, that "be
ashamed" should everywhere be changed to "be put to shame," has been found to need
qualification. While the change seems desirable in a majority of the instances, it is by no means
so in all. We have therefore retained "ashamed" in a large number of passages; in some,
however, we have preferred "confounded" as better suiting the connection.
4.
Very many of the instances in which we have gone beyond the literal requirements of the
Appendix are alterations demanded by consistency. Changes were originally proposed in
certain passages only, though the reason for the changes equally requires them to be made in
numerous others. Thus at Psalm 33:5 and in twenty-four other places, "justice" was to be put
for "judgement." But it is manifest that in a multitude of other passages there is equal need of
the same alteration. We have accordingly undertaken to introduce it wherever the Hebrew
word plainly has this abstract sense. For the same reason we have substituted "ordinance" for
"judgment" in the numerous passages, like Lev. 18:4, where the word denotes, not a judicial
sentence, threatened or inflicted, but a law of action. This rendering of the Hebrew word is
found in the Authorized Version in some instances, and has been introduced by the Revised
Version in a few more; but since the English word "judgement" in common use never denotes a
statute or command, it is manifestly desirable that "ordinance" should be used wherever the
Hebrew word has this meaning.
Similarly, the English Revision in a few cases, and the Old Testament Appendix in a few more, put
"despoil" for "spoil." But the same reason which holds for those few is equally good for the
numerous others in which this word occurs. The word "spoil" in the Authorized Version represents
a great number of hebrew words, some of which denote "lay waste," "ruin," or "destroy," rather
than "despoil"; and as "spoil" has nearly lost in popular use its original meaning, and is liable to
occasion misconception, we have replaced it by "despoil," "plunder," "ravage," and other terms,
each as best adapted to the connection.
In like manner we have carried out another alteration which was made to a limited extent by the
English Revisers-the distinction between the words "stranger" ("strange"), "foreigner" ("foreign"),
and "sojourner." These renderings correspond fairly well to three distinct Hebrew words; there is
no good reason why the correspondence should not be made uniform throughout. Likewise we
have carried out consistently the substitution of "false," "falsehood," and other terms for "vain,"
"vanity," where the meaning of the original requires it. Here too a beginning was made by us in the
Appendix. Many other examples might be adduced.
Here may be mentioned also that changes made for the sake of euphemism have been considerably
increased. It has not been possible in every case to find an appropriate substitute for terms which in
modern times have become offensive; but when it has been possible, we have deemed it wise to
make the change. Some of the words, as, for example, "bowels,' are tolerable when used in their
literal sense. Thus, no other word would be appropriate in 2 Sam. 20:10; but in Jer. 4:19 or Lam
1:20 to retain that term would be both unpleasant and incorrect. The conception of the writer is not
really reproduced by a literal translation. The Hebrews were accustomed to attribute mental actions
or emotions to various physical organs, whereas in English such a trope is limited almost entirely to
"heart" and "brain." There is nowhere any occasion for using the latter of these in the Bible;
consequently it is almost unavoidable that "heart" should often be used as the Hebrew word
commonly rendered "heart" is used very largely to denote not so much the seat of emotions, as the
seat of thought. It is rendered in the Authorized Version more than twenty times by "mind," and
might well be so rendered much oftener.
The word "reins" is one of those which in the Old Testament is used in a psychological relation.
This word was retained by the English Revisers, and was also left without mention by the
American Revisers when they prepared their Appendix. But if the synonymous word "kidneys"
had been used in these passages, there would be an earnest and unanimous protest. In favor of the
continued use of "reins," therefore, one can only urge the poor reason that most readers attach to it
no meaning whatever. We have consequently regarded it as only a formally substituted "heart" for
it, whenever it is used in a psychological sense.
In this connection it may be remarked that, while the English Revisers, yielding to the urgent
representations of the Americans, voted to substitute "its" for "his" or "her" when relating to
impersonal objects not personified, the substitution was so imperfectly made that we have had
occasion to supplement the word in some two hundred cases.
Furthermore, the general intention of the American Revisers to eliminate obsolete, obscure, and
misleading terms has been more fully carried out by replacing some expressions which were left
unmentioned in the Appendix;
e.g.,
"boiled" (Ex. 9:31), "in good liking" (Job 39:4).
5.
Closely connected with the foregoing are certain additional alterations which have seemed to be
required by regard for pure English idiom.
We are not insensible to the justly lauded beauty and vigor of the style of the Authorized Version,
nor do we forget that it has been no part of our task to modernize the diction of the Bible. But we
are also aware that the rhetorical force and the antique flavor which we desire to retain do not
consist in sporadic instances of uncouth, unidiomatic, or obscure phraseology. While we may
freely admit that the English of the Scriptures can, as a whole, hardly be improved, yet it would be
extravagant to hold that it cannot be bettered in any of its details. What was once good usage is
often such no longer; and we can see no sound reason for retaining such expressions as "smell
thereto" (Ex. 30:38), "forth of" (instead of "forth from"), "inquire at" (1 Kings 22:5), "a fool's
vexation is heavier than them both," (Prov. 27:3), or "when . . . he be jealous over his wife" (Num.
5:30). There are only a few of the many instances of phraseology which there is the best reason for
amending.
A change of a more general kind is the introduction of a greater degree of consistency and propriety
in the use of the auxiliaries "will" and "shall." The latter is certainly used to excess in the
Authorized Version, especially when connected with verbs denoting an action of the Divine Being;
and the two are also often very inconsistently used, as may be observed in such a striking case as Ps
121:3, 4.
Again, the attempt to translate literally from the original has not infrequently led to Hebraisms
which had better be avoided. Many of these have indeed become, as it were, naturalized in our
language, and need not be disturbed. But others must be called bad and outlandish. Thus, in Ezek
20:17, we read, "mine eye spared them from destroying them," which is a very literal translation of
the Hebrew, but very poor English. Scarecly more tolerable is the expression, "that they may be to
do the service" (Num. 8:11), which also comes from over-literalness. To the same class belongs
the phrase "by the hand of," as used after such expressions as "Jehovah spake" (or, "commanded"),
e.g.,
in Num 27:23. This is indeed the literal rendering; but the Hebrew really means simply
"through" or "by means of," and is in the majority of these instances in the Authorized Version
rendered "by," but sometimes "by the hand of." Manifestly the simpler form is every way
preferable; and the change, if any is made, should be in this direction, whereas in the English
Revision "by" is, in nine cases out of forty-two, changed to "by the hand of." Similarly, "in the
land," in Deut. 5:16 and in several other places, has been changed in the English Revision to "upon
the land"; but as "land" is here equivalent to "country," "in the land" is clearly the most appropriate.
In both these groups of cases we have everywhere adopted the idiomatic English, rather than the
slavishly literal, rendering.
6.
In introducing certain translation different from those of the English Revised Version, and also
not directly or implicitly required by the Appendix, we have been governed by the conviction
that, in cases where accuracy and perpicuity clearly required an emendation, we were fully
warranted in resorting to it. We have been careful, in making these alterations, to consult the
best authorities, and especially the recent carefully revised versions of the German, French,
Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian Bibles. Few certainly will object to such alterations as
are found in Deut 32:14, Judges 5:20, Isaiah 30:32; Isaiah 35:8, Hosea 11:2; Micah 1:6. We
have also not hesitated to insert "the" before "Jordan" and other names of rivers. Likewise, as
the English Revisers had with good reason removed the fabulous "unicorn" from the Old
Testament, so we have removed the equally fabulous "dragon," as also the "arrowsnake" of the
English revision (Isaiah 34:14)-an animal unknown to zoology, the term having obviously been
adopted through a too literal translation of the German word "Pfeilschlange."
7.
Another particular in which we have to some extent deviated from the requirements of the
Appendix relates to our treatment of the references in the margin to the readings of the ancient
versions. On account of the extreme difficulty of correcting the Hebrew text by means of those
versions, we originally decided that it would be better to make no reference to them at all. The
case is radically different from that of the New Testament, where the variant readings are
mostly found in Greek manuscripts of the New Testament itself. The authorities referred to in
the Old Testament are translations from the Hebrew; and though the date of these translations is
more ancient than any extant manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, yet there is no means of
verifying with certainty the text of these translations; and one can never get beyond plausible
conjection in attempting to correct the Hebrew text by means of them. It is one thing to admit
that the Hebrew text is probably corrupt here and there; quite another, to be sure how to rectify
it. In the English Revision there are frequent references in the margin to the ancient versions.
The most of these seem to us at the best of trivial importance, and have been dropped. A few
represent only a different vocalization of the Hebrew. A certain number, however, have to do
with variations of some importance and such as may, with considerably probability, be
conjectured to represent the original Hebrew. We have therefore retained a little more than
one-sixth of the references given in the English Revision, but have been careful to designate
which of the ancient versions contain a specified reading, instead of making the vague, and
often inaccurate, statement that "some" or "many" ancient versions present the reading in
question.
8.
In preparing the headings, we have intended, by means of brief but descriptive terms, to enable
the reader to see at a glance what the general contents of each page are. Everything that might
seem to savor of a questionably exegis has been carefully avoided.
9.
Considerable attention has been paid to the paragraph divisions and to the punctuation. While
the English Revisers did well to abandon the older way of making a paragraph of each verse,
they often went to the opposite extreme of making the paragraphs excessively long, leaving in
some cases whole pages without a break, as, for example, at Gen. 24 and Numbers 22-24. We
have a revised the paragraph divisions throughout, making them generally shorter, and
sometimes altering the place of the division.
In the matter of punctuation, we have aimed to remove many inconsistencies found in previous
editions, and also, while retaining the general system adopted by our predecessors, to make the
book conform somewhat more nearly to modern usage. One result is a considerable reduction of
the number of colons, which are often replaced by semicolons, occasionally by periods or commas.
In some cases a change of punctuation has modified the sense; as,
e.g.,
in Gen 2:5, Gen. 14:24;
Ezek. 29:9, 10. We have also made much more frequent use of the hyphen than has been made in
previous editions. In many instances we have recurred to the punctuation of the Authorized
Version, especially where the English Revisers have departed from it out of an undue regard to the
pausal accents of the Massoretic text; as,
e.g.,
in Lev. 6:7; Zech 11:16.
Further particulars respecting the points of difference between this edition and the English Revision
of 1881-1885 may be learned from the Appendix to the Old Testament, which is published in the
first edition of this version of the Bible.
Earnestly hoping that our work may contribute to the better understanding of the Old Testament,
we commend it to the considerate judgment of all students of the Sacred Scriptures.
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THE NEW COVENANT
COMMONLY CALLED
THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE GREEK
BEING THE VERSION SET FORTH A.D. 1611
COMPARED WITH THE MOST ANCIENT
AUTHORITIES AND REVISED A.D. 1881
Newly Edited by the New Testament Members of the American Revision Committee
A.D. 1900
Standard Edition
NEW YORK
THOMAS NELSON & SONS
385 MADISON AVENUE
This Standard American Edition of the Revised Version of the Bible, and editions in conformity
with it published by Messrs. THOMAS NELSON & SONS and certified by this indorsement, are
the only editions authorized by the American Committee of Revision.
GEORGE E. DAY, Secretary of the Committee, and of the Old Testament Committee.
J. HENRY THAYER, Secretary of the New Testament Company.
From the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible
COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
TO INSURE PURITY OF TEXT
PREFACE
THIS edition of the Revised New Testament of 1881 embodies a purpose entertained by many
members of the American Revision Committee almost from the publication of the work. The list of
passages in which the New Testament Company dissented from the decisions of their English
associates, when it was transmitted to them, bore the heading "The American New Testament
Revision Company, having in many cases yielded their preference for certain readings and
renderings, present the following instances in which they differs from the English Company, as in
their view of sufficient importance to be appended to the revision, in accordance with an
understanding between the Companies."
The knowledge of the existence of these suppressed deviations naturally stirred a desire that they
should be made accessible to at least the American public. This desire, especially on the part of
those whose generous interest in the work from its inception had enabled the American revisers to
meet the pecuniary outlay its preparation involved, they were not unwilling to gratify. The
obligation they felt, however, to guard as far as they might the purity and integrity of the version,
led them to pledge their support for fourteen years to the editions issued by the University Presses
of Oxford and Cambridge. But the reiterated suggestion to those Presses to publish an edition
especially for American readers not having met with favor, they acceded to the overtures of the
Messr.s Nelson and engaged in preparing gratuitiously the desired edition, to be issued when the
expiration of the period specified should open the way for its honorable publication. The
publishers, on their part, agreed to protect the version in its integrity, and to sell the book at a price
not exceeding a fair profit on its cost.
In the preparation of this edition no attempt has been made to preserve a full record of the other
readings and renderings than those that appeared in the work as published in 1881 which were
preferred y the American revisers. The Appendix of that edition, however, was not only hastily
compiled under the pressure from the University Presses, but is necessarily limited compass
compelled, as the original heading intimated, the exclusion of many suggestions that the American
Company held to be of interest and importance. These, amounting in the aggregate to a
considerable number, have been incorporated in the present edition. The opportunity has been
taken also to introduce not a few alterations, individually of slight importance, yet as a body
contributing decidedly to the perfection of the work. But the survivors of the New Testament
Company have not felt at liberty to make new changes of moment which were not favorably passed
upon by their associates at on stage or another of the original preparation of the work.
Respecting details, but little need be added to the ample statements made in the Preface prefixed to
the work on its first appearance.
In the delicate matter of rendering the names of the several coins that occur in the New Testament,
we have departed somewhat from our English brethren. For the Greek

the term "mite"
has been retained, and for

the rendering "farthing" (See Mark 12:42). But

has been translated "penny" (Matt. 10:29; Luke 12:6); while in thirteen out of sixteen instances
where in the edition of 1881 the Greek

was represented by this English word, the term
"shilling" has been substituted, not only as corresponding more nearly to the coin's relative value,
but also because "penny," according to its modern use, is in some cases highly inappropriate (see
Matt. 20:2 Luke 10:35; Rev. 6:6). In the three remaining instances (Matt 22:19; Mark 22:15; Luke
20:24), the Greek name of the coin has been introduced, in order to meet the obvious requirement
of the context. Where the English value of coins in given in the margin, we have added the
equivalents in our national currency; but in the case of the talent (Matt. 28:24) what is believed to
be a more accurate valuation has been given.
In formal particualars, this new edition will show but slight and infrequent deviations from its
predecessor. The division of the text into paragraphs in that edition has not been often departed
from; and then chiefly in cases where the same matter is found in more than one of the Gospels,
and hence uniformity of division seemed desirable. Further, in the Epistles and the Revelation the
more decided transitions to a new topic have been indicated by leaving a line blank. The somewhat
ponderous and peculiar system of punctuation of the original edition has been in the main adhered
to; although pursuant to the principle there followed, a comma has here and there been dropped
which seemed likely to obstruct the reader, and the gradations of thought have been occasionally
indicated more distinctly by substituting a semicolon for the overworked colon. The titles of the
books, which in the former edition were given as printed in 1611, have been somewhat abbreviated,
at the dictate of convenience, and agreeably to usage, ancient as well as modern. They have been
altered only in the few instances where the former heading was erroneous (as in the case of the
Epistle to the Hebrews), or apt to mislead (as in the case of the Book of Acts), or hardly intelligible
to the ordinary reader (as the "general" in the heading of some of the shorter Epistles), or founded
in a misapprehension (as in the case of "Saint" prefixed to the names of the Evangelists).
Moreover, the alternate title of the New Testament, and the mode of printing the headings of the
Four Evangelists' narratives, are designed to recall to mind the inherent signification and primitive
use of the terms "Testament" (compare Hebrews 9:15f) and "Gospel." In the Book of Revelation,
also, the "Glorias," "Trisagia," etc. have been marked typographically.
In dealing with the Language, the American revisers have endeavored to act with becoming
deference and reserve. A few archaisms such as "how that," "for to," "the which," "howbeit," etc.,
which are becoming uncouth to a modern ear, have been generally although not invariably
discarded. Not a few of the instances of the superfluous use of "do" and "did" as auxiliaries, of
"that" as equivalent to "that which," and the like, have also been removed: and current usage has
been recognized in the case of forms which King James's revision employed indiscriminately, as
"beside" and "besides" (see Luke 16:26; 26:21). But in making these and other slight changes, the
American editors have not forgotten that they were dealing with a venerable monument of English
usage, and have been careful not to obliterate the traces of its historic origin and descent.
Notwithstanding the caution-as wise perhaps as prudent-which led the English Committee wholly
to omit the headings of chapters many attempts to furnish them, it has been deemed best to equip
the present edition with running headlines, which may serve in some sort instead of a detailed
Table of Contents, and as landmarks to a reader familiar with the text. In preparing them it has
been the constant aim to avoid as far as possible all pre-commitments, whether doctrinal or
exegetical; and with this object in view, the forms of statement employed have been drawn in the
main from the Biblical text. Often a fragmentary quotation which might serve as a catchword or
reminder of a well-known passage has been deemed sufficient. The limitations of space have
frequently compelled a partial selection from the contents of a given page, the continuation of a
heading from one page to the next, or even the entry of the kernel of a statement on a page
adjoining that on which it appears in the text. Slight displacement in such a case seemed preferable
to total omission.
It is not superfluous to mention expressly the fact that in this edition the varian readings and
renderings are placed at the foot of the pages, but in as close juxtaposition as possible with the
passages to which they relate. The reader's attention is hereby drawn to the circumstance that some
degree of uncertainty still cleaves, in the judgment of scholars, either to the text of the passage
before him, or to the rule of the procedure which the Committee followed, the translation of 1611
held its place in every instance until an alteration commanded the votes of two0thirds of the
revisers, it will become evident to him that a rendering given in the margin may have commended
itself to a majority, while still falling short of the degree of approval necessary to enable it to
supplant the text. It is known that this was the case in a considerable number of instances, of which
the established term "Comforter" as the appellation of the Holy Spirit in the fourteenth chapter of
the Gospel of John is a notable representative.
The present volume, it is believed, will on the one hand bring a plain reader more closely into
contact with the exact thought of the sacred writers than any version now current in Christendom,
and on the other hand prove itself especially serviceable to students of the Word. In this belief the
editors bid it anew God-speed, and in the realization of this desired result they will find their all-
sufficient reward.
American Standard Version
Genesis
Genesis 1
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters
which were under the firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was
evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.
Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs
yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein
is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed
after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof,
after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third
day.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days and years:
Genesis 1:15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to
give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars
also.
Genesis 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give
light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth
day.
Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of
living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every
living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after
their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it
was good.
Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the
earth.
Genesis 1:23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth
day.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures
after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth
after their kind: and it was so.
Genesis 1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind,
and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the
ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27 And God created man in his own image, in the image
of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:
Genesis 1:30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the
heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein
there is life, [I have given] every green herb for food: and it was so.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was
morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2
Genesis 2:1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them.
Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he
had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which
he had made.
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it;
because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created
and made.
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and
heaven.
Genesis 2:5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no
herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it
to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
Genesis 2:6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.
Genesis 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
Genesis 2:8 And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made Jehovah 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 the knowledge of good
and evil.
Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and
from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Genesis 2:12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and
the onyx stone.
Genesis 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is
it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 2:15 And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:16 And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.
Genesis 2:18 And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast
of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the
man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called
every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Genesis 2:20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds
of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was
not found a help meet for him.
Genesis 2:21 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the
man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof:
Genesis 2:22 and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the
man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:23 And the man 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.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
Genesis 3
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the
field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the
trees of the garden we may eat:
Genesis 3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.
Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not
surely die:
Genesis 3:5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and
evil.
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be
desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat;
and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of
the garden.
Genesis 3:9 And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto
him, Where art thou?
Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast
thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest
not eat?
Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be
with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:13 And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this
thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat.
Genesis 3:14 And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, cursed art thou 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:
Genesis 3:15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy
pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the
ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 3:18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Genesis 3:19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 3:20 And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she
was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21 And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife
coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22 And Jehovah 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-
Genesis 3:23 therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden
of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of
the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which
turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 4
Genesis 4:1 And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and
bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with [the help of] Jehovah.
Genesis 4:2 And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought
of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah.
Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock
and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his
offering:
Genesis 4:5 but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4:6 And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and
why is thy countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou
doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its
desire, but do thou rule over it.
Genesis 4:8 And Cain told 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.
Genesis 4:9 And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11 And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath
opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Genesis 4:12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth
yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in
the earth.
Genesis 4:13 And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater
than I can bear.
Genesis 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face
of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that
whosoever findeth me will slay me.
Genesis 4:15 And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever
slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And
Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite
him.
Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and
dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the
name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat
Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methushael; and Methushael begat
Lamech.
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the
one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as
dwell in tents and [have] cattle.
Genesis 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of
all such as handle the harp and pipe.
Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of
every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-
cain was Naamah.
Genesis 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear
my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have
slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me:
Genesis 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech
seventy and sevenfold.
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son,
and called his name Seth. For, [said she], God hath appointed me
another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.
Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he
called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of
Jehovah.
Genesis 5
Genesis 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;
Genesis 5:2 male and female created he them, and blessed them, and
called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a
son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 5:4 and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and
thirty years: and he died.
Genesis 5:6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat
Enosh:
Genesis 5:7 and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and
seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:8 and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve
years: and he died.
Genesis 5:9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan.
Genesis 5:10 and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:11 and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five
years: and he died.
Genesis 5:12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:
Genesis 5:13 and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred
and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten
years: and he died.
Genesis 5:15 And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat
Jared:
Genesis 5:16 And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred
and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:17 and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety
and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and
begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and
two years: and he died.
Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah:
Genesis 5:22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah
three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and
five years:
Genesis 5:24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God
took him.
Genesis 5:25 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven
years, and begat Lamech:
Genesis 5:26 and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and
begat a son:
Genesis 5:29 and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall
comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, [which cometh]
because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.
Genesis 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred
ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred
seventy and seven years: and he died.
Genesis 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: And Noah begat
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6
Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the
face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 6:2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 6:3 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for
ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and
twenty years.
Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also
after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and
they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were
of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:5 And Jehovah 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.
Genesis 6:6 And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:7 And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and
creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I
have made them.
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous
man, [and] perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth
was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for
all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Genesis 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou
make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:15 And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16 A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt
thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Genesis 6:17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under
heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.
Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee.
Genesis 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall
be male and female.
Genesis 6:20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of
every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and
gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis 6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
Genesis 7
Genesis 7:1 And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy
house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
generation.
Genesis 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and
seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean
two, the male and his female:
Genesis 7:3 of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male
and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have
made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
Genesis 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah
commanded him.
Genesis 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of
waters was upon the earth.
Genesis 7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of
birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,
Genesis 7:9 there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male
and female, as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10 And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters
of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all
the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened.
Genesis 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.
Genesis 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives
of his sons with them, into the ark;
Genesis 7:14 they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two
of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
Genesis 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.
Genesis 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the
earth.
Genesis 7:18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were
covered.
Genesis 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
Genesis 7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both
birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth, and every man:
Genesis 7:22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life,
of all that was on the dry land, died.
Genesis 7:23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and
birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and
Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and
fifty days.
Genesis 8
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all
the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass
over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
Genesis 8:2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of
heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Genesis 8:3 and the waters returned from off the earth continually:
and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth
month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the
tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis 8:7 and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro,
until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis 8:8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters
were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis 8:9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and
she returned unto him to the ark; for the waters were on the face of
the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought
her in unto him into the ark.
Genesis 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent
forth the dove out of the ark;
Genesis 8:11 and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her
mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
Genesis 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the
dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.
Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundred 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 dried.
Genesis 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth
day of the month, was the earth dry.
Genesis 8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Genesis 8:16 Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons,
and thy sons' wives with thee.
Genesis 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee
of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth,
and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Genesis 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and
his sons' wives with him:
Genesis 8:19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird,
whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out
of the ark.
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of
every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings
on the altar.
Genesis 8:21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said
in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease.
Genesis 9
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon
every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; With all
wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your
hand are they delivered.
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As
the green herb have I given you all.
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis 9:5 And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I
require; At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand
of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life
of man.
Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be
shed: For in the image of God made he man.
Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis 9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,
saying,
Genesis 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and
with your seed after you;
Genesis 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the
birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that go
out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
Genesis 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither
shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis 9:12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I
make between me and you and every living creature that is with you,
for perpetual generations:
Genesis 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token
of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
Genesis 9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between
me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall
no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon
it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Genesis 9:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the
covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is
upon the earth.
Genesis 9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was
the whole earth overspread.
Genesis 9:20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a
vineyard:
Genesis 9:21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he
was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of
his father, and told his two brethren without.
Genesis 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon
both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness
of their father. And their faces were backward, and they saw not their
father's nakedness.
Genesis 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his
youngest son had done unto him.
Genesis 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants
shall he be unto his brethren.
Genesis 9:26 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 9:27 God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty
years.
Genesis 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty
years: And he died.
Genesis 10
Genesis 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah,
[namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born
after the flood.
Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai,
and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and
Togarmah.
Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim,
and Dodanim.
Genesis 10:5 Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their
lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and
Canaan.
Genesis 10:7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah,
and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and
Dedan.
Genesis 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one
in the earth.
Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is
said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.
Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and
builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,
Genesis 10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is
the great city).
Genesis 10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
Genesis 10:14 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the
Philistines), and Caphtorim.
Genesis 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
Genesis 10:16 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
Genesis 10:17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 10:18 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread
abroad.
Genesis 10:19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as
thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and
Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.
Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after
their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
Genesis 10:21 And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber,
the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and
Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10:23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Mash.
Genesis 10:24 And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.
Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: The name of the
one was Peleg. For in his days was the earth divided. And his
brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Genesis 10:27 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
Genesis 10:28 and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
Genesis 10:29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the
sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after
their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in
the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11
Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one
speech.
Genesis 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick,
and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for mortar.
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Come, 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.
Genesis 11:5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded.
Genesis 11:6 And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and
they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and
now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to
do.
Genesis 11:7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis 11:8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the
face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.
Genesis 11:9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because
Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from
thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a
hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Genesis 11:11 and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12 And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Shelah.
Genesis 11:13 and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
Genesis 11:15 and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
Genesis 11:17 and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Genesis 11:19 and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and
nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis 11:21 and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and
seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Genesis 11:23 and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah:
Genesis 11:25 and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and
nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat
Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.
Genesis 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of
his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: The name of
Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis 11:30 And Sarai was barren; She had no child.
Genesis 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of
Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's
wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go
into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 12
Genesis 12:1 Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the
land that I will show thee:
Genesis 12:2 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing;
Genesis 12:3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that
curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth
be blessed.
Genesis 12:4 So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and
Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when
he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's
son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of
Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of
Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the
land.
Genesis 12:7 And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy
seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah,
who appeared unto him.
Genesis 12:8 And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the
east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and
Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called
upon the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went
down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
Genesis 12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter
into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that
thou art a fair woman to look upon:
Genesis 12:12 and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see
thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but
they will save thee alive.
Genesis 12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well
with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.
Genesis 12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into
Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
Genesis 12:15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her
to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 12:16 And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he
had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-
servants, and she-asses, and camels.
Genesis 12:17 And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with
great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Genesis 12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy
wife?
Genesis 12:19 why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to
be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Genesis 12:20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and
they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis 13
Genesis 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.
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold.
Genesis 13:3 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 Ai,
Genesis 13:4 unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at
the first: and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 13:5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and
herds, and tents.
Genesis 13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might
dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not
dwell together.
Genesis 13:7 And there was a strife between the herdsmen of
Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite
and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.
Genesis 13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray
thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy
herdsmen; for we are brethren.
Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I
pray thee, from me. If [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to
the right. Or if [thou take] the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of
the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the
land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot
journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in
the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners
against Jehovah exceedingly.
Genesis 13:14 And Jehovah 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:
Genesis 13:15 for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: So
that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also
be numbered.
Genesis 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in
the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.
Genesis 13:18 And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by
the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto
Jehovah.
Genesis 14
Genesis 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 Goiim,
Genesis 14:2 that they 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 (the same is Zoar).
Genesis 14:3 All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the
same is the Salt Sea).
Genesis 14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the
kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-
karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan,
which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14:7 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same
is Kadesh), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
Genesis 14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the
king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array
against them in the vale of Siddim;
Genesis 14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of
Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar;
four kings against the five.
Genesis 14:10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the
kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that
remained fled to the mountain.
Genesis 14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah,
and all their victuals, and went their way.
Genesis 14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt
in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram
the Hebrew: now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite,
brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate
with Abram.
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken
captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred
and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them by night, he and
his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is
on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought
back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
people.
Genesis 14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his
return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were
with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King's Vale).
Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread
and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
Genesis 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of
God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
Genesis 14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered
thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the
persons, and take the goods to thyself.
Genesis 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up
my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and
earth,
Genesis 14:23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor
aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis 14:24 save only that which the young men have eaten, and
the portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.
Let them take their portion.
Genesis 15
Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of Jehovah came unto
Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and]
thy exceeding great reward.
Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give
me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house
is Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no
seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis 15:4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him,
saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth
out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now
toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15:6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him
for righteousness.
Genesis 15:7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee
out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 15:8 And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old,
and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-
dove, and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the
midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided
he not.
Genesis 15:11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses,
and Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy
seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve
them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 15:14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Genesis 15:15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither
again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down,
and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that
passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15:18 In that day Jehovah 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:
Genesis 15:19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Genesis 15:20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Genesis 15:21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the
Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
Genesis 16
Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and
she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath
restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it
may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to
the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her
handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,
and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and
when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in
her eyes.
Genesis 16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I
gave my handmaid into they bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and
thee.
Genesis 16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy
hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt
hardly with her, and she fled from her face.
Genesis 16:7 And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of
water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest
thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the
face of my mistress Sarai.
Genesis 16:9 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
Genesis 16:10 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly
multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 16:11 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou
art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name
Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction.
Genesis 16:12 And he shall be [as] a wild ass among men; his hand
[shall be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and
he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto
her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked
after him that seeth me?
Genesis 16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold,
it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the
name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Genesis 16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when
Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 17
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,
Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee,
and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,
saying,
Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou
shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but
thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations
have I made thee.
Genesis 17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will
make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee
and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:9 And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou
shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their
generations.
Genesis 17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me
and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be
circumcised.
Genesis 17:11 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your
foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.
Genesis 17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised
among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born
in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy
seed.
Genesis 17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought
with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall
be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people;
he hath broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife,
thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a
son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother of]
nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.
Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and
said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred
years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 17:18 And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might
live before thee!
Genesis 17:19 And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee
a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Genesis 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a
great nation.
Genesis 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom
Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis 17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up
from Abraham.
Genesis 17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were
born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every
male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh
of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis 17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he
was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17:25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he
was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and
Ishmael his son.
Genesis 17:27 And all the men of his house, those born in the house,
and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with
him.
Genesis 18
Genesis 18:1 And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre,
as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis 18:2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men
stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them
from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18:3 and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy
sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Genesis 18:4 let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet,
and rest yourselves under the tree:
Genesis 18:5 and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye
your heart; after that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to
your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
Genesis 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and
make cakes.
Genesis 18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf
tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hasted to dress
it.
Genesis 18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had
dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree,
and they did eat.
Genesis 18:9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And
he said, Behold, in the tent.
Genesis 18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee when the
season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken
in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Genesis 18:13 And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did
Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?
Genesis 18:14 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I
will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall
have a son.
Genesis 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was
afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Genesis 18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward
Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Genesis 18:17 And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
which I do;
Genesis 18:18 seeing that Abraham had surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may
command his children and his household after him, that they may
keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end
that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of
him.
Genesis 18:20 And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if
not, I will know.
Genesis 18:22 And the men turned from thence, and went toward
Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah.
Genesis 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume
the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24 Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city:
wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that
are therein?
Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay
the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the
wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right?
Genesis 18:26 And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.
Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
Genesis 18:28 peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said,
I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.
Genesis 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not
do it for the forty's sake.
Genesis 18:30 And he said, 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.
Genesis 18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to
speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there.
And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.
Genesis 18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will
speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he
said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
Genesis 18:33 And Jehovah went his way, as soon as he had left off
communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Genesis 19
Genesis 19:1 And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat
in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them;
and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;
Genesis 19:2 and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, 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 way. And they said, Nay;
but we will abide in the street all night.
Genesis 19:3 And he urged 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.
Genesis 19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even]
the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old,
all the people from every quarter;
Genesis 19:5 and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are
the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that
we may know them.
Genesis 19:6 And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the
door after him.
Genesis 19:7 And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so
wickedly.
Genesis 19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters that 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, forasmuch
as they are come under the shadow of my roof.
Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, 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 drew near to break the door.
Genesis 19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into
the house to them, and shut to the door.
Genesis 19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the
house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied
themselves to find the door.
Genesis 19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any
besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and
whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of the place:
Genesis 19:13 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them
is waxed great before Jehovah: and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.
Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law,
who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for
Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as
one that mocked.
Genesis 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened
Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here,
lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis 19:16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand,
and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him; and they brought him
forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them
forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee,
neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be
consumed.
Genesis 19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord:
Genesis 19:19 behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight,
and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed
unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
evil overtake me, and I die:
Genesis 19:20 behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a
little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul
shall live.
Genesis 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which
thou hast spoken.
Genesis 19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till
thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto
Zoar.
Genesis 19:24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
Genesis 19:25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all
the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place
where he had stood before Jehovah:
Genesis 19:28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and
toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of
the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the
midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot
dwelt.
Genesis 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in
Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Genesis 19:31 And the first-born 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:
Genesis 19:32 come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and
the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when
she lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis 19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born
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.
Genesis 19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also:
and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by
their father.
Genesis 19:37 And the first-born bare a son, and called his name
Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Genesis 19:38 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.
Genesis 20
Genesis 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land
of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned
in Gerar.
Genesis 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister.
And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night,
and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the
woman whom thou hast taken. For she is a man's wife.
Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said,
Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?
Genesis 20:5 Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? And she,
even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart
and the innocency of my hands have I done this.
Genesis 20:6 And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that
in the integrity of thy heart thou has done this, and I also withheld
thee from sinning against me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch
her.
Genesis 20:7 Now therefore restore the man's 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.
Genesis 20:8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called
all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. And the men
were sore afraid.
Genesis 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him,
What hast thou done unto us? And wherein have I sinned against
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.
Genesis 20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest
thou, that thou hast done this thing?
Genesis 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear
of God is not in this place. And they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Genesis 20:12 And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of
my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife:
Genesis 20:13 and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander
from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness
which thou shalt show unto me. At every place whither we shall
come, say of me, He is my brother.
Genesis 20:14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-
servants and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and
restored him Sarah his wife.
Genesis 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee.
Dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis 20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy
brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of
the eyes to all that are with thee. And in respect of all thou art
righted.
Genesis 20:17 And Abraham prayed unto God. And God healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bare
children.
Genesis 20:18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the
house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 21
Genesis 21:1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah
did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21:2 And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his
old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis 21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born
unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
Genesis 21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was
eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21:5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son
Isaac was born unto him.
Genesis 21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh. Every one
that heareth will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that
Sarah should give children suck? For I have borne him a son in his
old age.
Genesis 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham
made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom
she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.
Genesis 21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir
with my son, even with Isaac.
Genesis 21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight
on account of his son.
Genesis 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in
thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that
Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice. For in Isaac shall thy
seed be called.
Genesis 21:13 And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a
nation, because he is thy seed.
Genesis 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took
bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
shoulder, and [gave her] the child, and sent her away. And she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:15 And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the
child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a
good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look
upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted
up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 21:17 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.
Genesis 21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand. For I
will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water. And she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the
lad drink.
Genesis 21:20 And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt
in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Genesis 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his
mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and
Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is
with thee in all that thou doest.
Genesis 21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou
wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son.
But according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt
do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Genesis 21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
Genesis 21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the
well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Genesis 21:26 And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this
thing. Neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.
Genesis 21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them
unto Abimelech. And they two made a covenant.
Genesis 21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
Genesis 21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these
seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Genesis 21:30 And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of
my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this
well.
Genesis 21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because
there they sware both of them.
Genesis 21:32 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And
Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:33 And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba,
and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines
many days.
Genesis 22
Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did
prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Here am
I.
Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom
thou lovest, even Isaac, 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.
Genesis 22:3 And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled
his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.
And he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went
unto the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
the place afar off.
Genesis 22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here
with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship,
and come again to you.
Genesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and
laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the
knife. And they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My
father. And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire
and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?
Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb
for a burnt-offering, my son. So they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of.
And Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
Genesis 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the
knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:11 And the angel of Jehovah called unto him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.
Genesis 22:12 And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do
thou anything unto him. For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing
thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.
Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold, behind [him] a ram caught in the 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.
Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-
jireh. As it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be
provided.
Genesis 22:15 And the angel of Jehovah called unto Abraham a
second time out of heaven,
Genesis 22:16 and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah,
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine
only son,
Genesis 22:17 that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand
which is upon the seashore. And thy seed shall possess the gate of his
enemies.
Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed. Because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Genesis 22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they
rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at
Beer-sheba.
Genesis 22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto
they brother Nahor.
Genesis 22:21 Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the
father of Aram.
Genesis 22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and
Bethuel.
Genesis 22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah
bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis 22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she
also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23
Genesis 23:1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and
twenty years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 23:2 And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in
the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to
weep for her.
Genesis 23:3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spake
unto the children of Heth, saying,
Genesis 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a
possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out
of my sight.
Genesis 23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying
unto him,
Genesis 23:6 Hear us, my lord. Thou art a prince of God 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.
Genesis 23:7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people
of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Genesis 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your
mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat
for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis 23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
hath, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it
to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.
Genesis 23:10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of 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,
Genesis 23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me. The field give I thee, and the
cave that is therein, I give it thee. In the presence of the children of
my people give I it thee. Bury thy dead.
Genesis 23:12 And Abraham bowed himself down before the people
of the land.
Genesis 23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the
people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me. I
will give the price of the field. Take it of me, and I will bury my dead
there.
Genesis 23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me. A piece of land worth four
hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? Bury
therefore thy dead.
Genesis 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron. And Abraham
weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of
the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money]
with the merchant.
Genesis 23:17 So 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 border
thereof round about, were made sure
Genesis 23:18 unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the
children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the
cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron),
in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 23:20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made
sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the
children of Heth.
Genesis 24
Genesis 24:1 And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age. And
Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24:2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his
house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
my thigh.
Genesis 24:3 And I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of
heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my
son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred,
and take a wife for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the
woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land. Must I needs
bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
Genesis 24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou
bring not my son thither again.
Genesis 24:7 Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my
father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto
me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this
land. He will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for
my son from thence.
Genesis 24:8 And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then
thou shalt be clear from this my oath. Only thou shalt not bring my
son thither again.
Genesis 24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of
Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 24:10 And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his
master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his
hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
Nahor.
Genesis 24:11 And he made the camels to kneel down without the
city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women
go out to draw water.
Genesis 24:12 And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master
Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and show
kindness unto my master Abraham.
Genesis 24:13 Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And
the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I
shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she
shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same
be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby
shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.
Genesis 24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking,
that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon
her shoulder.
Genesis 24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin,
neither had any man known her. And she went down to the fountain,
and filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to
drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.
Genesis 24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hasted, and let
down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
Genesis 24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I
will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Genesis 24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the
trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his
camels.
Genesis 24:21 And the man looked stedfastly on her, holding his
peace, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or
not.
Genesis 24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,
that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Genesis 24:23 and said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray
thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Genesis 24:24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel
the son of Milcah, whom she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis 24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and
provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Genesis 24:26 And the man bowed his head, and worshipped
Jehovah.
Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my
master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his
truth toward my master. As for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to
the house of my master's brethren.
Genesis 24:28 And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house
according to these words.
Genesis 24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban:
and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.
Genesis 24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the
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 was standing by the camels at
the fountain.
Genesis 24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of Jehovah.
Wherefore standest thou without? For I have prepared the house, and
room for the camels.
Genesis 24:32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the
camels. And he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water
to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him.
Genesis 24:33 And there was set food before him to eat. But he said,
I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Genesis 24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
Genesis 24:35 And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly. And he
is become great. And he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver
and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.
Genesis 24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master
when she was old. And unto him hath he given all that he hath.
Genesis 24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt
not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in
whose land I dwell.
Genesis 24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my
kindred, and take a wife for my son.
Genesis 24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman
will not follow me.
Genesis 24:40 And he said unto me, Jehovah, 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.
Genesis 24:41 Then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou
comest to my kindred. And if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be
clear from my oath.
Genesis 24:42 And I came this day unto the fountain, and said, O
Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my
way which I go.
Genesis 24:43 Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And
let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to
whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher
to drink.
Genesis 24:44 And she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will
also draw for thy camels. Let the same be the woman whom Jehovah
hath appointed for my master's son.
Genesis 24:45 And before I had done speaking in my heart, behold,
Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went
down unto the fountain, and drew. And I said unto her, Let me drink,
I pray thee.
Genesis 24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from
her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also.
So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
Genesis 24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou?
And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah
bare unto him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets
upon her hands.
Genesis 24:48 And I bowed my head, and worshipped Jehovah, and
blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in
the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
Genesis 24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my
master, tell me. And if not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand,
or to the left.
Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from Jehovah. We cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
Genesis 24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and
let her be thy master's son's wife, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Genesis 24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant
heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth unto Jehovah.
Genesis 24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also
to her brother and to her mother precious things.
Genesis 24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were
with him, and tarried all night. And they rose up in the morning, and
he said, Send me away unto my master.
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel
abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten. After that she shall go.
Genesis 24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing
Jehovah hath prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my
master.
Genesis 24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at
her mouth.
Genesis 24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou
go with this man? And she said, I will go.
Genesis 24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her
nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
Genesis 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our
sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy
seed possess the gate of those that hate them.
Genesis 24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode
upon the camels, and followed the man. And the servant took
Rebekah, and went his way.
Genesis 24:62 And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi. For
he dwelt in the land of the South.
Genesis 24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the
eventide. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were
camels coming.
Genesis 24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
Isaac, she alighted from the camel.
Genesis 24:65 And she said unto the servant, What man is this that
walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master.
And she took her veil, and covered herself.
Genesis 24:66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had
done.
Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent,
and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. And
Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 25
Genesis 25:1 And Abraham took another wife, and her name was
Keturah.
Genesis 25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan,
and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of
Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Genesis 25:4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of
Keturah.
Genesis 25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
Genesis 25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Genesis 25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life
which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis 25:8 And 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.
Genesis 25:9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave
of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre.
Genesis 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the children of
Heth. There was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis 25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that
God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.
Genesis 25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's
son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto
Abraham.
Genesis 25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by
their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael,
Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Genesis 25:15 Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Genesis 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their
names, by their villages, and by their encampments. Twelve princes
according to their nations.
Genesis 25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a
hundred and thirty and seven years. And he gave up the ghost and
died, and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis 25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before
Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria. He abode over against all his
brethren.
Genesis 25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son.
Abraham begat Isaac.
Genesis 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah,
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of
Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
Genesis 25:21 And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she
was barren. And Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.
Genesis 25:22 And the children struggled together within her. And
she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of
Jehovah.
Genesis 25:23 And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy
womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the
one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall
serve the younger.
Genesis 25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,
behold, there were twins in her womb.
Genesis 25:25 And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy
garment. And they called his name Esau.
Genesis 25:26 And after that came forth his brother, and his hand
had hold on Esau's heel. And his name was called Jacob. And Isaac
was threescore years old when she bare them.
Genesis 25:27 And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a
man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his
venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25:29 And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the
field, and he was faint.
Genesis 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with
that same red [pottage]. For I am faint. Therefore was his name called
Edom.
Genesis 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me first thy birthright.
Genesis 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die. And what
profit shall the birthright do to me?
Genesis 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he sware unto
him. And he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Genesis 25:34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
And he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau
despised his birthright.
Genesis 26
Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first
famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
Genesis 26:2 And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, Go not
down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
bless thee. For unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy
father.
Genesis 26:4 And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and
will give unto thy seed all these lands. And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Genesis 26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
Genesis 26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he
said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife. Lest, [said he],
the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah. Because she was
fair to look upon.
Genesis 26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long
time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window,
and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Genesis 26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a
surety she is thy wife. And how saidst thou, She is my sister? And
Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.
Genesis 26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto
us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou
wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
Genesis 26:11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He
that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Genesis 26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same
year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him.
Genesis 26:13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more
until he became very great.
Genesis 26:14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of
herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had
digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped,
and filled with earth.
Genesis 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us. For thou
art much mightier than we.
Genesis 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Genesis 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they
had digged in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had
stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names
after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26:20 And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's
herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the
well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26:21 And they digged another well, and they strove for that
also. And he called the name of it Sitnah.
Genesis 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another
well. And for that they strove not. And he called the name of it
Rehoboth. And he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and
we shall be fruitful in the land.
Genesis 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:24 And Jehovah 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.
Genesis 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the
name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's
servants digged a well.
Genesis 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and
Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.
Genesis 26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come
unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Genesis 26:28 And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with
thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt
us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,
Genesis 26:29 that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched
thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent
thee away in peace. Thou art now the blessed of Jehovah.
Genesis 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Genesis 26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware
one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from
him in peace.
Genesis 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants
came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and
said unto him, We have found water.
Genesis 26:33 And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the
city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Genesis 26:34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife
Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of
Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35 And they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to
Rebekah.
Genesis 27
Genesis 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 elder son,
and said unto him, My son. And he said unto him, Here am I.
Genesis 27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day
of my death.
Genesis 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy
quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
Genesis 27:4 And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it
to me, that I may eat. That my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis 27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son.
And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Genesis 27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,
Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Genesis 27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I
may eat, and bless thee before Jehovah before my death.
Genesis 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to
that which I command thee.
Genesis 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two
good kids of the goats. And I will make them savory food for thy
father, such as he loveth.
Genesis 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat,
so that he may bless thee before his death.
Genesis 27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau
my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Genesis 27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem
to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing.
Genesis 27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse,
my son. Only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
Genesis 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his
mother. And his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
Genesis 27:15 And Rebekah took the goodly garments of Esau her
elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob
her younger son.
Genesis 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.
Genesis 27:17 And she gave the savory food and the bread, which
she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Genesis 27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father. And
he said, Here am I. Who art thou, my son?
Genesis 27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first-
born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit
and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast
found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah thy God
sent me good speed.
Genesis 27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee,
that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or
not.
Genesis 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father. And he felt
him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands
of Esau.
Genesis 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were
hairy, as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
Genesis 27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said,
I am.
Genesis 27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my
son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to
him, and he did eat. And he brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now,
and kiss me, my son.
Genesis 27:27 And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled
the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of
my son Is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed.
Genesis 27:28 And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the
fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and new wine.
Genesis 27:29 Let peoples 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 every
one that blesseth thee.
Genesis 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end
of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting.
Genesis 27:31 And he also made savory food, and brought it unto his
father. And he said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his
son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou?
And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.
Genesis 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who
then 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.
Genesis 27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried
with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless
me, even me also, O my father.
Genesis 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath
taken away thy blessing.
Genesis 27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two time. 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?
Genesis 27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I
have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants. And with grain and new wine have I sustained him. And
what then shall I do for thee, my son?
Genesis 27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one
blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau
lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the
dew of heaven from above.
Genesis 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve
thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose,
That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.
Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The
days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
Genesis 27:42 And the 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.
Genesis 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. And arise,
flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.
Genesis 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury
turn away.
Genesis 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he
forget that which thou hast done to him. Then I will send, and fetch
thee from thence. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?
Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what
good shall my life do me?
Genesis 28
Genesis 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.
Genesis 28:2 Arise, go to Paddan-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.
Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples.
Genesis 28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to
thy seed with thee. That thou mayest inherit the land of thy
sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
Genesis 28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Paddan-
aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis 28:6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent
him away to Paddan-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.
Genesis 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and
was gone to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 28:8 And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not
Isaac his father.
Genesis 28:9 And Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the
wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son,
the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went
toward Haran.
Genesis 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there
all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of
the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to
sleep.
Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of
God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28:13 And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am
Jehovah, the 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.
Genesis 28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and
to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed.
Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee,
whithersoever 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.
Genesis 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely Jehovah is in this place. And I knew it not.
Genesis 28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this
place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.
Genesis 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the
stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and
poured oil upon the top of it.
Genesis 28:19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el. But the
name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with
me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put on,
Genesis 28:21 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and
Jehovah will be my God,
Genesis 28:22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall
be God's house. And of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give
the tenth unto thee.
Genesis 29
Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land
of the children of the east.
Genesis 29:2 And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, lo,
three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they
watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.
Genesis 29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered. And they
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put
the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.
Genesis 29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence are
ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
Genesis 29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of
Nahor? And they said, We know him.
Genesis 29:6 And he said unto them, Is it well with him? And they
said, It is well. And, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
Genesis 29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together. Water ye the sheep, and go and
feed them.
Genesis 29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be
gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then
we water the sheep.
Genesis 29:9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came
with her father's sheep. For she kept them.
Genesis 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the
daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his
mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the
well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Genesis 29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and
wept.
Genesis 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother,
and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.
Genesis 29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of
Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and
kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these
things.
Genesis 29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and
my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my
brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what
shall thy wages be?
Genesis 29:16 And Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder
was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29:17 And Leah's eyes were tender. But Rachel was
beautiful and well favored.
Genesis 29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, I will serve
thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Genesis 29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than
that I should give her to another man. Abide with me.
Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they
seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Genesis 29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my
days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
Genesis 29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place,
and made a feast.
Genesis 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah
his daughter, and brought her to him. And he went in unto her.
Genesis 29:24 And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his
daughter Leah for a handmaid.
Genesis 29:25 And it came to pass in the morning that, 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?
Genesis 29:26 And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give
the younger before the first-born.
Genesis 29:27 Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the
other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven
other years.
Genesis 29:28 And jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave
him Rachel his daughter to wife.
Genesis 29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his
handmaid to be her handmaid.
Genesis 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also
Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis 29:31 And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened
her womb. But Rachel was barren.
Genesis 29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called
his name Reuben. For she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon
my affliction. For now my husband will love me.
Genesis 29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said,
Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given
me this [son] also. And she called his name Simeon.
Genesis 29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son. And said,
Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have
borne him three sons. Therefore was his name called Levi.
Genesis 29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son. And she
said, This time will I praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name
Judah. And she left off bearing.
Genesis 30
Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children,
or else I die.
Genesis 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he
said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of
the womb?
Genesis 30:3 And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her;
that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by
her.
Genesis 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and
Jacob went in unto her.
Genesis 30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also
heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his
name Dan.
Genesis 30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and
bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30:8 And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I
wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
Genesis 30:9 When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took
Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.
Genesis 30:10 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:11 And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name
Gad.
Genesis 30:12 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will
call me happy: and she called his name Asher.
Genesis 30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother
Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
Genesis 30:15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou
hast taken away 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.
Genesis 30:16 And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for
I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with
her that night.
Genesis 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived,
and bare Jacob a fifth son.
Genesis 30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I
gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
Genesis 30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to
Jacob.
Genesis 30:20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good
dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne
him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
Genesis 30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her
name Dinah.
Genesis 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to
her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath
taken away my reproach:
Genesis 30:24 and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add
to me another son.
Genesis 30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph,
that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have
served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I
have served thee.
Genesis 30:27 And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor
in thine eyes, [tarry]: [for] I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed
me for thy sake.
Genesis 30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
Genesis 30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have
served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
Genesis 30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it
hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee
whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own
house also?
Genesis 30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said,
Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will
again feed thy flock and keep it.
Genesis 30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from
thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among
the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of
such] shall be my hire.
Genesis 30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter,
when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every
one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black
among the sheep, that [if found] with me, shall be counted stolen.
Genesis 30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be
according to thy word.
Genesis 30:35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were
ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and
spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among
the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;
Genesis 30:36 and he set three days' journey betwixt himself and
Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Genesis 30:37 And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the
almond and of the plane-tree. And peeled white streaks in them, and
made the white appear which was in the rods.
Genesis 30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled over against
the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks
came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.
Genesis 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the
flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of
the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of
Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto
Laban's flock.
Genesis 30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the
flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
Genesis 30:42 but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so
the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Genesis 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had large
flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.
Genesis 31
Genesis 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.
Genesis 31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and,
behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.
Genesis 31:3 And Jehovah said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of
thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
Genesis 31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field
unto his flock,
Genesis 31:5 and said unto them, I see your father's countenance,
that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath
been with me.
Genesis 31:6 And ye know that will all my power I have served your
father.
Genesis 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my
wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Genesis 31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then
all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall
be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.
Genesis 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and
given them to me.
Genesis 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the flock
conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,
the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked,
speckled, and grizzled.
Genesis 31:11 And the angel of God said unto me in the dream,
Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
Genesis 31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the
he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and
grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a
pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out
from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.
Genesis 31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is
there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Genesis 31:15 Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he
hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
Genesis 31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken away from
our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God
hath said unto thee, do.
Genesis 31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives
upon the camels;
Genesis 31:18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance
which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had
gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of
Canaan.
Genesis 31:19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel
stole the teraphim that were her father's.
Genesis 31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian,
in that he told him not that he fled.
Genesis 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and
passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of
Gilead.
Genesis 31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was
fled.
Genesis 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after
him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of
Gilead.
Genesis 31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the
night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to
Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis 31:25 And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had
pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brethren
encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that
thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my
daughters as captives of the sword?
Genesis 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee 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;
Genesis 31:28 and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my
daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
Genesis 31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the
God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to
thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis 31:30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone,
because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore
hast thou stolen my gods?
Genesis 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was
afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by
force.
Genesis 31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall 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.
Genesis 31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent,
and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not.
And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in
the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the
tent, but found them not.
Genesis 31:35 And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry
that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon
me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
Genesis 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and
Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my
sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?
Genesis 31:37 Whereas thou hast felt about 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 two.
Genesis 31:38 These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes
and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy
flocks have I not eaten.
Genesis 31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee;
I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen
by day or stolen by night.
Genesis 31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and
the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
Genesis 31:41 These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served
thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock:
and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham,
and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent
me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my
hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
Genesis 31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The
daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the
flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I
do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom
they have borne?
Genesis 31:44 And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou;
and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Genesis 31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Genesis 31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and
they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there by the heap.
Genesis 31:47 And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob
called it Galeed.
Genesis 31:48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and
thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
Genesis 31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me
and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Genesis 31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt
take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is
witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis 31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and
behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee.
Genesis 31:52 This heap be witness, and the 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.
Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God
of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his
father Isaac.
Genesis 31:54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and
called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all
night in the mountain.
Genesis 31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed
his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed and
returned unto his place.
Genesis 32
Genesis 32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him.
Genesis 32:2 And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's host:
and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his
brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Genesis 32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say
unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned
with Laban, and stayed until now:
Genesis 32:5 and I have oxen, and asses, [and] flocks, and men-
servants, and maid-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I
may find favor in thy sight.
Genesis 32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We
came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and
four hundred men with him.
Genesis 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and
he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the
herds, and the camels, into two companies;
Genesis 32:8 and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and
smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
Genesis 32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God
of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy
country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good:
Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the
lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto
thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am
become two companies.
Genesis 32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,
from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the
mother with the children.
Genesis 32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make
thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
Genesis 32:13 And he lodged there that night, and took of that which
he had with him a present for Esau his brother:
Genesis 32:14 two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two
hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 32:15 thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten
bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
Genesis 32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants,
every drove by itself, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
Genesis 32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau
my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou?
and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
Genesis 32:18 then thou shalt say [They are] thy servant Jacob's; it is
a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.
Genesis 32:19 And he commanded also the second, and the third,
and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye
speak unto Esau, when ye find him;
Genesis 32:20 and ye shall say, 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 me.
Genesis 32:21 So the present passed over before him: and he himself
lodged that night in the company.
Genesis 32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and
his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford
of the Jabbok.
Genesis 32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and
sent over that which he had.
Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man
with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him,
he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was strained, as he wrestled with him.
Genesis 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he
said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said,
Jacob.
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.
Genesis 32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee,
thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my
name? And he blessed him there.
Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for,
[said he], I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Genesis 32:31 And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel,
and he limped upon his thigh.
Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of
the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because
he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
Genesis 33
Genesis 33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold,
Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided
the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
Genesis 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,
and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Genesis 33:3 And he himself passed over before them, and bowed
himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell
on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis 33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The
children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis 33:6 Then the handmaids came near, they and their children,
and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33:7 And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
Genesis 33:8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this company
which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that
which thou hast be thine.
Genesis 33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found
favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I
have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast
pleased with me.
Genesis 33:11 Take, I pray thee, my gift 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.
Genesis 33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go,
and I will go before thee.
Genesis 33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the
children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their
young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant:
and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are
before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto
my lord unto Seir.
Genesis 33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of
the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find
favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
Genesis 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a
house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place
is called Succoth.
Genesis 33:18 And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem,
which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram;
and encamped before the city.
Genesis 33:19 And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had
spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
father, for a hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-
israel.
Genesis 34
Genesis 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto
Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis 34:2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince
of the land, saw her; And he took her, and lay with her, and humbled
her.
Genesis 34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob,
and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
Genesis 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get
me this damsel to wife.
Genesis 34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his
daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob
held his peace until they came.
Genesis 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob
to commune with him.
Genesis 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came in from 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.
Genesis 34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of
my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto
him to wife.
Genesis 34:9 And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters
unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
Genesis 34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be
before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions
therein.
Genesis 34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her
brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto
me I will give.
Genesis 34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give
according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Genesis 34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor
his father with guile, and spake, because he had defiled Dinah their
sister,
Genesis 34:14 and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give
our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto
us.
Genesis 34:15 Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye
will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
Genesis 34:16 then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will
take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will
become one people.
Genesis 34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised;
then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
Genesis 34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem
Hamor's son.
Genesis 34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing,
because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honored
above all the house of his father.
Genesis 34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate
of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis 34:21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them
dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large
enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us
give them our daughters.
Genesis 34:22 Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to
dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Genesis 34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their
beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell
with us.
Genesis 34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened
all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
Genesis 34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were
sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares,
and slew all the males.
Genesis 34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the
edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went
forth.
Genesis 34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered
the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34:28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses,
and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;
Genesis 34:29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their
wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the
house.
Genesis 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled
me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will
gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be
destroyed, I and my house.
Genesis 34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a
harlot?
Genesis 35
Genesis 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and
dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto
thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that
were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and
purify yourselves, and change your garments:
Genesis 35:3 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.
Genesis 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which
were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob
hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Genesis 35:5 And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the
cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the
sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan
(the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.
Genesis 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-
beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from
the face of his brother.
Genesis 35:8 And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried
below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-
bacuth.
Genesis 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came
from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name
shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and
he called his name Israel.
Genesis 35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be
fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of
thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis 35:12 and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to
thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Genesis 35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he
spake with him.
Genesis 35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake
with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering
thereon, and poured oil thereon.
Genesis 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God
spake with him, Beth-el.
Genesis 35:16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still
some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had
hard labor.
Genesis 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that
the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another
son.
Genesis 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she
died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him
Benjamin.
Genesis 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
Genesis 35:20 And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is
the Pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Genesis 35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the
tower of Eder.
Genesis 35:22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land,
that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and
Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;
Genesis 35:24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
Genesis 35:25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and
Naphtali;
Genesis 35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and
Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-
aram.
Genesis 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to
Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned.
Genesis 35:28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore
years.
Genesis 35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was
gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his
sons buried him.
Genesis 36
Genesis 36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is
Edom).
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah
the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of
Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Genesis 36:3 and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bare
Reuel;
Genesis 36:5 and Oholibamah bare Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah:
these are the sons of Esau, that were born unto him in the land of
Canaan.
Genesis 36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his
daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gather in the land of
Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36:7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell
together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them
because of their cattle.
Genesis 36:8 And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis 36:10 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of
Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
Genesis 36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho,
and Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis 36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and
she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah,
Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Basemath, Esau's
wife.
Genesis 36:14 And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter
of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau
Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho,
chief Kenaz,
Genesis 36:16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the
chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
Adah.
Genesis 36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief
Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the
chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
Basemath, Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:18 And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife:
chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs that came
of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:19 These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs:
the same is Edom.
Genesis 36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants
of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,
Genesis 36:21 and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs
that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis 36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. And
Lotan's sister was Timna.
Genesis 36:23 And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and
Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.
Genesis 36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah;
this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed
the asses of Zibeon his father.
Genesis 36:25 And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and
Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
Genesis 36:26 And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and
Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.
Genesis 36:27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and
Akan.
Genesis 36:28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
Genesis 36:29 These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief
Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
Genesis 36:30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these are the
chiefs that came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of
Seir.
Genesis 36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of
Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis 36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the
name of his city was Dinhabah.
Genesis 36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
reigned in his stead.
Genesis 36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the
Temanites reigned in his stead.
Genesis 36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who
smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name
of his city was Avith.
Genesis 36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in
his stead.
Genesis 36:37 And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River
reigned in his stead.
Genesis 36:38 And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor
reigned in his stead.
Genesis 36:39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar
reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's
name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-
zahab.
Genesis 36:40 And these are the names of the chiefs that came of
Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names:
chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
Genesis 36:41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
Genesis 36:42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
Genesis 36:43 chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of
Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession.
This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
Genesis 37
Genesis 37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings,
in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he
was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his
father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their
father.
Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,
because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of
many colors.
Genesis 37:4 And his brethren saw that their father loved him more
than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak
peaceably unto him.
Genesis 37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his
brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
Genesis 37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream
which I have dreamed:
Genesis 37:7 for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and,
lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves
came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Genesis 37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign
over us? Or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated
him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his
brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold,
the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Genesis 37:10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and
his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that
thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Genesis 37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the
saying in mind.
Genesis 37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in
Shechem.
Genesis 37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Are not thy brethren
feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee unto them.
And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis 37:14 And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well
with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.
So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was
wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest
thou?
Genesis 37:16 And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray
thee, where they are feeding [the flock].
Genesis 37:17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I
heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his
brethren, and found them in Dothan.
Genesis 37:18 And they saw him afar off, and before he came near
unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Genesis 37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer
cometh.
Genesis 37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him
into one of the pits, and we will say, And evil beast hath devoured
him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis 37:21 And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their
hand, and said, Let us not take his life.
Genesis 37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him
into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that
he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
Genesis 37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his
brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many
colors that was on him;
Genesis 37:24 and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the
pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Genesis 37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up
their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was
coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and
myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis 37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if
we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
Genesis 37:27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let
not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his
brethren hearkened unto him.
Genesis 37:28 And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and
they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the
Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into
Egypt.
Genesis 37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph
was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Genesis 37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child
is not; and I, whither shall I go?
Genesis 37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and
dipped the coat in the blood;
Genesis 37:32 and they sent the coat of many colors, and they
brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now
whether it is thy son's coat or not.
Genesis 37:33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat: an evil
beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.
Genesis 37:34 And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon
his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to
comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will
go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
Genesis 37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
Genesis 38
Genesis 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.
Genesis 38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite
whose name was Shua. And he took her, and went in unto her.
Genesis 38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his
name Er.
Genesis 38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she
called his name Onan.
Genesis 38:5 And she yet again bare a son, and called his name
Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
Genesis 38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her
name was Tamar.
Genesis 38:7 And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of
Jehovah. And Jehovah slew him.
Genesis 38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's
wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise
up seed to thy brother.
Genesis 38:9 And Onan knew that the seed would 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 he should give seed to his brother.
Genesis 38:10 And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of
Jehovah: and he slew him also.
Genesis 38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law,
Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown
up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went
and dwelt in her father's house.
Genesis 38:12 And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of
Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-
shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Genesis 38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-
law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
Genesis 38:14 And she put off from her the garments of her
widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself,
and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she
saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given unto him to
wife.
Genesis 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for
she had covered her face.
Genesis 38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Come, 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?
Genesis 38:17 And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from
the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
Genesis 38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she
said, Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he
gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38:19 And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil
from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis 38:20 And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his
friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand:
but he found her not.
Genesis 38:21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is
the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the wayside? And they said,
There hath been no prostitute here.
Genesis 38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found
her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no prostitute
here.
Genesis 38:23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be put to
shame: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
Genesis 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it
was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the
harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And
Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Genesis 38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-
law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she
said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords,
and the staff.
Genesis 38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more
righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And
he knew her again no more.
Genesis 38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that,
behold, twins were in her womb.
Genesis 38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put
out a hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet
thread, saying, This came out first.
Genesis 38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that,
behold, his brother came out: and she said, Wherefore hast thou made
a breach for thyself? Therefore his name was called Perez.
Genesis 38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the
scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zerah.
Genesis 39
Genesis 39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought
him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down
thither.
Genesis 39:2 And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous
man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39:3 And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and
that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis 39:4 And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered
unto him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he
had he put into his hand.
Genesis 39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he made him
overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Jehovah blessed
the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah
was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.
Genesis 39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he
knew not aught [that was] with him, save the bread which he did eat.
And Joseph was comely, and well-favored.
Genesis 39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's
wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Genesis 39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold,
my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath put
all that he hath into my hand:
Genesis 39:9 he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he
kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how
then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis 39:10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by
day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her.
Genesis 39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that he went into
the house to do his work; and there was none of the men of the house
there within.
Genesis 39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with
me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis 39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his
garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
Genesis 39:14 that she called unto the men of her house, and spake
unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock
us: he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
Genesis 39:15 and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him
out.
Genesis 39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his master
came home.
Genesis 39:17 And she spake unto him according to these words,
saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came
in unto me to mock me:
Genesis 39:18 and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment by me, and fled out.
Genesis 39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words
of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did
thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the
prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was
there in the prison.
Genesis 39:21 But Jehovah was with Joseph, and showed kindness
unto him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's
hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they
did there, he was the doer of it.
Genesis 39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to anything that
was under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and that which
he did, Jehovah made it prosper.
Genesis 40
Genesis 40:1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of
the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
Genesis 40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers,
against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis 40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of
the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them,
and he ministered unto them: and they continued a season in ward.
Genesis 40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his
dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his
dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound
in the prison.
Genesis 40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw
them, and, behold, they were sad.
Genesis 40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in
ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?
Genesis 40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream,
and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do
not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.
Genesis 40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said
to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
Genesis 40:10 and in the vine were three branches: and it was as
though it budded, [and] its blossoms shot forth; [and] the clusters
thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Genesis 40:11 and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the
grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand.
Genesis 40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of
it: the three branches are three days;
Genesis 40:13 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head,
and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup
into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Genesis 40:14 But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well
with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make
mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
Genesis 40:15 for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the
Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me
into the dungeon.
Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was
good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, three
baskets of white bread were on my head:
Genesis 40:17 and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner
of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the
basket upon my head.
Genesis 40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the
interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;
Genesis 40:19 within yet 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.
Genesis 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was
Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he
lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker
among his servants.
Genesis 40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership
again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
Genesis 40:22 but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had
interpreted to them.
Genesis 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but
forgat him.
Genesis 41
Genesis 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that
Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
Genesis 41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out
of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine
upon the brink of the river.
Genesis 41:4 And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the
seven well-favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
Genesis 41:5 And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold,
seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
Genesis 41:6 And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41:7 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full
ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
Genesis 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was
troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and
all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there
was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
remember my faults this day:
Genesis 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in
ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker:
Genesis 41:11 and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we
dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis 41:12 And there was with us there a young man, a 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.
Genesis 41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was;
me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Genesis 41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they
brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and
changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a
dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of
thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.
Genesis 41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me:
God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Genesis 41:17 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold,
I stood upon the brink of the river:
Genesis 41:18 and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:
Genesis 41:19 and, behold, seven other kine came up after them,
poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all
the land of Egypt for badness:
Genesis 41:20 and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first
seven fat kine:
Genesis 41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it could not be
known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at
the beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis 41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came
up upon one stalk, full and good:
Genesis 41:23 and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted
with the east wind, sprung up after them:
Genesis 41:24 and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears:
and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare
it to me.
Genesis 41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh
is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven
good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis 41:27 And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up
after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with
the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis 41:28 That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what
God is about to do he hath showed unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty
throughout all the land of Egypt:
Genesis 41:30 and there shall arise after them seven years of famine;
and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the
famine shall consume the land;
Genesis 41:31 and the plenty shall not be known in the land by
reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.
Genesis 41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh, it
is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring
it to pass.
Genesis 41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and
wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:34 Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint overseers
over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the
seven plenteous years.
Genesis 41:35 And let them gather all the food of these good years
that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the
cities, and let them keep it.
Genesis 41:36 And the food shall be for a 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.
Genesis 41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in
the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such
a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God
hath showed thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as
thou:
Genesis 41:40 thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy
word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater
than thou.
Genesis 41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee
over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his signet 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;
Genesis 41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which
he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he set him over
all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and
without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of
Egypt.
Genesis 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah;
and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of
On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before
Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of
Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought
forth by handfuls.
Genesis 41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years
which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the
food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the
same.
Genesis 41:49 And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very
much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.
Genesis 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year
of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of
On, bare unto him.
Genesis 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born
Manasseh: For, [said he], God hath made me forget all my toil, and
all my father's house.
Genesis 41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For
God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 41:53 And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of
Egypt, came to an end.
Genesis 41:54 And the seven years of famine began to come,
according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but
in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the
Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Genesis 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and
Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and
the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy
grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.
Genesis 42
Genesis 42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and
Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Genesis 42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in
Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may
live, and not die.
Genesis 42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from
Egypt.
Genesis 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
brethren; for he said, Lest Peradventure harm befall him.
Genesis 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that
came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was
that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came,
and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and
he said unto them. Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of
Canaan to buy food.
Genesis 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis 42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed
of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the
land ye are come.
Genesis 42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food
are thy servants come.
Genesis 42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy
servants are no spies.
Genesis 42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness
of the land ye are come.
Genesis 42:13 And they said, We 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.
Genesis 42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto
you, saying, Ye are spies:
Genesis 42:15 hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye
shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Genesis 42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and
ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be
truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
Genesis 42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
Genesis 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and
live: for I fear God:
Genesis 42:19 if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in
your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your
houses:
Genesis 42:20 and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall
your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Genesis 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when
he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come
upon us.
Genesis 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto
you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore also, behold, his blood is required.
Genesis 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for
there was an interpreter between them.
Genesis 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept;
and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Simeon from
among them, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with
grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give
them provisions for the way: and thus was it done unto them.
Genesis 42:26 And they laded their asses with their grain, and
departed thence.
Genesis 42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass
provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it
was in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored;
and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they
turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God hath
done unto us?
Genesis 42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of
Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,
Genesis 42:30 The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us,
and took us for spies of the country.
Genesis 42:31 And we said unto him, We are true men; and we are
no spies:
Genesis 42:32 we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not,
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:33 And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us,
Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren
with me, and take [grain for] the famine of your houses, and go your
way;
Genesis 42:34 and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I
know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver
you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
Genesis 42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that,
behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when they
and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis 42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye
bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye
will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Genesis 42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my
two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I
will bring him to thee again.
Genesis 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for
his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way
in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
Sheol.
Genesis 43
Genesis 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
Genesis 43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain
which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go
again, buy us a little food.
Genesis 43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did
solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except
your brother be with you.
Genesis 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down
and buy thee food:
Genesis 43:5 but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down; for
the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother
be with you.
Genesis 43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to
tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
Genesis 43:7 And they said, The man asked straitly concerning
ourselves, and concerning 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 in any wise know that he would say,
Bring your brother down?
Genesis 43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with
me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we,
and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis 43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require
him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me
bear the blame for ever:
Genesis 43:10 for except we had lingered, surely we had now
returned a second time.
Genesis 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now,
do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry
down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and
myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
Genesis 43:12 and take double money in your hand; and the money
that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your
hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
Genesis 43:13 take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the
man:
Genesis 43:14 and God Almighty give you mercy before the man,
that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if
I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
Genesis 43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double
money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to
Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
Genesis 43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to
the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house, and slay, and
make ready; for the men shall dine with me at noon.
Genesis 43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought
the men to Joseph's house.
Genesis 43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought
to 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.
Genesis 43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house,
and they spake unto him at the door of the house,
Genesis 43:20 and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the
first time to buy food:
Genesis 43:21 and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-
place, 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.
Genesis 43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hand
to buy food: we know not who put our money in our sacks.
Genesis 43:23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and
the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had
your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
Genesis 43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and
gave them water, and they washed their feet. And he gave their asses
provender.
Genesis 43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph's
coming at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis 43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the
present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down
themselves to him to the earth.
Genesis 43:27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your
father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
Genesis 43:28 And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet
alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.
Genesis 43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his
brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of
whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my
son.
Genesis 43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned over his
brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his
chamber, and wept there.
Genesis 43:31 And he washed his face, and came out; and he
refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
Genesis 43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by
themselves, and for the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by
themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the
Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Genesis 43:33 And they sat before him, the first-born according to
his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men
marvelled one with another.
Genesis 43:34 And he took [and sent] messes unto them from before
him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.
And they drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis 44
Genesis 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.
Genesis 44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of
the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word
that Joseph had spoken.
Genesis 44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent
away, they and their asses.
Genesis 44:4 [And] when they were gone out of the city, and were
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?
Genesis 44:5 Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby
he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Genesis 44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these
words.
Genesis 44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord
such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do
such a thing.
Genesis 44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks'
mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how
then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
Genesis 44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him
die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
Genesis 44:10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your
words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall
be blameless.
Genesis 44:11 Then they hasted, and took down every man his sack
to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
Genesis 44:12 And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left off
at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis 44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his
ass, and returned to the city.
Genesis 44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house;
and he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
Genesis 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye
have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?
Genesis 44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord?
what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's
bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.
Genesis 44:17 And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the
man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as
for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh, my
lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and
let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as
Pharaoh.
Genesis 44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father,
or a brother?
Genesis 44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old
man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,
and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him.
Genesis 44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down
unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Genesis 44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his
father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis 44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your
youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Genesis 44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy
servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44:25 And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
Genesis 44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest
brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the
man's face, expect our youngest brother be with us.
Genesis 44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that
my wife bare me two sons:
Genesis 44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is
torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:
Genesis 44:29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall
him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father,
and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's
life;
Genesis 44:31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not
[with us], that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray
hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my
father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame
to my father for ever.
Genesis 44:33 Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide
instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with
his brethren.
Genesis 44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not
with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis 45
Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them
that stood before 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.
Genesis 45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the
house of Pharaoh heard.
Genesis 45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth
my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they
were troubled at his presence.
Genesis 45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I
pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Genesis 45:5 And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves,
that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve
life.
Genesis 45:6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land:
and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing
nor harvest.
Genesis 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant
in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and
he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and
ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him,
Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come
down unto me, tarry not;
Genesis 45:10 and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou
shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's
children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
Genesis 45:11 and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five
years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household,
and all that thou hast.
Genesis 45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my
brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis 45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt,
and of all that ye have seen: and ye shall haste and bring down my
father hither.
Genesis 45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and
wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Genesis 45:15 And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them:
and after that his brethren talked with him.
Genesis 45:16 And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,
saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and
his servants.
Genesis 45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren,
This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Genesis 45:18 and take your father and your households, and come
unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye
shall eat the fat of the land.
Genesis 45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you
wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your
wives, and bring your father, and come.
Genesis 45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land
of Egypt is yours.
Genesis 45:21 And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them
wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way.
Genesis 45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment;
but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five
changes of raiment.
Genesis 45:23 And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses
laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with
grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Genesis 45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and
he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Genesis 45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the
land of Canaan unto Jacob their father.
Genesis 45:26 And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he
is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he
believed them not.
Genesis 45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he
had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
Genesis 45:28 and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet
alive: I will go and see him before I die.
Genesis 46
Genesis 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.
Genesis 46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night,
and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
Genesis 46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not
to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
Genesis 46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also
surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine
eyes.
Genesis 46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of
Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives,
in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they
had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all
his seed with him:
Genesis 46:7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and
his sons's daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Genesis 46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who
came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.
Genesis 46:9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and
Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis 46:10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman.
Genesis 46:11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46:12 And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and
Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And
the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob,
and Shimron.
Genesis 46:14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and
Jahleel.
Genesis 46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob
in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and
his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis 46:16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and
Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46:17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi,
and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and
Malchiel.
Genesis 46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to
Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and
Benjamin.
Genesis 46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera
priest of On, bare unto him.
Genesis 46:21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and
Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim,
and Ard.
Genesis 46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob:
all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis 46:23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto
Rachel his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob: all the souls were
seven.
Genesis 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that
came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
threescore and six;
Genesis 46:27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in
Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came
into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Genesis 46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to show
the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen.
Genesis 46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to
meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him,
and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I
have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.
Genesis 46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his
father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him,
My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan,
are come unto me;
Genesis 46:32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers
of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all
that they have.
Genesis 46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call
you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
Genesis 46:34 that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of
cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that
ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.
Genesis 47
Genesis 47:1 Then Joseph went in 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.
Genesis 47:2 And from among his brethren he took five men, and
presented them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your
occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,
both we, and our fathers.
Genesis 47:4 And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are
we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' 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.
Genesis 47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and
thy brethren are come unto thee:
Genesis 47:6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land
make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let
them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then
make them rulers over my cattle.
Genesis 47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him
before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days
of the years of thy life?
Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of
my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been
the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the
days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage.
Genesis 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the
presence of Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and
gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in
the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and
all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine
was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan
fainted by reason of the famine.
Genesis 47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found
in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which
they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 47:15 And when the money was all spent 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
[our] money faileth.
Genesis 47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you
for your cattle, if money fail.
Genesis 47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph
gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and
for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in
exchange for all their cattle for that year.
Genesis 47:18 And when that year was ended, they came unto him
the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord,
how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's;
there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our
lands:
Genesis 47:19 wherefore should 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, and that the land be not desolate.
Genesis 47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh;
for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was
sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis 47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to the cities
from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Genesis 47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the
priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.
Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have
bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for
you, and ye shall sow the land.
Genesis 47:24 And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye
shall give a fifth 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.
Genesis 47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find
favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Genesis 47:26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of
Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land
of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.
Genesis 47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of
Goshen; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and
multiplied exceedingly.
Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years:
so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and
seven years.
Genesis 47:29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he
called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor 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;
Genesis 47:30 but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me
out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will
do as thou hast said.
Genesis 47:31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him.
And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Genesis 48
Genesis 48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to
Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph
cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the
bed.
Genesis 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared
unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis 48:4 and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will
give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Genesis 48:5 And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the
land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim
and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.
Genesis 48:6 And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be
thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their
inheritance.
Genesis 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died
by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some
distance to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
Genesis 48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are
these?
Genesis 48:9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons,
whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee,
unto me, and I will bless them.
Genesis 48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he
could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed
them, and embraced them.
Genesis 48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see
thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.
Genesis 48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees;
and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis 48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand
toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward
Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
Genesis 48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it
upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon
Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the
first-born.
Genesis 48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before
whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed
me all my life long unto this day,
Genesis 48:16 the angel who hath 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.
Genesis 48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his
father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's
head.
Genesis 48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for
this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I
know [it]. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great:
howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed
shall become a multitude of nations.
Genesis 48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will
Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and
he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God
will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Genesis 48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy
brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword
and with my bow.
Genesis 49
Genesis 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 latter days.
Genesis 49:2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And
hearken unto Israel your father.
Genesis 49:3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the
beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-
eminence of power.
Genesis 49:4 Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-
eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst
thou it: he went up to my couch.
Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are
their swords.
Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their
assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a
man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox.
Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their
wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them
in Israel.
Genesis 49:8 Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be
on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down
before thee.
Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art
gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness;
who shall rouse him up?
Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the
ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him
shall the obedience of the peoples be.
Genesis 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto
the choice vine; He hath washed his garments in wine, And his
vesture in the blood of grapes:
Genesis 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white
with milk.
Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he
shall be for a haven of ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon.
Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the
sheepfolds:
Genesis 49:15 And he saw a resting-place that it was good, And the
land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And
became a servant under taskwork.
Genesis 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of
Israel.
Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in the
path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward.
Genesis 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
Genesis 49:19 Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press
upon their heel.
Genesis 49:20 Out of the Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall
yield royal dainties.
Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.
Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a
fountain; His branches run over the wall.
Genesis 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him,
and persecute him:
Genesis 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his
hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee,
And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee, With blessings of heaven
above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the
breasts, and of the womb.
Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the
head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis 49:27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning she
shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it
that their father spake unto them and blessed them; every one
according to his blessing he blessed them.
Genesis 49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be
gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is
in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is
before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with
the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.
Genesis 49:31 there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there
they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah:
Genesis 49:32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was
purchased from the children of Heth.
Genesis 49:33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was
gathered unto his people.
Genesis 50
Genesis 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon
him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to
embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are
fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him
three-score and ten days.
Genesis 50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past,
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found
favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis 50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt
thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my
father, and I will come again.
Genesis 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,
according as he made thee swear.
Genesis 50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him
went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all
the elders of the land of Egypt,
Genesis 50:8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his
father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds,
they left in the land of Goshen.
Genesis 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and
horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which
is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and
sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,
saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-
mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Genesis 50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he
commanded them:
Genesis 50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and
buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron
the Hittite, before Mamre.
Genesis 50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren,
and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried
his father.
Genesis 50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was
dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully
requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Genesis 50:16 And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy
father did command before he died, saying,
Genesis 50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now,
the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto
thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the
servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake
unto him.
Genesis 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his
face; and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.
Genesis 50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the
place of God?
Genesis 50:20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God
meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much
people alive.
Genesis 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and
your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Genesis 50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house:
and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
Genesis 50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third
generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were
born upon Joseph's knees.
Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will
surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which
he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Genesis 50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel,
saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones
from hence.
Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old:
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus
Exodus 1
Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came
into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exodus 1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
generation.
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the
land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not
Joseph.
Exodus 1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Exodus 1:10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply,
and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also
join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them
up out of the land.
Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict
them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities,
Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they
multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved
because of the children of Israel.
Exodus 1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve
with rigor:
Exodus 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in
mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their
service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives,
of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the
other Puah:
Exodus 1:16 and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the
Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then
ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of
Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
Exodus 1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said
unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-
children alive?
Exodus 1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the
Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively,
and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.
Exodus 1:20 And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus 1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God,
that he made them households.
Exodus 1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son
that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall
save alive.
Exodus 2
Exodus 2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to
wife a daughter of Levi.
Exodus 2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she
saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for
him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and
she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus 2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be
done to him.
Exodus 2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the
river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw
the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.
Exodus 2:6 And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of
the Hebrews' children.
Exodus 2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and
call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child
for thee?
Exodus 2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden
went and called the child's mother.
Exodus 2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child
away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the
woman took the child, and nursed it.
Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name
Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Exodus 2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was
grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their
burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his
brethren.
Exodus 2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw
that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the
sand.
Exodus 2:13 And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men
of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the
wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Exodus 2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over
us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And
Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.
Exodus 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay
Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the
land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they
came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
flock.
Exodus 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but
Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Exodus 2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How
is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
Exodus 2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the
hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and
watered the flock.
Exodus 2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why
is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.
Exodus 2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he
gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Exodus 2:22 And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom;
for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days,
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.
Exodus 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered
his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God took
knowledge [of them].
Exodus 3
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-
in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the
wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.
Exodus 3:2 And the angel of Jehovah 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.
Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great
sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Exodus 3:4 And when Jehovah 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.
Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Exodus 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his
face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Exodus 3:7 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my
people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus 3:8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of
the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place
of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 3:9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is
come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the
Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh,
that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of
Egypt.
Exodus 3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go
unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out
of Egypt?
Exodus 3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall
be the 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.
Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto
the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his
name? What shall I say unto them?
Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he
said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent
me unto you.
Exodus 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the 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 forever, and this is my memorial unto
all generations.
Exodus 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say
unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of
Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in Egypt:
Exodus 3:17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction
of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a
land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt
come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye
shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with
us: and now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the
wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
Exodus 3:19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you
leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
Exodus 3:20 And I will put forth 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.
Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go
empty.
Exodus 3:22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, 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 despoil the Egyptians.
Exodus 4
Exodus 4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not
believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah
hath not appeared unto thee.
Exodus 4:2 And Jehovah said unto him, What is that in thy hand?
And he said, A rod.
Exodus 4:3 And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the
ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Exodus 4:4 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and
take it by the tail: (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it
became a rod in his hand:)
Exodus 4:5 That they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
hath appeared unto thee.
Exodus 4:6 And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy
hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when
he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as [white as] snow.
Exodus 4:7 And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he
put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his
bosom, behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.)
Exodus 4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee,
neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the
voice of the latter sign.
Exodus 4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even
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.
Exodus 4:10 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Oh, Lord, I am not
eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Exodus 4:11 And Jehovah said unto him, Who hath made man's
mouth? Or who maketh [a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is
it not I, Jehovah?
Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and
teach thee what thou shalt speak.
Exodus 4:13 And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of
him whom thou wilt send.
Exodus 4:14 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses,
and he said, Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite? 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.
Exodus 4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his
mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do.
Exodus 4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it
shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be
to him as God.
Exodus 4:17 And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith
thou shalt do the signs.
Exodus 4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-
law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my
brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And
Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Exodus 4:19 And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return
into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.
Exodus 4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them
upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the
rod of God in his hand.
Exodus 4:21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, When thou goest back
into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I
have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart and he will not let the
people go.
Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah,
Israel is my son, my first-born:
Exodus 4:23 and I have said unto thee, Let my son go, that he may
serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will slay thy
son, thy first-born.
Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place,
that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him.
Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of
her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of
blood art thou to me.
Exodus 4:26 So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of
blood [art thou], because of the circumcision.
Exodus 4:27 And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to
meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and
kissed him.
Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah
wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had
charged him.
Exodus 4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all
the elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus 4:30 and Aaron spake all the words which Jehovah had
spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus 4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that
Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exodus 5
Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto
Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken
unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I
will not let Israel go.
Exodus 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness,
and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
Exodus 5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye,
Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you unto
your burdens.
Exodus 5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are
now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus 5:6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters
of the people, and their officers, saying,
Exodus 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as
heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exodus 5:8 And the number of the bricks, which they did make
heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught
thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and
sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 5:9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may
labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.
Exodus 5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I
will not give you straw.
Exodus 5:11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for
nought of your work shall be diminished.
Exodus 5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the
land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Exodus 5:13 And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your
works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus 5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom
Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day,
in making brick as heretofore?
Exodus 5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and
cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy
servants?
Exodus 5:16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say
to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault it
in thine own people.
Exodus 5:17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say,
Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.
Exodus 5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be
given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.
Exodus 5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that
they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught
from your bricks, [your] daily tasks.
Exodus 5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way,
as they came forth from Pharaoh:
Exodus 5:21 and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and
judge: because ye have made our savor 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.
Exodus 5:22 And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord,
wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast
sent me?
Exodus 5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he
hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people
at all.
Exodus 6
Exodus 6:1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I
will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a
strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
Exodus 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am
Jehovah:
Exodus 6:3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known
to them.
Exodus 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to
give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein
they sojourned.
Exodus 6:5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children
of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have
remembered my covenant.
Exodus 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah,
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 an
outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus 6:7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to
you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who
bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to
give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a
heritage: I am Jehovah.
Exodus 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
Exodus 6:10 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus 6:12 And Moses spake before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the
children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall
Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
Exodus 6:13 And Jehovah 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.
Exodus 6:14 These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of
Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and
Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
Exodus 6:15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,
and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman;
these are the families of Simeon.
Exodus 6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according
to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years
of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.
Exodus 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to
their families.
Exodus 6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and
Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a
hundred thirty and three years.
Exodus 6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are
the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Exodus 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to
wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of
Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.
Exodus 6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
Exodus 6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and
Sithri.
Exodus 6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of
Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Exodus 6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and
Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
Exodus 6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters
of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of
the fathers' [houses] of the Levites according to their families.
Exodus 6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah
said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt
according to their hosts.
Exodus 6:27 These are they that spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to
bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and
Aaron.
Exodus 6:28 And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spake
unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
Exodus 6:29 that Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, I am Jehovah:
speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee.
Exodus 6:30 And Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Exodus 7
Exodus 7:1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, See, I have made thee as
God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Exodus 7:2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy
brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go
out of his land.
Exodus 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs
and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 7:4 But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay my
hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of
Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I
stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel
from among them.
Exodus 7:6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as Jehovah commanded
them, so did they.
Exodus 7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron
fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Exodus 7:8 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Exodus 7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a
wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.
Exodus 7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they
did so, as Jehovah had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod
before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exodus 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the
sorcerers: and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner
with their enchantments.
Exodus 7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Exodus 7:13 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened
not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
Exodus 7:14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is
stubborn, he refuseth to let the people go.
Exodus 7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out
unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him;
and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.
Exodus 7:16 And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the 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 hast not
hearkened.
Exodus 7:17 Thus saith Jehovah, In this thou shalt know that I am
Jehovah: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the
waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
Exodus 7:18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river
shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from
the river.
Exodus 7:19 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take
thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their
rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their
ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood
throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in
vessels of stone.
Exodus 7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah 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.
Exodus 7:21 And the fish that were in the river died; and the river
became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river;
and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with
their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he
hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
Exodus 7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither
did he lay even this to heart.
Exodus 7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for
water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Exodus 7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that Jehovah had
smitten the river.
Exodus 8
Exodus 8:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and
say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may
serve me.
Exodus 8:2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all
thy borders with frogs:
Exodus 8:3 and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up
and come into thy 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 kneading-troughs:
Exodus 8:4 and the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon all thy servants.
Exodus 8:5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch
forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over
the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of
Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:7 And the magicians did in like manner with their
enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said,
Entreat Jehovah, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my
people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto
Jehovah.
Exodus 8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have thou this glory over
me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants,
and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy
houses, and remain in the river only?
Exodus 8:10 And he said, Against to-morrow. And he said, Be it
according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like
unto Jehovah our God.
Exodus 8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy
houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain
in the river only.
Exodus 8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and
Moses cried unto Jehovah concerning the frogs which he had brought
upon Pharaoh.
Exodus 8:13 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and
the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the
fields.
Exodus 8:14 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land
stank.
Exodus 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he
hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them, as Jehovah had
spoken.
Exodus 8:16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch
out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that is may become lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:17 And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with
his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were lice upon
man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout
all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to
bring forth lice, but they could not: and there were lice upon man,
and upon beast.
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the
finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened
not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
Exodus 8:20 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah, Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
Exodus 8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will
send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon they 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.
Exodus 8:22 And I will set apart 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 Jehovah in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 8:23 And I will put a division between my people and thy
people: by to-morrow shall this sign be.
Exodus 8:24 And Jehovah did so; and there came grievous swarms
of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and
in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the
swarms of flies.
Exodus 8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said,
Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
Exodus 8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo,
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes,
and will they not stone us?
Exodus 8:27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and
sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.
Exodus 8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may
sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go
very far away: entreat for me.
Exodus 8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will
entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh,
from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow: only let not
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to Jehovah.
Exodus 8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated
Jehovah.
Exodus 8:31 And Jehovah 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.
Exodus 8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he
did not let the people go.
Exodus 9
Exodus 9:1 Then Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and
tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people
go, that they may serve me.
Exodus 9:2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Exodus 9:3 behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are
in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon
the herds, and upon the flocks: [there shall be] a very grievous
murrain.
Exodus 9:4 And Jehovah shall make a distinction between the cattle
of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that
belongeth to the children of Israel.
Exodus 9:5 And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow
Jehovah shall do this thing in the land.
Exodus 9:6 And Jehovah 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.
Exodus 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as
one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was
stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
Exodus 9:8 And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to
you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward
heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exodus 9:9 And it shall become small dust over 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.
Exodus 9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before
Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a
boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast.
Exodus 9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses
because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon
all the Egyptians.
Exodus 9:12 And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he
hearkened not unto them, as Jehovah had spoken unto Moses.
Exodus 9:13 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may
serve me.
Exodus 9:14 For I will this time send all my plagues upon thy heart,
and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know
that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exodus 9:15 For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and
thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the
earth:
Exodus 9:16 but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to
stand, to show thee my power, and that my name may be declared
throughout all the earth.
Exodus 9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou
wilt not let them go?
Exodus 9:18 Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain
a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it
was founded even until now.
Exodus 9:19 Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that
thou hast in the field; [for] every man and beast that shall be found in
the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down
upon them, and they shall die.
Exodus 9:20 He that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants
of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses.
Exodus 9:21 And he that regarded not the word of Jehovah left his
servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus 9:22 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy 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.
Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and
Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and
Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very
grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it
became a nation.
Exodus 9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all
that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every
herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
Exodus 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel
were, was there no hail.
Exodus 9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and
said unto them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is righteous, and I
and my people are wicked.
Exodus 9:28 Entreat Jehovah; for there hath been enough of [these]
mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay
no longer.
Exodus 9:29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of
the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Jehovah; the thunders
shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest
know that the earth is Jehovah's.
Exodus 9:30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not
yet fear Jehovah God.
Exodus 9:31 And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley
was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
Exodus 9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they
were not grown up.
Exodus 9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and
spread abroad his hands unto Jehovah: and the thunders and hail
ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Exodus 9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and
the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart,
he and his servants.
Exodus 9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not
let the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by Moses.
Exodus 10
Exodus 10:1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for
I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may
show these my signs in the midst of them,
Exodus 10:2 and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of
thy son's son, what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs
which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am Jehovah.
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said
unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long
wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that
they may serve me.
Exodus 10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-
morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:
Exodus 10:5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one
shall not 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:
Exodus 10:6 and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers
nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon
the earth unto this day. And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall
this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve
Jehovah their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Exodus 10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto
Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Jehovah your God; but
who are they that shall go?
Exodus 10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with
our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and
with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.
Exodus 10:10 And he said unto them, So be Jehovah with you, as I
will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
Exodus 10:11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Jehovah;
for that is what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's
presence.
Exodus 10:12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy 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.
Exodus 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of
Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day,
and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the
locusts.
Exodus 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,
and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they;
before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them
shall be such.
Exodus 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that
the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and
all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained
not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the
land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste;
and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against
you.
Exodus 10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this
once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that he may take away from me
this death only.
Exodus 10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.
Exodus 10:19 And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind,
which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there
remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.
Exodus 10:20 But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not
let the children of Israel go.
Exodus 10:21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand
toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,
even darkness which may be felt.
Exodus 10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven;
and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
Exodus 10:23 they saw not one another, neither rose any one from
his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their
dwellings.
Exodus 10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye,
serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your
little ones also go with you.
Exodus 10:25 And Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand
sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our
God.
Exodus 10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof
be left behind: for thereof must we take to serve Jehovah our God;
and we know not with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come
thither.
Exodus 10:27 But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would
not let them go.
Exodus 10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take
heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my
face thou shalt die.
Exodus 10:29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well. I will see thy
face again no more.
Exodus 11
Exodus 11:1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Yet one plague more
will I bring 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.
Exodus 11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask
every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold.
Exodus 11:3 And Jehovah gave the people favor 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.
Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah, About midnight
will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
Exodus 11:5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from
the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the
first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-
born of cattle.
Exodus 11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of
Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor shall be any more.
Exodus 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog
move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that
Jehovah doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exodus 11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me,
and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the
people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out
from Pharaoh in hot anger.
Exodus 11:9 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh will not
hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of
Egypt.
Exodus 11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before
Pharaoh: and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus 12
Exodus 12:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land
of Egypt, saying,
Exodus 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months:
it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a
lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household:
Exodus 12:4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall
he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the
number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make
your count for the lamb.
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old:
ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same
month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill
it at even.
Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two
side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.
Exodus 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,
and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus 12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast
with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.
Exodus 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with
fire.
Exodus 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in
haste: it is Jehovah's passover.
Exodus 12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night,
and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I
am Jehovah.
Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the
houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite
the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye
shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall
keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the
first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that
soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:16 And in the first day there shall be to you a holy
convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner
of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,
that only may be done by you.
Exodus 12:17 And ye shall observe the [feast of] unleavened bread;
for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of
Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your
generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the
month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the month at even.
Exodus 12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your
houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall
be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner,
or one that is born in the land.
Exodus 12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations
shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families,
and kill the passover.
Exodus 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the
blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts
with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the
door of his house until the morning.
Exodus 12:23 For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians;
and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-
posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the
destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Exodus 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to
thee and to thy sons for ever.
Exodus 12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the
land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised,
that ye shall keep this service.
Exodus 12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall
say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Exodus 12:27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah'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.
Exodus 12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah
had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote
all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh
that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the
dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
Exodus 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his
servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt,
for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Exodus 12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the
children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.
Exodus 12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said,
and be gone; and bless me also.
Exodus 12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to
send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men.
Exodus 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was
leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes
upon their shoulders.
Exodus 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of
Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and raiment.
Exodus 12:36 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they
despoiled the Egyptians.
Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides
children.
Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and
flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Exodus 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which
they brought forth out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they
were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they
prepared for themselves any victuals.
Exodus 12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt
was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus 12:41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and
thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts
of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of
Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout
their generations.
Exodus 12:43 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the
ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof;
Exodus 12:44 but every man's servant that is bought for money,
when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus 12:45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exodus 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry
forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break
a bone thereof.
Exodus 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will
keep the passover to Jehovah, 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: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto
the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Exodus 12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as Jehovah
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exodus 12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Jehovah did
bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
Exodus 13
Exodus 13:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 13:2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth
the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is
mine.
Exodus 13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in
which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by
strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place: there shall
no leavened bread be eaten.
Exodus 13:4 This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
Exodus 13:5 And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the
land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the
Hivite, and the Jebusite, 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.
Exodus 13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the
seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah.
Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven
days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither
shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.
Exodus 13:8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is
because of that which Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of
Egypt.
Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and
for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in
thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of
Egypt.
Exodus 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season
from year to year.
Exodus 13:11 And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the
land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and
shall give it thee,
Exodus 13:12 that thou shalt set apart unto Jehovah all that openeth
the womb, and every firstling which thou hast that cometh of a beast;
the males shall be Jehovah's.
Exodus 13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a
lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck:
and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt thou redeem.
Exodus 13:14 And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to
come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength
of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of
bondage:
Exodus 13:15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us
go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the
first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to
Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born
of my sons I redeem.
Exodus 13:16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for
frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand Jehovah brought
us forth out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people
go, that God led them not by 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:
Exodus 13:18 but God led the people about, by the way of the
wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed
out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he
had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit
you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Exodus 13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Exodus 13:21 And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of
cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give
them light, that they might go by day and by night:
Exodus 13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by
night, departed not from before the people.
Exodus 14
Exodus 14:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 14:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back
and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before
Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.
Exodus 14:3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow
after them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did
so.
Exodus 14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were
fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed
towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we
have let Israel go from serving us?
Exodus 14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people
with him:
Exodus 14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
Exodus 14:8 And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: for the children of
Israel went out with a high hand.
Exodus 14:9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses
[and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and
overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-
zephon.
Exodus 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel
lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after
them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out
unto Jehovah.
Exodus 14:11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no
graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12 Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt,
saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were
better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness.
Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand
still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you to-
day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them
again no more for ever.
Exodus 14:14 Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold your
peace.
Exodus 14:15 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou
unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.
Exodus 14:16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over
the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst
of the sea on dry ground.
Exodus 14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get me honor
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
Exodus 14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah,
when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and
upon his horsemen.
Exodus 14:19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of
Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud
removed from before them, and stood behind them:
Exodus 14:20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp
of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light
by night: and the one came not near the other all the night.
Exodus 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and
Jehovah caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all the
night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exodus 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the
sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on
their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them
into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his
horsemen.
Exodus 14:24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that
Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the
pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.
Exodus 14:25 And he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove
them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of
Israel; for Jehovah fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus 14:26 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand
over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Exodus 14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and
the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the
midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and
the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them
into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.
Exodus 14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the
midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right
hand, and on their left.
Exodus 14:30 Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of
the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.
Exodus 14:31 And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did
upon the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah: and they believed
in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.
Exodus 15
Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song
unto Jehovah, and spake, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath
triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
sea.
Exodus 15:2 Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my
salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God,
and I will exalt him.
Exodus 15:3 Jehovah is a man of war: Jehovah is his name.
Exodus 15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea;
And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
Exodus 15:5 The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths
like a stone.
Exodus 15:6 Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy
right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.
Exodus 15:7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou
overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy
wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
Exodus 15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled
up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in
the heart of the sea.
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will
divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw
my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Exodus 15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them:
They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:11 Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods?
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing
wonders?
Exodus 15:12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth
swallowed them.
Exodus 15:13 Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that
thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy
holy habitation.
Exodus 15:14 The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have
taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
Exodus 15:15 Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty
men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of
Canaan are melted away.
Exodus 15:16 Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness
of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O
Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.
Exodus 15:17 Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the
mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast
made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands
have established.
Exodus 15:18 Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever.
Exodus 15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots
and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the
waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry
land in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a
timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with
timbrels and with dances.
Exodus 15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Jehovah, for
he hath triumphed gloriously; The horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea.
Exodus 15:22 And Moses led Israel onward 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.
Exodus 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink
of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it
was called Marah.
Exodus 15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying,
What shall we drink?
Exodus 15:25 An he cried unto Jehovah; And Jehovah showed him a
tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet.
There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he
proved them;
Exodus 15:26 and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice
of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and
wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will
put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the
Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.
Exodus 15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of
water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by
the waters.
Exodus 16
Exodus 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.
Exodus 16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:
Exodus 16:3 and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that
we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat
by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have
brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.
Exodus 16:4 Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain
bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will
walk in my law, or not.
Exodus 16:5 And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they
shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much
as they gather daily.
Exodus 16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of
Israel, At even, then ye shall know that Jehovah hath brought you out
from the land of Egypt;
Exodus 16:7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of
Jehovah; for that he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and
what are we, that ye murmur against us?
Exodus 16:8 And Moses said, [This shall be], when Jehovah shall
give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the
full; for that Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur
against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us,
but against Jehovah.
Exodus 16:9 And Moses said unto Aaron, Say unto all the
congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before Jehovah; for
he hath heard your murmurings.
Exodus 16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 16:11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel:
speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the
morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah your God.
Exodus 16:13 And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up,
and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about
the camp.
Exodus 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon
the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost
on the ground.
Exodus 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one
to another, What is it? For they knew not what it was. And Moses
said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:16 This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded,
Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head,
according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man
for them that are in his tent.
Exodus 16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some
more, some less.
Exodus 16:18 And when they measured 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.
Exodus 16:19 And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till
the morning.
Exodus 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but
some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
became foul: and Moses was wroth with them.
Exodus 16:21 And they gathered it morning by morning, every man
according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Exodus 16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one: and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
Exodus 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which Jehovah
hath spoken, Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto
Jehovah: bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will
boil; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the
morning.
Exodus 16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade:
and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm therein.
Exodus 16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a
sabbath unto Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.
Exodus 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is
the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Exodus 16:27 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there
went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.
Exodus 16:28 And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to
keep my commandments and my laws?
Exodus 16:29 See, for that Jehovah 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.
Exodus 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof
Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was
like wafers [made] with honey.
Exodus 16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah hath
commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your
generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an
omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept
throughout your generations.
Exodus 16:34 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up
before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty
years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna,
until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus 16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Exodus 17
Exodus 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to
the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there
was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 17:2 Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give
us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive
ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?
Exodus 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us
up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Exodus 17:4 And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do
unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
Exodus 17:5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before the
people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and they rod,
wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in
Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out
of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the
elders of Israel.
Exodus 17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and
Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because
they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?
Exodus 17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim.
Exodus 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and
go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in my hand.
Exodus 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought
with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
hill.
Exodus 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand,
that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek
prevailed.
Exodus 17:12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone,
and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed
up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side;
And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exodus 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with
the edge of the sword.
Exodus 17:14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a
memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will
utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
Jehovah-nissi;
Exodus 17:16 And he said, Jehovah hath sworn: Jehovah will have
war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Exodus 18
Exodus 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law,
heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people,
how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 18:2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah,
Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Exodus 18:3 and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was
Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:
Exodus 18:4 and the name of the other was Eliezer; for [he said],
The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword
of Pharaoh.
Exodus 18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons
and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped,
at the mount of God:
Exodus 18:6 and he said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am
come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Exodus 18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did
obeisance, and kissed him: and they asked each other of their welfare;
and they came into the tent.
Exodus 18:8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had
done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the
travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah
delivered them.
Exodus 18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah
had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of
the Egyptians.
Exodus 18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, 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.
Exodus 18:11 Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea,
in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.
Exodus 18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-
offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of
Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
Exodus 18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to
judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the
morning unto the evening.
Exodus 18:14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to
the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people?
why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee
from morning unto even?
Exodus 18:15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the
people come unto me to inquire of God:
Exodus 18:16 when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I
judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the
statutes of God, and his laws.
Exodus 18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him, The thing
that thou doest is not good.
Exodus 18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this
people that is with thee: for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art
not able to perform it thyself alone.
Exodus 18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel,
and God be with thee: be thou for the people to God-ward, and bring
thou the causes unto God:
Exodus 18:20 and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws,
and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work
that they must do.
Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able
men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place
such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers
of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus 18:22 and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it
shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every
small matter they shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for
thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with thee.
Exodus 18:23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so,
then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to
their place in peace.
Exodus 18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law,
and did all that he had said.
Exodus 18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made
them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard
causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves.
Exodus 18:27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went
his way into his own land.
Exodus 19
Exodus 19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel were gone
forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the
wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:2 And when they were departed from Rephidim, and
were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the
wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount.
Exodus 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and Jehovah called unto
him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I
bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and
keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among
all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:6 and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a
holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel.
Exodus 19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the
people, and set before them all these words which Jehovah
commanded him.
Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that
Jehovah hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of
the people unto Jehovah.
Exodus 19:9 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in
a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and
may also believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the
people unto Jehovah.
Exodus 19:10 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people,
and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their
garments,
Exodus 19:11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day
Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
Exodus 19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round
about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the
mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall
be surely put to death:
Exodus 19:13 no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned,
or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when
the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exodus 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the
people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments.
Exodus 19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third
day: come not near a woman.
Exodus 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was
morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud
upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all
the people that were in the camp trembled.
Exodus 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp
to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Exodus 19:18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because
Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as
the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exodus 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Exodus 19:20 And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top
of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and
Moses went up.
Exodus 19:21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the
people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of
them perish.
Exodus 19:22 And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah,
sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them.
Exodus 19:23 And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot
come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds
about the mount, and sanctify it.
Exodus 19:24 And Jehovah said unto him, Go, 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 Jehovah, lest he break
forth upon them.
Exodus 19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and told them.
Exodus 20
Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Exodus 20:2 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor 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.
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve
them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth
generation of them that hate me,
Exodus 20:6 and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in
vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in
vain.
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus 20:9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God:
[in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates:
Exodus 20:11 for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be
long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
Exodus 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt
not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-
servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
Exodus 20:18 And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking:
and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
Exodus 20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we
will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Exodus 20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is
come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin
not.
Exodus 20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near
unto the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus 20:22 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say
unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked
with you from heaven.
Exodus 20:23 Ye shall not make [other gods] with me; gods of
silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you.
Exodus 20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt
sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy
sheep, and thine oxen: in every place where I record my name I will
come unto thee and I will bless thee.
Exodus 20:25 And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not
build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast
polluted it.
Exodus 20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that
thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
Exodus 21
Exodus 21:1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set
before them.
Exodus 21:2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:
and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus 21:3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if
he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exodus 21:4 If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or
daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he
shall go out by himself.
Exodus 21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master,
my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Exodus 21:6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall
bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore
his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Exodus 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she
shall not go out as the men-servants do.
Exodus 21:8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to
himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign
people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with
her.
Exodus 21:9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with
her after the manner of daughters.
Exodus 21:10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment,
and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus 21:11 And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall
she go out for nothing, without money.
Exodus 21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be
put to death.
Exodus 21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him]
into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
Exodus 21:14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his
neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar,
that he may die.
Exodus 21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be
surely put to death.
Exodus 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be
found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall
surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a
stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;
Exodus 21:19 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then
shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his
time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Exodus 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a
rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.
Exodus 21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall
not be punished: for he is his money.
Exodus 21:22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with
child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be
surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him;
and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exodus 21:23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for
life,
Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot,
Exodus 21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for
stripe.
Exodus 21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of
his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exodus 21:27 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his
maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Exodus 21:28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox
shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner
of the ox shall be quit.
Exodus 21:29 But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath
been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed
a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be
put to death.
Exodus 21:30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for
the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Exodus 21:31 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
Exodus 21:32 If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there
shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox
shall be stoned.
Exodus 21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a
pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,
Exodus 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give
money unto the owner thereof, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
Exodus 21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth,
then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead
also they shall divide.
Exodus 21:36 Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time
past, and its owner hath not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox,
and the dead [beast] shall be his own.
Exodus 22
Exodus 22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell
it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 22:2 If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that
he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
Exodus 22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be
bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing,
then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus 22:4 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox,
or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.
Exodus 22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and
shall let his beast loose, and it 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.
Exodus 22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks
of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exodus 22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff
to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found,
he shall pay double.
Exodus 22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house
shall come near unto God, [to see] whether he have not put his hand
unto his neighbor's goods.
Exodus 22:9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for
ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, whereof
one saith, This is it, the cause of both parties shall come before God;
he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbor.
Exodus 22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbor 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:
Exodus 22:11 the oath of Jehovah shall be between them both,
whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the
owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Exodus 22:12 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution
unto the owner thereof.
Exodus 22:13 If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he
shall not make good that which was torn.
Exodus 22:14 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be
hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make
restitution.
Exodus 22:15 If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it
good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.
Exodus 22:16 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and
lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he
shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
Exodus 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to
death.
Exodus 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah
only, shall be utterly destroyed.
Exodus 22:21 And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt
thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:23 If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I
will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 22:24 and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with
the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.
Exodus 22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that
is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay
upon him interest.
Exodus 22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge,
thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:
Exodus 22:27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment 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.
Exodus 22:28 Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy
people.
Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the
outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto
me.
Exodus 22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy
sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou
shalt give it me.
Exodus 22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall
not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to
the dogs.
Exodus 23
Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand
with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest
[justice]:
Exodus 23:3 neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.
Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray,
thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus 23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under
his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release
[it] with him.
Exodus 23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his
cause.
Exodus 23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 23:8 And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them
that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:9 And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the
heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather
in the increase thereof:
Exodus 23:11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow;
that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of
the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard,
[and] with thy oliveyard.
Exodus 23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh
day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the
son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.
Exodus 23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye
heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it
be heard out of thy mouth.
Exodus 23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year.
Exodus 23:15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the
time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from
Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:
Exodus 23:16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors,
which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end
of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.
Exodus 23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear
before the Lord Jehovah.
Exodus 23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until
the morning.
Exodus 23:19 The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt
bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in
it mother's milk.
Exodus 23:20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by
the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Exodus 23:21 Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice;
provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my
name is in him.
Exodus 23:22 But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do
all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
adversary unto thine adversaries.
Exodus 23:23 For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in
unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the
Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut them off.
Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve
them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them,
and break in pieces their pillars.
Exodus 23:25 And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will
bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the
midst of thee.
Exodus 23:26 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Exodus 23:27 I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all
the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine
enemies turn their backs unto thee.
Exodus 23:28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall
drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year,
lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply
against thee.
Exodus 23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before
thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus 23:31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto
the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for
I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou
shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their
gods.
Exodus 23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee
sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare
unto thee.
Exodus 24
Exodus 24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, thou,
and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and
worship ye afar off:
Exodus 24:2 and Moses alone shall come near unto Jehovah; but
they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.
Exodus 24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of
Jehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people answered with one
voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah hath spoken will we do.
Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up
early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and
twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who
offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto
Jehovah.
Exodus 24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins;
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Exodus 24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the
audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken
will we do, and be obedient.
Exodus 24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the
people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah
hath made with you concerning all these words.
Exodus 24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under
his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the
very heaven for clearness.
Exodus 24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid
not his hand: and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.
Exodus 24:12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the
mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the
law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest
teach them.
Exodus 24:13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and
Moses went up into the mount of God.
Exodus 24:14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until
we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you:
whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them.
Exodus 24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud
covered the mount.
Exodus 24:16 And the glory of Jehovah 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.
Exodus 24:17 And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like
devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of
Israel.
Exodus 24:18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and
went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and
forty nights.
Exodus 25
Exodus 25:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for me
an offering: of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall
take my offering.
Exodus 25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them:
gold, and silver, and brass,
Exodus 25:4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats' [hair],
Exodus 25:5 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia
wood,
Exodus 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the
sweet incense,
Exodus 25:7 onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for
the breastplate.
Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell
among them.
Exodus 25:9 According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall
ye make it.
Exodus 25:10 And they shall make an ark of acacia 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.
Exodus 25:11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and
without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold
round about.
Exodus 25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put
them in the four feet thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side of
it, and two rings on the other side of it.
Exodus 25:13 And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and
overlay them with gold.
Exodus 25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the
sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark.
Exodus 25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall
not be taken from it.
Exodus 25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I
shall give thee.
Exodus 25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two
cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half
the breadth thereof.
Exodus 25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten
work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.
Exodus 25:19 And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub
at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat shall ye make the
cherubim on the two ends thereof.
Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high,
covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to
another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
Exodus 25:21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark;
and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune
with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim
which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will
give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Exodus 25:23 And thou shalt make a table of acacia wood: two
cubits [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof,
and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus 25:24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make
thereto a crown of gold round about.
Exodus 25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth
round about; and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border
thereof round about.
Exodus 25:26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put
the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
Exodus 25:27 Close by the border shall the rings be, for places for
the staves to bear the table.
Exodus 25:28 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and
overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Exodus 25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the
spoons thereof, and the flagons thereof, and the bowls thereof,
wherewith to pour out: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
Exodus 25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before
me alway.
Exodus 25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of
beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and its
shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 25:32 And there shall be 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:
Exodus 25:33 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch,
a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in
the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going
out of the candlestick:
Exodus 25:34 and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-
blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;
Exodus 25:35 and a knop under two branches of one piece with it,
and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under
two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of
the candlestick.
Exodus 25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece
with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus 25:37 And thou shalt make the lamps thereof, seven: and
they shall light the lamps thereof, to give light over against it.
Exodus 25:38 And the snuffers thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof,
shall be of pure gold.
Exodus 25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these
vessels.
Exodus 25:40 And see that thou make them after their pattern, which
hath been showed thee in the mount.
Exodus 26
Exodus 26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten
curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with
cherubim the work of the skilful workman shalt thou make them.
Exodus 26:2 The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty
cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains
shall have one measure.
Exodus 26:3 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another;
and [the other] five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
Exodus 26:4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the
one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou
make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second
coupling.
Exodus 26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty
loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second
coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another.
Exodus 26:6 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the
curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be
one [whole].
Exodus 26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent
over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
Exodus 26:8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the
breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one
measure.
Exodus 26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and
six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in
the forefront of the tent.
Exodus 26:10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one
curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops upon the edge
of the curtain which is [outmost in] the second coupling.
Exodus 26:11 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the
clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
Exodus 26:12 And the overhanging part that remaineth of the
curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over
the back of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:13 And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the
other side, of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the
tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on
that side, to cover it.
Exodus 26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams'
skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
Exodus 26:15 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle of
acacia wood, standing up.
Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit
and a half the breadth of each board.
Exodus 26:17 Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to
another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,
twenty boards for the south side southward.
Exodus 26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the
twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and
two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
Exodus 26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north
side, twenty boards,
Exodus 26:21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 26:22 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward
thou shalt make six boards.
Exodus 26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the
tabernacle in the hinder part.
Exodus 26:24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner
they shall be entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus shall it be
for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus 26:25 And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of
silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.
Exodus 26:26 And thou shalt make bars of acacia wood: five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle,
for the hinder part westward.
Exodus 26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall
pass through from end to end.
Exodus 26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make
their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the
bars with gold.
Exodus 26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the
fashion thereof which hath been showed thee in the mount.
Exodus 26:31 And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilful
workman shall it be made.
Exodus 26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia
overlaid with gold; their hooks [shall be] of gold, upon four sockets
of silver.
Exodus 26:33 And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and
shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the
veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most
holy.
Exodus 26:34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the
testimony in the most holy place.
Exodus 26:35 And thou shalt set the table without the veil, 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.
Exodus 26:36 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent,
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
embroiderer.
Exodus 26:37 And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of
acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and
thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus 27
Exodus 27:1 And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five
cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and
the height thereof shall be three cubits.
Exodus 27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four
corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it: and
thou shalt overlay it with brass.
Exodus 27:3 And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and
its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans: all the
vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
Exodus 27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of
brass: and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four
corners thereof.
Exodus 27:5 And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar
beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
Exodus 27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of
acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.
Exodus 27:7 And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and
the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.
Exodus 27:8 Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been
showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
Exodus 27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the
south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine
twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:
Exodus 27:10 and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their
sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets
[shall be] of silver.
Exodus 27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be
hangings a hundred cubits long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and
their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets, of silver.
Exodus 27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall
be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus 27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward
shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus 27:14 The hangings for the one side [of the gate] shall be
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 27:15 And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen
cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of
twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
Exodus 27:17 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted
with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus 27:18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and
the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine
twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus 27:19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service
thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be
of brass.
Exodus 27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that
they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a
lamp to burn continually.
Exodus 27:21 In the tent of meeting, without the veil which is before
the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening
to morning before Jehovah: it shall be a statue for ever throughout
their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 28
Exodus 28:1 And bring thou near 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.
Exodus 28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother, for glory and for beauty.
Exodus 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted,
whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's
garments to sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
Exodus 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, 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.
Exodus 28:5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the
purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Exodus 28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful
workman.
Exodus 28:7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends
thereof, that it may be joined together.
Exodus 28:8 And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it,
wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof [and] of the
same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen.
Exodus 28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them
the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus 28:10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of
the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth.
Exodus 28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the
engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according
to the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be
inclosed in settings of gold.
Exodus 28:12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-
pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of
Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two
shoulders for a memorial.
Exodus 28:13 And thou shalt make settings of gold,
Exodus 28:14 and two chains of pure gold; like cords shalt thou
make them, of wreathen work: and thou shalt put the wreathen chains
on the settings.
Exodus 28:15 And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the
work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shalt
make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, shalt thou make it.
Exodus 28:16 Foursquare it shall be [and] double; a span shall be the
length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
Exodus 28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of
stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
Exodus 28:18 and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond;
Exodus 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exodus 28:20 and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper:
they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings.
Exodus 28:21 And the stones shall be according to the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the
engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall be
for the twelve tribes.
Exodus 28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains like
cords, of wreathen work of pure gold.
Exodus 28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of
gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus 28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in
the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus 28:25 And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains
thou shalt put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-
pieces of the ephod in the forepart thereof.
Exodus 28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt
put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof,
which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
Exodus 28:27 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put
them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the
forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully
woven band of the ephod.
Exodus 28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof
unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon
the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not
loosed from the ephod.
Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of
Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in
unto the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.
Exodus 28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the
Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when
he goeth in before Jehovah: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the
children of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.
Exodus 28:31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
Exodus 28:32 And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst
thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole
of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent.
Exodus 28:33 And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make
pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the
skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
Exodus 28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about.
Exodus 28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound
thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before
Jehovah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Exodus 28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave
upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.
Exodus 28:37 And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be
upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
Exodus 28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron
shall 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 Jehovah.
Exodus 28:39 And thou shalt weave the coat in checker work of fine
linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a
girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
Exodus 28:40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou
shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them,
for glory and for beauty.
Exodus 28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and
upon 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.
Exodus 28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the
flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they
shall reach:
Exodus 28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons,
when they go in unto the tent of meeting, 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 unto his seed after
him.
Exodus 29
Exodus 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,
Exodus 29:2 and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled
with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten
flour shalt thou make them.
Exodus 29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring
them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
Exodus 29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door
of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water.
Exodus 29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron
the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the
breastplate, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod;
Exodus 29:6 and thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the
holy crown upon the mitre.
Exodus 29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon
his head, and anoint him.
Exodus 29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
Exodus 29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his
sons, and bind head-tires on them: and they shall have the priesthood
by a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exodus 29:10 And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of
meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head
of the bullock.
Exodus 29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before Jehovah, at the
door of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and
put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour
out all the blood at the base of the altar.
Exodus 29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the
inwards, and the caul upon the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
Exodus 29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and it dung,
shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin-offering.
Exodus 29:15 Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his
sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exodus 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its
blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
Exodus 29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its
inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Exodus 29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is
a burnt-offering unto Jehovah; it is a sweet savor, an offering made
by fire unto Jehovah.
Exodus 29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his
sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exodus 29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its 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.
Exodus 29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar,
and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with
him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his
sons' garments with him.
Exodus 29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat, and the fat tail,
and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the
two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right thigh (for it
is a ram of consecration),
Exodus 29:23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and
one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before
Jehovah.
Exodus 29:24 And thou shalt put the whole upon the hands of Aaron,
and upon the hands of his sons, and shalt wave them for a wave-
offering before Jehovah.
Exodus 29:25 And thou shalt take them from their hands, and burn
them on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before
Jehovah: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Exodus 29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of
consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before Jehovah: and it
shall be thy portion.
Exodus 29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-
offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and
which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is
for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
Exodus 29:28 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as [their] portion
for ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it
shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices
of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering unto Jehovah.
Exodus 29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons
after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
Exodus 29:30 Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put
them on, when he cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the
holy place.
Exodus 29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and boil
its flesh in a holy place.
Exodus 29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram,
and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement
was made, to consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but a stranger shall
not eat thereof, because they are holy.
Exodus 29:34 And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, 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.
Exodus 29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons,
according to all that I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou
consecrate them.
Exodus 29:36 And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-
offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou
makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exodus 29:37 Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar,
and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatsoever toucheth
the altar shall be holy.
Exodus 29:38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar:
two lambs a year old day by day continually.
Exodus 29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the
other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
Exodus 29:40 and with the one lamb a tenth part [of an ephah] of
fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the
fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.
Exodus 29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt
do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and
according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering
made by fire unto Jehovah.
Exodus 29:42 It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your
generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I
will meet with you, to speak there unto thee.
Exodus 29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and
[the Tent] shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus 29:44 And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar:
Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify, to minister to me in the
priest's office.
Exodus 29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will
be their God.
Exodus 29:46 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, that
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among
them: I am Jehovah their God.
Exodus 30
Exodus 30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of
acacia wood shalt thou make it.
Exodus 30:2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the
breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the
height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top
thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and
thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus 30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the
crown thereof; upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it
shalt thou make them; and they shall be for places for staves
wherewith to bear it.
Exodus 30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and
overlay them with gold.
Exodus 30:6 And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of
the testimony, before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where
I will meet with thee.
Exodus 30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices:
every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.
Exodus 30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall
burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your
generations.
Exodus 30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-
offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering
thereon.
Exodus 30:10 And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it
once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once
in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout your
generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah.
Exodus 30:11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 30:12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel,
according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give
every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest
them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest
them.
Exodus 30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto
them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the
sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering
to Jehovah.
Exodus 30:14 Every one that passeth over unto them that are
numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering
of Jehovah.
Exodus 30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not
give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of
Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.
Exodus 30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money from the
children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of
meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before
Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.
Exodus 30:17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 30:18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base
thereof of brass, whereat to wash. And thou shalt put it between the
tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
Exodus 30:19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and
their feet thereat:
Exodus 30:20 when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash
with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to
minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Exodus 30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they
die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to
his seed throughout their generations.
Exodus 30:22 Moreover Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 30:23 Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing
myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much,
even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and
fifty,
Exodus 30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.
Exodus 30:25 And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume
compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing
oil.
Exodus 30:26 And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting,
and the ark of the testimony,
Exodus 30:27 and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the
candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense,
Exodus 30:28 and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels
thereof, and the laver and the base thereof.
Exodus 30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most
holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Exodus 30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify
them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus 30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your
generations.
Exodus 30:32 Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither
shall ye make any like it, according to the composition thereof: it is
holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.
Exodus 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever
putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
Exodus 30:34 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet
spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight;
Exodus 30:35 and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the
art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure [and] holy:
Exodus 30:36 and thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it
before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with
thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
Exodus 30:37 And the incense which thou shalt make, according to
the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves: it shall be
unto thee holy for Jehovah.
Exodus 30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof,
he shall be cut off from his people.
Exodus 31
Exodus 31:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 31:2 See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
Exodus 31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom,
and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship,
Exodus 31:4 to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver,
and in brass,
Exodus 31:5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of
wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exodus 31:6 And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are
wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have
commanded thee:
Exodus 31:7 the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and
the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent,
Exodus 31:8 and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick
with all its vessels, and the altar of incense,
Exodus 31:9 and the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and
the laver and its base,
Exodus 31:10 and the finely wrought garments, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to
minister in the priest's office,
Exodus 31:11 and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices
for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall
they do.
Exodus 31:12 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,
Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Jehovah
who sanctifieth you.
Exodus 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto
you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for
whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from
among his people.
Exodus 31:15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is
a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work
on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the
sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant.
Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for
ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of
communing with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the
testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus 32
Exodus 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come
down from 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 know not what is become of him.
Exodus 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings,
which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me.
Exodus 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden rings which
were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Exodus 32:4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a
graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy
gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw [this], he built an altar before it;
and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast
to Jehovah.
Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered
burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus 32:7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for
thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have
corrupted themselves:
Exodus 32:8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy
gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:9 And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Exodus 32:10 now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax
hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of
thee a great nation.
Exodus 32:11 And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said,
Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, that thou
hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with
a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For
evil did he bring them forth, 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.
Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to
whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will
multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have
spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Exodus 32:14 And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he
would do unto his people.
Exodus 32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount,
with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were
written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they
written.
Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing
was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus 32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they
shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
Exodus 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for
mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome;
but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the
camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed
hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath
the mount.
Exodus 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt
it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water,
and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Exodus 32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people
unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?
Exodus 32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot:
thou knowest the people, that they are [set] on evil.
Exodus 32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go
before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Exodus 32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let
them break it off: so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and
there came out this calf.
Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were broken
loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their
enemies,)
Exodus 32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said,
Whoso is on Jehovah's side, [let him come] unto me. And all the sons
of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
Exodus 32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his
brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
Exodus 32:28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of
Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand
men.
Exodus 32:29 And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to
Jehovah, yea, every man against his son, and against his brother; that
he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Exodus 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said
unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up
unto Jehovah; peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.
Exodus 32:31 And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this
people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot
me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Exodus 32:33 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned
against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Exodus 32:34 And 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.
Exodus 32:35 And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the
calf, which Aaron made.
Exodus 33
Exodus 33:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence,
thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of
Egypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Exodus 33:2 and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out
the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus 33:3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not
go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I
consume thee in the way.
Exodus 33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they
mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus 33:5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee
for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy
ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus 33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
Exodus 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without
the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of
meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought Jehovah
went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the camp.
Exodus 33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the
Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent
door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent.
Exodus 33:9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent,
the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent: and
[Jehovah] spake with Moses.
Exodus 33:10 And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the
door of the Tent: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every
man at his tent door.
Exodus 33:11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses face to face, as a man
speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his
minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the
Tent.
Exodus 33:12 And Moses said unto Jehovah, 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 favor in my sight.
Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy
sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I
may find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy
people.
Exodus 33:14 And he said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I
will give thee rest.
Exodus 33:15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with
me], carry us not up hence.
Exodus 33:16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found
favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with
us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that
are upon the face of the earth?
Exodus 33:17 And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also
that thou hast spoken; for thou hast found favor in my sight, and I
know thee by name.
Exodus 33:18 And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory.
Exodus 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before
thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I
will show mercy.
Exodus 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall
not see me and live.
Exodus 33:21 and Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me, and
thou shalt stand upon the rock:
Exodus 33:22 and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by,
that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my
hand until I have passed by:
Exodus 33:23 and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my
back; but my face shall not be seen.
Exodus 34
Exodus 34:1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of
stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words
that were on the first tables, which thou brakest.
Exodus 34:2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the
morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top
of the mount.
Exodus 34:3 And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any
man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds
feed before that mount.
Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first;
and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount
Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two
tables of stone.
Exodus 34:5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with
him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.
Exodus 34:6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed,
Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
abundant in lovingkindness and truth,
Exodus 34:7 keeping lovingkindness 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, upon the third and upon the fourth
generation.
Exodus 34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshipped.
Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O
Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a
stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us
for thine inheritance.
Exodus 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy
people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the
earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art
shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with
thee.
Exodus 34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day:
behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
the midst of thee:
Exodus 34:13 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;
Exodus 34:14 for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Exodus 34:15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their
gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exodus 34:16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and
their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons
play the harlot after their gods.
Exodus 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exodus 34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the
time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest
out from Egypt.
Exodus 34:19 All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle
that is male, the firstlings of cow and sheep.
Exodus 34:20 And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a
lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck.
All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall
appear before me empty.
Exodus 34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou
shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of
the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the
year's end.
Exodus 34:23 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear
before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Exodus 34:24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy
borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to
appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.
Exodus 34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover
be left unto the morning.
Exodus 34:26 The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt
bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in
its mother's milk.
Exodus 34:27 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these
words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
thee and with Israel.
Exodus 34:28 And he was there with Jehovah 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.
Exodus 34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from
mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand,
when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the
skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
Exodus 34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw
Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to
come nigh him.
Exodus 34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the
rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses spake to
them.
Exodus 34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and
he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him
in mount Sinai.
Exodus 34:33 And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put
a veil on his face.
Exodus 34:34 But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with
him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and
spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
Exodus 34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that
the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face
again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus 35
Exodus 35:1 And Moses assembled all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words which
Jehovah hath commanded, that ye should do them.
Exodus 35:2 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day
there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah:
whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.
Exodus 35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations
upon the sabbath day.
Exodus 35:4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah
commanded, saying,
Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto Jehovah;
whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Jehovah's offering:
gold, and silver, and brass,
Exodus 35:6 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats' [hair],
Exodus 35:7 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia
wood,
Exodus 35:8 and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil,
and for the sweet incense,
Exodus 35:9 and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and
for the breastplate.
Exodus 35:10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and
make all that Jehovah hath commanded:
Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and
its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
Exodus 35:12 the ark, and the staves thereof, the mercy-seat, and the
veil of the screen;
Exodus 35:13 the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the
showbread;
Exodus 35:14 the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and
its lamps, and the oil for the light;
Exodus 35:15 and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the
anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at
the door of the tabernacle;
Exodus 35:16 the altar of burnt-offering, with its grating of brass, it
staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base;
Exodus 35:17 the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their
sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
Exodus 35:18 the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court,
and their cords;
Exodus 35:19 the finely wrought garments, for ministering in the
holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
Exodus 35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
departed from the presence of Moses.
Exodus 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up,
and every one whom his spirit made willing, [and] brought Jehovah's
offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service
thereof, and for the holy garments.
Exodus 35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as
were willing-hearted, [and] brought brooches, and ear-rings, and
signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man that
offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah.
Exodus 35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], and rams' skins
dyed red, and sealskins, brought them.
Exodus 35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass
brought Jehovah's offering; and every man, with whom was found
acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
Exodus 35:25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin
with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and
the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Exodus 35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in
wisdom spun the goats' [hair].
Exodus 35:27 And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones
to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Exodus 35:28 and the spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a freewill-offering unto
Jehovah; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to
bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded to be made by
Moses.
Exodus 35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See,
Jehovah hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
of the tribe of Judah.
Exodus 35:31 And he hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in
wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship;
Exodus 35:32 and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass,
Exodus 35:33 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of
wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.
Exodus 35:34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both
he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Exodus 35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all
manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skilful 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 workmanship, and
of those that devise skilful works.
Exodus 36
Exodus 36:1 And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-
hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and understanding
to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary,
according to all that Jehovah hath commanded.
Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-
hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even every one
whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
Exodus 36:3 and they received of Moses all the offering which the
children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the
sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto him
freewill-offerings every morning.
Exodus 36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the
sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought.
Exodus 36:5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring
much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah
commanded to make.
Exodus 36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to
be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor
woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the
people were restrained from bringing.
Exodus 36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to
make it, and too much.
Exodus 36:8 And all the wise-hearted men among them that wrought
the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen,
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the
skilful workman, [Bezalel] made them.
Exodus 36:9 The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits,
and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one
measure.
Exodus 36:10 And he coupled five curtains one to another: and [the
other] five curtains he coupled one to another.
Exodus 36:11 And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one
curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the
edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.
Exodus 36:12 Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops
made he in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling:
the loops were opposite one to another.
Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the
curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
Exodus 36:14 And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over
the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
Exodus 36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four
cubits the breadth of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one
measure.
Exodus 36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves.
Exodus 36:17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that
was outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge
of the curtain which was [outmost in] the second coupling.
Exodus 36:18 And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent
together, that it might be one.
Exodus 36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins
dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
Exodus 36:20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia
wood, standing up.
Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a
half the breadth of each board.
Exodus 36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus
did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus 36:23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty
boards for the south side southward.
Exodus 36:24 And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for its two tenons.
Exodus 36:25 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north
side, he made twenty boards,
Exodus 36:26 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 36:27 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he
made six boards.
Exodus 36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the
tabernacle in the hinder part.
Exodus 36:29 And they were double beneath; and in like manner
they were entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus he did to
both of them in the two corners.
Exodus 36:30 And there were eight boards, and their sockets of
silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
Exodus 36:31 And he made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards
of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the
hinder part westward.
Exodus 36:33 And he made the middle bar to pass through in the
midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their
rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exodus 36:35 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work of the skilful
workman, made he it.
Exodus 36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars of acacia, and
overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; And he cast for
them four sockets of silver.
Exodus 36:37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
embroiderer;
Exodus 36:38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he
overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five
sockets were of brass.
Exodus 37
Exodus 37:1 And Bezalel made the ark of acacia 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:
Exodus 37:2 and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without,
and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus 37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet
thereof; even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the
other side of it.
Exodus 37:4 And he made staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them
with gold.
Exodus 37:5 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
ark, to bear the ark.
Exodus 37:6 And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and
a half [was] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth
thereof.
Exodus 37:7 And he made two cherubim of gold; of beaten work
made he them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;
Exodus 37:8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other
end: of one piece with the mercy-seat made he the cherubim at the
two ends thereof.
Exodus 37:9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high,
covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to
another; toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim.
Exodus 37:10 And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits
[was] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit
and a half the height thereof:
Exodus 37:11 and he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a
crown of gold round about.
Exodus 37:12 And he made unto it a border of a handbreadth round
about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Exodus 37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings
in the four corners that were on the four feet thereof.
Exodus 37:14 Close by the border were the rings, the places for the
staves to bear the table.
Exodus 37:15 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid
them with gold, to bear the table.
Exodus 37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table,
the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the bowls thereof, and
the flagons thereof, wherewith to pour out, of pure gold.
Exodus 37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten
work made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, it
knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it:
Exodus 37:18 and there were 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:
Exodus 37:19 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch,
a knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in
the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going
out of the candlestick.
Exodus 37:20 And in the candlestick were four cups made like
almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;
Exodus 37:21 and a knop under two branches of one piece with it,
and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under
two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
Exodus 37:22 Their knops and their branches were of one piece with
it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus 37:23 And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the
snuffers thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, of pure gold.
Exodus 37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels
thereof.
Exodus 37:25 And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a
cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof,
foursquare; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns thereof
were of one piece with it.
Exodus 37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof, and
the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: and he made unto it
a crown of gold round about.
Exodus 37:27 And he made for it two golden rings under the crown
thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for places
for staves wherewith to bear it.
Exodus 37:28 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid
them with gold.
Exodus 37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure
incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
Exodus 38
Exodus 38:1 And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia wood:
five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof,
foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
Exodus 38:2 And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of
it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with
brass.
Exodus 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and
the shovels, and the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the firepans: all the
vessels thereof made he of brass.
Exodus 38:4 And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass,
under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.
Exodus 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of
brass, to be places for the staves.
Exodus 38:6 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid
them with brass.
Exodus 38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
altar, wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.
Exodus 38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of
brass, of the mirrors of the ministering women that ministered at the
door of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 38:9 And he made the court: for the south side southward the
hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;
Exodus 38:10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of
brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
Exodus 38:11 And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars
twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars,
and their fillets, of silver.
Exodus 38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits,
their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and
their fillets, of silver.
Exodus 38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus 38:14 The hangings for the one side [of the gate] were
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
Exodus 38:15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by
the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars
three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine
twined linen.
Exodus 38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks
of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their
capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with
silver.
Exodus 38:18 And the screen for the gate of the court was the work
of the embroiderer, 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.
Exodus 38:19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of
brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and
their fillets, of silver.
Exodus 38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court
round about, were of brass.
Exodus 38:21 This is the sum of [the things for] the tabernacle, even
the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to
the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the
hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
Exodus 38:22 And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of
the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an
embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen.
Exodus 38:24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work
of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine
talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary.
Exodus 38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the
congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred
and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exodus 38:26 a beka a head, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel
of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that were
numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Exodus 38:27 And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the
sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; a hundred
sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exodus 38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five
[shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals,
and made fillets for them.
Exodus 38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and
two thousand and four hundred shekels.
Exodus 38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the
tent of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grating for it, and
all the vessels of the altar,
Exodus 38:31 and the sockets of the court round about, and the
sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and
all the pins of the court round about.
Exodus 39
Exodus 39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made
finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made
the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus 39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it
into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet,
and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.
Exodus 39:4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the
two ends was it joined together.
Exodus 39:5 And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it,
wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece [and] like the work
thereof; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:6 And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings
of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the
names of the children of Israel.
Exodus 39:7 And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to
be stones of memorial for the children of Israel; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:8 And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful
workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus 39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a
span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being
double.
Exodus 39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of
sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;
Exodus 39:11 and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond;
Exodus 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exodus 39:13 and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jaspar: they
were inclosed in inclosings of gold in their settings.
Exodus 39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the
engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the
twelve tribes.
Exodus 39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains like cords,
of wreathen work of pure gold.
Exodus 39:16 And they made two settings of gold, and two gold
rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus 39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the
two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus 39:18 And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains
they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of
the ephod, in the forepart thereof.
Exodus 39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon
the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was
toward the side of the ephod inward.
Exodus 39:20 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the
two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof,
close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the
ephod.
Exodus 39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof
unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be upon
the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might
not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all
of blue.
Exodus 39:23 And the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the
hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it
should not be rent.
Exodus 39:24 And they made upon the skirts of the robe
pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen].
Exodus 39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells
between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about,
between the pomegranates;
Exodus 39:26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate,
upon the skirts of the robe round about, to minister in; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:27 And they made the coats of fine linen of woven work
for Aaron, and for his sons,
Exodus 39:28 and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires
of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
Exodus 39:29 and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure
gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet,
HOLY TO JEHOVAH.
Exodus 39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it upon
the mitre above; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:32 Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the
tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did according to all that
Jehovah commanded Moses; so did they.
Exodus 39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent,
and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and it
sockets;
Exodus 39:34 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the
covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen;
Exodus 39:35 the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and
the mercy-seat;
Exodus 39:36 the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;
Exodus 39:37 the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps
to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light;
Exodus 39:38 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the
sweet incense, and the screen for the door of the Tent;
Exodus 39:39 the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and
all its vessels, the laver and its base;
Exodus 39:40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets,
and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins
thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for
the tent of meeting;
Exodus 39:41 the finely wrought garments for ministering in the
holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the
garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
Exodus 39:42 According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so
the children of Israel did all the work.
Exodus 39:43 And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had
done it; as Jehovah had commanded, even so had they done it: and
Moses blessed them.
Exodus 40
Exodus 40:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 40:2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the
tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and
thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.
Exodus 40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the
things that are upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and
light the lamps thereof.
Exodus 40:5 And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before
the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the
tabernacle.
Exodus 40:6 And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the
door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting
and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
Exodus 40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang
up the screen of the gate of the court.
Exodus 40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the
tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the
furniture thereof: and it shall be holy.
Exodus 40:10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and
all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar shall be most holy.
Exodus 40:11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and
sanctify it.
Exodus 40:12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door
of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water.
Exodus 40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments; and
thou shalt anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister unto me
in the priest's office.
Exodus 40:14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon
them;
Exodus 40:15 and thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their
father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: and their
anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout
their generations.
Exodus 40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Jehovah
commanded him, so did he.
Exodus 40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second
year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Exodus 40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its
sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and
reared up its pillars.
Exodus 40:19 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
covering of the tent above upon it; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set
the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:
Exodus 40:21 and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up
the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as
Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the
side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil.
Exodus 40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before Jehovah;
as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over
against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exodus 40:25 And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting
before the veil:
Exodus 40:27 and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as
Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:28 And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:29 And he set the altar of burnt-offering at the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-
offering and the meal-offering; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and
the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash.
Exodus 40:31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their
hands and their feet thereat;
Exodus 40:32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when
they came near unto the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
Exodus 40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle
and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses
finished the work.
Exodus 40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the
glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of
meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Jehovah
filled the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their
journeys:
Exodus 40:37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed
not till the day that it was taken up.
Exodus 40:38 For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by
day, and there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house
of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Leviticus
Leviticus 1
Leviticus 1:1 And Jehovah called unto Moses, and spake unto him
out of the tent of meeting, saying,
Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When any man of you offereth an oblation unto Jehovah, ye shall
offer your oblation of the cattle, [even] of the herd and of the flock.
Leviticus 1:3 If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall
offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent
of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:4 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-
offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Leviticus 1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before Jehovah: and
Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood, and sprinkle the
blood round about upon the altar that is at the door of the tent of
meeting.
Leviticus 1:6 And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its
pieces.
Leviticus 1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the
altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire;
Leviticus 1:8 and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the
head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is
upon the altar:
Leviticus 1:9 but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water:
and the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt-offering,
an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:10 And if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of
the goats, for a burnt-offering; he shall offer it a male without
blemish.
Leviticus 1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward
before Jehovah: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood
upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 1:12 And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its
fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the
fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus 1:13 but the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water;
and the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it upon the altar: it is a
burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
Jehovah.
Leviticus 1:14 And if his oblation to Jehovah be a burnt-offering of
birds, then he shall offer his oblation of turtle-doves, or of young
pigeons.
Leviticus 1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring
off its head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be
drained out on the side of the altar;
Leviticus 1:16 and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof,
and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes:
Leviticus 1:17 and he shall rend it by 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-offering, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 2
Leviticus 2:1 And when any one offereth an oblation of a meal-
offering unto Jehovah, his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall
pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
Leviticus 2:2 and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he
shall take thereout his handful of the fine flour thereof, and of the oil
thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn [it
as] the memorial thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor unto Jehovah:
Leviticus 2:3 and that which is left of the meal-offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of
Jehovah made by fire.
Leviticus 2:4 And when thou offerest an oblation of a meal-offering
baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled
with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus 2:5 And if thy oblation be a meal-offering of the baking-
pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
Leviticus 2:6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a
meal-offering.
Leviticus 2:7 And if thy oblation be a meal-offering of the frying-
pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
Leviticus 2:8 And thou shalt bring the meal-offering that is made of
these things unto Jehovah: and it shall be presented unto the priest,
and he shall bring it unto the altar.
Leviticus 2:9 And the priest shall take up from the meal-offering the
memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 2:10 And that which is left of the meal-offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of
Jehovah made by fire.
Leviticus 2:11 No meal-offering, which ye shall offer unto Jehovah,
shall be made with leaven; for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any
honey, as an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 2:12 As an oblation of first -[fruits] ye shall offer them
unto Jehovah: but they shall not come up for a sweet savor on the
altar.
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meal-offering shalt thou
season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of
thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations
thou shalt offer salt.
Leviticus 2:14 And if thou offer a meal-offering of first-fruits unto
Jehovah, thou shalt offer for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits grain
in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
Leviticus 2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense
thereon: it is a meal-offering.
Leviticus 2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of
the bruised grain thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 3
Leviticus 3:1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offerings; if
he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish before Jehovah.
Leviticus 3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation,
and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons the
priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an
offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Leviticus 3:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which
is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he
take away.
Leviticus 3:5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the
burnt-offering, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 3:6 And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings
unto Jehovah be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish.
Leviticus 3:7 If he offer a lamb for his oblation, then shall he offer it
before Jehovah;
Leviticus 3:8 and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation,
and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle
the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an
offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat thereof, the fat tail entire,
he shall take away hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Leviticus 3:10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys,
shall he take away.
Leviticus 3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the
food of the offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 3:12 And if his oblation be a goat, then he shall offer it
before Jehovah:
Leviticus 3:13 and he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill
it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the
blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:14 And he shall offer thereof his oblation, [even] an
offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Leviticus 3:15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys,
shall he take away.
Leviticus 3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the
food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is
Jehovah's.
Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your
generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor
blood.
Leviticus 4
Leviticus 4:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one
shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which Jehovah hath
commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:
Leviticus 4:3 if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the
people, then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young
bullock without blemish unto Jehovah for a sin-offering.
Leviticus 4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tent
of meeting before Jehovah; and he shall lay his hand upon the head of
the bullock, and kill the bullock before Jehovah.
Leviticus 4:5 And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and bring it to the tent of meeting:
Leviticus 4:6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and
sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of
the sanctuary.
Leviticus 4:7 And the priest shall put of the blood upon the horns of
the altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of
meeting; and all the blood of the bullock shall he pour out at the base
of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of
meeting.
Leviticus 4:8 And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he
shall take off from it; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat
that is upon the inwards,
Leviticus 4:9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys,
shall he take away,
Leviticus 4:10 as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-
offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt-
offering.
Leviticus 4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its
head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,
Leviticus 4:12 even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without
the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn
it on wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt.
Leviticus 4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel err, and the
thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any
of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and are
guilty;
Leviticus 4:14 when the sin wherein they have sinned is known, then
the assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and bring
it before the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their
hands upon the head of the bullock before Jehovah; and the bullock
shall be killed before Jehovah.
Leviticus 4:16 And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the
bullock to the tent of meeting:
Leviticus 4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and
sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.
Leviticus 4:18 And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the
altar which is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting; and all
the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering,
which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 4:19 And all the fat thereof shall he take off from it, and
burn it upon the altar.
Leviticus 4:20 Thus shall he do with the bullock; as he did with the
bullock of the sin-offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest
shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
Leviticus 4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp,
and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin-offering for the
assembly.
Leviticus 4:22 When a ruler sinneth, and doeth unwittingly any one
of all the things which Jehovah his God hath commanded not to be
done, and is guilty;
Leviticus 4:23 if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be made known to
him, he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a male without blemish.
Leviticus 4:24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat,
and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt-offering before
Jehovah: it is a sin-offering.
Leviticus 4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-
offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt-offering; and the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of
the altar of burnt-offering.
Leviticus 4:26 And all the fat thereof shall he burn upon the altar, as
the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make
atonement for him as concerning his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus 4:27 And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly,
in doing any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be
done, and be guilty;
Leviticus 4:28 if his sin, which he hath sinned, be made known to
him, then he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a female without
blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
Leviticus 4:29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-
offering, and kill the sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering.
Leviticus 4:30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his
finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and all
the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 4:31 And all the fat thereof shall he take away, 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 savor unto Jehovah; and the
priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus 4:32 And if he bring a lamb as his oblation for a sin-
offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
Leviticus 4:33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-
offering, and kill it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the
burnt-offering.
Leviticus 4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-
offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt-offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base
of the altar:
Leviticus 4:35 and all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of
the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the
priest shall burn them on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah
made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him as touching
his sin that he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus 5
Leviticus 5:1 And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of
adjuration, he being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he
do not utter [it], then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:2 Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be
the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the
carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden from him, and he
be unclean, then he shall be guilty.
Leviticus 5:3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his
uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him;
when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
Leviticus 5:4 Or if any one swear rashly with his lips to do evil, or to
do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall utter rashly with an oath,
and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty
in one of these [things].
Leviticus 5:5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these
[things], that he shall confess that wherein he hath sinned:
Leviticus 5:6 and he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah
for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a
goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him
as concerning his sin.
Leviticus 5:7 And if his means suffice not for a lamb, then he shall
bring his trespass-offering for that wherein he hath sinned, two turtle-
doves, or two young pigeons, unto Jehovah; one for a sin-offering,
and the other for a burnt-offering.
Leviticus 5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer
that which is for the sin-offering first, and wring off its head from its
neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
Leviticus 5:9 and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering
upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained
out at the base of the altar: it is a sin-offering.
Leviticus 5:10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt-offering,
according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for
him as concerning his sin which he hath sinned, and he shall be
forgiven.
Leviticus 5:11 But if his means suffice not for two turtle-doves, or
two young pigeons, then he shall bring his oblation for that wherein
he hath sinned, 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.
Leviticus 5:12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall
take his handful of it as the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar,
upon the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: it is a sin-offering.
Leviticus 5:13 And the priest shall make atonement for him as
touching his sin that he hath sinned in any of these things, and he
shall be forgiven: and [the remnant] shall be the priest's, as the meal-
offering.
Leviticus 5:14 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 5:15 If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly, in
the holy things of Jehovah; then he shall bring his trespass-offering
unto Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to
thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
for a trespass-offering:
Leviticus 5:16 and he shall make restitution for that which he hath
done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and
give it unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him
with the ram of the trespass-offering, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:17 And if any one sin, and do any of the things which
Jehovah hath commanded not to be done; though he knew it not, yet
is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the
flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the
priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the
thing wherein he erred unwittingly and knew it not, and he shall be
forgiven.
Leviticus 5:19 It is a trespass-offering: he is certainly guilty before
Jehovah.
Leviticus 6
Leviticus 6:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 6:2 If any one sin, and commit a trespass against Jehovah,
and deal falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of
bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,
Leviticus 6:3 or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely
therein, and swear to a lie; in any of all these things that a man doeth,
sinning therein;
Leviticus 6:4 then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he
shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he
hath gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to
him, or the lost thing which he found,
Leviticus 6:5 or any thing about which he hath sworn falsely; he
shall even restore it in full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto:
unto him to whom it appertaineth shall he give it, in the day of his
being found guilty.
Leviticus 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah,
a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation,
for a trespass-offering, unto the priest:
Leviticus 6:7 and the priest shall make atonement for him before
Jehovah; and he shall be forgiven concerning whatsoever he doeth so
as to be guilty thereby.
Leviticus 6:8 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law
of the burnt-offering: the burnt-offering shall be on the hearth upon
the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be
kept burning thereon.
Leviticus 6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh; and he shall take up the
ashes whereto the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering on the altar,
and he shall put them beside the altar.
Leviticus 6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other
garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean
place.
Leviticus 6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning
thereon, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every
morning: and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and
shall burn thereon the fat of the peace-offerings.
Leviticus 6:13 Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually;
it shall not go out.
Leviticus 6:14 And this is the law of the meal-offering: the sons of
Aaron shall offer it before Jehovah, before the altar.
Leviticus 6:15 And he shall take up therefrom his handful, of the fine
flour of the meal-offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the
frankincense which is upon the meal-offering, and shall burn it upon
the altar for a sweet savor, as the memorial thereof, unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 6:16 And that which is left thereof shall Aaron and his sons
eat: it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place; in the court of the
tent of meeting they shall eat it.
Leviticus 6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as
their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-
offering, and as the trespass-offering.
Leviticus 6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of
it, as [his] portion for ever throughout your generations, from the
offerings of Jehovah made by fire: whosoever toucheth them shall be
holy.
Leviticus 6:19 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 6:20 This is the oblation of Aaron and of his sons, which
they shall offer unto Jehovah in the day when he is anointed: the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering perpetually,
half of it in the morning, and half thereof in the evening.
Leviticus 6:21 On a baking-pan it shall be made with oil; when it is
soaked, thou shalt bring it in: in baken pieces shalt thou offer the
meal-offering for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 6:22 And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from
among his sons shall offer it: by a statute for ever it shall be wholly
burnt unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 6:23 And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly
burnt: it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 6:24 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 6:25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the
law of the sin-offering: in the place where the burnt-offering is killed
shall the sin-offering be killed before Jehovah: it is most holy.
Leviticus 6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy
place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy;
and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment,
thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place.
Leviticus 6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is boiled shall be
broken; and if it be boiled in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and
rinsed in water.
Leviticus 6:29 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it is
most holy.
Leviticus 6:30 And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is
brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place,
shall be eaten: it shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus 7
Leviticus 7:1 And this is the law of the trespass-offering: it is most
holy.
Leviticus 7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall
they kill the trespass-offering; and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle
upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail,
and the fat that covereth the inwards,
Leviticus 7:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which
is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he
take away;
Leviticus 7:5 and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an
offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a trespass-offering.
Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall
be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:7 As is the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering; there
is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he
shall have it.
Leviticus 7:8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt-offering,
even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering
which he hath offered.
Leviticus 7:9 And every meal-offering that is baken in the oven, and
all that is dressed in the frying-pan, and on the baking-pan, shall be
the priest's that offereth it.
Leviticus 7:10 And every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry,
shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.
Leviticus 7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings,
which one shall offer unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil,
and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil,
of fine flour soaked.
Leviticus 7:13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his
oblation with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.
Leviticus 7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of each oblation for a
heave-offering unto Jehovah; it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the
blood of the peace-offerings.
Leviticus 7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings
for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his oblation; he shall not
leave any of it until the morning.
Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his oblation be a vow, or a
freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offereth his
sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remaineth of it shall be
eaten:
Leviticus 7:17 but that which remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice
on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-
offerings be eaten 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.
Leviticus 7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall
not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every
one that is clean shall eat thereof:
Leviticus 7:20 but the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, that pertain unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness
upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:21 And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, the
uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean abomination,
and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which pertain
unto Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:22 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat
no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
Leviticus 7:24 And the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of
that which is torn of beasts, may be used for any other service; but ye
shall in no wise eat of it.
Leviticus 7:25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which
men offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, even the soul that
eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:26 And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of
bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 7:27 Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall
be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:28 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that
offereth the sacrifice of his peace-offerings unto Jehovah shall bring
his oblation unto Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings:
Leviticus 7:30 his own hands shall bring the offerings of Jehovah
made by fire; the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast
may be waved for a wave-offering before Jehovah.
Leviticus 7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the
breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
Leviticus 7:32 And the right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a
heave-offering out of the sacrifices of your peace-offerings.
Leviticus 7:33 He among the sons of Aaron that offereth the blood of
the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a
portion.
Leviticus 7:34 For the wave-breast and the heave-thigh have I taken
of the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings,
and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons as
[their] portion for ever from the children of Israel.
Leviticus 7:35 This is the anointing-portion of Aaron, and the
anointing-portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Jehovah made by
fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto Jehovah in
the priest's office;
Leviticus 7:36 which Jehovah commanded to be given them of the
children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is [their]
portion for ever throughout their generations.
Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-
offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of
the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace-offerings;
Leviticus 7:38 which Jehovah commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in
the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their
oblations unto Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 8
Leviticus 8:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments,
and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the two
rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
Leviticus 8:3 and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of
the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 8:4 And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him; and the
congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 8:5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the
thing which Jehovah hath commanded to be done.
Leviticus 8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed
them with water.
Leviticus 8:7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the
girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him,
and he girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and
bound it unto him therewith.
Leviticus 8:8 And he placed the breastplate upon him: and in the
breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.
Leviticus 8:9 And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre,
in front, did he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
Leviticus 8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times,
and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to
sanctify them.
Leviticus 8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head,
and anointed him, to sanctify him.
Leviticus 8:13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them
with coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound head-tires upon
them; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:14 And he brought the bullock of the sin-offering: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock of
the sin-offering.
Leviticus 8:15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it
upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified
the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
Leviticus 8:16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and
the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses
burned it upon the altar.
Leviticus 8:17 But the bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its
dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
Leviticus 8:18 And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Leviticus 8:19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon
the altar round about.
Leviticus 8:20 And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt
the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
Leviticus 8:21 And he washed the inwards and the legs with water;
and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt-offering
for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; as
Jehovah commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:22 And he presented the other ram, the ram of
consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head
of the ram.
Leviticus 8:23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood thereof,
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.
Leviticus 8:24 And he brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put of the
blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumb of their right
hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot: and Moses sprinkled
the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus 8:25 And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that
was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys,
and their fat, and the right thigh:
Leviticus 8:26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was
before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled
bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and upon the right
thigh:
Leviticus 8:27 and he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and
upon the hands of his sons, and waved them for a wave-offering
before Jehovah.
Leviticus 8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt
them on the altar upon the burnt-offering: they were a consecration
for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-
offering before Jehovah: it was Moses' portion of the ram of
consecration; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood
which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him,
and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons'
garments with him.
Leviticus 8:31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the
flesh at the door of the tent of meeting: and there eat it and the bread
that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, Aaron
and his sons shall eat it.
Leviticus 8:32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the
bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus 8:33 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of
meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled:
for he shall consecrate you seven days.
Leviticus 8:34 As hath been done this day, so Jehovah hath
commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
Leviticus 8:35 And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide
day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die
not: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus 8:36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things which
Jehovah commanded by Moses.
Leviticus 9
Leviticus 9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses
called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
Leviticus 9:2 and he said unto Aaron, Take thee a calf of the herd for
a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and
offer them before Jehovah.
Leviticus 9:3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak,
saying, Take ye a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb,
both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;
Leviticus 9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice
before Jehovah; and a meal-offering mingled with oil: for to-day
Jehovah appeareth unto you.
Leviticus 9:5 And they brought that which Moses commanded
before the tent of meeting: and all the congregation drew near and
stood before Jehovah.
Leviticus 9:6 And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah
commanded that ye should do: and the glory of Jehovah shall appear
unto you.
Leviticus 9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Draw near unto the altar,
and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make
atonement for thyself, and for the people; and offer the oblation of
the people, and make atonement for them; as Jehovah commanded.
Leviticus 9:8 So Aaron drew near unto the altar, and slew the calf of
the sin-offering, which was for himself.
Leviticus 9:9 And the sons of Aaron presented 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 base of the altar:
Leviticus 9:10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul from the
liver of the sin-offering, he burnt upon the altar; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Leviticus 9:11 And the flesh and the skin he burnt with fire without
the camp.
Leviticus 9:12 And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons
delivered unto him the blood, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round
about.
Leviticus 9:13 And they delivered the burnt-offering unto him, piece
by piece, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
Leviticus 9:14 And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt
them upon the burnt-offering on the altar.
Leviticus 9:15 And he presented the people's oblation, and took the
goat of the sin-offering which was for the people, and slew it, and
offered it for sin, as the first.
Leviticus 9:16 And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it
according to the ordinance.
Leviticus 9:17 And he presented the meal-offering, and filled his
hand therefrom, and burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering
of the morning.
Leviticus 9:18 He slew also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons
delivered unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round
about,
Leviticus 9:19 and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and
that which covereth [the inwards], and the kidneys, and the caul of
the liver:
Leviticus 9:20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the
fat upon the altar:
Leviticus 9:21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a
wave-offering before Jehovah; as Moses commanded.
Leviticus 9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and
blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and
the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings.
Leviticus 9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting,
and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Jehovah
appeared unto all the people.
Leviticus 9:24 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and
consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all
the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus 10
Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each
of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and
offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded
them.
Leviticus 10:2 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and
devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that Jehovah
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.
Leviticus 10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of
Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Draw near, carry your
brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
Leviticus 10:5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out
of the camp, as Moses had said.
Leviticus 10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and
unto Ithamar, his sons, Let not the hair of your heads go loose,
neither rend your clothes; that ye die not, and that he be not wroth
with all the congregation: but let your brethren, the whole house of
Israel, bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled.
Leviticus 10:7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of
meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you.
And they did according to the word of Moses.
Leviticus 10:8 And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, saying,
Leviticus 10:9 Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall
be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Leviticus 10:10 and that ye may make a distinction between the holy
and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Leviticus 10:11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the
statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by Moses.
Leviticus 10:12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and
unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meal-offering that
remaineth of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and eat it without
leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy;
Leviticus 10:13 and ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy
portion, and thy sons' portion, of the offerings of Jehovah made by
fire: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus 10:14 And the wave-breast and the heave-thigh shall ye eat
in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for
they are given as thy portion, and thy sons' portion, out of the
sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 10:15 The heave-thigh and the wave-breast shall they bring
with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave-
offering before Jehovah: and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee,
as a portion for ever; as Jehovah hath commanded.
Leviticus 10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-
offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar
and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying,
Leviticus 10:17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the
place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he hath given it you
to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them
before Jehovah?
Leviticus 10:18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the
sanctuary within: ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as
I commanded.
Leviticus 10:19 And Aaron spake unto Moses, Behold, this day have
they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before
Jehovah; and there have befallen me such things as these: and if I had
eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the
sight of Jehovah?
Leviticus 10:20 And when Moses heard [that], it was well-pleasing
in his sight.
Leviticus 11
Leviticus 11:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying
unto them,
Leviticus 11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are
the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on
the earth.
Leviticus 11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted,
[and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
Leviticus 11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew
the cud, or of them that part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth
the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud but
parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:6 And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth
not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:7 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is
clovenfooted, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:8 Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye
shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:9 These may ye eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, that may ye eat.
Leviticus 11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and
in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living
creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination unto you,
Leviticus 11:11 and they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall
not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in
abomination.
Leviticus 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters,
that is an abomination unto you.
Leviticus 11:13 And these ye shall have in abomination among the
birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and
the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
Leviticus 11:14 and the kite, and the falcon after its kind,
Leviticus 11:15 every raven after its kind,
Leviticus 11:16 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew,
and the hawk after its kind,
Leviticus 11:17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great
owl,
Leviticus 11:18 and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture,
Leviticus 11:19 and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the
hoopoe, and the bat.
Leviticus 11:20 All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are
an abomination unto you.
Leviticus 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things
that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, wherewith to
leap upon the earth.
Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its
kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind,
and the grasshopper after its kind.
Leviticus 11:23 But all winged creeping things, which have four feet,
are an abomination unto you.
Leviticus 11:24 And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever
toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;
Leviticus 11:25 And whosoever beareth [aught] of the carcass of
them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:26 Every beast which parteth the hoof, and is not
clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, is unclean unto you: every one
that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Leviticus 11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all
beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth
their carcass shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:28 And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:29 And these are they which are unclean unto you
among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and
the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,
Leviticus 11:30 and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard,
and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.
Leviticus 11:31 These are they which are unclean to you among all
that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be
unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are
dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood,
or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any
work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until
the even; then shall it be clean.
Leviticus 11:33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them
falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean, and it ye shall break.
Leviticus 11:34 All food [therein] which may be eaten, that on which
water cometh, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in
every [such] vessel shall be unclean.
Leviticus 11:35 And every thing whereupon [any part] of their
carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it
shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto
you.
Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a
gathering of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their
carcass shall be unclean.
Leviticus 11:37 And if [aught] of their carcass fall upon any sowing
seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
Leviticus 11:38 But if water be put upon the seed, and [aught] of
their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that
toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:40 And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass
of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 11:42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever
goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all creeping
things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an
abomination.
Leviticus 11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any
creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves
unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Leviticus 11:44 For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves
therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile
yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the
earth.
Leviticus 11:45 For I am Jehovah that brought you up out of the land
of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Leviticus 11:46 This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of
every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature
that creepeth upon the earth;
Leviticus 11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the
clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living
thing that may not be eaten.
Leviticus 12
Leviticus 12:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 12:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman
conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven
days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be
unclean.
Leviticus 12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
Leviticus 12:4 And she shall 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.
Leviticus 12:5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of
[her] purifying threescore and six days.
Leviticus 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a
son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt-
offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto
the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest:
Leviticus 12:7 and he shall offer it before Jehovah, and make
atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her
blood. This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a
female.
Leviticus 12:8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall
take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt-
offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make
atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
Leviticus 13
Leviticus 13:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Leviticus 13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a
rising, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it become in the skin of his
flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the
priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
Leviticus 13:3 and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of
the flesh: and if the hair in the plague be turned white, and the
appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the
plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce
him unclean.
Leviticus 13:4 And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh,
and the appearance thereof 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:
Leviticus 13:5 and the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and,
behold, if in his eyes the plague be at a stay, and the plague be not
spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
Leviticus 13:6 and the priest shall look on him again the seventh day;
and, behold, if the plague be dim, and the plague be not spread in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is a scab: and he
shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus 13:7 But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he
hath showed himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show
himself to the priest again:
Leviticus 13:8 and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the scab be
spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is
leprosy.
Leviticus 13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall
be brought unto the priest;
Leviticus 13:10 and the priest shall look; and, behold, if there be a
white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be
quick raw flesh in the rising,
Leviticus 13:11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut him up, for he is
unclean.
Leviticus 13:12 And if the 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 feet, as far as appeareth to the priest;
Leviticus 13:13 then the priest shall look; 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.
Leviticus 13:14 But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall
be unclean.
Leviticus 13:15 And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and
pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.
Leviticus 13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto
white, then he shall come unto the priest;
Leviticus 13:17 and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the
plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce [him]
clean [that hath] the plague: he is clean.
Leviticus 13:18 And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil,
and it is healed,
Leviticus 13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or
a bright spot, reddish-white, then is shall be showed to the priest;
Leviticus 13:20 and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the
appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be
turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the
plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil.
Leviticus 13:21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no
white hairs therein, and it be not lower than the skin, but be dim; then
the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus 13:22 And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
Leviticus 13:23 But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not
spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him
clean.
Leviticus 13:24 Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning
by fire, and the quick [flesh] of the burning become a bright spot,
reddish-white, or white;
Leviticus 13:25 then the priest shall look upon it; and, behold, if the
hair in the bright spot be turned white, and the appearance thereof be
deeper than the skin; it is leprosy, it hath broken out in the burning:
and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of
leprosy.
Leviticus 13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no
white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the skin, but be
dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus 13:27 and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: if
it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
Leviticus 13:28 And if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not
spread in the skin, but be dim; it is the rising of the burning, and the
priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is the scar of the burning.
Leviticus 13:29 And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the
head or upon the beard,
Leviticus 13:30 then the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold,
if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it
yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a
scall, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
Leviticus 13:31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and,
behold, the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and there
be no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the
plague of the scall seven days:
Leviticus 13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no
yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the
skin,
Leviticus 13:33 then 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:
Leviticus 13:34 and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
scall; and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, and the
appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin; then the priest shall
pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus 13:35 But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his
cleansing,
Leviticus 13:36 then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the
scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow
hair; he is unclean.
Leviticus 13:37 But if in his eyes the scall be at a stay, and black hair
be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest
shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus 13:38 And when a man or a woman hath in the skin of the
flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
Leviticus 13:39 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright
spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath
broken out in the skin; he is clean.
Leviticus 13:40 And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald;
[yet] is he clean.
Leviticus 13:41 And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his
head, he is forehead bald; [yet] is he clean.
Leviticus 13:42 But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead,
a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or
his bald forehead.
Leviticus 13:43 Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if
the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his
bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh;
Leviticus 13:44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall
surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes
shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall
cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Leviticus 13:46 All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be
unclean; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall
his dwelling be.
Leviticus 13:47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in,
whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
Leviticus 13:48 whether it be in warp, or woof; of linen, or of
woollen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;
Leviticus 13:49 if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment,
or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it
is the plague of leprosy, and shall be showed unto the priest.
Leviticus 13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut
up [that which hath] the plague seven days:
Leviticus 13:51 and he shall look on the plague on the seventh day:
if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for; the plague is a
fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
Leviticus 13:52 And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or
the woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the
plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus 13:53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague
be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
anything of skin;
Leviticus 13:54 then the priest shall command that they wash the
thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Leviticus 13:55 and the priest shall look, after that the plague is
washed; and, behold, if the plague have not changed its color, and the
plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire: it is a
fret, whether the bareness be within or without.
Leviticus 13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be
dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Leviticus 13:57 and if it appear still in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is breaking out: thou
shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
Leviticus 13:58 And the garment, either the warp, or the 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.
Leviticus 13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment
of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or anything of
skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Leviticus 14
Leviticus 14:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest:
Leviticus 14:3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the
priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the
leper,
Leviticus 14:4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is
to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet,
and hyssop:
Leviticus 14:5 And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds
in an earthen vessel over running water.
Leviticus 14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar
wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the
living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running
water:
Leviticus 14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed
from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and
shall let go the living bird into the open field.
Leviticus 14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes,
and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be
clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell
outside his tent seven days.
Leviticus 14:9 And 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, and he shall
bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus 14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs
without blemish, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish, and
three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
Leviticus 14:11 And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man
that is to be cleansed, and those things, before Jehovah, at the door of
the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 14:12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and
offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them
for a wave-offering before Jehovah:
Leviticus 14:13 and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they
kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the
sanctuary: for as the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the trespass-
offering: it is most holy:
Leviticus 14:14 and the priest shall take 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.
Leviticus 14:15 And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it
into the palm of his own left hand;
Leviticus 14:16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that
is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven
times before Jehovah:
Leviticus 14:17 and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the
priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed,
and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his
right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering:
Leviticus 14:18 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: and the priest
shall make atonement for him before Jehovah.
Leviticus 14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make
atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness:
and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering;
Leviticus 14:20 and the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the
meal-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make atonement for
him, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus 14:21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much, then he
shall take one he-lamb for a trespass-offering to be waved, to make
atonement for him, and one tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour
mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil;
Leviticus 14:22 and two turtle-doves, 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.
Leviticus 14:23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his
cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before
Jehovah:
Leviticus 14:24 and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-
offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-
offering before Jehovah.
Leviticus 14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering;
and the priest shall take 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.
Leviticus 14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of
his own left hand;
Leviticus 14:27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger
some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah:
Leviticus 14:28 and the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand
upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot,
upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering:
Leviticus 14:29 and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make
atonement for him before Jehovah.
Leviticus 14:30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the
young pigeons, such as he is able to get,
Leviticus 14:31 even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-
offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering:
and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed
before Jehovah.
Leviticus 14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of
leprosy, who is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his
cleansing.
Leviticus 14:33 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Leviticus 14:34 When ye are 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;
Leviticus 14:35 then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the
priest, saying, There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the
house.
Leviticus 14:36 And the priest shall command that they empty the
house, before the priest goeth in 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:
Leviticus 14:37 and he shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the
plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or
reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;
Leviticus 14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door
of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
Leviticus 14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and
shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the
house;
Leviticus 14:40 then the priest shall command that they take out the
stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place
without the city:
Leviticus 14:41 and he shall cause the house to be scraped within
round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off,
without the city into an unclean place:
Leviticus 14:42 and they shall take other stones, and put them in the
place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster
the house.
Leviticus 14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the
house, after that he hath taken out the stones, and after he hath
scraped the house, and after it is plastered;
Leviticus 14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if
the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house:
it is unclean.
Leviticus 14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it,
and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall
carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while
that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 14:47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes;
and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus 14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look, and,
behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was
plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the
plague is healed.
Leviticus 14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and
cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus 14:50 and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water:
Leviticus 14:51 and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop,
and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the
slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven
times:
Leviticus 14:52 and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with
the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
Leviticus 14:53 but he shall let got the living bird out of the city into
the open field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall
be clean.
Leviticus 14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy,
and for a scall,
Leviticus 14:55 and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house,
Leviticus 14:56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
Leviticus 14:57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this
is the law of leprosy.
Leviticus 15
Leviticus 15:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Leviticus 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he
is unclean.
Leviticus 15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether
his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is
his uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:4 Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lieth shall be
unclean; and everything whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.
Leviticus 15:5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:6 And he that sitteth on anything whereon he that hath
the issue sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is
clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:9 And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth
upon shall be unclean.
Leviticus 15:10 And whosoever toucheth anything that was under
him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth those things
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.
Leviticus 15:11 And whomsoever he that hath the issue toucheth,
without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:12 And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue
toucheth, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in
water.
Leviticus 15:13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his
issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing,
and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water,
and shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah unto
the door of the tent of meeting, and give them unto the priest:
Leviticus 15:15 and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin-
offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for him before Jehovah for his issue.
Leviticus 15:16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from
him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the
even.
Leviticus 15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the
seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until
the even.
Leviticus 15:18 The woman also with whom a man shall lie with
seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be
unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:19 And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her
flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and
whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:20 And everything that she lieth upon in her impurity
shall be unclean: everything also that she sitteth upon shall be
unclean.
Leviticus 15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:22 And whosoever toucheth anything that she sitteth
upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:23 And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she
sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:24 And if any man lie with her, and her impurity be
upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he
lieth shall be unclean.
Leviticus 15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many
days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond
the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness
she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean.
Leviticus 15:26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue
shall be unto her as the bed of her impurity: and everything whereon
she sitteth shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.
Leviticus 15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be
unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall
number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to
the door of the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering,
and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from
their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they
defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.
Leviticus 15:32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him
whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean
thereby;
Leviticus 15:33 and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of him
that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth
with her that is unclean.
Leviticus 16
Leviticus 16:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, after the death of the
two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah, and died;
Leviticus 16:2 and Jehovah said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy
brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the
veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark; that he die not: for
I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.
Leviticus 16:3 Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a
young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.
Leviticus 16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have
the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: they are the holy
garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on.
Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children
of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-
offering.
Leviticus 16:6 And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-
offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and
for his house.
Leviticus 16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and set them before
Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot
for Jehovah, and the other lot for Azazel.
Leviticus 16:9 And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot
fell for Jehovah, and offer him for a sin-offering.
Leviticus 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall
be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him
away for Azazel into the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:11 And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-
offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself,
and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which
is for himself:
Leviticus 16:12 and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from
off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of sweet incense
beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
Leviticus 16:13 and he shall put the incense upon the fire before
Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that
is upon the testimony, that he die not:
Leviticus 16:14 and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy-seat on the east; and before
the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven
times.
Leviticus 16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is
for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his
blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the
mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat:
Leviticus 16:16 and he shall make atonement for the holy place,
because of the uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of
their transgressions, even all their sins: and so shall he do for the tent
of meeting, that dwelleth with them in the midst of their
uncleannesses.
Leviticus 16:17 And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting
when he goeth in to make atonement in the holy place, until he come
out, and have made atonement for himself, and for his household, and
for all the assembly of Israel.
Leviticus 16:18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before
Jehovah, and make 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.
Leviticus 16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his
finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleannesses of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 16:20 And when he hath made an end of atoning for the
holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the
live goat:
Leviticus 16:21 and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of
the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put
them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand
of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness:
Leviticus 16:22 and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and
shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into
the holy place, and shall leave them there:
Leviticus 16:24 and he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place,
and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering
and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself
and for the people.
Leviticus 16:25 And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the
altar.
Leviticus 16:26 And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come
into the camp.
Leviticus 16:27 And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of
the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in
the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall
burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
Leviticus 16:28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Leviticus 16:29 And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your
souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger
that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 16:30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to
cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before Jehovah.
Leviticus 16:31 It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall
afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.
Leviticus 16:32 And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall
be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy
garments:
Leviticus 16:33 and he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary;
and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar;
and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of
the assembly.
Leviticus 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to
make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins
once in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Leviticus 17
Leviticus 17:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 17:2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto them: This is the thing which Jehovah
hath commanded, saying,
Leviticus 17:3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that
killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without
the camp,
Leviticus 17:4 and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of
meeting, to offer it as an oblation unto Jehovah before the tabernacle
of Jehovah: blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed
blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
Leviticus 17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their
sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may
bring them unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto
the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace-offerings unto
Jehovah.
Leviticus 17:6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar
of Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a
sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto
the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute
forever unto them throughout their generations.
Leviticus 17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there
be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them,
that offereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus 17:9 and bringeth it not unto the door of the tent of
meeting, to sacrifice it unto Jehovah; that man shall be cut off from
his people.
Leviticus 17:10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel,
or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner
of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and
will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it
is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul
of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth
among you eat blood.
Leviticus 17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who taketh in
hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out the
blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus 17:14 For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is [all
one] with 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.
Leviticus 17:15 And every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself,
or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a
sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
Leviticus 17:16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he
shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 18
Leviticus 18:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I
am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye
dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan,
whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their
statutes.
Leviticus 18:4 Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye
keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine
ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin
to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 18:7 The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of
thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not
uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Leviticus 18:9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy
father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether born at home, or born
abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Leviticus 18:10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy
daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
theirs is thine own nakedness.
Leviticus 18:11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter,
begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
Leviticus 18:12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
Leviticus 18:13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Leviticus 18:14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
Leviticus 18:15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
Leviticus 18:16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Leviticus 18:17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman
and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her
daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near
kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Leviticus 18:18 And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a
rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-
time.
Leviticus 18:19 And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to
uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
Leviticus 18:20 And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's
wife, to defile thyself with her.
Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make
them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the
name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:23 And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself
therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down
thereto: it is confusion.
Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in
all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;
Leviticus 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the
iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:26 Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine
ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the
home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;
Leviticus 18:27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land
done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);
Leviticus 18:28 that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile
it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Leviticus 18:29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations,
even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 18:30 Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise
not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before
you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your
God.
Leviticus 19
Leviticus 19:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God
am holy.
Leviticus 19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father;
and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 19:4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten
gods: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 19:5 And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto
Jehovah, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
Leviticus 19:6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the
morrow: and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with
fire.
Leviticus 19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an
abomination; it shall not be accepted:
Leviticus 19:8 but every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,
because he hath profaned the holy thing of Jehovah: and that soul
shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the
gleaning of thy harvest.
Leviticus 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt
thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for
the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 19:11 Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor
lie one to another.
Leviticus 19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and
profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:13 Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him:
the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until
the morning.
Leviticus 19:14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a
stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am
Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou
shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the
mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer
among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy
neighbor: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou
shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge
against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy
cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with
two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of
two kinds of stuff mingled together.
Leviticus 19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is
a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor
freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to
death, because she was not free.
Leviticus 19:21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto
Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a
trespass-offering.
Leviticus 19:22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with
the ram of the trespass-offering before Jehovah for his sin which he
hath sinned: and the sin which he hath sinned shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall
have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit
thereof as their uncircumcision: three years shall they be as
uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be
holy, for giving praise unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof,
that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Jehovah your
God.
Leviticus 19:26 Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither
shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
Leviticus 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:29 Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest
the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Leviticus 19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:31 Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor
unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am
Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor
the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
shall not do him wrong.
Leviticus 19:34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto
you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself;
for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:37 And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine
ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 20
Leviticus 20:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 20:2 Moreover, 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 of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely
be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 20:3 I also 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.
Leviticus 20:4 And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes
from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him
not to death;
Leviticus 20:5 then I will set my face against that man, and against
his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him,
to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even
set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his
people.
Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I
am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am
Jehovah who sanctifieth you.
Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother
shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother;
his blood shall be upon him.
Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another
man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's
wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 20:11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath
uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of
them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their
blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:13 And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind,
both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is
wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there
be no wickedness among you.
Leviticus 20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put
to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
Leviticus 20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie
down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's
daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she
see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in
the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's
nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her
sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath made naked her
fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both
of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 20:19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; for he hath made naked his
near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus 20:20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath
uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall
die childless.
Leviticus 20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is
impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be
childless.
Leviticus 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine
ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
therein, vomit you not out.
Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation,
which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.
Leviticus 20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land,
and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and
honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the
peoples.
Leviticus 20:25 Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the
clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the
clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by
bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have
separated from you as unclean.
Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am
holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
Leviticus 20:27 A man also or a 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.
Leviticus 21
Leviticus 21:1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests,
the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none defile himself
for the dead among his people;
Leviticus 21:2 except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his
mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and
for his brother,
Leviticus 21:3 and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that
hath had no husband; for her may he defile himself.
Leviticus 21:4 He shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man
among his people, to profane himself.
Leviticus 21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither
shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings
in their flesh.
Leviticus 21:6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the
name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the
bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus 21:7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or
profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband:
for he is holy unto his God.
Leviticus 21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the
bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I Jehovah, who
sanctify you, am holy.
Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself
by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with
fire.
Leviticus 21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren,
upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated
to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor
rend his clothes;
Leviticus 21:11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile
himself for his father, or for his mother;
Leviticus 21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane
the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his
God is upon him: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus 21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a
harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he
take to wife.
Leviticus 21:15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people:
for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.
Leviticus 21:16 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy
seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not
approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he
shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose,
or anything superfluous,
Leviticus 21:19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
Leviticus 21:20 or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish
in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
Leviticus 21:21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a
blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by
fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of
his God.
Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most
holy, and of the holy:
Leviticus 21:23 only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh
unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.
Leviticus 21:24 So Moses spake unto Aaron, and to his sons, and
unto all the children of Israel.
Leviticus 22
Leviticus 22:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 22:2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they
hallow unto me, and that they profane not my holy name: I am
Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed
throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things,
which the children of Israel hallow unto Jehovah, having his
uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am
Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or
hath an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
And whoso toucheth anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man
whose seed goeth from him;
Leviticus 22:5 or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby
he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take
uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
Leviticus 22:6 the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until
the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh
in water.
Leviticus 22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and
afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
Leviticus 22:8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall
not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:9 They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear
sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who
sanctifieth them.
Leviticus 22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a
sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
thing.
Leviticus 22:11 But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his
money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall
eat of his bread.
Leviticus 22:12 And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger,
she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
Leviticus 22:13 But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced,
and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her
youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger
eat thereof.
Leviticus 22:14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then
he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest
the holy thing.
Leviticus 22:15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they offer unto Jehovah,
Leviticus 22:16 and [so] cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth
guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Jehovah who
sanctifieth them.
Leviticus 22:17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto them, Whosoever he be of the house
of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, that offereth his oblation,
whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill-offerings,
which they offer unto Jehovah for a burnt-offering;
Leviticus 22:19 that ye may be accepted, [ye shall offer] a male
without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Leviticus 22:20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not
offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Leviticus 22:21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-
offerings unto Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill-
offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted;
there shall be no blemish therein.
Leviticus 22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or
scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto Jehovah, nor make
an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath anything
superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a
freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
Leviticus 22:24 That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or
broken, or cut, ye shall not offer unto Jehovah; neither shall ye do
[thus] in your land.
Leviticus 22:25 Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer
the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in
them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Leviticus 22:26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought
forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth
day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the oblation of an offering
made by fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and
its young both in one day.
Leviticus 22:29 And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving
unto Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice it that ye may be accepted.
Leviticus 22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten; ye shall leave
none of it until the morning: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do
them: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 22:32 And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be
hallowed among the children of Israel: I am Jehovah who halloweth
you,
Leviticus 22:33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 23
Leviticus 23:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
The set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my set feasts.
Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is
a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner
of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:4 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy
convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season.
Leviticus 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
at even, is Jehovah's passover.
Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the
feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat
unleavened bread.
Leviticus 23:7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work.
Leviticus 23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto
Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye
shall do no servile work.
Leviticus 23:9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap
the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of
your harvest unto the priest:
Leviticus 23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be
accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall
wave it.
Leviticus 23:12 And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall
offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt-offering unto
Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:13 And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth
parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made
by fire unto Jehovah for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering thereof
shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Leviticus 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain,
nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the
oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after
the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-
offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete:
Leviticus 23:16 even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall
ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto
Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-
loaves of two tenth parts [of an ephah]: they shall be of fine flour,
they shall be baken with leaven, for first-fruits unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:18 And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs
without blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams:
they shall be a burnt-offering unto Jehovah, with their meal-offering,
and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:19 And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and
two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.
Leviticus 23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
first-fruits for a wave-offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs:
they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.
Leviticus 23:21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame
day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile
work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your
generations.
Leviticus 23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou
shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather
the gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them for the poor, and
for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 23:23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the
seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest
unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Leviticus 23:25 Ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:27 Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is
the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye
shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:28 And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day;
for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before
Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted
in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of
work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his
people.
Leviticus 23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for
ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye
shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from
even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.
Leviticus 23:33 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the
fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for
seven days unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work.
Leviticus 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto Jehovah: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you;
and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a
solemn assembly; ye shall do no servile work.
Leviticus 23:37 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire
unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and
drink-offerings, each on its own day;
Leviticus 23:38 besides the sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your
gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill-
offerings, which ye give unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 23:39 Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast
of Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on
the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
Leviticus 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of
goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and
willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God
seven days.
Leviticus 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto Jehovah seven days
in the year: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; ye
shall keep it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are
home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;
Leviticus 23:43 that your generations may know that I made the
children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the
land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
set feasts of Jehovah.
Leviticus 24
Leviticus 24:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto
thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
continually.
Leviticus 24:3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of
meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before
Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations.
Leviticus 24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure
candlestick before Jehovah continually.
Leviticus 24:5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes
thereof: two tenth parts [of an ephah] shall be in one cake.
Leviticus 24:6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row,
upon the pure table before Jehovah.
Leviticus 24:7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row,
that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by
fire unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 24:8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before
Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an
everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 24:9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall
eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of
Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.
Leviticus 24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father
was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son
of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the
camp:
Leviticus 24:11 and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the
Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his
mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of
Dan.
Leviticus 24:12 And they put him in ward, that it might be declared
unto them at the mouth of Jehovah.
Leviticus 24:13 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 24:14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp;
and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the
congregation stone him.
Leviticus 24:15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he
shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone
him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth
the name [of Jehovah], shall be put to death.
Leviticus 24:17 And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be
put to death.
Leviticus 24:18 And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it
good, life for life.
Leviticus 24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he
hath done, so shall it be done to him:
Leviticus 24:20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he
hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.
Leviticus 24:21 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he
that killeth a man shall be put to death.
Leviticus 24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the
sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel; and they
brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him
with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
Leviticus 25
Leviticus 25:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in mount Sinai,
saying,
Leviticus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land
keep a sabbath unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;
Leviticus 25:4 but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn
rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy
field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Leviticus 25:5 That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt
not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it
shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
Leviticus 25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you;
for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired
servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee.
Leviticus 25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy
land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.
Leviticus 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto
thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of
seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
Leviticus 25:9 Then shalt thou send abroad the loud trumpet on the
tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye send
abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be
a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus 25:11 A jubilee 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 the undressed vines.
Leviticus 25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall
eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Leviticus 25:13 In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto
his possession.
Leviticus 25:14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of
thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.
Leviticus 25:15 According to the number of years after the jubilee
thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, [and] according unto the number of
years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.
Leviticus 25:16 According to the multitude of the years thou shalt
increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years
thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he
sell unto thee.
Leviticus 25:17 And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt
fear thy God: for I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Leviticus 25:19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat
your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Leviticus 25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh
year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;
Leviticus 25:21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the
sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
Leviticus 25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the
fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, ye
shall eat the old store.
Leviticus 25:23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the
land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Leviticus 25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant
a redemption for the land.
Leviticus 25:25 If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his
possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and
shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.
Leviticus 25:26 And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be
waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;
Leviticus 25:27 then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and
restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall
return unto his possession.
Leviticus 25:28 But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then
that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath
bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out,
and he shall return unto his possession.
Leviticus 25:29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city,
then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full
year shall he have the right of redemption.
Leviticus 25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full
year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in
perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall
not go out in the jubilee.
Leviticus 25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall
round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country:
they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
Leviticus 25:32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of
the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
Leviticus 25:33 And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that
was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for
the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the
children of Israel.
Leviticus 25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be
sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
Leviticus 25:35 And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail
with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: [as] a stranger and a sojourner
shall he live with thee.
Leviticus 25:36 Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy
God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Leviticus 25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest,
nor give him thy victuals for increase.
Leviticus 25:38 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out
of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your
God.
Leviticus 25:39 And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell
himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-
servant.
Leviticus 25:40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be
with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:
Leviticus 25:41 then shall he go out from thee, he and his children
with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
possession of his fathers shall he return.
Leviticus 25:42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out
of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Leviticus 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt
fear thy God.
Leviticus 25:44 And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom
thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall
ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Leviticus 25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that
sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that
are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall
be your possession.
Leviticus 25:46 And ye shall make them an inheritance for your
children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your
bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye
shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
Leviticus 25:47 And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed
rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto
the stranger [or] sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's
family;
Leviticus 25:48 after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his
brethren may redeem him;
Leviticus 25:49 or 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 waxed rich, he may redeem himself.
Leviticus 25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from
the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee: and the
price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years;
according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
Leviticus 25:51 If there be yet many years, according unto them he
shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he
was bought for.
Leviticus 25:52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of
jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall
he give back the price of his redemption.
Leviticus 25:53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him:
he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
Leviticus 25:54 And if he be not redeemed by these [means], then he
shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.
Leviticus 25:55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they
are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am
Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 26
Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you
up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone
in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.
Leviticus 26:2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them;
Leviticus 26:4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land
shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and
the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your
bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Leviticus 26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie
down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to
cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Leviticus 26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall
before you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred
of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before
you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:9 And I will have respect unto you, and make you
fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus 26:10 And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall
bring forth the old because of the new.
Leviticus 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my
soul shall not abhor you.
Leviticus 26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God,
and ye shall be my people.
Leviticus 26:13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out
of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have
broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Leviticus 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do
all these commandments;
Leviticus 26:15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul
abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
but break my covenant;
Leviticus 26:16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over
you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and
make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for
your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be
smitten before your enemies: they that hate you shall rule over you;
and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Leviticus 26:18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto
me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power: and I will
make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;
Leviticus 26:20 and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your
land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land
yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not
hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you
according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:22 And I will send the beast of the field among you,
which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.
Leviticus 26:23 And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto
me, but will walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus 26:24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will
smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall
execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered
together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you;
and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again
by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but
walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus 26:28 then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I
also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh
of your daughters shall ye eat.
Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down
your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your
idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
Leviticus 26:31 And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring
your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of
your sweet odors.
Leviticus 26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation; and your
enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Leviticus 26:33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will
draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and
your cities shall be a waste.
Leviticus 26:34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it
lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the
land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the
rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus 26:36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a
faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound
of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth
from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Leviticus 26:37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were
before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to
stand before your enemies.
Leviticus 26:38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land
of your enemies shall eat you up.
Leviticus 26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their
fathers shall they pine away with them.
Leviticus 26:40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the
iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed
against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,
Leviticus 26:41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them
into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be
humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;
Leviticus 26:42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and
also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham
will I remember; and I will remember the land.
Leviticus 26:43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy
its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall
accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because
they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus 26:44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of
their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to
destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am
Jehovah their God;
Leviticus 26:45 but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of
their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the
sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.
Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws,
which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount
Sinai by Moses.
Leviticus 27
Leviticus 27:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When a man shall accomplish a vow, the persons shall be for Jehovah
by thy estimation.
Leviticus 27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty
years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be
thirty shekels.
Leviticus 27:5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty
years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and
for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years
old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver,
and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:7 And if it be from sixty years old and upward; if it be a
male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female
ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall
be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to
the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him.
Leviticus 27:9 And if it be a beast, whereof men offer an oblation
unto Jehovah, all that any man giveth of such unto Jehovah shall be
holy.
Leviticus 27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad,
or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then
both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.
Leviticus 27:11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not
offer an oblation unto Jehovah, then he shall set the beast before the
priest;
Leviticus 27:12 and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or
bad: as thou the priest valuest it, so shall it be.
Leviticus 27:13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the
fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
Leviticus 27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy
unto Jehovah, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or
bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
Leviticus 27:15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it,
and it shall be his.
Leviticus 27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto Jehovah part of the
field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the
sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley [shall be valued] at
fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee,
according to thy estimation it shall stand.
Leviticus 27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the
priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that
remain unto the year of jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from
thy estimation.
Leviticus 27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem
it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto
it, and it shall be assured to him.
Leviticus 27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have
sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:
Leviticus 27:21 but the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall
be holy unto Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall
be the priest's.
Leviticus 27:22 And if he sanctify unto Jehovah a field which he
hath bought, which is not of the field of his possession;
Leviticus 27:23 then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation unto the year of jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation
in that day, as a holy thing unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 27:24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him
of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the
land belongeth.
Leviticus 27:25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the
shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Leviticus 27:26 Only the firstling among beasts, which is made a
firstling to Jehovah, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or
sheep, it is Jehovah's.
Leviticus 27:27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom
it according to thine estimation, and shall add unto it the fifth part
thereof: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy
estimation.
Leviticus 27:28 Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall
devote unto Jehovah of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or
of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every
devoted thing is most holy unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 27:29 No one devoted, that shall be devoted from among
men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of
the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's: it is holy unto
Jehovah.
Leviticus 27:31 And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall
add unto it the fifth part thereof.
Leviticus 27:32 And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever
passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto Jehovah.
Leviticus 27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad,
neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and
that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments, which Jehovah
commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Numbers
Numbers 1
Numbers 1:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in
the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt,
saying,
Numbers 1:2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, every male, by their polls;
Numbers 1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to
go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their
hosts.
Numbers 1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every
one head of his fathers' house.
Numbers 1:5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand
with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers 1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 1:7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 1:10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the
son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Numbers 1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers 1:16 These are they that were called of the congregation,
the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the
thousands of Israel.
Numbers 1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men that are
mentioned by name:
Numbers 1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together on
the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees
after their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number
of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers 1:19 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them
in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, 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;
Numbers 1:21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof,
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;
Numbers 1:23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 1:24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 1:26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers 1:28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:32 Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of
Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:39 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers 1:40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:41 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
Numbers 1:43 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:44 These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and
Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they
were each one for his fathers' house.
Numbers 1:45 So all they that were numbered of the children of
Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Numbers 1:46 even all they that were numbered were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
Numbers 1:48 For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 1:49 Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither
shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
Numbers 1:50 but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the
testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that
belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture
thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about
the tabernacle.
Numbers 1:51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites
shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the
Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put
to death.
Numbers 1:52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every
man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according
to their hosts.
Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall encamp round about the
tabernacle of the 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 the testimony.
Numbers 1:54 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that
Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.
Numbers 2
Numbers 2:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Numbers 2:2 The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his
own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses: over against
the tent of meeting shall they encamp round about.
Numbers 2:3 And those that encamp on the east side toward the
sunrising shall be they of the standard of the camp of Judah,
according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Judah shall
be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers 2:5 And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe
of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be
Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 2:6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:7 [And] the tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the
children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 2:8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:9 All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a
hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four
hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.
Numbers 2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of
Reuben according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of
Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers 2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:12 And those that encamp next unto him shall be the
tribe of Simeon: and the prince of the children of Simeon shall be
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 2:13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 2:14 And the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of
Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Numbers 2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:16 All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a
hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and
fifty, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth second.
Numbers 2:17 Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the
camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so
shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.
Numbers 2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of
Ephraim according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of
Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:20 And next unto him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and
the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
Numbers 2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 2:22 And the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the
children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 2:23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were
a hundred thousand and eight thousand and a hundred, according to
their hosts. And they shall set forth third.
Numbers 2:25 On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of
Dan according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Dan
shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers 2:27 And those that encamp next unto him shall be the
tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel
the son of Ochran.
Numbers 2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:29 And the tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the
children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers 2:30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:31 All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a
hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred.
They shall set forth hindmost by their standards.
Numbers 2:32 These are they that were numbered of the children of
Israel by their fathers' houses: all that were numbered of the camps
according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three
thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the
children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Numbers 2:34 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that
Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards,
and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to
their fathers' houses.
Numbers 3
Numbers 3:1 Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in
the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Numbers 3:2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab
the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Numbers 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests
that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's
office.
Numbers 3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they
offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and
they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the
priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.
Numbers 3:5 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron
the priest, that they may minister unto him.
Numbers 3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the
whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of
the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:8 And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of
meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of
the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his
sons: they are wholly given unto him on the behalf of the children of
Israel.
Numbers 3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they
shall keep their priesthood: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be
put to death.
Numbers 3:11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among
the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that openeth the
womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
Numbers 3:13 for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote
all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-
born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.
Numbers 3:14 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, saying,
Numbers 3:15 Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses,
by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou
number them.
Numbers 3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of
Jehovah, as he was commanded.
Numbers 3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names:
Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers 3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by
their families: Libni and Shimei.
Numbers 3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram,
and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Numbers 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and
Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their
fathers' houses.
Numbers 3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the
family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Numbers 3:22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the
number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those
that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind
the tabernacle westward.
Numbers 3:24 And the prince of the fathers' house of the
Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers 3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of
meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof,
and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
Numbers 3:26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen 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.
Numbers 3:27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and
the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the
family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
Numbers 3:28 According to the number of all the males, from a
month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred,
keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on
the side of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers 3:30 And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of
the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers 3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and
the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary
wherewith they minister, and the screen, and all the service thereof.
Numbers 3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be
prince of the princes of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of them
that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the
family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
Numbers 3:34 And those that were numbered of them, according to
the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six
thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 3:35 And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of
Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: they shall encamp on the side
of the tabernacle northward.
Numbers 3:36 And the appointed 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 instruments thereof, and
all the service thereof,
Numbers 3:37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
Numbers 3:38 And those that encamp before the tabernacle
eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, 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.
Numbers 3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses
and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their
families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty
and two thousand.
Numbers 3:40 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-
born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward,
and take the number of their names.
Numbers 3:41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah)
instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the
cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of
the children of Israel:
Numbers 3:42 and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him,
all the first-born among the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:43 And all the first-born males according to 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.
Numbers 3:44 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among
the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their
cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.
Numbers 3:46 And for the redemption of the two hundred and
threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, that
are over and above [the number of] the Levites,
Numbers 3:47 thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after
the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty
gerahs):
Numbers 3:48 and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd
number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
Numbers 3:49 And Moses took the redemption-money from them
that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;
Numbers 3:50 from the first-born of the children of Israel took he
the money, a thousand three hundred and threescore and five
[shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers 3:51 and Moses gave the redemption-money unto Aaron
and to his sons, according to the word of Jehovah, as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Numbers 4
Numbers 4:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Numbers 4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the
sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years
old, all that enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of
meeting.
Numbers 4:4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of
meeting, [about] the most holy things:
Numbers 4:5 when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and
his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover
the ark of the testimony with it,
Numbers 4:6 and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall
spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Numbers 4:7 And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a
cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the
bowls and the cups wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread
shall be thereon:
Numbers 4:8 and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and
cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves
thereof.
Numbers 4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the
candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister
unto it:
Numbers 4:10 and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within
a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon the frame.
Numbers 4:11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of
blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the
staves thereof:
Numbers 4:12 and they shall take all the vessels of ministry,
wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of
blue, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them
on the frame.
Numbers 4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and
spread a purple cloth thereon:
Numbers 4:14 and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof,
wherewith they minister about it, the firepans, the flesh-hooks, and
the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and put in the staves thereof.
Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of
covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the
camp is set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear
it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things
are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:16 And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual
meal-offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle,
and of all that therein is, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof.
Numbers 4:17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Numbers 4:18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the
Kohathites from among the Levites;
Numbers 4:19 but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die,
when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons
shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his
burden;
Numbers 4:20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a
moment, lest they die.
Numbers 4:21 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 4:22 Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their
fathers' houses, by their families;
Numbers 4:23 from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old
shalt thou number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to
do the work in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites,
in serving and in bearing burdens:
Numbers 4:25 they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the
tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is
above upon it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
Numbers 4:26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen 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 whatsoever shall be done with them: therein shall they
serve.
Numbers 4:27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be
all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and
in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their
burden.
Numbers 4:28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the
Gershonites in the tent of meeting: and their charge shall be under the
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 4:29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by
their families, by their fathers' houses;
Numbers 4:30 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years
old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth upon the service,
to do the work of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all
their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and
the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,
Numbers 4:32 and the pillars of the court round about, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and
with all their service: and by name ye shall appoint the instruments of
the charge of their burden.
Numbers 4:33 This is the service of the families of the sons of
Merari, according to all their service, in the tent of meeting, under the
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 4:34 And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the
congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families,
and by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:35 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years
old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of
meeting:
Numbers 4:36 and those that were numbered of them by their
families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
Numbers 4:37 These are they that were numbered of the families of
the Kohathites, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses
and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by
Moses.
Numbers 4:38 And those that were numbered of the sons of
Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:39 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years
old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of
meeting,
Numbers 4:40 even those that were numbered of them, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred
and thirty.
Numbers 4:41 These are they that were numbered of the families of
the sons of Gershon, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom
Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of
Jehovah.
Numbers 4:42 And those that were numbered of the families of the
sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:43 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years
old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of
meeting,
Numbers 4:44 even those that were numbered of them by their
families, were three thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 4:45 These are they that were numbered of the families of
the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to
the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.
Numbers 4:46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom
Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their
families, and by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:47 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years
old, every one that entered in to do the work of service, and the work
of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,
Numbers 4:48 even those that were numbered of them, were eight
thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
Numbers 4:49 According to the commandment of Jehovah they were
numbered by Moses, every one according to his service, and
according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Numbers 5
Numbers 5:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of
the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and
whosoever is unclean by the dead:
Numbers 5:3 both male and female shall ye put out, without the
camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst
whereof I dwell.
Numbers 5:4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out
without the camp; as Jehovah spake unto Moses, so did the children
of Israel.
Numbers 5:5 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 5:6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or
woman shall commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass
against Jehovah, and that soul shall be guilty;
Numbers 5:7 then he shall confess his sin which he hath done: and
he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fifth
part thereof, and give it unto him in respect of whom he hath been
guilty.
Numbers 5:8 But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution
may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made unto
Jehovah shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement,
whereby atonement shall be made for him.
Numbers 5:9 And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.
Numbers 5:10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his:
whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
Numbers 5:11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
Numbers 5:13 and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the
eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there
be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;
Numbers 5:14 and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be
jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Numbers 5:15 then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and
shall bring her oblation 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 a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to remembrance.
Numbers 5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before
Jehovah:
Numbers 5:17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen
vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put it into the water.
Numbers 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah,
and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal-
offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of
jealousy: and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness
that causeth the curse.
Numbers 5:19 And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say
unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not
gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free
from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse.
Numbers 5:20 But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband,
and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy
husband:
Numbers 5:21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with
the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah
make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth
make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;
Numbers 5:22 and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And
the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.
Numbers 5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and
he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:
Numbers 5:24 and he shall make the woman drink the water of
bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse
shall enter into her [and become] bitter.
Numbers 5:25 And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy
out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before
Jehovah, and bring it unto the altar:
Numbers 5:26 and the priest shall take a handful of the meal-
offering, as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and
afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
Numbers 5:27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it
shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass
against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter
into her [and become] bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh
shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Numbers 5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then
she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Numbers 5:29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under
her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
Numbers 5:30 or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man,
and he is jealous of his wife; then shall he set the woman before
Jehovah, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
Numbers 5:31 And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that
woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers 6
Numbers 6:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a
Nazirite, to separate himself unto Jehovah,
Numbers 6:3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink;
he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither
shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
Numbers 6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that
is made of the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk.
Numbers 6:5 All the days of his vow of separation there shall no
razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he
separateth himself unto Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the
locks of the hair of his head grow long.
Numbers 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he
shall not come near to a dead body.
Numbers 6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for
his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because
his separation unto God is upon his head.
Numbers 6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.
Numbers 6:9 And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he
defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the
day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Numbers 6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves,
or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting:
Numbers 6:11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and
the other for a burnt-offering, and make atonement for him, for that
he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow his head that same
day.
Numbers 6:12 And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his
separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-
offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation
was defiled.
Numbers 6:13 And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of
his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the
tent of meeting:
Numbers 6:14 and he shall offer his oblation unto Jehovah, one he-
lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-
lamb a year old without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram
without blemish for peace-offerings,
Numbers 6:15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their
meal-offering, and their drink-offerings.
Numbers 6:16 And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and
shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:
Numbers 6:17 and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-
offerings unto Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the
priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 6:18 And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his
separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of
the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the
sacrifice of peace-offerings.
Numbers 6:19 And the priest shall take the boiled 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 Nazirite, after he hath
shaven [the head of] his separation;
Numbers 6:20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering
before Jehovah; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave-
breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
Numbers 6:21 This is the law of the Nazirite who voweth, [and of]
his oblation unto Jehovah for his separation, besides that which he is
able to get: according to his vow which he voweth, so he must do
after the law of his separation.
Numbers 6:22 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 6:23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this
wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them,
Numbers 6:24 Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee:
Numbers 6:25 Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be
gracious unto thee:
Numbers 6:26 Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give
thee peace.
Numbers 6:27 So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel;
and I will bless them.
Numbers 7
Numbers 7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an
end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it,
and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof,
and had anointed them and sanctified them;
Numbers 7:2 that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers'
houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they
that were over them that were numbered:
Numbers 7:3 and they brought their oblation before Jehovah, six
covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the
princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the
tabernacle.
Numbers 7:4 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 7:5 Take it of them, that they may be [used] in doing the
service of the tent of meeting; and thou shalt give them unto the
Levites, to every man according to his service.
Numbers 7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave
them unto the Levites.
Numbers 7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of
Gershon, according to their service:
Numbers 7:8 and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons
of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the
son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 7:9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the
service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their
shoulders.
Numbers 7:10 And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar
in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their oblation
before the altar.
Numbers 7:11 And Jehovah said unto Moses, They shall offer their
oblation, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.
Numbers 7:12 And he that offered his oblation the first day was
Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
Numbers 7:13 and his oblation was one silver platter, the weight
whereof was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:14 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:15 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:16 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:17 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 7:18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of
Issachar, did offer:
Numbers 7:19 he offered for his oblation one silver platter, the
weight whereof was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:20 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:21 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:22 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:23 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun.:
Numbers 7:25 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:26 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:27 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:28 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:29 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of
the children of Reuben:
Numbers 7:31 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:32 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:33 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:34 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:35 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers 7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,
prince of the children of Simeon:
Numbers 7:37 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:38 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:39 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:40 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:41 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of
the children of Gad:
Numbers 7:43 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:44 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:45 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:46 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:47 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud,
prince of the children of Ephraim:
Numbers 7:49 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:50 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:51 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:52 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:53 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,
prince of the children of Manasseh:
Numbers 7:55 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:56 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:57 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:58 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:59 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of
the children of Benjamin:
Numbers 7:61 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:62 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:63 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:64 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:65 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,
prince of the children of Dan:
Numbers 7:67 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:68 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:69 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:70 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:71 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince
of the children of Asher:
Numbers 7:73 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:74 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:75 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:76 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:77 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Numbers 7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of
the children of Naphtali:
Numbers 7:79 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof
was a hundred a 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 meal-offering;
Numbers 7:80 one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
Numbers 7:81 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old,
for a burnt-offering;
Numbers 7:82 one male of the goats for a sin-offering;
Numbers 7:83 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen,
five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the
oblation of Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers 7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it
was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve
silver bowls, twelve golden spoons;
Numbers 7:85 each silver platter [weighing] a hundred and thirty
[shekels], and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two
thousand and four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the
sanctuary;
Numbers 7:86 the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, [weighing]
ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of
the spoons a hundred and twenty [shekels];
Numbers 7:87 all the oxen for the burnt-offering twelve bullocks,
the rams twelve, the he-lambs a year old twelve, and their meal-
offering; and the males of the goats for a sin-offering twelve;
Numbers 7:88 and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace-offerings
twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the he-
lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that
it was anointed.
Numbers 7:89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to
speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from
above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from
between the two cherubim: and he spake unto him.
Numbers 8
Numbers 8:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 8:2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou
lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the
candlestick.
Numbers 8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof [so as
to give light] in front of the candlestick, as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
Numbers 8:4 And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work
of gold; unto the base thereof, [and] unto the flowers thereof, it was
beaten work: according unto the pattern which Jehovah had showed
Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Numbers 8:5 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel,
and cleanse them.
Numbers 8:7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them:
sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them cause a razor
to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and
cleanse themselves.
Numbers 8:8 Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-
offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and another young bullock shalt
thou take for a sin-offering.
Numbers 8:9 And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of
meeting: and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the
children of Israel:
Numbers 8:10 and thou shalt present the Levites before Jehovah.
And the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites:
Numbers 8:11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for a
wave-offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be
theirs to do the service of Jehovah.
Numbers 8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads
of the bullocks: and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the
other for a burnt-offering, unto Jehovah, to make atonement for the
Levites.
Numbers 8:13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and
before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto Jehovah.
Numbers 8:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the
children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service
of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for
a wave-offering.
Numbers 8:16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the
children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-
born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
Numbers 8:17 For all the first-born among the children of Israel are
mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote all the first-born in
the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers 8:18 And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-
born among the children of Israel.
Numbers 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to
his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the
children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make 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.
Numbers 8:20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that
Jehovah commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children
of Israel unto them.
Numbers 8:21 And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and
they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered them for a wave-
offering before Jehovah; and Aaron made atonement for them to
cleanse them.
Numbers 8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service
in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah
had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto
them.
Numbers 8:23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 8:24 This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from
twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon
the service in the work of the tent of meeting:
Numbers 8:25 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease
waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,
Numbers 8:26 but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of
meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou
do unto the Levites touching their charges.
Numbers 9
Numbers 9:1 And Jehovah 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,
Numbers 9:2 Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in
its appointed season.
Numbers 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall
keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and
according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.
Numbers 9:4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they
should keep the passover.
Numbers 9:5 And they kept the passover in the first [month], on the
fourteenth day of the month, at even, in the wilderness of Sinai:
according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the children
of Israel.
Numbers 9:6 And there were certain men, who were unclean by
reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the
passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron
on that day:
Numbers 9:7 and those men said unto him, We are unclean by
reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that
we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season
among the children of Israel?
Numbers 9:8 And Moses said unto them, Stay ye, that I may hear
what Jehovah will command concerning you.
Numbers 9:9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 9:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man
of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead
body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto
Jehovah.
Numbers 9:11 In the second month on the fourteenth day at even
they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs:
Numbers 9:12 they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor
break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they
shall keep it.
Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and
forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his
people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its
appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Numbers 9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will
keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the
passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye
shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born
in the land.
Numbers 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the
cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at
even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until
morning.
Numbers 9:16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the
appearance of fire by night.
Numbers 9:17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the
Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place
where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped.
Numbers 9:18 At the commandment of Jehovah the children of
Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of Jehovah they
encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they
remained encamped.
Numbers 9:19 And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many
days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and
journeyed not.
Numbers 9:20 And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the
tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Jehovah they
remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Jehovah
they journeyed.
Numbers 9:21 And sometimes the cloud was from evening until
morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they
journeyed: or [if it continued] by day and by night, when the cloud
was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers 9:22 Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that
the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of
Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken
up, they journeyed.
Numbers 9:23 At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and
at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed: they kept the charge
of Jehovah, at the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.
Numbers 10
Numbers 10:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 10:2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work
shalt thou make them: and thou shalt use them for the calling of the
congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
Numbers 10:3 And when they shall blow them, all the congregation
shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 10:4 And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads
of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
Numbers 10:5 And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the
east side shall take their journey.
Numbers 10:6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the
camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall
blow an alarm for their journeys.
Numbers 10:7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye
shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the
trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout
your generations.
Numbers 10:9 And when ye go to war in your land against the
adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the
trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and
ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set
feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the
trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your
peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your
God: I am Jehovah your God.
Numbers 10:11 And it came to pass in the second year, in the second
month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up
from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
Numbers 10:12 And the children of Israel set forward according to
their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in
the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 10:13 And they first took their journey according to the
commandment of Jehovah by Moses.
Numbers 10:14 And in the first [place] the standard of the camp of
the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over
his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of
Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bare the tabernacle, set forward.
Numbers 10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward
according to their hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
Numbers 10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad
was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the
sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tabernacle against their
coming.
Numbers 10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of
Ephraim set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was
Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 10:25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan,
which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to
their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Numbers 10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers 10:28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel
according to their hosts; and they set forward.
Numbers 10:29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the
Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of
which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we
will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Numbers 10:30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart
to mine own land, and to my kindred.
Numbers 10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as
thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt
be to us instead of eyes.
Numbers 10:32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be,
that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do
unto thee.
Numbers 10:33 And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah
three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went
before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
Numbers 10:34 And the cloud of Jehovah was over them by day,
when they set forward from the camp.
Numbers 10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that
Moses said, Rise up, O Jehovah, and let thine enemies be scattered;
and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Numbers 10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, unto
the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
Numbers 11
Numbers 11:1 And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in
the ears of Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was
kindled; and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in
the uttermost part of the camp.
Numbers 11:2 And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed
unto Jehovah, and the fire abated.
Numbers 11:3 And the name of that place was called Taberah,
because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.
Numbers 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted
exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said,
Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for
nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions,
and the garlic:
Numbers 11:6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all
save this manna to look upon.
Numbers 11:7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and the
appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.
Numbers 11:8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it
in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of
it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
Numbers 11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,
the manna fell upon it.
Numbers 11:10 And Moses heard the people weeping throughout
their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of
Jehovah was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
Numbers 11:11 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou
dealt ill with thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy
sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Numbers 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I brought
them forth, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy
bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land
which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Numbers 11:13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this
people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may
eat.
Numbers 11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it
is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee,
out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my
wretchedness.
Numbers 11:16 And Jehovah 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
tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
Numbers 11:17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I
will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them;
and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear
it not thyself alone.
Numbers 11:18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves
against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears
of Jehovah, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well
with us in Egypt: therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and ye shall
eat.
Numbers 11:19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five
days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
Numbers 11:20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah
who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we
forth out of Egypt?
Numbers 11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are
six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them
flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Numbers 11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice
them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to
suffice them?
Numbers 11:23 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Is Jehovah's hand
waxed short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass
unto thee or not.
Numbers 11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words
of Jehovah: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people,
and set them round about the Tent.
Numbers 11:25 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake
unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon
the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested
upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
Numbers 11:26 But there remained two 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
had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers 11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and
said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Numbers 11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses,
one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid
them.
Numbers 11:29 And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my
sake? would that all Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah
would put his Spirit upon them!
Numbers 11:30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders
of Israel.
Numbers 11:31 And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and
brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a
day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side,
round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the
earth.
Numbers 11:32 And the people rose up all that day, and all the night,
and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he that gathered least
gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves
round about the camp.
Numbers 11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it
was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people,
and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers 11:34 And the name of that place was called
Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.
Numbers 11:35 From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed unto
Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
Numbers 12
Numbers 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because
of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a
Cushite woman.
Numbers 12:2 And they said, Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with
Moses? hath he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it.
Numbers 12:3 Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the
men that were upon the face of the earth.
Numbers 12:4 And Jehovah spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto
Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting.
And they three came out.
Numbers 12:5 And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and
stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they
both came forth.
Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a
prophet among you, I Jehovah will make myself known unto him in a
vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my
house:
Numbers 12:8 with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall
he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my
servant, against Moses?
Numbers 12:9 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them;
and he departed.
Numbers 12:10 And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and,
behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked
upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
Numbers 12:11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Oh, my lord, lay not, I
pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that
we have sinned.
Numbers 12:12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the
flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Numbers 12:13 And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, Heal her, O
God, I beseech thee.
Numbers 12:14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but
spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be
shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be
brought in again.
Numbers 12:15 And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven
days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
Numbers 12:16 And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth,
and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13
Numbers 13:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 13:2 Send thou men, that they may spy out 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 prince among them.
Numbers 13:3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran
according to the commandment of Jehovah: all of them men who
were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 13:4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben,
Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Numbers 13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
Numbers 13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Numbers 13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
Numbers 13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
Numbers 13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
Numbers 13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of
Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Numbers 13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Numbers 13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
Numbers 13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
Numbers 13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Numbers 13:16 These are the names of the men that Moses sent to
spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
Numbers 13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan,
and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into
the hill-country:
Numbers 13:18 and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell
therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or
many;
Numbers 13:19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is
good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in
camps, or in strongholds;
Numbers 13:20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean,
whether there is 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
first-ripe grapes.
Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the
wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
Numbers 13:22 And they went up by the South, and came unto
Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak,
were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.)
Numbers 13:23 And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut
down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare
it upon a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates,
and of the figs.
Numbers 13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because
of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Numbers 13:25 And they returned from spying out the land at the
end of forty days.
Numbers 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron,
and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the
wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them,
and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land
whither thou sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and honey;
and this is the fruit of it.
Numbers 13:28 Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong,
and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the
children of Anak there.
Numbers 13:29 Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the
Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country;
and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the
Jordan.
Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
it.
Numbers 13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We are not
able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Numbers 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which
they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the
inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of
great stature.
Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak,
who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Numbers 14
Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto
them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we
had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:3 And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land,
to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey:
were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers 14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain,
and let us return into Egypt.
Numbers 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all
the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their
clothes:
Numbers 14:7 and they spake unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy
it out, is an exceeding good land.
Numbers 14:8 If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Numbers 14:9 Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the
people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed
from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
Numbers 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with
stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto
all the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:11 And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this
people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all
the signs which I have wrought among them?
Numbers 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit
them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Numbers 14:13 And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians
will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from
among them;
Numbers 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.
They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for
thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them,
and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar
of fire by night.
Numbers 14:15 Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then
the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Numbers 14:16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people
into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them
in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:17 And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be
great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
Numbers 14:18 Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in
lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by
no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
Numbers 14:19 Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people
according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as
thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers 14:20 And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy
word:
Numbers 14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall
be filled with the glory of Jehovah;
Numbers 14:22 because all those men that have seen my glory, and
my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have
tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Numbers 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto
their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Numbers 14:24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit
with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers 14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the
valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way
to the Red Sea.
Numbers 14:26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Numbers 14:27 How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation,
that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children
of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Numbers 14:28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye
have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Numbers 14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all
that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from
twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,
Numbers 14:30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning
which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 14:31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey,
them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have
rejected.
Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this
wilderness.
Numbers 14:33 And your children shall be wanderers in the
wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your
dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out
the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
Numbers 14:35 I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all
this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers 14:36 And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land,
who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by bringing up an evil report against the land,
Numbers 14:37 even those men that did bring up an evil report of
the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
Numbers 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
Numbers 14:39 And Moses told these words unto all the children of
Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Numbers 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them
up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up
unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.
Numbers 14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress
the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?
Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be
not smitten down before your enemies.
Numbers 14:43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before
you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from
following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.
Numbers 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the
mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and
Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite
who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down,
even unto Hormah.
Numbers 15
Numbers 15:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give
unto you,
Numbers 15:3 and will make an offering by fire unto Jehovah, a
burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-
offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor unto Jehovah, of
the herd, or of the flock;
Numbers 15:4 then shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto
Jehovah a meal-offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour
mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
Numbers 15:5 and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a
hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for
each lamb.
Numbers 15:6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering
two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the third part
of a hin of oil:
Numbers 15:7 and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third
part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Numbers 15:8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-
offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-
offerings unto Jehovah;
Numbers 15:9 then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of
three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with half a hin of
oil:
Numbers 15:10 and thou shalt offer for the drink-offering half a hin
of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Numbers 15:11 Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each
ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.
Numbers 15:12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so
shall ye do to every one according to their number.
Numbers 15:13 All that are home-born shall do these things after
this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor
unto Jehovah.
Numbers 15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever
may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; as ye do, so he
shall do.
Numbers 15:15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you,
and for the stranger that sojourneth [with you], a statute for ever
throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be
before Jehovah.
Numbers 15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for
the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Numbers 15:17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 15:18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Numbers 15:19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the
land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah.
Numbers 15:20 Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake
for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so
shall ye heave it.
Numbers 15:21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah
a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Numbers 15:22 And when ye shall err, and not observe all these
commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,
Numbers 15:23 even all that Jehovah hath commanded you by
Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward
throughout your generations;
Numbers 15:24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the
knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer
one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto
Jehovah, with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering
thereof, according to the ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin-
offering.
Numbers 15:25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for
it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering
made by fire unto Jehovah, and their sin-offering before Jehovah, for
their error:
Numbers 15:26 and all the congregation of the children of Israel
shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in
respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.
Numbers 15:27 And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer
a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering.
Numbers 15:28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that
erreth, when he sinneth unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make
atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
Numbers 15:29 Ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught
unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the children of Israel,
and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Numbers 15:30 But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand,
whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth
Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 15:31 Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and
hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his
iniquity shall be upon him.
Numbers 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the
wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought
him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
Numbers 15:34 And they put him in ward, because it had not been
declared what should be done to him.
Numbers 15:35 And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely
be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones
without the camp.
Numbers 15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the
camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
Numbers 15:37 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that
they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout
their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a
cord of blue:
Numbers 15:39 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may
look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and
do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
Numbers 15:40 that ye may remember and do all my
commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Numbers 15:41 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah your God.
Numbers 16
Numbers 16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the
son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
Numbers 16:2 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the
children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation,
called to the assembly, men of renown;
Numbers 16:3 and they assembled 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 Jehovah is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves
above the assembly of Jehovah?
Numbers 16:4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
Numbers 16:5 and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company,
saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is
holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he
shall choose will he cause to come near unto him.
Numbers 16:6 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his
company;
Numbers 16:7 and put fire in them, and put incense upon them
before Jehovah to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom
Jehovah doth choose, he [shall be] holy: ye take too much upon you,
ye sons of Levi.
Numbers 16:8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, ye sons of
Levi:
Numbers 16:9 [seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God
of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring
you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah,
and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them;
Numbers 16:10 and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy
brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also?
Numbers 16:11 Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered
together against Jehovah: and Aaron, what is he that ye murmur
against him?
Numbers 16:12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons
of Eliab; and they said, We will not come up:
Numbers 16:13 is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of
a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but
thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?
Numbers 16:14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land
flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and
vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come
up.
Numbers 16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto Jehovah,
Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them,
neither have I hurt one of them.
Numbers 16:16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy
company before Jehovah, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow:
Numbers 16:17 and take ye every man his censer, and put incense
upon them, and bring ye before Jehovah every man his censer, two
hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each his censer.
Numbers 16:18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in
them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of
meeting with Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 16:19 And Korah assembled all the congregation against
them unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the glory of Jehovah
appeared unto all the congregation.
Numbers 16:20 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Numbers 16:21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation,
that I may consume them in a moment.
Numbers 16:22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the
God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be
wroth with all the congregation?
Numbers 16:23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 16:24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up
from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
Numbers 16:25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and
Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
Numbers 16:26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart,
I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of
theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
Numbers 16:27 So they gat them up from the tabernacle of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came
out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their
sons, and their little ones.
Numbers 16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah
hath sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of
mine own mind.
Numbers 16:29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if
they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not
sent me.
Numbers 16:30 But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground
open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto
them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand
that these men have despised Jehovah.
Numbers 16:31 And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking
all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them;
Numbers 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them
up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto
Korah, and all their goods.
Numbers 16:33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down
alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished
from among the assembly.
Numbers 16:34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the
cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
Numbers 16:35 And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the
two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
Numbers 16:36 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 16:37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that
he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire
yonder; for they are holy,
Numbers 16:38 even the censers of these sinners against their own
lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar:
for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and
they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Numbers 16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers,
which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a
covering of the altar,
Numbers 16:40 to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the
end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to
burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his
company: as Jehovah spake unto him by Moses.
Numbers 16:41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron,
saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.
Numbers 16:42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was
assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward
the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of
Jehovah appeared.
Numbers 16:43 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent
of meeting.
Numbers 16:44 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I
may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Numbers 16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take they censer, and
put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry
it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for
there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.
Numbers 16:47 And Aaron took as Moses spake, and ran into the
midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the
people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the
people.
Numbers 16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and
the plague was stayed.
Numbers 16:49 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen
thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter
of Korah.
Numbers 16:50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the
tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
Numbers 17
Numbers 17:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 17:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them
rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their
fathers' houses, twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his
rod.
Numbers 17:3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of
Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
Numbers 17:4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting
before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Numbers 17:5 And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man
whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
Numbers 17:6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel; and all
their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their
fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among
their rods.
Numbers 17:7 And Moses laid up the rods before Jehovah in the tent
of the testimony.
Numbers 17:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went
into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the
house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced
blossoms, and bare ripe almonds.
Numbers 17:9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before
Jehovah unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took
every man his rod.
Numbers 17:10 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put back the rod of
Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the
children of rebellion; that thou mayest make an end of their
murmurings against me, that they die not.
Numbers 17:11 Thus did Moses: as Jehovah commanded him, so did
he.
Numbers 17:12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying,
Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
Numbers 17:13 Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto
the tabernacle of Jehovah, dieth: shall we perish all of us?
Numbers 18
Numbers 18:1 And Jehovah said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and
thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary;
and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your
priesthood.
Numbers 18:2 And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of
thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto
thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall be
before the tent of the testimony.
Numbers 18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all
the Tent: only they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of the
sanctuary and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye.
Numbers 18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the
charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a
stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
Numbers 18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the
charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more upon the children of
Israel.
Numbers 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites
from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto
Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 18:7 And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your
priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and
ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the
stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 18:8 And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, And I, behold, I have
given thee the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the hallowed
things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason
of the anointing, and to thy sons, as a portion for ever.
Numbers 18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved]
from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-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.
Numbers 18:10 As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every
male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
Numbers 18:11 And this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift,
even 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, as a
portion for ever; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof.
Numbers 18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage,
and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto
Jehovah, to thee have I given them.
Numbers 18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which
they bring unto Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy
house shall eat thereof.
Numbers 18:14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be thine.
Numbers 18:15 Everything that openeth the womb, of all flesh
which they offer unto Jehovah, both of man and beast shall be thine:
nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the
firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
Numbers 18:16 And those that are to be redeemed of them from a
month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the
money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is
twenty gerahs).
Numbers 18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep,
or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou
shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an
offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Numbers 18:18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-
breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.
Numbers 18:19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the
children of Israel offer unto Jehovah, have I given thee, and thy sons
and thy daughters with thee, as a portion for ever: it is a covenant of
salt for ever before Jehovah unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Numbers 18:20 And Jehovah said unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no
inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among
them: I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of
Israel.
Numbers 18:21 And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given
all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service
which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 18:22 And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come
nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
Numbers 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of
meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for
ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance.
Numbers 18:24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they
offer as a heave-offering unto Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for
an inheritance: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children
of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Numbers 18:25 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 18:26 Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say
unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I
have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up
a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.
Numbers 18:27 And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you,
as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness
of the winepress.
Numbers 18:28 Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering unto
Jehovah of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel;
and thereof ye shall give Jehovah's heave-offering to Aaron the
priest.
Numbers 18:29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-
offering of Jehovah, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part
thereof out of it.
Numbers 18:30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave
the best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as
the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-
press.
Numbers 18:31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your
households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent
of meeting.
Numbers 18:32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye
have heaved from it the best thereof: and ye shall not profane the
holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.
Numbers 19
Numbers 19:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying,
Numbers 19:2 This is the statute of the law which Jehovah 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.
Numbers 19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he
shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before
his face:
Numbers 19:4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his
finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting
seven times.
Numbers 19:5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin,
and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Numbers 19:6 and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers 19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp,
and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers 19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in
water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the
even.
Numbers 19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of
the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it
shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water
for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
Numbers 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto
the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among
them, for a statute for ever.
Numbers 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be
unclean seven days:
Numbers 19:12 the same shall purify himself therewith 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.
Numbers 19:13 Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a
man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle
of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the
water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean;
his uncleanness is yet upon him.
Numbers 19:14 This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one
that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be
unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering
bound upon it, is unclean.
Numbers 19:16 And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is
slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave,
shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:17 And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of
the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto
in a vessel:
Numbers 19:18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in
the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and
upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the
bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
Numbers 19:19 and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean
on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he
shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and shall be clean at even.
Numbers 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not
purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the
assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water
for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
Numbers 19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he
that sprinkleth the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he
that toucheth the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
Numbers 19:22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall
be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Numbers 20
Numbers 20:1 And the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and
the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried
there.
Numbers 20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and
they assembled themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron.
Numbers 20:3 And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying,
Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
Numbers 20:4 And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah
into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
Numbers 20:5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of
Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of
figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to
drink.
Numbers 20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the
assembly unto the door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their
faces: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto them.
Numbers 20:7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 20:8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou,
and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes,
that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water
out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle
drink.
Numbers 20:9 And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he
commanded him.
Numbers 20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly
together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels;
shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?
Numbers 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock
with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their cattle.
Numbers 20:12 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because
ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of
Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I
have given them.
Numbers 20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the
children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.
Numbers 20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the
king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the
travail that hath befallen us:
Numbers 20:15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt
in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our
fathers:
Numbers 20:16 and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our
voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and,
behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.
Numbers 20:17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will
not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of
the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will
not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed
thy border.
Numbers 20:18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass
through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.
Numbers 20:19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go
up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then
will I give the price thereof: let me only, without [doing] anything
[else], pass through on my feet.
Numbers 20:20 And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And
Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong
hand.
Numbers 20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through
his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Numbers 20:22 And they journeyed from Kadesh: and the children
of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.
Numbers 20:23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount
Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
Numbers 20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall
not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel,
because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
Numbers 20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up
unto mount Hor;
Numbers 20:26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon
Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [unto his people], and
shall die there.
Numbers 20:27 And Moses did as Jehovah commanded: and they
went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
Numbers 20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put
them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the
mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was
dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Numbers 21
Numbers 21:1 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the
South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he
fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
Numbers 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If
thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly
destroy their cities.
Numbers 21:3 And Jehovah hearkened to the voice of Israel, and
delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and
their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.
Numbers 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to
the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people
was much discouraged because of the way.
Numbers 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against
Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul
loatheth this light bread.
Numbers 21:6 And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Numbers 21:7 And the people came to Moses, and said, We have
sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee;
pray unto Jehovah, that he take away the serpents from us. And
Moses prayed for the people.
Numbers 21:8 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery
serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that
every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.
Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon
the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man,
when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers 21:10 And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped
in Oboth.
Numbers 21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at
Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the
sunrising.
Numbers 21:12 From thence they journeyed, and encamped in the
valley of Zered.
Numbers 21:13 From thence they journeyed, and encamped on the
other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of
the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers 21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of
Jehovah, Vaheb in Suphah, And the valleys of the Arnon,
Numbers 21:15 And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward
the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.
Numbers 21:16 And from thence [they journeyed] to Beer: that is
the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
Numbers 21:17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing
ye unto it:
Numbers 21:18 The well, which the princes digged, Which the
nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, [and] with their staves.
And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah;
Numbers 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to
Bamoth;
Numbers 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of
Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Numbers 21:21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, saying,
Numbers 21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside
into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the
wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy
border.
Numbers 21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through
his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out
against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought
against Israel.
Numbers 21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword,
and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was
strong.
Numbers 21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in
all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns
thereof.
Numbers 21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and
taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.
Numbers 21:27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye
to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
Numbers 21:28 For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the
city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high
places of the Arnon.
Numbers 21:29 Woe to thee, Moab! Thou art undone, O people of
Chemosh: He hath given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into
captivity, Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
Numbers 21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even
unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Which
[reacheth] unto Medeba.
Numbers 21:31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Numbers 21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the
towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
Numbers 21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan:
and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.
Numbers 21:34 And Jehovah 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, who dwelt at Heshbon.
Numbers 21:35 So they smote him, and his sons and all his people,
until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
Numbers 22
Numbers 22:1 And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped
in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had
done to the Amorites.
Numbers 22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they
were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of
Israel.
Numbers 22:4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now will
this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up
the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab
at that time.
Numbers 22:5 And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor,
to Pethor, which is by the River, to 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.
Numbers 22:6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this
people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail,
that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land;
for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou
cursest is cursed.
Numbers 22:7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian
departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came
unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
Numbers 22:8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I
will bring you word again, as Jehovah shall speak unto me: and the
princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
Numbers 22:9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are
these with thee?
Numbers 22:10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab, hath sent unto me, [saying],
Numbers 22:11 Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it
covereth the face of the earth: now, come curse me them;
peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive
them out.
Numbers 22:12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with
them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.
Numbers 22:13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto
the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Jehovah refuseth to
give me leave to go with you.
Numbers 22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went
unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
Numbers 22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more
honorable than they.
Numbers 22:16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus
saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee
from coming unto me:
Numbers 22:17 for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and
whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee,
curse me this people.
Numbers 22:18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of
Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.
Numbers 22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this
night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak unto me more.
Numbers 22:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto
him, If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only
the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Numbers 22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his
ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers 22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he went; and
the angel of Jehovah placed himself in the way for an adversary
against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants
were with him.
Numbers 22:23 And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the
way, with 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.
Numbers 22:24 Then the angel of Jehovah stood in a narrow path
between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that
side.
Numbers 22:25 And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah, and she thrust
herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and
he smote her again.
Numbers 22:26 And the angel of Jehovah went further, and stood in
a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or
to the left.
Numbers 22:27 And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah, and she lay
down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote
the ass with his staff.
Numbers 22:28 And Jehovah 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?
Numbers 22:29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast
mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had
killed thee.
Numbers 22:30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass,
upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever
wont to do so unto thee? and he said, Nay.
Numbers 22:31 Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he
saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn
in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
Numbers 22:32 And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore
hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth
for an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me:
Numbers 22:33 and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me
these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I
had even slain thee, and saved her alive.
Numbers 22:34 And Balaam said unto the angel of Jehovah, 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.
Numbers 22:35 And the angel of Jehovah 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.
Numbers 22:36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he
went out to meet him unto the City of Moab, which is on the border
of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
Numbers 22:37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly
send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I
not able indeed to promote thee to honor?
Numbers 22:38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto
thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that
God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
Numbers 22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto
Kiriath-huzoth.
Numbers 22:40 And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to
Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
Numbers 22:41 And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took
Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw
from thence the utmost part of the people.
Numbers 23
Numbers 23:1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven
altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Numbers 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and
Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers 23:3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-
offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me;
and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare
height.
Numbers 23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have
prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram
on every altar.
Numbers 23:5 And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said,
Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers 23:6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by
his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Numbers 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram
hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the
East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.
Numbers 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And
how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the
hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not
be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the
fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let
my last end be like his!
Numbers 23:11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done
unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
blessed them altogether.
Numbers 23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to
speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?
Numbers 23:13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with
me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt
see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse
me them from thence.
Numbers 23:14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top
of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram
on every altar.
Numbers 23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-
offering, while I meet [Jehovah] yonder.
Numbers 23:16 And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his
mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
Numbers 23:17 And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his
burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?
Numbers 23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak,
and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son
of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or
hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Numbers 23:20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless:
And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23:21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither hath he
seen perverseness in Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the
shout of a king is among them.
Numbers 23:22 God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it
were the strength of the wild-ox.
Numbers 23:23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither
is there any divination with Israel: Now shalt it be said of Jacob and
of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Numbers 23:24 Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a
lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the
prey, And drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers 23:25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at
all, nor bless them at all.
Numbers 23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not
I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?
Numbers 23:27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take
thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou
mayest curse me them from thence.
Numbers 23:28 And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that
looketh down upon the desert.
Numbers 23:29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven
altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Numbers 23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a
bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 24
Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to
bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with
enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel
dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon
him.
Numbers 24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son
of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith;
Numbers 24:4 He saith, who heareth the words of God, Who seeth
the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
Numbers 24:5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles,
O Israel!
Numbers 24:6 As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the
river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees
beside the waters.
Numbers 24:7 Water shall flow from his buckets, And his seed shall
be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his
kingdom shall be exalted.
Numbers 24:8 God bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it
were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his
adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite [them]
through with his arrows.
Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness;
who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And
cursed be every one that curseth thee.
Numbers 24:10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and
he smote his hands together; and Balak said unto Balaam, I called
thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed
them these three times.
Numbers 24:11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to
promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah hath kept thee back
from honor.
Numbers 24:12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy
messengers that thou sentest unto me, saying,
Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and
gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or
bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?
Numbers 24:14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, [and]
I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the
latter days.
Numbers 24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the
son of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith;
Numbers 24:16 He saith, who heareth the words of God, And
knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Who seeth the vision of
the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
Numbers 24:17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh:
There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out
of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of Moab, And break
down all the sons of tumult.
Numbers 24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a
possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel doeth valiantly.
Numbers 24:19 And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, And
shall destroy the remnant from the city.
Numbers 24:20 And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable,
and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall
come to destruction.
Numbers 24:21 And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his
parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, And thy nest is set in
the rock.
Numbers 24:22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur
shall carry thee away captive.
Numbers 24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who
shall live when God doeth this?
Numbers 24:24 But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, And
they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall
come to destruction.
Numbers 24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his
place; and Balak also went his way.
Numbers 25
Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to
play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:
Numbers 25:2 for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their
gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers 25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the
anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
Numbers 25:4 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of
the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the
fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.
Numbers 25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye
every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
Numbers 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and
brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while
they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the
congregation, and took a spear in his hand;
Numbers 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion,
and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman
through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel.
Numbers 25:9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and
four thousand.
Numbers 25:10 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that
he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not
the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Numbers 25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my
covenant of peace:
Numbers 25:13 and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him,
the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for
his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain,
who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of
Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
Numbers 25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was
slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a
fathers' house in Midian.
Numbers 25:16 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 25:17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
Numbers 25:18 for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they
have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi,
the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on
the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
Numbers 26
Numbers 26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah
spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
saying,
Numbers 26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses,
all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.
Numbers 26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Numbers 26:4 [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old
and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of
Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 26:5 Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben:
[of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the
Palluites;
Numbers 26:6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the
family of the Carmites.
Numbers 26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and they
that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven
hundred and thirty.
Numbers 26:8 And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.
Numbers 26:9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and
Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the
congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the
company of Korah, when they strove against Jehovah,
Numbers 26:10 and the earth opened its 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.
Numbers 26:11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah died not.
Numbers 26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel,
the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of
Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
Numbers 26:13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the
family of the Shaulites.
Numbers 26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and
two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 26:15 The sons 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;
Numbers 26:16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family
of the Erites;
Numbers 26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the
family of the Arelites.
Numbers 26:18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according
to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five
hundred.
Numbers 26:19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan
died in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were: of
Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the
Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
Numbers 26:21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of
the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
Numbers 26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those
that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and
five hundred.
Numbers 26:23 The sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola,
the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
Numbers 26:24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron,
the family of the Shimronites.
Numbers 26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those
that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three
hundred.
Numbers 26:26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered,
the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of
Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
Numbers 26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according
to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five
hundred.
Numbers 26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh
and Ephraim.
Numbers 26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the
Gileadites.
Numbers 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: [of] Iezer, the family
of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
Numbers 26:31 and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of]
Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Numbers 26:32 and [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and
[of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Numbers 26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but
daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were
Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 26:34 These are the families of Manasseh; and they that
were numbered of them were fifty and two thousand and seven
hundred.
Numbers 26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of
the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Numbers 26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the
family of the Eranites.
Numbers 26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim
according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two
thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their
families.
Numbers 26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela,
the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of
Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
Numbers 26:39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of
Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
Numbers 26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of
Ard], the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the
Naamites.
Numbers 26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families;
and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand
and six hundred.
Numbers 26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of
Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan
after their families.
Numbers 26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to
those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand
and four hundred.
Numbers 26:44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the
family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah,
the family of the Berites.
Numbers 26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the
Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
Numbers 26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
Numbers 26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher
according to those that were numbered of them, fifty and three
thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 26:48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel,
the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
Numbers 26:49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the
family of the Shillemites.
Numbers 26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their
families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five
thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 26:51 These are they that were numbered of the children of
Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Numbers 26:52 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 26:53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an
inheritance according to the number of names.
Numbers 26:54 To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance,
and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one
according to those that were numbered of him shall his inheritance be
given.
Numbers 26:55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot:
according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Numbers 26:56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be
divided between the more and the fewer.
Numbers 26:57 And these are they that were numbered of the
Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the
Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the
family of the Merarites.
Numbers 26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the
Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the
family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath
begat Amram.
Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the
daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto
Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Numbers 26:60 And unto Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar.
Numbers 26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered
strange fire before Jehovah.
Numbers 26:62 And they that were numbered of them were twenty
and three thousand, every male 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.
Numbers 26:63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and
Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 26:64 But among these there was not a man of them that
were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:65 For Jehovah 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.
Numbers 27
Numbers 27:1 Then drew near 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.
Numbers 27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the
priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of
the tent of meeting, saying,
Numbers 27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not
among the company of them that gathered themselves together
against Jehovah in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin;
and he had no sons.
Numbers 27:4 Why should the name of our father be taken away
from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a
possession among the brethren of our father.
Numbers 27:5 And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.
Numbers 27:6 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 27:7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt
surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's
brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass
unto them.
Numbers 27:8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his
inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Numbers 27:9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his brethren.
Numbers 27:10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his father's brethren.
Numbers 27:11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give
his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and
he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute
[and] ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Numbers 27:12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get thee up into this
mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel.
Numbers 27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be
gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered;
Numbers 27:14 because ye rebelled against my word in the
wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at
the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of
Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
Numbers 27:15 And Moses spake unto Jehovah, saying,
Numbers 27:16 Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
appoint a man over the congregation,
Numbers 27:17 who may go out before them, and who may come in
before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them
in; that the congregation of Jehovah be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.
Numbers 27:18 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the
son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thy hand upon him;
Numbers 27:19 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all
the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers 27:20 And thou shalt put of thine honor upon him, that all
the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
Numbers 27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who
shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah: 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.
Numbers 27:22 And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him; and he
took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation:
Numbers 27:23 and he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a
charge, as Jehovah spake by Moses.
Numbers 28
Numbers 28:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them,
My oblation, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor
unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Numbers 28:3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering
made by fire which ye shall offer unto Jehovah: he-lambs a year old
without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering.
Numbers 28:4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the
other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
Numbers 28:5 and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-
offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Numbers 28:6 It is a continual burnt-offering, which was ordained in
mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Numbers 28:7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part
of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou pour out a
drink-offering of strong drink unto Jehovah.
Numbers 28:8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the
meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou
shalt offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
Numbers 28:9 And on the sabbath day two he-lambs a year old
without blemish, and two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a
meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof:
Numbers 28:10 this is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, besides
the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.
Numbers 28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer
a burnt-offering unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram,
seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 28:12 and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a
meal-offering, mingled with oil, for each bullock; and two tenth parts
of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for the one ram;
Numbers 28:13 and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering unto every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor,
an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Numbers 28:14 And their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine
for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth
part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt-offering of every month
throughout the months of the year.
Numbers 28:15 And one he-goat for a sin-offering unto Jehovah; it
shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 28:16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month, is Jehovah's passover.
Numbers 28:17 And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a
feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Numbers 28:18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work;
Numbers 28:19 but ye shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt-
offering unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven
he-lambs a year old; they shall be unto you without blemish;
Numbers 28:20 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil:
three tenth parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for
the ram;
Numbers 28:21 a tenth part shalt thou offer for every lamb of the
seven lambs;
Numbers 28:22 and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make
atonement for you.
Numbers 28:23 Ye shall offer these besides the burnt-offering of the
morning, which is for a continual burnt-offering.
Numbers 28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, for seven
days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
Jehovah: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and
the drink-offering thereof.
Numbers 28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy
convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a
new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your [feast of] weeks, ye shall
have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;
Numbers 28:27 but ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor
unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs a year
old;
Numbers 28:28 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil,
three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,
Numbers 28:29 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
Numbers 28:30 one he-goat, to make atonement for you.
Numbers 28:31 Besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-
offering thereof, ye shall offer them (they shall be unto you without
blemish), and their drink-offerings.
Numbers 29
Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you.
Numbers 29:2 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor
unto Jehovah: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old
without blemish;
Numbers 29:3 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil,
three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the ram,
Numbers 29:4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
Numbers 29:5 and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement
for you;
Numbers 29:6 besides the burnt-offering of the new moon, and the
meal-offering thereof, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-
offering thereof, and their drink-offerings, according unto their
ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Numbers 29:7 And on the tenth day of this seventh month ye shall
have a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall do
no manner of work;
Numbers 29:8 but ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto Jehovah for a
sweet savor: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old;
they shall be unto you without blemish;
Numbers 29:9 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil,
three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,
Numbers 29:10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:
Numbers 29:11 one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-
offering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-
offering thereof, and their drink-offerings.
Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye
shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye
shall keep a feast unto Jehovah seven days:
Numbers 29:13 and ye shall offer a burnt-offering, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; thirteen young bullocks, two
rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
Numbers 29:14 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil,
three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth
parts for each ram of the two rams,
Numbers 29:15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen
lambs;
Numbers 29:16 and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the
continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 29:17 And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve young
bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:18 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their
number, after the ordinance;
Numbers 29:19 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their
drink-offerings.
Numbers 29:20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams,
fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:21 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their
number, after the ordinance;
Numbers 29:22 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 29:23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams,
fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:24 their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Numbers 29:25 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 29:26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams,
fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:27 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their
number, after the ordinance;
Numbers 29:28 and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the
continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 29:29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams,
fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:30 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their
number, after the ordinance;
Numbers 29:31 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offerings thereof.
Numbers 29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams,
fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:33 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their
number, after the ordinance;
Numbers 29:34 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 29:35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly:
ye shall do no servile work;
Numbers 29:36 but ye shall offer a burnt-offering, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah: one bullock, one ram, seven
he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Numbers 29:37 their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the
bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their
number, after the ordinance:
Numbers 29:38 and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the
continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-
offering thereof.
Numbers 29:39 These ye shall offer unto Jehovah in your set feasts,
besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt-
offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings,
and for your peace-offerings.
Numbers 29:40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to
all that Jehovah commanded Moses.
Numbers 30
Numbers 30:1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the
children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah hath
commanded.
Numbers 30:2 When a man voweth a vow unto Jehovah, or sweareth
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.
Numbers 30:3 Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and
bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
Numbers 30:4 and her father heareth her vow, and her bond
wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father holdeth his peace
at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she
hath bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers 30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he
heareth, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound
her soul, shall stand: and Jehovah will forgive her, because her father
disallowed her.
Numbers 30:6 And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows
are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath
bound her soul,
Numbers 30:7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in
the day that he heareth it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds
wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers 30:8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he
heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and
the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul: and
Jehovah will forgive her.
Numbers 30:9 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced,
[even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand
against her.
Numbers 30:10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound
her soul by a bond with an oath,
Numbers 30:11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her,
and disallowed her not; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers 30:12 But if her husband made them null and void in the
day that 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 Jehovah will forgive
her.
Numbers 30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the
soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Numbers 30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her
from day to day, then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds,
which are upon her: he hath established them, because he held his
peace at her in the day that he heard them.
Numbers 30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he
hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers 30:16 These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded
Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his
daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
Numbers 31
Numbers 31:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites:
afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Numbers 31:3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye
men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to
execute Jehovah's vengeance on Midian.
Numbers 31:4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, shall ye send to the war.
Numbers 31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of
Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to
the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war,
with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his
hand.
Numbers 31:7 And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah
commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
Numbers 31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of
their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five
kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the
sword.
Numbers 31:9 And the children of Israel took captive the women of
Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks,
and all their goods, they took for a prey.
Numbers 31:10 And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt,
and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Numbers 31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of
man and of beast.
Numbers 31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the
spoil, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of
Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the
princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the
camp.
Numbers 31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host,
the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came
from the service of the war.
Numbers 31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the
women alive?
Numbers 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through
the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the
matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of
Jehovah.
Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones,
and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:18 But all the women-children, that have not known
man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:19 And encamp ye without the camp seven days:
whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any
slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye
and your captives.
Numbers 31:20 And as to every garment, and all that is made of
skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, ye
shall purify yourselves.
Numbers 31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that
went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath
commanded Moses:
Numbers 31:22 howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron,
the tin, and the lead,
Numbers 31:23 everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to
go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be
purified with the water for impurity: and all that abideth not the fire
ye shall make to go through the water.
Numbers 31:24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day,
and ye shall be clean; and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Numbers 31:25 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of
man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the
fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
Numbers 31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men
skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation.
Numbers 31:28 And levy a tribute unto Jehovah of the men of war
that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the
persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks:
Numbers 31:29 take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the
priest, for Jehovah's heave-offering.
Numbers 31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take
one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses,
and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them unto the
Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.
Numbers 31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Numbers 31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the
men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and
five thousand sheep,
Numbers 31:33 and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,
Numbers 31:34 and threescore and one thousand asses,
Numbers 31:35 and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of the
women that had not known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that
went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty
thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers 31:37 and Jehovah's tribute of the sheep was six hundred
and threescore and fifteen.
Numbers 31:38 And the oxen were thirty and six thousand; of which
Jehovah's tribute was threescore and twelve.
Numbers 31:39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five
hundred; of which Jehovah's tribute was threescore and one.
Numbers 31:40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom
Jehovah's tribute was thirty and two persons.
Numbers 31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah's
heave-offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah commanded
Moses.
Numbers 31:42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses
divided off from the men that warred
Numbers 31:43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred
thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred
sheep,
Numbers 31:44 and thirty and six thousand oxen,
Numbers 31:45 and thirty thousand and five hundred asses,
Numbers 31:46 and sixteen thousand persons),
Numbers 31:47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one
drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them
unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as
Jehovah commanded Moses.
Numbers 31:48 And the officers that were over the thousands of the
host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came
near unto Moses;
Numbers 31:49 and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken
the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there
lacketh not one man of us.
Numbers 31:50 And we have brought Jehovah's oblation, what every
man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets,
signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls
before Jehovah.
Numbers 31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of
them, even all wrought jewels.
Numbers 31:52 And all the gold of the heave-offering that they
offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
Numbers 31:53 ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man
for himself.)
Numbers 31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of
the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent
of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.
Numbers 32
Numbers 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;
Numbers 32:2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came
and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes
of the congregation, saying,
Numbers 32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Numbers 32:4 the land which Jehovah smote before the
congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and thy servants have
cattle.
Numbers 32:5 And they said, If we have found favor in thy sight, let
this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not
over the Jordan.
Numbers 32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit
here?
Numbers 32:7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children
of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah hath given
them?
Numbers 32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-
barnea to see the land.
Numbers 32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and
saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that
they should not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.
Numbers 32:10 And Jehovah's anger was kindled in that day, and he
sware, saying,
Numbers 32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt,
from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not
wholly followed me:
Numbers 32:12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and
Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Jehovah.
Numbers 32:13 And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and
he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until
all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was
consumed.
Numbers 32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead,
an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah
toward Israel.
Numbers 32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again
leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.
Numbers 32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will
build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
Numbers 32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before
the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place:
and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the
inhabitants of the land.
Numbers 32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until the
children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Numbers 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side
of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on
this side of the Jordan eastward.
Numbers 32:20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing,
if ye will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war,
Numbers 32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the
Jordan before Jehovah, until he hath driven out his enemies from
before him,
Numbers 32:22 and the land is subdued before Jehovah; then
afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless towards Jehovah, and
towards Israel; and this land shall be unto you for a possession before
Jehovah.
Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned
against Jehovah; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Numbers 32:24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for
your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Numbers 32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord
commandeth.
Numbers 32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
Numbers 32:27 but thy servants will pass over, every man that is
armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord saith.
Numbers 32:28 So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar
the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the
fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
Numbers 32:29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad
and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every
man that is armed to battle, before Jehovah, and the land shall be
subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession:
Numbers 32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they
shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 32:31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
answered, saying, As Jehovah hath said unto thy servants, so will we
do.
Numbers 32:32 We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the
land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain]
with us beyond the Jordan.
Numbers 32:33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of
Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half-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, according
to the cities thereof with [their] borders, even the cities of the land
round about.
Numbers 32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth,
and Aroer,
Numbers 32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
Numbers 32:36 and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities,
and folds for sheep.
Numbers 32:37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
Numbers 32:38 and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being
changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names unto the cities
which they builded.
Numbers 32:39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh
went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were
therein.
Numbers 32:40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of
Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
Numbers 32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the
towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
Numbers 32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages
thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers 33
Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when
they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand
of Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their
journeys by the commandment of Jehovah: and these are their
journeys according to their goings out.
Numbers 33:3 And they journeyed 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 a high hand in the sight
of all the Egyptians,
Numbers 33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born,
whom Jehovah had smitten among them: upon their gods also
Jehovah executed judgments.
Numbers 33:5 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses,
and encamped in Succoth.
Numbers 33:6 And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in
Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:7 And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back
unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they encamped
before Migdol.
Numbers 33:8 And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed
through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three
days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
Numbers 33:9 And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto
Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and threescore and
ten palm-trees; and they encamped there.
Numbers 33:10 And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by
the Red Sea.
Numbers 33:11 And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and
encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Numbers 33:12 And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and
encamped in Dophkah.
Numbers 33:13 And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped
in Alush.
Numbers 33:14 And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in
Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers 33:15 And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped
in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 33:16 And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai,
and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers 33:17 And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and
encamped in Hazeroth.
Numbers 33:18 And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped
in Rithmah.
Numbers 33:19 And they journeyed from Rithmah, and encamped in
Rimmon-perez.
Numbers 33:20 And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and
encamped in Libnah.
Numbers 33:21 And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in
Rissah.
Numbers 33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped in
Kehelathah.
Numbers 33:23 And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped
in mount Shepher.
Numbers 33:24 And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and
encamped in Haradah.
Numbers 33:25 And they journeyed from Haradah, and encamped in
Makheloth.
Numbers 33:26 And they journeyed from Makheloth, and encamped
in Tahath.
Numbers 33:27 And they journeyed from Tahath, and encamped in
Terah.
Numbers 33:28 And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in
Mithkah.
Numbers 33:29 And they journeyed from Mithkah, and encamped in
Hashmonah.
Numbers 33:30 And they journeyed from Hashmonah, and
encamped in Moseroth.
Numbers 33:31 And they journeyed from Moseroth, and encamped
in Bene-jaakan.
Numbers 33:32 And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and
encamped in Hor-haggidgad.
Numbers 33:33 And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad, and
encamped in Jotbathah.
Numbers 33:34 And they journeyed from Jotbathah, and encamped
in Abronah.
Numbers 33:35 And they journeyed from Abronah, and encamped in
Ezion-geber.
Numbers 33:36 And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and
encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).
Numbers 33:37 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and encamped in
mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
Numbers 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the
commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after
the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth
month, on the first day of the month.
Numbers 33:39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three
years old when he died in mount Hor.
Numbers 33:40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in
the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children
of Israel.
Numbers 33:41 And they journeyed from mount Hor, and encamped
in Zalmonah.
Numbers 33:42 And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and encamped
in Punon.
Numbers 33:43 And they journeyed from Punon, and encamped in
Oboth.
Numbers 33:44 And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in
Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.
Numbers 33:45 And they journeyed from Iyim, and encamped in
Dibon-gad.
Numbers 33:46 And they journeyed from Dibon-gad, and encamped
in Almon-diblathaim.
Numbers 33:47 And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and
encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Numbers 33:48 And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim,
and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 33:49 And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-
jeshimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Numbers 33:50 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Numbers 33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 33:52 then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land
from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all
their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
Numbers 33:53 and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell
therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it.
Numbers 33:54 And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your
families; to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the
fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: wheresoever the lot falleth
to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers
shall ye inherit.
Numbers 33:55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the
land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be
as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex
you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Numbers 33:56 And it shall come to pass, that, as I thought to do
unto them, so will I do unto you.
Numbers 34
Numbers 34:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 34:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall
unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the
borders thereof),
Numbers 34:3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness
of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be
from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
Numbers 34:4 and your border shall turn about southward of the
ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof
shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-
addar, and pass along to Azmon;
Numbers 34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the
brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.
Numbers 34:6 And for the western border, ye shall have the great
sea and the border [thereof]: this shall be your west border.
Numbers 34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great
sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;
Numbers 34:8 from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance
of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
Numbers 34:9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the
goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north
border.
Numbers 34:10 And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-
enan to Shepham;
Numbers 34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to
Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and
shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
Numbers 34:12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the
goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land
according to the borders thereof round about.
Numbers 34:13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel,
saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which Jehovah
hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
Numbers 34:14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to
their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to
their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
have received, their inheritance:
Numbers 34:15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the
sunrising.
Numbers 34:16 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 34:17 These are the names of the men that shall divide the
land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son
of Nun.
Numbers 34:18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide
the land for inheritance.
Numbers 34:19 And these are the names of the men: Of the tribe of
Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel
the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Numbers 34:22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince,
Bukki the son of Jogli.
Numbers 34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children
of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers 34:24 And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince,
Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Numbers 34:25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
Numbers 34:26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince,
Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Numbers 34:27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince,
Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
Numbers 34:28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince,
Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 34:29 These are they whom Jehovah commanded to divide
the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 35
Numbers 35:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Numbers 35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto
the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in;
and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the
Levites.
Numbers 35:3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their
suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all
their beasts.
Numbers 35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give
unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a
thousand cubits round about.
Numbers 35:5 And ye shall measure without the city for the east side
two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and
for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two
thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the
suburbs of the cities.
Numbers 35:6 And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites,
they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the
manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two
cities.
Numbers 35:7 All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall
be forty and eight cities; them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
Numbers 35:8 And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the
possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take
many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his
inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the
Levites.
Numbers 35:9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 35:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 35:11 then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge
for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may
flee thither.
Numbers 35:12 And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the
avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment.
Numbers 35:13 And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you
six cities of refuge.
Numbers 35:14 Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and
three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of
refuge.
Numbers 35:15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and
for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that
every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
Numbers 35:16 But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so
that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
Numbers 35:17 And if he smote him with a stone in the hand,
whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:18 Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the
hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer
to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.
Numbers 35:20 And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him,
lying in wait, so that he died,
Numbers 35:21 or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he
died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer:
the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he
meeteth him.
Numbers 35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or
hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,
Numbers 35:23 or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing
him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his
enemy, neither sought his harm;
Numbers 35:24 then the congregation shall judge between the smiter
and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
Numbers 35:25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out
of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall
restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall
dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed
with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the
border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth,
Numbers 35:27 and the avenger of blood find him without the
border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the
manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
Numbers 35:28 because he should have remained in his city of
refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high
priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Numbers 35:29 And these things shall be for a statute [and]
ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
Numbers 35:30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be
slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify
against any person that he die.
Numbers 35:31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a
murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:32 And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to
his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until
the death of the priest.
Numbers 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for
blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land
for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Numbers 35:34 And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit,
in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel.
Numbers 36
Numbers 36:1 And the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family 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 heads of the fathers' [houses] of the
children of Israel:
Numbers 36:2 and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give
the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord
was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad
our brother unto his daughters.
Numbers 36:3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the
[other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be
taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to
the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be
taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
Numbers 36:4 And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall
be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the
tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken
away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers 36:5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel
according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of
Joseph speaketh right.
Numbers 36:6 This is the thing which Jehovah doth command
concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married
to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their
father shall they be married.
Numbers 36:7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel
remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave
every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in
any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family
of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every
man the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers 36:9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to
another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every
one to his own inheritance.
Numbers 36:10 Even as Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the
daughters of Zelophehad:
Numbers 36:11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's
brothers' sons.
Numbers 36:12 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.
Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances
which Jehovah commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1
Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words which Moses spake unto all
Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against
Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-
zahab.
Deuteronomy 1:2 It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way
of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.
Deuteronomy 1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the
eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto
the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him
in commandment unto them;
Deuteronomy 1:4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who
dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 1:5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began
Moses to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 1:6 Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying,
Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain:
Deuteronomy 1:7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-
country of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in
the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South,
and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far
as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and
possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy 1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not
able to bear you myself alone:
Deuteronomy 1:10 Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and,
behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy 1:11 Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a
thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised
you!
Deuteronomy 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance,
and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy 1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and
known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over
you.
Deuteronomy 1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which
thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.
Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and
known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and
captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and
officers, according to your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying,
Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously
between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye
shall hear the small and the great alike; 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 ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy 1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things
which ye should do.
Deuteronomy 1:19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through
all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the
hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and
we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Deuteronomy 1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-
country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
Deuteronomy 1:21 Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before
thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath
spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.
Deuteronomy 1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and
said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us,
and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the
cities unto which we shall come.
Deuteronomy 1:23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve
men of you, one man for every tribe:
Deuteronomy 1:24 and they turned and went up into the hill-
country, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
Deuteronomy 1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their
hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and
said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
Deuteronomy 1:26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
commandment of Jehovah your God:
Deuteronomy 1:27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said,
Because Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 1:28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have
made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than
we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we
have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
Deuteronomy 1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid
of them.
Deuteronomy 1:30 Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will
fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your
eyes,
Deuteronomy 1:31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how
that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the
way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.
Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your
God,
Deuteronomy 1:33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out
a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what
way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
Deuteronomy 1:34 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and
was wroth, and sware, saying,
Deuteronomy 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this
evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your
fathers,
Deuteronomy 1:36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it;
and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his
children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 1:37 Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes,
saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:
Deuteronomy 1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee,
he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it.
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be
a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or
evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they
shall possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey
into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Deuteronomy 1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have
sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that
Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his
weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.
Deuteronomy 1:42 And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go
not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten
before your enemies.
Deuteronomy 1:43 So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but
ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were
presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
Deuteronomy 1:44 And the Amorites, that dwelt in that hill-country,
came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down
in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Deuteronomy 1:45 And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but
Jehovah hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.
Deuteronomy 1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according
unto the days that ye abode [there].
Deuteronomy 2
Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the
wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and
we compassed mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy 2:2 And Jehovah spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough:
turn you northward.
Deuteronomy 2:4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to
pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that
dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto
yourselves therefore;
Deuteronomy 2:5 contend not with them; for I will not give you of
their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on;
because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:6 Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye
may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may
drink.
Deuteronomy 2:7 For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the
work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking through this great
wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee;
thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 2:8 So we passed by from our brethren the children of
Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and
from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:9 And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither
contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a
possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession.
Deuteronomy 2:10 (The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
Deuteronomy 2:11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the
Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the
children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from
before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his
possession, which Jehovah gave unto them.)
Deuteronomy 2:13 Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.
And we went over the brook Zered.
Deuteronomy 2:14 And the days in which we came from Kadesh-
barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed
from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.
Deuteronomy 2:15 Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them,
to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were
consumed.
Deuteronomy 2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the people,
Deuteronomy 2:17 that Jehovah spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:18 Thou art this day to pass over Ar, the border of
Moab:
Deuteronomy 2:19 and when thou comest nigh over against the
children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend with them; for I will
not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim:
Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them
Zamzummim,
Deuteronomy 2:21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;
Deuteronomy 2:22 as he did for the children of Esau, that dwell in
Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy 2:23 and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as
Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them,
and dwelt in their stead.)
Deuteronomy 2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the
valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the
Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and
contend with him in battle.
Deuteronomy 2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and
the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven,
who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish
because of thee.
Deuteronomy 2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by
the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 2:28 Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may
eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass
through on my feet,
Deuteronomy 2:29 as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the
Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the
Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass
by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart
obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 2:31 And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun
to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that
thou mayest inherit his land.
Deuteronomy 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, unto battle at Jahaz.
Deuteronomy 2:33 And Jehovah our God delivered him up before
us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones;
we left none remaining:
Deuteronomy 2:35 only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves,
with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.
Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of
the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead,
there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered up all
before us:
Deuteronomy 2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon thou
camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the
hill-country, and wheresoever Jehovah our God forbade us.
Deuteronomy 3
Deuteronomy 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,
unto battle at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:2 And Jehovah said unto me, Fear him not; for I
have delivered 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, who dwelt at Heshbon.
Deuteronomy 3:3 So Jehovah our God delivered into our hand Og
also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until
none was left to him remaining.
Deuteronomy 3:4 And we took all his cities at that time; there was
not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the
region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls,
gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
Deuteronomy 3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto
Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with
the women and the little ones.
Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we
took for a prey unto ourselves.
Deuteronomy 3:8 And we took the land at that time out of the hand
of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from
the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon;
Deuteronomy 3:9 ([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and
the Amorites call it Senir;)
Deuteronomy 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the
remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron;
is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the
length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a
man.)
Deuteronomy 3:12 And this land we took in possession at that time:
from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-
country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites
and to the Gadites:
Deuteronomy 3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the
kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region
of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of
Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and
called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this
day.)
Deuteronomy 3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
Deuteronomy 3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I
gave from Gilead even unto the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the
valley, and the border [thereof], even unto the river Jabbok, which is
the border of the children of Ammon;
Deuteronomy 3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border
[thereof], from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt
Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
Deuteronomy 3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying,
Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass
over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of
valor.
Deuteronomy 3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your
cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities
which I have given you,
Deuteronomy 3:20 until Jehovah give rest unto your brethren, as
unto you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God
giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto
his possession, which I have given you.
Deuteronomy 3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying,
Thine eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto these
two kings: so shall Jehovah do unto all the kingdoms whither thou
goest over.
Deuteronomy 3:22 Ye shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God, he
it is that fighteth for you.
Deuteronomy 3:23 And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying,
Deuteronomy 3:24 O Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to show thy
servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there in
heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according
to thy mighty acts?
Deuteronomy 3:25 Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good
land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy 3:26 But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes,
and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
Deuteronomy 3:27 Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up
thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward,
and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and
strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall
cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-
peor.
Deuteronomy 4
Deuteronomy 4:1 And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and
unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live,
and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, giveth you.
Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command
you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of
Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God
hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 4:4 But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are
alive every one of you this day.
Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances,
even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the
midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall
hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.
Deuteronomy 4:7 For what great nation is there, that hath a god so
nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon
him?
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what great nation is there, that hath statutes
and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this
day?
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest
they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them
known unto thy children and thy children's children;
Deuteronomy 4:10 the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy
God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble me the people,
and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me
all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach
their children.
Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain;
and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with
darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Deuteronomy 4:12 And Jehovah spake unto you out of the midst of
the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only [ye
heard] a voice.
Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he
commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he
wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:14 And Jehovah commanded me at that time to
teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go over to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for
ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in
Horeb out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a
graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or
female,
Deuteronomy 4:17 the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the
likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens,
Deuteronomy 4:18 the likeness of anything that creepeth on the
ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
Deuteronomy 4:19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and
when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host
of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them,
which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the
whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 4:20 But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you
forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
inheritance, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 4:21 Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me for
your sakes, and sware that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I
should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance:
Deuteronomy 4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the
Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deuteronomy 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the
covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make
you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God
hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy 4:24 For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a
jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's
children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt
yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and
shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke
him to anger;
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you
this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto
ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days
upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:27 And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples,
and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither
Jehovah shall lead you away.
Deuteronomy 4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's
hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor
smell.
Deuteronomy 4:29 But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God,
and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy
heart and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things
are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy
God, and hearken unto his voice:
Deuteronomy 4:31 for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God; he will
not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy
fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were
before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and
from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been
[any such thing] as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Deuteronomy 4:33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking
out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation
from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by
wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched
arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did
for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest
know that Jehovah he is God; there is none else besides him.
Deuteronomy 4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice,
that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his
great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy 4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he
chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence,
with his great power, out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 4:38 to drive out nations from before thee greater and
mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an
inheritance, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to thy heart,
that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath;
there is none else.
Deuteronomy 4:40 And thou shalt keep 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 in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for
ever.
Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the
Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deuteronomy 4:42 that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth
his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that
fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy 4:43 [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the
children of Israel:
Deuteronomy 4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, when
they came forth out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 4:46 beyond the 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, when they
came forth out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:47 And they took his land in possession, and the
land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were
beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deuteronomy 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of
the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
Deuteronomy 4:49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward,
even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 5
Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto
them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in
your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.
Deuteronomy 5:2 Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in
Horeb.
Deuteronomy 5:3 Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers,
but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Deuteronomy 5:4 Jehovah spake with you face to face in the mount
out of the midst of the fire,
Deuteronomy 5:5 (I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to
show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid because of the fire,
and went not up into the mount;) saying,
Deuteronomy 5:6 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 5:7 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 5:8 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image,
[nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Deuteronomy 5:9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor
serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon
the fourth generation of them that hate me;
Deuteronomy 5:10 and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of
them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:11 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God
in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name
in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:12 Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as
Jehovah thy God commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy
God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox,
nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as
thou.
Deuteronomy 5:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out
thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore
Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy
God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go
well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 5:17 Thou shalt not kill.
Deuteronomy 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.
Deuteronomy 5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:21 Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's wife;
neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-
servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy
neighbor's.
Deuteronomy 5:22 These words Jehovah 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 upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
Deuteronomy 5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out
of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with
fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and
your elders;
Deuteronomy 5:24 and ye said, Behold, Jehovah our God hath
showed 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
speak with man, and he liveth.
Deuteronomy 5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great
fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any
more, then we shall die.
Deuteronomy 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the
voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we
have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that Jehovah our God
shall say: and speak thou unto us all that Jehovah our God shall speak
unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Deuteronomy 5:28 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words,
when ye spake unto me; and Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 5:29 Oh that there were such a 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!
Deuteronomy 5:30 Go say to them, Return ye to your tents.
Deuteronomy 5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will
speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it.
Deuteronomy 5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as Jehovah your
God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or
to the left.
Deuteronomy 5:33 Ye shall walk in all the way which Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 6
Deuteronomy 6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and
the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you,
that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;
Deuteronomy 6:2 that thou mightest fear Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that
it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as
Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land
flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah:
Deuteronomy 6:5 and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day,
shall be upon thy heart;
Deuteronomy 6:7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy
children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and
when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when
thou risest up.
Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy
hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
Deuteronomy 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of
thy house, and upon thy gates.
Deuteronomy 6:10 And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall
bring 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 buildest not,
Deuteronomy 6:11 and houses full of all good things, which thou
filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not, vineyards
and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat and be
full;
Deuteronomy 6:12 then beware lest thou forget Jehovah, who
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
Deuteronomy 6:13 Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; and him shalt
thou serve, and shalt swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of
the peoples that are round about you;
Deuteronomy 6:15 for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a
jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against
thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye
tempted him in Massah.
Deuteronomy 6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of
Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he
hath commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 6:18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in
the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with thee, and that thou
mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto
thy fathers,
Deuteronomy 6:19 to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee,
as Jehovah hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 6:20 When thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?
Deuteronomy 6:21 then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were
Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand;
Deuteronomy 6:22 and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great
and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before
our eyes;
Deuteronomy 6:23 and he brought us out from thence, that he might
bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
Deuteronomy 6:24 And Jehovah commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 6:25 And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we
observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he
hath commanded us.
Deuteronomy 7
Deuteronomy 7:1 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the
land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations
before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy 7:2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up
before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy
them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto
them;
Deuteronomy 7:3 neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou
take unto thy son.
Deuteronomy 7:4 For he will turn away thy son from following me,
that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be
kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break
down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their
Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God:
Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:7 Jehovah 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 peoples:
Deuteronomy 7:8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he
would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah
brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God,
the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with
them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations,
Deuteronomy 7:10 and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to
destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will
repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment,
and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day,
to do them.
Deuteronomy 7:12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to
these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will
keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware
unto thy fathers:
Deuteronomy 7:13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and
multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of
thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of
thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto
thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there
shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Deuteronomy 7:15 And Jehovah will take away from thee all
sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest,
will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that
Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity
them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto
thee.
Deuteronomy 7:17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are
more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Deuteronomy 7:18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well
remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all
Egypt;
Deuteronomy 7:19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the
signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched
arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so shall Jehovah thy
God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet
among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from
before thee.
Deuteronomy 7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for Jehovah
thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
Deuteronomy 7:22 And Jehovah thy God will cast 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.
Deuteronomy 7:23 But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before
thee, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be
destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:24 And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and
thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall
no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn
with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them,
nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an
abomination to Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 7:26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy
house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly
detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deuteronomy 8
Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandment 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 Jehovah sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which
Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness,
that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy
heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger,
and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy
fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live
by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of
Jehovah doth man live.
Deuteronomy 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did
thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8:5 And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man
chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy 8:6 And thou shalt keep the commandments of
Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy 8:7 For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good
land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing
forth in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees
and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without
scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are
iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10 And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt
bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy 8:11 Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy God, in not
keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes,
which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 8:12 lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast
built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Deuteronomy 8:13 and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and
thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is
multiplied;
Deuteronomy 8:14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget
Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy 8:15 who led thee through the great and terrible
wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty
ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the
rock of flint;
Deuteronomy 8:16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,
which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he
might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:
Deuteronomy 8:17 and [lest] thou say in thy heart, My power and
the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Deuteronomy 8:18 But thou shalt remember Jehovah 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 at this day.
Deuteronomy 8:19 And it shall be, if thou shalt forget Jehovah thy
God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I
testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 8:20 As the nations that Jehovah maketh to perish
before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the
voice of Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 9
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan
this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than
thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Deuteronomy 9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim,
whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can
stand before the sons of Anak?
Deuteronomy 9:3 Know therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is
he who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; he will destroy
them, and he will bring them down before thee: so shalt thou drive
them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken
unto thee.
Deuteronomy 9:4 Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy
God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my
righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land;
whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them
out from before thee.
Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of
thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness
of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before
thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:6 Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee
not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a
stiffnecked people.
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst
Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou
wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place,
ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and
Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the
tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made
with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did
neither eat bread nor drink water.
Deuteronomy 9:10 And Jehovah delivered unto me the two tables of
stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written]
according to all the words, which Jehovah speak with you in the
mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy 9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and
forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the
tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:12 And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down
quickly from hence; for thy people that 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.
Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I
have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Deuteronomy 9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot
out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation
mightier and greater than they.
Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and
the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant
were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy 9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against
Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned
aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
Deuteronomy 9:17 And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them
out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water;
because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil
in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure,
wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But
Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.
Deuteronomy 9:20 And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to
destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made,
and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it
was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that
descended out of the mount.
Deuteronomy 9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-
hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
Deuteronomy 9:23 And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-
barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you;
then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and
ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Deuteronomy 9:24 Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from
the day that I knew you.
Deuteronomy 9:25 So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and
forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would
destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:26 And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord
Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast
redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of
Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin,
Deuteronomy 9:28 lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say,
Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he
promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought
them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance,
which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thine
outstretched arm.
Deuteronomy 10
Deuteronomy 10:1 At that time Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were
on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the
ark.
Deuteronomy 10:3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having
the two tables in my hand.
Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first
writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you in the
mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
Jehovah gave them unto me.
Deuteronomy 10:5 And I turned and came down from the mount,
and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as
Jehovah commanded me.
Deuteronomy 10:6 (And the children of Israel journeyed from
Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
stead.
Deuteronomy 10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and
from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi,
to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to
minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
Deuteronomy 10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance
with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah
thy God spake unto him.)
Deuteronomy 10:10 And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time,
forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time
also; Jehovah would not destroy thee.
Deuteronomy 10:11 And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, take thy
journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land,
which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God
require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways,
and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 10:13 to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth
heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
Deuteronomy 10:15 Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to
love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all
peoples, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart,
and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy 10:17 For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and
Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who
regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth execute justice for the fatherless and
widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 10:19 Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were
sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou
serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.
Deuteronomy 10:21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath
done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have
seen.
Deuteronomy 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee
as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy 11
Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and
keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, alway.
Deuteronomy 11:2 And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with
your children that have not known, and that have not seen the
chastisement of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
and his outstretched arm,
Deuteronomy 11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the
midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
Deuteronomy 11:4 and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto
their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red
Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Jehovah
hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy 11:5 and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until
ye came unto this place;
Deuteronomy 11:6 and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the
sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth,
and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and
every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
Deuteronomy 11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of
Jehovah which he did.
Deuteronomy 11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment
which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and
possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it;
Deuteronomy 11:9 and that ye may prolong your days in the land,
which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their
seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it,
is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou
sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs;
Deuteronomy 11:11 but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is
a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven,
Deuteronomy 11:12 a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the
eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of
the year even unto the end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken
diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to
love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its
season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in
thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.
Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle,
and thou shalt eat and be full.
Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be
deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deuteronomy 11:17 and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against
you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the
land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good
land which Jehovah giveth you.
Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in
your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon
your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Deuteronomy 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, talking
of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the
way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy 11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts
of thy house, and upon thy gates;
Deuteronomy 11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days
of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers
to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all this
commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your
God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deuteronomy 11:23 then will Jehovah drive out all these nations
from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier
than yourselves.
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall
tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the
river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your
border.
Deuteronomy 11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you:
Jehovah 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 spoken unto you.
Deuteronomy 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and
a curse:
Deuteronomy 11:27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the
commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this
day;
Deuteronomy 11:28 and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the
commandments of Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 11:29 And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah thy
God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it,
that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse
upon mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 11:30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way
of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell
in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Deuteronomy 11:31 For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to
possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall
possess it, and dwell therein.
Deuteronomy 11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and
the ordinances which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy 12
Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which
ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy
fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the
earth.
Deuteronomy 12:2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the
nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high
mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Deuteronomy 12:3 and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in
pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall
hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their
name out of that place.
Deuteronomy 12:4 Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 12:5 But unto the place which Jehovah 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;
Deuteronomy 12:6 and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings,
and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your
hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of
your herd and of your flock:
Deuteronomy 12:7 and there ye shall eat before Jehovah your God,
and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your
households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do
here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
Deuteronomy 12:9 for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 12:10 But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in
the land which Jehovah your God causeth you to inherit, and he
giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in
safety;
Deuteronomy 12:11 then it shall come to pass that to the place
which Jehovah 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 Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 12:12 And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God,
ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and
your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates,
forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy
burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;
Deuteronomy 12:14 but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in
one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there
thou shalt do all that I command thee.
Deuteronomy 12:15 Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh
within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the
blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean
and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour
it out upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe
of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy
herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy
freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of thy hand;
Deuteronomy 12:18 but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God
in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son,
and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the
Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah
thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
Deuteronomy 12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the
Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.
Deuteronomy 12:20 When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy
border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh,
because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all
the desire of thy soul.
Deuteronomy 12:21 If the place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt
kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I
have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all
the desire of thy soul.
Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so
thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the
blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon
the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with
thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which
is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy
vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall
choose:
Deuteronomy 12:27 and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the
flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood
of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy
God; and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I
command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children
after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in
the eyes of Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 12:29 When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations
from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou
dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deuteronomy 12:30 take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to
follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that
thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve
their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for
every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto
their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the
fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, that shall ye
observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy 13
Deuteronomy 13:1 If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a
dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,
Deuteronomy 13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof
he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou
hast not known, and let us serve them;
Deuteronomy 13:3 thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God
proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all
your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear
him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall
serve him, and cleave unto him.
Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams,
shall be put to death, because he hath spoken rebellion against
Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of
the way which Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt
thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son,
or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that 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;
Deuteronomy 13:7 of the gods of the peoples that 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;
Deuteronomy 13:8 thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken
unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare,
neither shalt thou conceal him:
Deuteronomy 13:9 but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be
first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people.
Deuteronomy 13:10 And thou shalt stone him to death with stones,
because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God,
who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do
not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 13:12 If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy
cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the
midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city,
saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
Deuteronomy 13:14 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 in the midst of thee,
Deuteronomy 13:15 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that
city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is
therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy 13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the
midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the
spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a heap
for ever; it shall not be built again.
Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the devoted
thing to thy hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his
anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and
multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 13:18 when thou shalt hearken to the voice of Jehovah
thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this
day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 14
Deuteronomy 14:1 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye
shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God,
and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession,
above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox,
the sheep, and the goat,
Deuteronomy 14:5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the
wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy 14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath
the hoof cloven in two, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that
may ye eat.
Deuteronomy 14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that
chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and
the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the
hoof, they are unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy 14:8 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof but
cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall
not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.
Deuteronomy 14:9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat;
Deuteronomy 14:10 and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall
not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy 14:11 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the
eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
Deuteronomy 14:13 and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after
its kind,
Deuteronomy 14:14 and every raven after its kind,
Deuteronomy 14:15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the
sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
Deuteronomy 14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned
owl,
Deuteronomy 14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the
cormorant,
Deuteronomy 14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and
the hoopoe, and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:19 And all winged creeping things are unclean
unto you: they shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14:20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself:
thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he
may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy
people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's
milk.
Deuteronomy 14:22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy
seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year.
Deuteronomy 14:23 And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in
the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the
tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings
of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah
thy God always.
Deuteronomy 14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou
art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which
Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah
thy God shall bless thee;
Deuteronomy 14:25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up
the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy
God shall choose:
Deuteronomy 14:26 and thou shalt bestow the money for
whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or
for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou
shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou
and thy household.
Deuteronomy 14:27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou
shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with
thee.
Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring
forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up
within thy gates:
Deuteronomy 14:29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor
inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy
hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy 15
Deuteronomy 15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make
a release.
Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: every
creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he
shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's
release hath been proclaimed.
Deuteronomy 15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but
whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.
Deuteronomy 15:4 Howbeit there shall be no poor with thee; (for
Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it;)
Deuteronomy 15:5 if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of
Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I
command thee this day.
Deuteronomy 15:6 For Jehovah thy God will bless thee, as he
promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt
not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not
rule over thee.
Deuteronomy 15:7 If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy
brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from
thy poor brother;
Deuteronomy 15:8 but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and
shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he
wanteth.
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a base thought in thy
heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and
thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought;
and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy 15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall
not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing
Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou
puttest thy hand unto.
Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land:
therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand
unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
Deuteronomy 15:12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew
woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the
seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy 15:13 And when thou lettest him go free from thee,
thou shalt not let him go empty:
Deuteronomy 15:14 thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock,
and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah
thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy 15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee:
therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
Deuteronomy 15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go
out from thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is
well with thee;
Deuteronomy 15:17 then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through
his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also
unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.
Deuteronomy 15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou
lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a
hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God will bless
thee in all that thou doest.
Deuteronomy 15:19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd
and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God: thou shalt
do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy
flock.
Deuteronomy 15:20 Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year
by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy
household.
Deuteronomy 15:21 And if it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or
blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto
Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean
and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou
shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 16
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy
God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16:2 And thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto
Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which
Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven
days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of
affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that
thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the
land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Deuteronomy 16:4 And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all
thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou
sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within
any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee;
Deuteronomy 16:6 but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose, to cause his name to dwell 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.
Deuteronomy 16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which
Jehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning,
and go unto thy tents.
Deuteronomy 16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on
the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou
shalt do no work [therein].
Deuteronomy 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from
the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt
thou begin to number seven weeks.
Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto
Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of thy hand,
which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God blesseth thee:
Deuteronomy 16:11 and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God,
thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy
maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the
sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of
thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
Deuteronomy 16:13 Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven
days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and
from thy winepress:
Deuteronomy 16:14 and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant,
and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow,
that are within thy gates.
Deuteronomy 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto Jehovah
thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah
thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy
hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear
before Jehovah 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 Jehovah empty:
Deuteronomy 16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to
the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all
thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes;
and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not
respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind
the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow,
that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any
kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt
make thee.
Deuteronomy 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which
Jehovah thy God hateth.
Deuteronomy 17
Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God an
ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an
abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any
of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that
doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in
transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy 17:3 and hath gone and served other gods, and
worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of
heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deuteronomy 17:4 and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, then
shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
Deuteronomy 17:5 then shalt thou bring forth that man or that
woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man
or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones.
Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one
witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him
to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou
shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in
judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy
gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which
Jehovah thy God shall choose;
Deuteronomy 17:9 and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites,
and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire;
and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.
Deuteronomy 17:10 And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the
sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah
shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they
shall teach thee:
Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the tenor of the law which they
shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell
thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which
they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 17:12 And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not
hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before
Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou
shalt put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do
no more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which
Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell
therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations
that are round about me;
Deuteronomy 17:15 thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom
Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt
thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee,
who is not thy brother.
Deuteronomy 17:16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself,
nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may
multiply horses; forasmuch as Jehovah hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way.
Deuteronomy 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that
his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 17:18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne
of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book,
out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
Deuteronomy 17:19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read
therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his
God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Deuteronomy 17:20 that his heart be not lifted up above his
brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the
right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 18
Deuteronomy 18:1 The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of
Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat
the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance.
Deuteronomy 18:2 And they shall have no inheritance among their
brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto them.
Deuteronomy 18:3 And this shall be the priests' due from the people,
from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they
shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the
maw.
Deuteronomy 18:4 The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and
of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
him.
Deuteronomy 18:5 For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all
thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his
sons for ever.
Deuteronomy 18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out
of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his
soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;
Deuteronomy 18:7 then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his
God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before
Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that
which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which Jehovah
thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations
of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found with thee any one that
maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth
divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
Deuteronomy 18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar
spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy 18:12 For whosoever doeth these things is an
abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations
Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Deuteronomy 18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 18:14 For these nations, that thou shalt dispossess,
hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but as for
thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Deuteronomy 18:15 Jehovah 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;
Deuteronomy 18:16 according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah
thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear
again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I die not.
Deuteronomy 18:17 And Jehovah said unto me, They have well said
that which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their
brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he
shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will
not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will
require it of him.
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, that shall speak a word
presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to
speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same
prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy 18:21 And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we
know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?
Deuteronomy 18:22 when a prophet speaketh in the name of
Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing
which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 19
Deuteronomy 19:1 When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations,
whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them,
and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Deuteronomy 19:2 thou shalt set apart three cities for thee in the
midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the
borders of thy land, which Jehovah thy God causeth thee to inherit,
into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.
Deuteronomy 19:4 And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall
flee thither and live: whoso killeth his neighbor unawares, and hated
him not in time past;
Deuteronomy 19:5 as when a man goeth into the forest with his
neighbor 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 neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these
cities and live:
Deuteronomy 19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer,
while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and
smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as
he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy 19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt
set apart three cities for thee.
Deuteronomy 19:8 And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he
hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he
promised to give unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 19:9 if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it,
which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk
ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee,
besides these three:
Deuteronomy 19:10 that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of
thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
so blood be upon thee.
Deuteronomy 19:11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait
for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he
dieth, and he flee into one of these cities;
Deuteronomy 19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and fetch
him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,
that he may die.
Deuteronomy 19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put
away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark,
which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt
inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for
any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of
two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be
established.
Deuteronomy 19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any
man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
Deuteronomy 19:17 then both the men, between whom the
controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the
judges that shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy 19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition:
and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have testified
falsely against his brother;
Deuteronomy 19:19 then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to
do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of
thee.
Deuteronomy 19:20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and
shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 19:21 And thine eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for
life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 20
Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest forth to battle against thine
enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than
thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is with
thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 20:2 And it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the
battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
Deuteronomy 20:3 and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye draw
nigh this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your heart
faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye affrighted at them;
Deuteronomy 20:4 for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you,
to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Deuteronomy 20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the people,
saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not
dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:6 And what man is there that hath planted a
vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return
unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit
thereof.
Deuteronomy 20:7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife,
and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he
die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the
people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-
hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart
melt as his heart.
Deuteronomy 20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an
end of speaking unto the people, that they shall appoint captains of
hosts at the head of the people.
Deuteronomy 20:10 When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight
against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy 20:11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace,
and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found
therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee.
Deuteronomy 20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will
make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
Deuteronomy 20:13 and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy
hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Deuteronomy 20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the
cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou
take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine
enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy 20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are
very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deuteronomy 20:16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing
that breatheth;
Deuteronomy 20:17 but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite,
and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;
Deuteronomy 20:18 that they teach you not to do after all their
abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin
against Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in
making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees
thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them,
and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that
it should be besieged of thee?
Deuteronomy 20:20 Only the trees of which thou knowest that they
are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou
shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until
it fall.
Deuteronomy 21
Deuteronomy 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah
thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
known who hath smitten him;
Deuteronomy 21:2 then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth,
and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that
is slain:
Deuteronomy 21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto
the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the
herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in
the yoke;
Deuteronomy 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the
heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor
sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near;
for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to
bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be.
Deuteronomy 21:6 And all the elders of that city, who are nearest
unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck
was broken in the valley;
Deuteronomy 21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have
not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deuteronomy 21:8 Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whom
thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood [to remain] in the
midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
Deuteronomy 21:9 So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from
the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of
Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 21:10 When thou goest forth to battle against thine
enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and
thou carriest them away captive,
Deuteronomy 21:11 and seest among the captives a beautiful
woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee
to wife;
Deuteronomy 21:12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house;
and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deuteronomy 21:13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity
from off her, and shall remain in thy 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.
Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her,
then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her
at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou
hast humbled her.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and
the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved
and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;
Deuteronomy 21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his
sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of
the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-
born:
Deuteronomy 21:17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son
of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he
is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,
that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother,
and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
Deuteronomy 21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on
him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate
of his place;
Deuteronomy 21:20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city,
This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he
is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him to
death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of
thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of
death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
Deuteronomy 21:23 his body shall not remain all night upon the
tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is
hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which
Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 22
Deuteronomy 22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep
go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them
again unto thy brother.
Deuteronomy 22:2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if
thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it
shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore
it to him.
Deuteronomy 22:3 And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt
thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing
of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest
not hide thyself.
Deuteronomy 22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox
fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely
help him to lift them up again.
Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth
unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for
whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy
God.
Deuteronomy 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the
way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the
dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the
dam with the young:
Deuteronomy 22:7 thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young
thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest prolong thy days.
Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt
make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy
house, if any man fall from thence.
Deuteronomy 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds
of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast
sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
Deuteronomy 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together.
Deuteronomy 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and
linen together.
Deuteronomy 22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four
borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Deuteronomy 22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and
hate her,
Deuteronomy 22:14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring
up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I
came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
Deuteronomy 22:15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her
mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto
the elders of the city in the gate;
Deuteronomy 22:16 and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders,
I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Deuteronomy 22:17 and, lo, he hath laid shameful things [to her
charge], saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity;
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall
spread the garment before the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy 22:18 And the elders of that city shall take the man
and chastise him;
Deuteronomy 22:19 and they shall fine him a 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.
Deuteronomy 22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of
virginity were not found in the damsel;
Deuteronomy 22:21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door
of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death
with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the
harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the
midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married
to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with
the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from
Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed
unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deuteronomy 22:24 then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate
of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel,
because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the
midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 22:25 But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed
in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man
only that lay with her shall die:
Deuteronomy 22:26 but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there
is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth
against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;
Deuteronomy 22:27 for he found her in the field, the betrothed
damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is
not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be
found;
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man that lay with her shall give unto
the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife,
because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall
not uncover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 23
Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his
privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of
Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the
assembly of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into
the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none
belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever:
Deuteronomy 23:4 because they met you not with bread and with
water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they
hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Deuteronomy 23:5 Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not
hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a
blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.
Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their
prosperity all thy days for ever.
Deuteronomy 23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy
brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a
sojourner in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:8 The children of the third generation that are born
unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 23:9 When thou goest forth in camp against thine
enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.
Deuteronomy 23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean
by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go
abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
Deuteronomy 23:11 but it shall be, when evening cometh on, he
shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come
within the camp.
Deuteronomy 23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp,
whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
Deuteronomy 23:13 and thou shalt have a paddle among thy
weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt
dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from
thee:
Deuteronomy 23:14 for Jehovah 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 may not see an unclean thing
in thee, and turn away from thee.
Deuteronomy 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant
that is escaped from his master unto thee:
Deuteronomy 23:16 he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in
the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it
pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of
Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the
wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for
even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother;
interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent
upon interest:
Deuteronomy 23:20 unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest;
but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah
thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the
land whither thou goest in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto Jehovah thy
God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it: for Jehovah thy God will surely
require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no
sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt
observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto Jehovah thy God,
a freewill-offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard,
then thou mayest eat of grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou
shalt not put any in thy vessel.
Deuteronomy 23:25 When thou comest into thy neighbor's standing
grain, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy hand; but thou shalt
not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing grain.
Deuteronomy 24
Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then
it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found
some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of
divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deuteronomy 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she
may go and be another man's [wife].
Deuteronomy 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her
a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
Deuteronomy 24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not
take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is
abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin,
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go
out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall
be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath
taken.
Deuteronomy 24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone
to pledge; for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of
the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him;
then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst
of thee.
Deuteronomy 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou
observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites
shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto
Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:10 When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner
of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:11 Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom
thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
Deuteronomy 24:12 And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep
with his pledge;
Deuteronomy 24:13 thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when
the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee:
and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is
poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners
that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy 24:15 in 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 Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers:
every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 24:17 Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the
sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to
pledge;
Deuteronomy 24:18 but thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence:
therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 24:19 When thou reapest thy 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 sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that
Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt
not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the
fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21 When thou gatherest [the grapes of] thy
vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the
sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this
thing.
Deuteronomy 25
Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they
come unto judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall
justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
Deuteronomy 25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be
beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten
before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deuteronomy 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not
exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth
out [the grain].
Deuteronomy 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die,
and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married 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 a husband's brother unto
her.
Deuteronomy 25:6 And it shall be, that the first-born that she
beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his
name be not blotted out of Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife,
then his brother's wife shall 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 a husband's brother unto me.
Deuteronomy 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and
speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
Deuteronomy 25:9 then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the
presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit
in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the
man that doth not build up his brother's house.
Deuteronomy 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The
house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and
the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the
hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh
him by the secrets;
Deuteronomy 25:12 then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall
have no pity.
Deuteronomy 25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights,
a great and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:14 Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse
measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:15 A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a
perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in
the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, [even] all that do
unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the
way as ye came forth out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 25:18 how he met thee by the way, and smote the
hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast
faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God
hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land
which Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 26
Deuteronomy 26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the
land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein,
Deuteronomy 26:2 that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of
the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy
God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto
the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there.
Deuteronomy 26:3 And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be
in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Jehovah thy
God, that I am come unto the land which Jehovah sware unto our
fathers to give us.
Deuteronomy 26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thy
hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah
thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down
into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there
a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deuteronomy 26:6 And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted
us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
Deuteronomy 26:7 and we cried unto Jehovah, the God of our
fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our
toil, and our oppression;
Deuteronomy 26:8 and Jehovah 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;
Deuteronomy 26:9 and he hath brought us into this place, and hath
given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the first of the
fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou
shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before
Jehovah thy God:
Deuteronomy 26:11 and thou shalt rejoice in all the good which
Jehovah thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou, and
the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the
tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing,
then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and
be filled.
Deuteronomy 26:13 And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God, I
have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have
given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless,
and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast
commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments,
neither have I forgotten them:
Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning,
neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for
the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have
done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from
heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the ground which thou hast
given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk
and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:16 This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to
do these statutes and ordinances: thou shalt therefore keep and do
them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 26:17 Thou hast avouched Jehovah this day to be thy
God, and that thou wouldest walk in his ways, and keep his statutes,
and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his
voice:
Deuteronomy 26:18 and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a
people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that
thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
Deuteronomy 26:19 and to make thee high above all nations that he
hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest
be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 27
Deuteronomy 27:1 And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded
the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you
this day.
Deuteronomy 27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass
over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee,
that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
Deuteronomy 27:3 and thou shalt write upon them all the words of
this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto the
land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk
and honey, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy 27:4 And it shall be, when ye are passed over the
Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this
day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto Jehovah
thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron [tool] upon them.
Deuteronomy 27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of Jehovah thy God of
unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto
Jehovah thy God:
Deuteronomy 27:7 and thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings, and shalt
eat there; and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the
words of this law very plainly.
Deuteronomy 27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto
all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and hearken, O Israel: this day thou
art become the people of Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of Jehovah
thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day.
Deuteronomy 27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day,
saying,
Deuteronomy 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless
the people, when ye are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi,
and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deuteronomy 27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal for the
curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy 27:14 And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all
the men of Israel with a loud voice,
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or
molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of
the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall
answer and say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or
his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's
landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander
out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that wresteth the justice [due] to
the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say,
Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife,
because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of
beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the
daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor in secret.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an
innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of
this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 28
Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy
God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth:
Deuteronomy 28:2 and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and
overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy
God.
Deuteronomy 28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed
shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the
fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy
cattle, and the young of thy flock.
Deuteronomy 28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-
trough.
Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy 28:7 Jehovah will cause thine enemies that rise up
against thee to be smitten before thee: they shall come out against
thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways.
Deuteronomy 28:8 Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in
thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will bless
thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 28:9 Jehovah will establish thee for a holy people unto
himself, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the
commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways.
Deuteronomy 28:10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that
thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of
thee.
Deuteronomy 28:11 And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for
good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers
to give thee.
Deuteronomy 28:12 Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure
the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all
the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and
thou shalt not borrow.
Deuteronomy 28:13 And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not
the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath;
if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God,
which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them],
Deuteronomy 28:14 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words
which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go
after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed
shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-
trough.
Deuteronomy 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the
fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy
flock.
Deuteronomy 28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy 28:20 Jehovah will send upon thee cursing,
discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do,
until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the
evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
Deuteronomy 28:21 Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto
thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou
goest in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 28:22 Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and
with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the
sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish.
Deuteronomy 28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be
brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24 Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder
and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be
destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:25 Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before
thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee
seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among
all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:26 And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds
of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be
none to frighten them away.
Deuteronomy 28:27 Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt,
and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof
thou canst not be healed.
Deuteronomy 28:28 Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with
blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
Deuteronomy 28:29 and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind
gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou
shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to
save thee.
Deuteronomy 28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man
shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell
therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and
thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away
from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall
be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.
Deuteronomy 28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto
another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for
them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
Deuteronomy 28:33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall
a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only
oppressed and crushed alway;
Deuteronomy 28:34 so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine
eyes which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy 28:35 Jehovah will smite thee in the knees, and in the
legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole
of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.
Deuteronomy 28:36 Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom
thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou
nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a
proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall
lead thee away.
Deuteronomy 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field,
and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but
thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the
worm shall eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy
borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive
shall cast [its fruit].
Deuteronomy 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they
shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall
the locust possess.
Deuteronomy 28:43 The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall
mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down
lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to
him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Deuteronomy 28:45 And 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 Jehovah thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
Deuteronomy 28:46 and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a
wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God
with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the
abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that
Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 28:49 Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from
far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose
tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deuteronomy 28:50 a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not
regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
Deuteronomy 28:51 and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit
of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee
grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy
flock, until they have caused thee to perish.
Deuteronomy 28:52 And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates,
until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst,
throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body,
the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God
hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine
enemies shall distress thee.
Deuteronomy 28:54 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 whom he hath
remaining;
Deuteronomy 28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the
flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left
him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall
distress thee in all thy gates.
Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you,
who 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,
Deuteronomy 28:57 and toward her young one that cometh out from
between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for
she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in
the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Deuteronomy 28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of
this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this
glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD;
Deuteronomy 28:59 then Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 28:60 And he will bring upon thee again all the
diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave
unto thee.
Deuteronomy 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is
not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon
thee, until thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye
were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not
hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah
rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah
will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and
ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess
it.
Deuteronomy 28:64 And Jehovah will scatter thee among all
peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the
earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not
known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no
ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah
will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining
of soul;
Deuteronomy 28:66 and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and
thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.
Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were
even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear
of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes
which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy 28:68 And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again
with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no
more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for
bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 29
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which
Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the
land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in
Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto
them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land
of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his
land;
Deuteronomy 29:3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs,
and those great wonders:
Deuteronomy 29:4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know,
and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Deuteronomy 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness:
your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed
old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy 29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk
wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the
king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us
unto battle, and we smote them:
Deuteronomy 29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an
inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-
tribe of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and
do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Deuteronomy 29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah
your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers,
even all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29:11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner
that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the
drawer of thy water;
Deuteronomy 29:12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of
Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh
with thee this day;
Deuteronomy 29:13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself
for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto
thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant
and this oath,
Deuteronomy 29:15 but with him that standeth here with us this day
before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us
this day
Deuteronomy 29:16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of
Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through
which ye passed;
Deuteronomy 29:17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their
idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Deuteronomy 29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman,
or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah
our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be
among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Deuteronomy 29:19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words
of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have
peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the
moist with the dry.
Deuteronomy 29:20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger
of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the
curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will
blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:21 And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of
all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that
is written in this book of the law.
Deuteronomy 29:22 And the generation to come, your children that
shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far
land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the
sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;
Deuteronomy 29:23 [and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone,
and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any
grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah,
Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in
his wrath:
Deuteronomy 29:24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath
Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great
anger?
Deuteronomy 29:25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the
covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with
them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 29:26 and went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given
unto them:
Deuteronomy 29:27 therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled
against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this
book;
Deuteronomy 29:28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in
anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into
another land, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God;
but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for
ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30
Deuteronomy 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 Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,
Deuteronomy 30:2 and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt
obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou
and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;
Deuteronomy 30:3 that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity,
and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from
all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee.
Deuteronomy 30:4 If [any of] thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts
of heaven, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from
thence will he fetch thee:
Deuteronomy 30:5 and Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart,
and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy 30:7 And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses
upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.
Deuteronomy 30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of
Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command thee this
day.
Deuteronomy 30:9 And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous
in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of
thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will
again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 30:10 if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God,
to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this
book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee
this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who
shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear
it, that we may do it?
Deuteronomy 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest
say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make
us to hear it, that we may do it?
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy
mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and
good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy 30:16 in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah
thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and
that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in
to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30:17 But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not
hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve
them;
Deuteronomy 30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall
surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou
passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you
this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and
the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy
seed;
Deuteronomy 30:20 to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and
to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that
thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 31
Deuteronomy 31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all
Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and
twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and
Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 31:3 Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he
will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess
them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath
spoken.
Deuteronomy 31:4 And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to
Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land;
whom he destroyed.
Deuteronomy 31:5 And Jehovah will deliver them up before you,
and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment
which I have commanded you.
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be
affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with
thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deuteronomy 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto
him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for thou
shalt go with this people into the land which Jehovah hath sworn unto
their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 31:8 And Jehovah, 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.
Deuteronomy 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto
the priests the sons of Levi, that bare the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah, and unto all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the
end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in
the feast of tabernacles,
Deuteronomy 31:11 when all Israel is come to appear before
Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read
this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Deuteronomy 31:12 Assemble the people, the men and the women
and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and
observe to do all the words of this law;
Deuteronomy 31:13 and that their children, who have not known,
may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in
the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy 31:14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thy days
approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in
the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and
Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
Deuteronomy 31:15 And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of
cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Deuteronomy 31:16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou
shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the
harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among
them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in
that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come
upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come
upon us because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for
all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned
unto other gods.
Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and
teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this
song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the
land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey,
and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then
will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and
break my covenant.
Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and
troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them
as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their
seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I
have brought them into the land which I sware.
Deuteronomy 31:22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and
taught it the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge,
and said, Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be
with thee.
Deuteronomy 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an
end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished,
Deuteronomy 31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites, that bare
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying,
Deuteronomy 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side
of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there
for a witness against thee.
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck:
behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been
rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death?
Deuteronomy 31:28 Assemble 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 witness against them.
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly
corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because
ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him
to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the assembly
of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
Deuteronomy 32
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let
the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech
shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as
the showers upon the herb.
Deuteronomy 32:3 For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah: Ascribe
ye greatness unto our God.
Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways
are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right
is he.
Deuteronomy 32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are]
not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and
crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and
unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made
thee, and established thee.
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of
many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine
elders, and they will tell thee.
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their
inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the
bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of
Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:9 For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob is the
lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, And in the waste
howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He
kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That
fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them,
He bare them on his pinions.
Deuteronomy 32:12 Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no
foreign god with him.
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the
earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to
suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With
fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the
finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art
waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he
forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his
salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange
[gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no
God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late,
Which your fathers dreaded not.
Deuteronomy 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.
Deuteronomy 32:19 And Jehovah saw [it], and abhorred [them],
Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I
will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse
generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that
which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their
vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a
people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth
unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And
setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine
arrows upon them:
Deuteronomy 32:24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and
devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of
beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of
the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:25 Without shall the sword bereave, And in the
chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The
suckling with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy 32:26 I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make
the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the
enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should
say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, And there
is no understanding in them.
Deuteronomy 32:29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood
this, That they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put
ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah
had delivered them up?
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our
enemies themselves being judges.
Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of
the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters
are bitter:
Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the
cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up
among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the
time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at
hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
Deuteronomy 32:36 For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent
himself for his servants; When he seeth that [their] power is gone,
And there is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
Deuteronomy 32:37 And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock
in which they took refuge;
Deuteronomy 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [And]
drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection.
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no
god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there
is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I
live for ever,
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand
take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries,
And will recompense them that hate me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And
my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the
captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: For he
will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to
his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
Deuteronomy 32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of
this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these
words to all Israel;
Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all
the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command
your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32:47 For it is no 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 the Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy 32:48 And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame
day, saying,
Deuteronomy 32:49 Get thee up into this mountain of 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;
Deuteronomy 32:50 and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and
be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor,
and was gathered unto his people:
Deuteronomy 32:51 because ye trespassed against me in the midst of
the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the
wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the
children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:52 For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou
shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33
Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the
man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose
from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he
came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a
fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy 33:3 Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in
thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; [Every one] shall receive of
thy words.
Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for
the assembly of Jacob.
Deuteronomy 33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of
the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
Deuteronomy 33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be
few.
Deuteronomy 33:7 And this is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said,
Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people.
With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be a help
against his adversaries.
Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy
Urim are with thy godly one, Whom thou didst prove at Massah,
With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have
not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he
his own children: For they have observed thy word, And keep thy
covenant.
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And
Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt-
offering upon thine altar.
Deuteronomy 33:11 Bless, Jehovah, his substance, And accept the
work of his hands: Smite through the loins of them that rise up
against him, And of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
Deuteronomy 33:12 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah
shall dwell in safety by him; He covereth him all the day long, And
he dwelleth between his shoulders.
Deuteronomy 33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be
his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the
deep that coucheth beneath,
Deuteronomy 33:14 And for the precious things of the fruits of the
sun, And for the precious things of the growth of the moons,
Deuteronomy 33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient
mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
Deuteronomy 33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and the
fulness thereof, And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush. Let
[the blessing] come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of
the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Deuteronomy 33:17 The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his
horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the
peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: And they are the ten
thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in
thy going out; And, Issachar, in thy tents.
Deuteronomy 33:19 They shall call the peoples unto the mountain;
There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck
the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.
Deuteronomy 33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that
enlargeth Gad: He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the
crown of the head.
Deuteronomy 33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, For
there was the lawgiver's portion reserved; And he came [with] the
heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Jehovah, And
his ordinances with Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, That
leapeth forth from Bashan.
Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied
with favor, And full with the blessing of Jehovah, Possess thou the
west and the south.
Deuteronomy 33:24 And of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with
children; Let him be acceptable unto his brethren, And let him dip his
foot in oil.
Deuteronomy 33:25 Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy
days, so shall thy strength be.
Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, Who
rideth upon the heavens for thy help, And in his excellency on the
skies.
Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is [thy] dwelling-place, And
underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy
from before thee, And said, Destroy.
Deuteronomy 33:28 And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of
Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yea, his heavens drop
down dew.
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee,
a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of
thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee;
And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Deuteronomy 34
Deuteronomy 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab
unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
And Jehovah showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Deuteronomy 34:2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and
Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the hinder sea,
Deuteronomy 34:3 and the South, and the Plain of the valley of
Jericho the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar.
Deuteronomy 34:4 And Jehovah 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.
Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in
the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 34:6 And he buried him in the valley in the land of
Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre
unto this day.
Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old
when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Deuteronomy 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the
plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning
for Moses were ended.
Deuteronomy 34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit
of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children
of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 34:10 And there hath not arisen a prophet since in
Israel like unto Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face,
Deuteronomy 34:11 in all the signs and the wonders, which Jehovah
sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his
servants, and to all his land,
Deuteronomy 34:12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great
terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua
Joshua 1
Joshua 1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant
of Jehovah, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses'
minister, saying,
Joshua 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over
this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to
them, even to the children of Israel.
Joshua 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to
you have I given it, as I spake unto Moses.
Joshua 1:4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the
great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto
the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
Joshua 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all
the days of thy life. as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will
not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Joshua 1:6 Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this
people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fathers to give
them.
Joshua 1:7 Only be strong and very courageous, to 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 have
good success whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth,
but thou shalt meditate thereon 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.
Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good
courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy
God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
saying,
Joshua 1:11 Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the
people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to
pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah
your God giveth you to possess it.
Joshua 1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
Joshua 1:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of
Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God giveth you rest,
and will give you this land.
Joshua 1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide
in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall
pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor,
and shall help them;
Joshua 1:15 until Jehovah have given your brethren rest, as [he hath
given] you, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah
your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your
possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave
you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising.
Joshua 1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast
commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will
go.
Joshua 1:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so
will we hearken unto thee: only Jehovah thy God be with thee, as he
was with Moses.
Joshua 1:18 Whosoever he be that shall rebel against thy
commandment, and shall not hearken unto thy words in all that thou
commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good
courage.
Joshua 2
Joshua 2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men
as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. And they
went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and
lay there.
Joshua 2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there
came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the
land.
Joshua 2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring
forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house;
for they are come to search out all the land.
Joshua 2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she
said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were:
Joshua 2:5 and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the
gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I
know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake them.
Joshua 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them
with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Joshua 2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan
unto the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone
out, they shut the gate.
Joshua 2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them
upon the roof;
Joshua 2:9 and she said unto the men, I know that Jehovah hath
given you the land, and that the fear of you is fallen upon us, and that
all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Joshua 2:10 For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of
the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did
unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto
Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Joshua 2:11 And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt,
neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you:
for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth
beneath.
Joshua 2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by Jehovah,
since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with
my father's house, and give me a true token;
Joshua 2:13 and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother,
and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will
deliver our lives from death.
Joshua 2:14 And the men said unto her, Our life for yours, if ye utter
not this our business; and it shall be, when Jehovah giveth us the
land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window:
for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the
wall.
Joshua 2:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest
the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days,
until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
Joshua 2:17 And the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this
thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind
this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down
by: and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy
mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household.
Joshua 2:19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors
of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we
shall be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his
blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
Joshua 2:20 But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be
guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua 2:21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And
she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line
in the window.
Joshua 2:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode
there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers
sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
Joshua 2:23 Then the two men returned, and descended from the
mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and
they told him all that had befallen them.
Joshua 2:24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly Jehovah hath
delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants
of the land do melt away before us.
Joshua 3
Joshua 3:1 And Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they
removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children
of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua 3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers
went through the midst of the camp;
Joshua 3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests the Levites
bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
Joshua 3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know
the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way
heretofore.
Joshua 3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for
tomorrow Jehovah will do wonders among you.
Joshua 3:6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the
ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took
up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
Joshua 3:7 And Jehovah 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.
Joshua 3:8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of
the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the waters of
the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.
Joshua 3:9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither,
and hear the words of Jehovah your God.
Joshua 3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living
God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before
you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite,
and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
Joshua 3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the
earth passeth over before you into the Jordan.
Joshua 3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of
Israel, for every tribe a man.
Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of
the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall
rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be
cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall
stand in one heap.
Joshua 3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from
their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the
covenant being before the people;
Joshua 3:15 and when they that bare the ark were come unto the
Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the
brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the
time of harvest,)
Joshua 3:16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and
rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside
Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah,
even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over
right against Jericho.
Joshua 3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all
Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed
clean over the Jordan.
Joshua 4
Joshua 4:1 And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean
passed over the Jordan, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua 4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe
a man,
Joshua 4:3 and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the
midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm,
twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in
the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.
Joshua 4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had
prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
Joshua 4:5 and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of
Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every
man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of
the tribes of the children of Israel;
Joshua 4:6 that this may be a sign among you, that, when your
children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
Joshua 4:7 then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the
Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when
it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and
these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for
ever.
Joshua 4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded,
and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah
spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the
children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the
place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
Joshua 4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the
Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of
the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Joshua 4:10 For the priests that bare the ark stood in the midst of the
Jordan, until everything was finished that Jehovah commanded
Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses
commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
Joshua 4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean
passed over, that the ark of Jehovah passed over, and the priests, in
the presence of the people.
Joshua 4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children
of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Joshua 4:13 about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over
before Jehovah unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 4:14 On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all
Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his
life.
Joshua 4:15 And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua 4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony,
that they come up out of the Jordan.
Joshua 4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come
ye up out of the Jordan.
Joshua 4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark
of the covenant of Jehovah were come up out of the midst of the
Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry
ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, and
went over all its banks, as aforetime.
Joshua 4:19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth
day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of
Jericho.
Joshua 4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the
Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
Joshua 4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When
your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What
mean these stones?
Joshua 4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel
came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua 4:23 For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan
from before you, until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did
to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were
passed over;
Joshua 4:24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of
Jehovah, that it is mighty; that ye may fear Jehovah your God for
ever.
Joshua 5
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites,
that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried
up the waters of the 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.
Joshua 5:2 At that time Jehovah said unto Joshua, Make thee knives
of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
Joshua 5:3 And Joshua made him knives of lint, and circumcised the
children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Joshua 5:4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the
people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the
men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth
out of Egypt.
Joshua 5:5 For 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, they had not circumcised.
Joshua 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out
of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice
of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see
the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give
us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Joshua 5:7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead,
them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because
they had not circumcised them by the way.
Joshua 5:8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all
the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were
whole.
Joshua 5:9 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled
away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of that
place was called Gilgal, unto this day.
Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they
kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the
plains of Jericho.
Joshua 5:11 And they did eat of the produce of the land on the
morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in
the selfsame day.
Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had
eaten of the produce 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.
Joshua 5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that
he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over
against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto
him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua 5:14 And he said, Nay; but [as] prince of the host of Jehovah
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?
Joshua 5:15 And the prince of Jehovah's host said unto Joshua, Put
off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is
holy. And Joshua did so.
Joshua 6
Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children
of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 6:2 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thy
hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.
Joshua 6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going
about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
Joshua 6:4 And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams'
horns before the ark: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city
seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Joshua 6:5 And it shall be, 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 go up every man straight before
him.
Joshua 6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said
unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Jehovah.
Joshua 6:7 And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the
city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Jehovah.
Joshua 6:8 And it was so, that, when Joshua had spoken unto the
people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns
before Jehovah passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah followed them.
Joshua 6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew the
trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing
the trumpets as they went.
Joshua 6:10 And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not
shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out
of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
Joshua 6:11 So he caused the ark of Jehovah to compass the city,
going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the
camp.
Joshua 6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests
took up the ark of Jehovah.
Joshua 6:13 And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of
rams' horns before the ark of Jehovah went on continually, and blew
the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward
came after the ark of Jehovah, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as
they went.
Joshua 6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and
returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Joshua 6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose
early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the
same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city
seven times.
Joshua 6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests
blew the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for Jehovah
hath given you the city.
Joshua 6:17 And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is
therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that
are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we
sent.
Joshua 6:18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted
thing, lest when ye have devoted it, ye take of the devoted thing; so
would ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
Joshua 6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and
iron, are holy unto Jehovah: they shall come into the treasury of
Jehovah.
Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the
trumpets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell
down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city.
Joshua 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both
man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass,
with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 6:22 And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the
land, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and
all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Joshua 6:23 And the young men the spies went in, and brought out
Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that
she had; all her kindred also they brought out; and they set them
without the camp of Israel.
Joshua 6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was
therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of
iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Jehovah.
Joshua 6:25 But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all
that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of
Israel unto this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua
sent to spy out Jericho.
Joshua 6:26 And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time,
saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah, that riseth up and buildeth
this city Jericho: with the loss of his first-born shall he lay the
foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set
up the gates of it.
Joshua 6:27 So Jehovah was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the
land.
Joshua 7
Joshua 7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the
devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son
of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the
anger of Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.
Joshua 7:2 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 spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.
Joshua 7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not
all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up
and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but
few.
Joshua 7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three
thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua 7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six
men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even unto
Shebarim, and smote them at the descent; and the hearts of the people
melted, and became as water.
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his
face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of
Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.
Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast
thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the
hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been
content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!
Joshua 7:8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned
their backs before their enemies!
Joshua 7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will
hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the
earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?
Joshua 7:10 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore
art thou thus fallen upon thy face?
Joshua 7:11 Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my
covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the
devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they
have even put it among their own stuff.
Joshua 7:12 Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their
enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are
become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy
the devoted thing from among you.
Joshua 7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow: for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, There is a
devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand
before thine enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from
among you.
Joshua 7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought near by
your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Jehovah taketh shall
come near by families; and the family which Jehovah shall take shall
come near by households; and the household which Jehovah shall
take shall come near man by man.
Joshua 7:15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the devoted
thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath
transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because he hath wrought
folly in Israel.
Joshua 7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought
Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
Joshua 7:17 and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the
family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the
Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
Joshua 7:18 and he brought near 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.
Joshua 7:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee,
glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and make confession unto him;
and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Joshua 7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have
sinned against Jehovah, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done:
Joshua 7:21 when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish
mantle, 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.
Joshua 7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent;
and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
Joshua 7:23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, and
brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel; and
they laid them down before Jehovah.
Joshua 7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son
of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, 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 up
unto the valley of Achor.
Joshua 7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah
shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and
they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
Joshua 7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones, unto
this day; and Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger.
Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor,
unto this day.
Joshua 8
Joshua 8:1 And Jehovah 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;
Joshua 8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto
Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof,
shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the
city behind it.
Joshua 8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai:
and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor,
and sent them forth by night.
Joshua 8:4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in
ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city,
but be ye all ready:
Joshua 8:5 and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach
unto the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against
us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
Joshua 8:6 and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them
away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the
first: so we will flee before them;
Joshua 8:7 and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession
of the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua 8:8 And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that
ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye
do: see, I have commanded you.
Joshua 8:9 And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the
ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of
Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Joshua 8:10 And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered
the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people
to Ai.
Joshua 8:11 And all the people, [even] the [men of] war that were
with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and
encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between
him and Ai.
Joshua 8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them in
ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua 8:13 So they set the people, even all the host that was on the
north of the city, and their liers-in-wait that were on the west of the
city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Joshua 8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that
they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out
against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed,
before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against
him behind the city.
Joshua 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten
before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua 8:16 And all the people that were in the city were called
together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and
were drawn away from the city.
Joshua 8:17 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.
Joshua 8:18 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin
that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And
Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Joshua 8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and
they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the
city, and took it; and they hasted and set the city on fire.
Joshua 8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw,
and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they
had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to
the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua 8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had
taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they
turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:22 And the others came forth 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.
Joshua 8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to
Joshua.
Joshua 8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of
slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein
they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword,
until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote
it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 8:25 And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were
twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:26 For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he
stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the
inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua 8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for
prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he
commanded Joshua.
Joshua 8:28 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a
desolation, unto this day.
Joshua 8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the
eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and
they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of
the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto
this day.
Joshua 8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto Jehovah, the God of
Israel, in mount Ebal,
Joshua 8:31 as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the
children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an
altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron:
and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, and sacrificed
peace-offerings.
Joshua 8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of
Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua 8:33 And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their
judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests
the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the
sojourner as the homeborn; half of them in front of mount Gerizim,
and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of
Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people
of Israel.
Joshua 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the
blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of
the law.
Joshua 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded,
which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the
women, and the little ones, and the sojourners that were among them.
Joshua 9
Joshua 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond
the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the
shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the
Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
heard thereof;
Joshua 9:2 that they gathered themselves together, to fight with
Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Joshua 9:3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua
had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua 9:4 they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they
had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-
skins, old and rent and bound up,
Joshua 9:5 and old and patched shoes upon their feet, and old
garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and
was become mouldy.
Joshua 9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and
said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far
country: now therefore make ye a covenant with us.
Joshua 9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure
ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
Joshua 9:8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And
Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
Joshua 9:9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy
servants are come because of the name of Jehovah thy God: for we
have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua 9:10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that
were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of
Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
Joshua 9:11 And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country
spake to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and
go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: and now
make ye a covenant with us.
Joshua 9:12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our
houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it
is dry, and is become mouldy:
Joshua 9:13 and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and,
behold, they are rent: and these our garments and our shoes are
become old by reason of the very long journey.
Joshua 9:14 And the men took of their provision, and asked not
counsel at the mouth of Jehovah.
Joshua 9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a
covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the
congregation sware unto them.
Joshua 9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they
had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their
neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.
Joshua 9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto
their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and
Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Joshua 9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the
princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by Jehovah, the
God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the
princes.
Joshua 9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We
have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore
we may not touch them.
Joshua 9:20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be
upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Joshua 9:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they
became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the
congregation, as the princes had spoken unto them.
Joshua 9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them,
saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from
you; when ye dwell among us?
Joshua 9:23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail
to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for
the house of my God.
Joshua 9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was
certainly told thy servants, how that Jehovah 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
for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Joshua 9:25 And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth
good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
Joshua 9:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the
hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Joshua 9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah,
unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Joshua 10
Joshua 10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of
Jerusalem 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;
Joshua 10:2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great
city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and
all the men thereof were mighty.
Joshua 10:3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto
Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto
Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Joshua 10:4 Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite
Gibeon; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of
Israel.
Joshua 10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went
up, they and all their hosts, and encamped against Gibeon, and made
war against it.
Joshua 10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to
Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us
quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites
that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
Joshua 10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of
war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
Joshua 10:8 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
delivered them into thy hands; there shall not a man of them stand
before thee.
Joshua 10:9 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; [for] he
went up from Gilgal all the night.
Joshua 10:10 And Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and he
slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the
way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto
Makkedah.
Joshua 10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel,
while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down
great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they
were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children
of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua 10:12 Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when
Jehovah 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 Aijalon.
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the
nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in
the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and
hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that
Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Jehovah fought for
Israel.
Joshua 10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the
camp to Gilgal.
Joshua 10:16 And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the
cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are
found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of
the cave, and set men by it to keep them:
Joshua 10:19 but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite
the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for
Jehovah your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Joshua 10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of
Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter,
till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them
had entered into the fortified cities,
Joshua 10:21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at
Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the
children of Israel.
Joshua 10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and
bring forth those five kings unto me out of the cave.
Joshua 10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings
unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron,
the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.
Joshua 10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought forth those
kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and
said unto the chiefs of the men of war that 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.
Joshua 10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed;
be strong and of good courage: for thus shall Jehovah do to all your
enemies against whom ye fight.
Joshua 10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to
death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon
the trees until the evening.
Joshua 10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of
the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the
trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden
themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this
very day.
Joshua 10:28 And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, 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 left none remaining; and
he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of
Jericho.
Joshua 10:29 And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with
him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Joshua 10:30 and Jehovah 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 left none remaining in it; and he
did unto the king thereof as he had done unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua 10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with
him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua 10:32 and Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel;
and he 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.
Joshua 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish;
and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none
remaining.
Joshua 10:34 And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with
him, unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
Joshua 10:35 and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge
of the sword; and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed
that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
Joshua 10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with
him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
Joshua 10:37 and they took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the
souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that
he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls
that were therein.
Joshua 10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir,
and fought against it:
Joshua 10:39 and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities
thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he
had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he
had done also to Libnah, and to the king thereof.
Joshua 10:40 So Joshua smote all the land, the hill-country, and the
South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left
none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as
Jehovah, the God of Israel, commanded.
Joshua 10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even
unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Joshua 10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at
one time, because Jehovah, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Joshua 10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the
camp to Gilgal.
Joshua 11
Joshua 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard
thereof, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of
Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Joshua 11:2 and to the kings that were on the north, in the hill-
country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland,
and in the heights of Dor on the west,
Joshua 11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the
hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Joshua 11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them,
much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitude,
with horses and chariots very many.
Joshua 11:5 And all these kings met together; and they came and
encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
Joshua 11:6 And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of
them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain
before Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots
with fire.
Joshua 11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,
against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.
Joshua 11:8 And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and
they smote them, and chased them unto great Sidon, and unto
Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they
smote them, until they left them none remaining.
Joshua 11:9 And Joshua did unto them as Jehovah bade him: he
hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua 11:10 And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor,
and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was
the head of all those kingdoms.
Joshua 11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the
edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left that
breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Joshua 11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of
them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword,
and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Jehovah
commanded.
Joshua 11:13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel
burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
Joshua 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they
smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them,
neither left they any that breathed.
Joshua 11:15 As Jehovah commanded Moses his servant, so did
Moses command Joshua: and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone
of all that Jehovah commanded Moses.
Joshua 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all
the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the
Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
Joshua 11:17 from 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 put them to death.
Joshua 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Joshua 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children
of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in
battle.
Joshua 11:20 For it was of Jehovah to harden their hearts, to come
against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they
might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Jehovah
commanded Moses.
Joshua 11:21 And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim
from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and
from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of
Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the
children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some
remain.
Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that
Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto
Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had
rest from war.
Joshua 12
Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children
of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward
the sunrising, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon, and
all the Arabah eastward:
Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and
ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
and [the city that is in] the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even
unto the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 12:3 and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward,
and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way
to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
Joshua 12:4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of
the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Joshua 12:5 and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all
Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and
half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Joshua 12:6 Moses the servant of Jehovah and the children of Israel
smote them: and Moses the servant of Jehovah gave it for a
possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh.
Joshua 12:7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and
the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-
gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto mount Halak, that goeth up to
Seir; and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession
according to their divisions;
Joshua 12:8 in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the
Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the
Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite:
Joshua 12:9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside
Bethel, one;
Joshua 12:10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Joshua 12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Joshua 12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
Joshua 12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Joshua 12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Joshua 12:15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Joshua 12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Joshua 12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua 12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
Joshua 12:19 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
Joshua 12:20 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of
Achshaph, one;
Joshua 12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Joshua 12:22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in
Carmel, one;
Joshua 12:23 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of
Goiim in Gilgal, one;
Joshua 12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua 13
Joshua 13:1 Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and
Jehovah said unto him, Thou art old and well stricken in years, and
there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
Joshua 13:2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the
Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the
border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites;
the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the
Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
Joshua 13:4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
that belongeth to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the
Amorites;
Joshua 13:5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward
the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance
of Hamath;
Joshua 13:6 all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto
Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only allot thou it unto Israel for an
inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
Joshua 13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto
the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 13:8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward,
even as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them:
Joshua 13:9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the
plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
Joshua 13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who
reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salecah;
Joshua 13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in
Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the
Rephaim); for these did Moses smite, and drove them out.
Joshua 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the
Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the
midst of Israel unto this day.
Joshua 13:14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the
offerings of Jehovah, the God of Israel, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spake unto him.
Joshua 13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of
Reuben according to their families.
Joshua 13:16 And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the
valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Joshua 13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
Joshua 13:18 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Joshua 13:19 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the
mount of the valley,
Joshua 13:20 and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-
jeshimoth,
Joshua 13:21 and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of
Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses
smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur,
and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land.
Joshua 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the
children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.
Joshua 13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the
Jordan, and the border [thereof]. This was the inheritance of the
children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the
villages thereof.
Joshua 13:24 And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, unto the
children of Gad, according to their families.
Joshua 13:25 And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead,
and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before
Rabbah;
Joshua 13:26 and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim;
and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
Joshua 13:27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and
Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
Heshbon, the Jordan and the border [thereof], unto the uttermost part
of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
Joshua 13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according
to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
Joshua 13:29 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half-tribe of
Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh
according to their families.
Joshua 13:30 And their border 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:
Joshua 13:31 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son
of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to
their families.
Joshua 13:32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in
the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
Joshua 13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance:
Jehovah, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spake unto
them.
Joshua 14
Joshua 14:1 And these are the inheritances which the children of
Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the
tribes of the children of Israel, distributed unto them,
Joshua 14:2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded
by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
Joshua 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes
and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave no
inheritance among them.
Joshua 14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh
and Ephraim: and they gave no portion unto the Levites in the land,
save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for their cattle and for
their substance.
Joshua 14:5 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel
did; and they divided the land.
Joshua 14:6 Then the children of Judah drew nigh unto Joshua in
Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him,
Thou knowest the thing that Jehovah spake unto Moses the man of
God concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-barnea.
Joshua 14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of
Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I
brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made
the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.
Joshua 14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land
whereon thy foot hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee and to
thy children for ever, because thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my
God.
Joshua 14:10 And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he
spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake
this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and
now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that
Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now,
for war, and to go out and to come in.
Joshua 14:12 Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof
Jehovah spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the
Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that
Jehovah will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Jehovah
spake.
Joshua 14:13 And Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron unto
Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Joshua 14:14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the
son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite unto this day; because that he wholly
followed Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Joshua 14:15 Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba;
[which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land
had rest from war.
Joshua 15
Joshua 15:1 And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah
according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the
wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
Joshua 15:2 And their south border was from the uttermost part of
the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;
Joshua 15:3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim,
and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea,
and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about
to Karka;
Joshua 15:4 and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook
of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea: this shall
be your south border.
Joshua 15:5 And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end
of the Jordan. And the border of the north quarter was from the bay
of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
Joshua 15:6 and the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed
along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the
stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
Joshua 15:7 and the border went up to Debir from the valley of
Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against
the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and
the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings
out thereof were at En-rogel;
Joshua 15:8 and the border went up by the valley of the son of
Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward (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 uttermost
part of the vale of Rephaim northward;
Joshua 15:9 and the border extended from the top of the mountain
unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities
of mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is
Kiriath-jearim);
Joshua 15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward
unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on
the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh,
and passed along by Timnah;
Joshua 15:11 and the border went out unto the side of Ekron
northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along
to mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the
border were at the sea.
Joshua 15:12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the
border [thereof]. This is the border of the children of Judah round
about according to their families.
Joshua 15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a
portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment
of Jehovah to Joshua, even Kiriath-arba, [which Arba was] the father
of Anak (the same is Hebron).
Joshua 15:14 And Caleb drove out thence the three sons of Anak:
Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Joshua 15:15 And he went up thence against the inhabitants of
Debir: now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.
Joshua 15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
Joshua 15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb,
took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Joshua 15:18 And it came to pass, when she came [unto him], that
she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off
her ass; and Caleb said, What wouldest thou?
Joshua 15:19 And she said, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set
me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And he
gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
Joshua 15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families.
Joshua 15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of
Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and
Eder, and Jagur,
Joshua 15:22 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
Joshua 15:23 and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
Joshua 15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
Joshua 15:25 and Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (the same is
Hazor),
Joshua 15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
Joshua 15:27 and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet,
Joshua 15:28 and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,
Joshua 15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,
Joshua 15:30 and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
Joshua 15:31 and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
Joshua 15:32 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all
the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.
Joshua 15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah,
Joshua 15:34 and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
Joshua 15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Joshua 15:36 and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
Joshua 15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
Joshua 15:38 and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
Joshua 15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
Joshua 15:40 and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Chitlish,
Joshua 15:41 and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and
Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
Joshua 15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Joshua 15:43 and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
Joshua 15:44 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities
with their villages.
Joshua 15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
Joshua 15:46 from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side
of Ashdod, with their villages.
Joshua 15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and
its villages; unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border
[thereof].
Joshua 15:48 And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Joshua 15:49 and Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (the same is Debir),
Joshua 15:50 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
Joshua 15:51 and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with
their villages.
Joshua 15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan,
Joshua 15:53 and Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
Joshua 15:54 and Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron),
and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,
Joshua 15:56 and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
Joshua 15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their
villages.
Joshua 15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
Joshua 15:59 and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities
with their villages.
Joshua 15:60 Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah;
two cities with their villages.
Joshua 15:61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
Joshua 15:62 and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six
cities with their villages.
Joshua 15:63 And 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.
Joshua 16
Joshua 16:1 And the lot came out for the children of Joseph from the
Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the
wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;
Joshua 16:2 and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along
unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
Joshua 16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the
Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto
Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.
Joshua 16:4 And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim,
took their inheritance.
Joshua 16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to
their families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was
Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;
Joshua 16:6 and the border went out westward at Michmethath on
the north; and the border turned about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh,
and passed along it on the east of Janoah;
Joshua 16:7 and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to
Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Joshua 16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the
brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to
their families;
Joshua 16:9 together with the cities which were set apart for the
children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Joshua 16:10 And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim unto this
day, and are become servants to do taskwork.
Joshua 17
Joshua 17:1 And [this] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he
was the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of
Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
Joshua 17:2 So [the lot] was for the rest of the children of Manasseh
according to 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
according to their families.
Joshua 17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,
the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters:
and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah,
Milcah, and Tirzah.
Joshua 17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and
before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah
commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren:
therefore according to the commandment of Jehovah he gave them an
inheritance among the brethren of their father.
Joshua 17:5 And there fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of
Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
Joshua 17:6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance
among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the
sons of Manasseh.
Joshua 17:7 And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to
Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to
the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
Joshua 17:8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but
Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of
Ephraim.
Joshua 17:9 And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah,
southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the
cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side
of the brook, and the goings out thereof were at the sea:
Joshua 17:10 southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was
Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on
the north, and to Issachar on the east.
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-
shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of
Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and
the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of
Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.
Joshua 17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the
inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that
land.
Joshua 17:13 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were
waxed strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not
utterly drive them out.
Joshua 17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying,
Why hast thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance,
seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as hitherto Jehovah hath
blessed me?
Joshua 17:15 And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people,
get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of
the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim
is too narrow for thee.
Joshua 17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country 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 in Beth-shean and its
towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
Joshua 17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to
Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast
great power; thou shalt not have one lot only:
Joshua 17:18 but the hill-country shall be thine; for though it is a
forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the goings out thereof shall be
thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have
chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
Joshua 18
Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of
meeting there: and the land was subdued before them.
Joshua 18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven
tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
Joshua 18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long
are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of
your fathers, hath given you?
Joshua 18:4 Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send
them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it
according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.
Joshua 18:5 And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall
abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide
in their border on the north.
Joshua 18:6 And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and
bring [the description] hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here
before Jehovah our God.
Joshua 18:7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the
priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and
the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the
Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.
Joshua 18:8 And the men arose, and went: 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; and I will cast lots for you
here before Jehovah in Shiloh.
Joshua 18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and
described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to
Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh.
Joshua 18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before
Jehovah: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel
according to their divisions.
Joshua 18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
came up according to their families: and the border of their lot went
out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Joshua 18:12 And their border on the north quarter was from the
Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north,
and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out
thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Joshua 18:13 And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the
side of Luz (the same is Beth-el), southward; and the border went
down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of
Beth-horon the nether.
Joshua 18:14 And the border extended [thence], and turned about on
the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-
horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (the
same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the
west quarter.
Joshua 18:15 And the south quarter was from the uttermost part of
Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the
fountain of the waters of Nephtoah;
Joshua 18:16 and the border went down to the uttermost part of the
mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is
in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of
Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-
rogel;
Joshua 18:17 and it extended northward, and went out at En-
shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of
Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of
Reuben;
Joshua 18:18 and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah
northward, and went down unto the Arabah;
Joshua 18:19 and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah
northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of
the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.
Joshua 18:20 And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter.
This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders
thereof round about, according to their families.
Joshua 18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-
keziz,
Joshua 18:22 and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
Joshua 18:23 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Joshua 18:24 and Chephar-ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve
cities with their villages:
Joshua 18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Joshua 18:26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
Joshua 18:27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
Joshua 18:28 and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is
Jerusalem), Gibeath, [and] Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their
families.
Joshua 19
Joshua 19:1 And the second lot came out for Simeon, even for the
tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their
inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Judah.
Joshua 19:2 And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba,
and Moladah,
Joshua 19:3 and Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem,
Joshua 19:4 and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
Joshua 19:5 and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,
Joshua 19:6 and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with
their villages:
Joshua 19:7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with
their villages:
Joshua 19:8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to
Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe
of the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua 19:9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the
inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children
of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon
had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
Joshua 19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
according to their families; and the border of their inheritance was
unto Sarid;
Joshua 19:11 and their border went up westward, even to Maralah,
and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before
Jokneam;
Joshua 19:12 and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising
unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and
went up to Japhia;
Joshua 19:13 and from thence it passed along eastward to Gath-
hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretcheth
unto Neah;
Joshua 19:14 and the border turned about it on the north to
Hannathon; and the goings out thereof were at the valley of Iphtah-el;
Joshua 19:15 and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah,
and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the
children of Issachar according to their families.
Joshua 19:18 And their border was unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and
Shunem,
Joshua 19:19 and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
Joshua 19:20 and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,
Joshua 19:21 and Remeth, and Engannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-
pazzez,
Joshua 19:22 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and
Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan:
sixteen cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children
of Asher according to their families.
Joshua 19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten,
and Achshaph,
Joshua 19:26 and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it
reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
Joshua 19:27 and it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and
reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-
emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,
Joshua 19:28 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even
unto great Sidon;
Joshua 19:29 and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified
city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out
thereof were at the sea by the region of Achzib;
Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two
cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali,
even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
Joshua 19:33 And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in
Zaanannim, and Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakkum; and the
goings out thereof were at the Jordan;
Joshua 19:34 and the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and
went out from thence to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the
south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan
toward the sunrising.
Joshua 19:35 And the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and
Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
Joshua 19:36 and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
Joshua 19:37 and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
Joshua 19:38 And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and
Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children
of Dan according to their families.
Joshua 19:41 And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and
Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
Joshua 19:42 and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah,
Joshua 19:43 and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron,
Joshua 19:44 and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
Joshua 19:45 and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
Joshua 19:46 and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over
against Joppa.
Joshua 19:47 And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond
them; for the children of Dan went up and fought 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.
Joshua 19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:49 So they made an end of distributing the land for
inheritance by the borders thereof; and the children of Israel gave an
inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them:
Joshua 19:50 according to the commandment of Jehovah they gave
him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in the hill-country
of Ephraim; and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Joshua 19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of
the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in
Shiloh before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they
made an end of dividing the land.
Joshua 20
Joshua 20:1 And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua 20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the
cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,
Joshua 20:3 that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly
[and] unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a
refuge from the avenger of blood.
Joshua 20:4 And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall
stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in
the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city
unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua 20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they
shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his
neighbor unawares, and hated him not beforetime.
Joshua 20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall
be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come unto his
own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua 20:7 And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country
of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-
arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
Joshua 20:8 And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they
assigned Bezer in the wilderness in 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.
Joshua 20:9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that
whosoever killeth any person unwittingly might flee thither, and not
die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the
congregation.
Joshua 21
Joshua 21:1 Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the
Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and
unto the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of
Israel;
Joshua 21:2 and they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of
Canaan, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell
in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
Joshua 21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of
their inheritance, according to the commandment of Jehovah, these
cities with their suburbs.
Joshua 21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:
and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by
lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites,
and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
Joshua 21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of
the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and
out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Joshua 21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out
of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in
Bashan, thirteen cities.
Joshua 21:7 The children of Merari according to 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.
Joshua 21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites
these cities with their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by Moses.
Joshua 21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,
and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are
[here] mentioned by name:
Joshua 21:10 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families
of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the
first lot.
Joshua 21:11 And they gave them Kiriath-arba, [which Arba was]
the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah,
with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Joshua 21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave
they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
Joshua 21:13 And unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave
Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and
Libnah with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:14 and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its
suburbs,
Joshua 21:15 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:16 and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs,
[and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two
tribes.
Joshua 21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its
suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs;
four cities.
Joshua 21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were
thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Joshua 21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the
Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of
their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Joshua 21:21 And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the
hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and
Gezer with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:22 and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its
suburbs; four cities.
Joshua 21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs,
Gibbethon with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:24 Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its
suburbs; four cities.
Joshua 21:25 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with
its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
Joshua 21:26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children
of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
Joshua 21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of
the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in
Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-
eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.
Joshua 21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its
suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:29 Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs;
four cities.
Joshua 21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs,
Abdon with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:31 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;
four cities.
Joshua 21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee
with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-
dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.
Joshua 21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their
families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Joshua 21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the
rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its
suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:35 Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs;
four cities.
Joshua 21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs,
and Jahaz with its suburbs,
Joshua 21:37 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its
suburbs; four cities.
Joshua 21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its
suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its
suburbs,
Joshua 21:39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four
cities in all.
Joshua 21:40 All [these were] the cities of the children of Merari
according to their families, even the rest of the families of the
Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
Joshua 21:41 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the
possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with
their suburbs.
Joshua 21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round
about them: thus it was with all these cities.
Joshua 21:43 So Jehovah gave unto Israel all the land which he
sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt
therein.
Joshua 21:44 And Jehovah 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; Jehovah delivered all their enemies into
their hand.
Joshua 21:45 There failed not aught of any good thing which
Jehovah had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Joshua 22
Joshua 22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua 22:2 and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the
servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened unto my
voice in all that I commanded you:
Joshua 22:3 ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this
day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your
God.
Joshua 22:4 And now Jehovah your God hath given rest unto your
brethren, as he spake unto them: therefore now turn ye, and get you
unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the
servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan.
Joshua 22:5 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the
law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love
Jehovah 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.
Joshua 22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they
went unto their tents.
Joshua 22:7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
[inheritance] in Bashan; but unto the other half gave Joshua among
their brethren beyond the Jordan westward; moreover when Joshua
sent them away unto their tents, he blessed them,
Joshua 22:8 and spake unto them, saying, Return with much wealth
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.
Joshua 22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children
of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the
land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were
possessed, according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.
Joshua 22:10 And when they came unto the region about the Jordan,
that is 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 the
Jordan, a great altar to look upon.
Joshua 22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in
the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children
of Israel.
Joshua 22:12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole
congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at
Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
Joshua 22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of
Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest,
Joshua 22:14 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house
for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head
of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
Joshua 22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the
children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of
Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
Joshua 22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of Jehovah, What
trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to
turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that ye have builded
you an altar, to rebel this day against Jehovah?
Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we
have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a
plague upon the congregation of Jehovah,
Joshua 22:18 that ye must turn away this day from following
Jehovah? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to-day against Jehovah, that
to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
Joshua 22:19 Howbeit, if the land of your possession be unclean,
then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of Jehovah, wherein
Jehovah's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but
rebel not against Jehovah, nor rebel against us, in building you an
altar besides the altar of Jehovah our God.
Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in
the devoted thing, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel?
and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Joshua 22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spake unto the heads of
the thousands of Israel,
Joshua 22:22 The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, the Mighty One, God,
Jehovah, he knoweth; and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or
if in trespass against Jehovah (save thou us not this day,)
Joshua 22:23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from
following Jehovah; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meal-
offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let
Jehovah himself require it;
Joshua 22:24 and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this,
[and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak
unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with Jehovah, the God
of Israel?
Joshua 22:25 for Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us
and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no
portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our children cease
from fearing Jehovah.
Joshua 22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an
altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:
Joshua 22:27 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and
between our generations after us, that we may do the service of
Jehovah 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 portion in Jehovah.
Joshua 22:28 Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so say to us
or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the
pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made, not for burnt-
offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.
Joshua 22:29 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Jehovah,
and turn away this day from following Jehovah, to build an altar for
burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of
Jehovah our God that is before his tabernacle.
Joshua 22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that 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 well.
Joshua 22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto
the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Manasseh, This day we know that Jehovah is in the midst
of us, because ye have not committed this trespass against Jehovah:
now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of
Jehovah.
Joshua 22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the
princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children
of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the
children of Israel, and brought them word again.
Joshua 22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the
children of Israel blessed God, and spake no more of going up against
them to war, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and
the children of Gad dwelt.
Joshua 22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
called the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us that
Jehovah is God.
Joshua 23
Joshua 23:1 And it came to pass after many days, when Jehovah had
given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua
was old and well stricken in years;
Joshua 23:2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for
their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said unto
them, I am old and well stricken in years:
Joshua 23:3 and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done
unto all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is
that hath fought for you.
Joshua 23:4 Behold, I have allotted unto you these nations that
remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all
the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea toward the
going down of the sun.
Joshua 23:5 And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from
before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall
possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.
Joshua 23:6 Therefore be ye 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;
Joshua 23:7 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 down
yourselves unto them;
Joshua 23:8 but cleave unto Jehovah your God, as ye have done unto
this day.
Joshua 23:9 For Jehovah hath driven out from before you great
nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath stood before you unto
this day.
Joshua 23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Jehovah
your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you.
Joshua 23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love
Jehovah your God.
Joshua 23:12 Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the
remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and
make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;
Joshua 23:13 know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no
more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a
snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in
your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your
God hath given you.
Joshua 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the
earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not
one thing hath failed of all the good things which Jehovah your God
spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing
hath failed thereof.
Joshua 23:15 And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things
are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so
will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have
destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath
given you.
Joshua 23:16 When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God,
which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow
down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled
against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which
he hath given unto you.
Joshua 24
Joshua 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.
Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah,
the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River,
even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they
served other gods.
Joshua 24:3 And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River,
and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his
seed, and gave him Isaac.
Joshua 24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto
Esau mount Seir, to possess it: and Jacob and his children went down
into Egypt.
Joshua 24:5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,
according to that which I did in the midst thereof: and afterward I
brought you out.
Joshua 24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came
unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with
chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.
Joshua 24:7 And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness
between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and
covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in
the wilderness many days.
Joshua 24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that
dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them
into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them
from before you.
Joshua 24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and
fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor
to curse you;
Joshua 24:10 but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he
blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Joshua 24:11 And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho:
and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the
Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua 24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them
out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy
sword, nor with thy bow.
Joshua 24:13 And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not labored,
and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and
oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity
and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond
the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose
you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we
will serve Jehovah.
Joshua 24:16 And the people answered and said, Far be it from us
that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;
Joshua 24:17 for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us and our
fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and
that did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way
wherein we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of
whom we passed;
Joshua 24:18 and Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples,
even the Amorites that dwelt in the land: therefore we also will serve
Jehovah; for he is our God.
Joshua 24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve
Jehovah; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive
your transgression nor your sins.
Joshua 24:20 If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he
will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done
you good.
Joshua 24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will
serve Jehovah.
Joshua 24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses
against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him.
And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua 24:23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods
which are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, the God
of Israel.
Joshua 24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will
we serve, and unto his voice will we hearken.
Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day,
and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua 24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law
of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak
that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.
Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone
shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of
Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness
against you, lest ye deny your God.
Joshua 24:28 So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his
inheritance.
Joshua 24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the
son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten
years old.
Joshua 24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north
of the mountain of Gaash.
Joshua 24:31 And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and
all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the
work of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel.
Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel
brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of
ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of
Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the
inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Joshua 24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried
him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-
country of Ephraim.
Judges
Judges 1
Judges 1:1 And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the
children of Israel asked of Jehovah, saying, Who shall go up for us
first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?
Judges 1:2 And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have
delivered the land into his hand.
Judges 1:3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with
me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I
likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
Judges 1:4 And Judah went up; and Jehovah delivered the
Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they smote of them
in Bezek ten thousand men.
Judges 1:5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought
against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges 1:6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and
caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Judges 1:7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having
their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under
my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought
him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Judges 1:8 And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and
took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on
fire.
Judges 1:9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight
against the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South,
and in the lowland.
Judges 1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in
Hebron (now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba); and
they smote Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges 1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of
Debir. (Now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.)
Judges 1:12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
Judges 1:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother,
took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Judges 1:14 And it came to pass, when she came [unto him], that she
moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her
ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
Judges 1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing; for that thou
hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.
And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
Judges 1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law,
went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into
the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went
and dwelt with the people.
Judges 1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they
smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.
And the name of the city was called Hormah.
Judges 1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the border thereof, and
Ashkelon with the border thereof, and Ekron with the border thereof.
Judges 1:19 And Jehovah was with Judah; and drove out [the
inhabitants of] the hill-country; for he could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges 1:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses had
spoken: and he drove out thence the three sons of Anak.
Judges 1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the
Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the
children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
Judges 1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against
Beth-el; and Jehovah was with them.
Judges 1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el. (Now
the name of the city beforetime was Luz.)
Judges 1:24 And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city,
and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the
city, and we will deal kindly with thee.
Judges 1:25 And he showed them the entrance into the city; and they
smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and
all his family.
Judges 1:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built
a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof
unto this day.
Judges 1:27 And Manasseh did not drive out [the inhabitants of]
Beth-shean and its towns, nor [of] Taanach and its towns, nor the
inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its
towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the
Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Judges 1:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was waxed strong, that
they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them
out.
Judges 1:29 And Ephraim drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
Judges 1:30 Zebulun drove not out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the
inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and
became subject to taskwork.
Judges 1:31 Asher drove not out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the
inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor
of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
Judges 1:32 but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
Judges 1:33 Naphtali drove not 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 subject to taskwork.
Judges 1:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the
hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the
valley;
Judges 1:35 but the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres, in
Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph
prevailed, so that they became subject to taskwork.
Judges 1:36 And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of
Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
Judges 2
Judges 2:1 And the angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to
Bochim. And he 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:
Judges 2:2 and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this
land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto
my voice: why have ye done this?
Judges 2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from
before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods
shall be a snare unto you.
Judges 2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of Jehovah spake
these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up
their voice, and wept.
Judges 2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there unto Jehovah.
Judges 2:6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children
of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Judges 2:7 And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua,
and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all
the great work of Jehovah that he had wrought for Israel.
Judges 2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died,
being a hundred and ten years old.
Judges 2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the
mountain of Gaash.
Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their
fathers: and there arose another generation after them, that knew not
Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.
Judges 2:11 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the
sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim;
Judges 2:12 and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of
the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed
themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger.
Judges 2:13 And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the
Ashtaroth.
Judges 2:14 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel,
and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them;
and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that
they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges 2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was
against them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken, and as Jehovah had
sworn unto them: and they were sore distressed.
Judges 2:16 And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of
the hand of those that despoiled them.
Judges 2:17 And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they
played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto
them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers
walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; [but] they did not
so.
Judges 2:18 And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah
was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies
all the days of the judge: for it repented Jehovah because of their
groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
Judges 2:19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following
other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased
not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Judges 2:20 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel;
and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant
which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my
voice;
Judges 2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before
them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Judges 2:22 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Judges 2:23 So Jehovah left those nations, without driving them out
hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 3
Judges 3:1 Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove
Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the
wars of Canaan;
Judges 3:2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might
know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew
nothing thereof:
Judges 3:3 [namely], the 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 entrance of Hamath.
Judges 3:4 And they were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know
whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah,
which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
Judges 3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and
the Jebusites:
Judges 3:6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave
their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Judges 3:7 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the
sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the
Baalim and the Asheroth.
Judges 3:8 Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against
Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of
Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim
eight years.
Judges 3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah,
Jehovah raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them,
even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 3:10 And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he
judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Jehovah delivered Cushan-
rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed
against Cushan-rishathaim.
Judges 3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son
of Kenaz died.
Judges 3:12 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil
in the sight of Jehovah: and Jehovah strengthened Eglon the king of
Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the
sight of Jehovah.
Judges 3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and
Amalek; and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of
palm-trees.
Judges 3:14 And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of
Moab eighteen years.
Judges 3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah,
Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the
Benjamite, a man left-handed. And the children of Israel sent tribute
by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 3:16 And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a
cubit in length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right
thigh.
Judges 3:17 And he offered the tribute unto Eglon king of Moab:
now Eglon was a very fat man.
Judges 3:18 And when he had made an end of offering the tribute, he
sent away the people that bare the tribute.
Judges 3:19 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were
by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king. And he
said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
Judges 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself
alone in the cool upper room. And Ehud said, I have a message from
God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
Judges 3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword
from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:
Judges 3:22 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat
closed upon the blade, for he drew not the sword out of his body; and
it came out behind.
Judges 3:23 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors
of the upper room upon him, and locked them.
Judges 3:24 Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they
saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they
said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
Judges 3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he
opened not the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key,
and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on
the earth.
Judges 3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed
beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.
Judges 3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a
trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel
went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.
Judges 3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me; for Jehovah
hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they
went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the
Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Judges 3:29 And they smote of Moab at that time about ten thousand
men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not
a man.
Judges 3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel.
And the land had rest fourscore years.
Judges 3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who
smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he
also saved Israel.
Judges 4
Judges 4:1 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil
in the sight of Jehovah, when Ehud was dead.
Judges 4:2 And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin king of
Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera,
who dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah: for he had
nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed
the children of Israel.
Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she
judged Israel at that time.
Judges 4:5 And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between
Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children
of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judges 4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not Jehovah, the God of
Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw unto mount Tabor, and
take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of
the children of Zebulun?
Judges 4:7 And I will draw unto thee, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the
captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will
deliver him into thy hand.
Judges 4:8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I
will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.
Judges 4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding,
the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honor; for Jehovah
will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and
went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges 4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to
Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah
went up with him.
Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the
Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of
Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim,
which is by Kedesh.
Judges 4:12 And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was
gone up to mount Tabor.
Judges 4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine
hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from
Harosheth of the Gentiles, unto the river Kishon.
Judges 4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in
which Jehovah hath delivered Sisera into thy hand; is not Jehovah
gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and
ten thousand men after him.
Judges 4:15 And Jehovah discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots,
and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera
alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Judges 4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host,
unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell by the
edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
Judges 4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael
the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the
king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges 4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him,
Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in unto her
into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
Judges 4:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water
to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave
him drink, and covered him.
Judges 4:20 And 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.
Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a
hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into
his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a
deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
Judges 4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to
meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man
whom thou seekest. And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay
dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
Judges 4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan
before the children of Israel.
Judges 4:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more
and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed
Jabin king of Canaan.
Judges 5
Judges 5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on
that day, saying,
Judges 5:2 For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the
people offered themselves willingly, Bless ye Jehovah.
Judges 5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I, will
sing unto Jehovah; I will sing praise to Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Judges 5:4 Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou
marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens
also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
Judges 5:5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah, Even
yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Judges 5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of
Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked
through byways.
Judges 5:7 The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I
Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges 5:8 They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was
there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges 5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, That offered
themselves willingly among the people: Bless ye Jehovah.
Judges 5:10 Tell [of it], ye that ride on white asses, Ye that sit on
rich carpets, And ye that walk by the way.
Judges 5:11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing
water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, [Even]
the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah
went down to the gates.
Judges 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song:
Arise, Barak, and lead away thy captives, thou son of Abinoam.
Judges 5:13 Then came down a remnant of the nobles [and] the
people; Jehovah came down for me against the mighty.
Judges 5:14 Out of Ephraim [came down] they whose root is in
Amalek; After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples; Out of Machir
came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handle the
marshal's staff.
Judges 5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; As was
Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed forth at his feet.
By the watercourses of Reuben There were great resolves of heart.
Judges 5:16 Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the
pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were
great searchings of heart.
Judges 5:17 Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he
remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, And abode by
his creeks.
Judges 5:18 Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the
death, And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of
Canaan. In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: They took no gain of
money.
Judges 5:20 From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they
fought against Sisera.
Judges 5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river,
the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.
Judges 5:22 Then did the horsehoofs stamp By reason of the
prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.
Judges 5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah. Curse ye
bitterly the inhabitants thereof, Because they came not to the help of
Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah against the mighty.
Judges 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber
the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Judges 5:25 He asked water, [and] she gave him milk; She brought
him butter in a lordly dish.
Judges 5:26 She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to
the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she
smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his
temples.
Judges 5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he
bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Judges 5:28 Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The
mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so
long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Judges 5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, Yea, she returned answer
to herself,
Judges 5:30 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A
damsel, two damsels to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed
garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments
embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
Judges 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: But let them
that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the
land had rest forty years.
Judges 6
Judges 6:1 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the
sight of Jehovah: and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian
seven years.
Judges 6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and
because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which
are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
Judges 6:3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites
came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came
up against them;
Judges 6:4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the
increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance
in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they
came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were
without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
Judges 6:6 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and
the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah.
Judges 6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried
unto Jehovah because of Midian,
Judges 6:8 that Jehovah sent a prophet unto the children of Israel:
and he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I
brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of
bondage;
Judges 6:9 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from
before you, and gave you their land;
Judges 6:10 and I said unto you, I am Jehovah your God; ye shall not
fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But ye have
not hearkened unto my voice.
Judges 6:11 And the angel of Jehovah came, and sat under the oak
which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his
son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from
the Midianites.
Judges 6:12 And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him, and said
unto him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
Judges 6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is
with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his
wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not
Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? but now Jehovah hath cast us off,
and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
Judges 6:14 And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy
might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent thee?
Judges 6:15 And he said unto him, Oh, Lord, wherewith shall I save
Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the
least in my father's house.
Judges 6:16 And Jehovah said unto him, Surely I will be with thee,
and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Judges 6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy
sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.
Judges 6:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee,
and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will
tarry until thou come again.
Judges 6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and
unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: 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.
Judges 6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and
the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the
broth. And he did so.
Judges 6:21 Then the angel of Jehovah put forth the end of the staff
that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes;
and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the
unleavened cakes; and the angel of Jehovah departed out of his sight.
Judges 6:22 And Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah; and
Gideon said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah! forasmuch as I have seen the
angel of Jehovah face to face.
Judges 6:23 And Jehovah said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear
not: thou shalt not die.
Judges 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto Jehovah, and
called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites.
Judges 6:25 And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said
unto him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock seven
years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and
cut down the Asherah that is by it;
Judges 6:26 and build an altar unto Jehovah thy God upon the top of
this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock,
and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou
shalt cut down.
Judges 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as
Jehovah had spoken unto him: and it came to pass, because he feared
his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do
it by day, that he did it by night.
Judges 6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the
morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah
was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon
the altar that was built.
Judges 6:29 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.
Judges 6:30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy
son, that he may die, because he hath broken down the altar of Baal,
and because he hath cut down the Asherah that was by it.
Judges 6:31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye
contend for Baal? Or will ye save him? he that will contend for him,
let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he be a god, let
him contend for himself, because one hath broken down his altar.
Judges 6:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying,
Let Baal contend against him, because he hath broken down his altar.
Judges 6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the
children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed
over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
Judges 6:34 But the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Gideon; and he
blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.
Judges 6:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and
they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers
unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up
to meet them.
Judges 6:36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by
my hand, as thou hast spoken,
Judges 6:37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-
floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the
ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as
thou hast spoken.
Judges 6:38 And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and
pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a
bowlful of water.
Judges 6:39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be
kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: let me make trial, 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.
Judges 6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece
only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Judges 7
Judges 7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that
were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of
Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the
hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges 7:2 And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with
thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest
Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath
saved me.
Judges 7:3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying,
Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from
mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two
thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Judges 7:4 And Jehovah 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.
Judges 7:5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and
Jehovah 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.
Judges 7:6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to
their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people
bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Judges 7:7 And Jehovah said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men
that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand;
and let all the people go every man unto his place.
Judges 7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their
trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent,
but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was
beneath him in the valley.
Judges 7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said
unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it
into thy hand.
Judges 7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy
servant down to the camp:
Judges 7:11 and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall
thy hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he
down with Purah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed
men that were in the camp.
Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the
children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude;
and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the
sea-shore for multitude.
Judges 7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man
telling a dream unto his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a
dream; and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of
Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned
it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.
Judges 7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else
save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his
hand God hath delivered Midian, and all the host.
Judges 7:15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the
dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he
returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Jehovah hath
delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
Judges 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three
companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and
empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
Judges 7:17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise:
and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall
be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
Judges 7:18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me,
then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say,
For Jehovah and for Gideon.
Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him,
came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the
middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew
the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
Judges 7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake
the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets
in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of
Jehovah and of Gideon.
Judges 7:21 And they stood every man in his place round about the
camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
Judges 7:22 And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah
set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and
the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the
border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
Judges 7:23 And the men of Israel were gathered together out of
Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued
after Midian.
Judges 7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-
country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take
before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. So all
the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as
far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan.
Judges 7:25 And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and
Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at
the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the
heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
Judges 8
Judges 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 Midian? And they did chide with him sharply.
Judges 8:2 And he said unto them, What have I now done in
comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim
better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Judges 8:3 God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian,
Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you?
Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
Judges 8:4 And Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he,
and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
Judges 8:5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you,
loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and
I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
Judges 8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah
and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread unto thine
army?
Judges 8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah hath delivered
Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with
the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
Judges 8:8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them in
like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of
Succoth had answered.
Judges 8:9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When
I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Judges 8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their
hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all
the host of the children of the east; for there fell a hundred and twenty
thousand men that drew sword.
Judges 8:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in
tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the
host was secure.
Judges 8:12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after
them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and
discomfited all the host.
Judges 8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle
from the ascent of Heres.
Judges 8:14 And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and
inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and
the elders thereof, seventy and seven men.
Judges 8:15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold
Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying, Are
the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should
give bread unto thy men that are weary?
Judges 8:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the
wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges 8:17 And he brake down the tower of Penuel, and slew the
men of the city.
Judges 8:18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner
of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As
thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
Judges 8:19 And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my
mother: as Jehovah liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not
slay you.
Judges 8:20 And he said unto Jether his first-born, Up, and slay
them. But the youth drew not his sword; for he feared, because he
was yet a youth.
Judges 8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall
upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and
slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their
camels' necks.
Judges 8:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over
us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also; for thou hast saved
us out of the hand of Midian.
Judges 8:23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you,
neither shall my son rule over you: Jehovah shall rule over you.
Judges 8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would make a request of
you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For
they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges 8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And
they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of
his spoil.
Judges 8:26 And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested
was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the
crescents, and the pendants, and the purple raiment that was on the
kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels'
necks.
Judges 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his
city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the harlot after it there; and
it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges 8:28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel,
and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty
years in the days of Gideon.
Judges 8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his
own house.
Judges 8:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body
begotten; for he had many wives.
Judges 8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare
him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
Judges 8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and
was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites.
Judges 8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that
the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the
Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
Judges 8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not Jehovah their
God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on
every side;
Judges 8:35 neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
[who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed
unto Israel.
Judges 9
Judges 9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem
unto his mother's brethren, and spake with them, and with all the
family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
Judges 9:2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem,
Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are
threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?
remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
Judges 9:3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all
the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to
follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
Judges 9:4 And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver
out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and
light fellows, who followed him.
Judges 9:5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew
his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons,
upon one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left;
for he hid himself.
Judges 9:6 And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves
together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech
king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
Judges 9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on
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.
Judges 9:8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them;
and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.
Judges 9:9 But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my
fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to wave
to and fro over the trees?
Judges 9:10 And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign
over us.
Judges 9:11 But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my
sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the
trees?
Judges 9:12 And the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign
over us.
Judges 9:13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my new
wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to wave to and fro over
the trees?
Judges 9:14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and
reign over us.
Judges 9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint
me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not,
let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 9:16 Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, 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
Judges 9:17 (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life,
and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Judges 9:18 and ye are risen up against my father's house this day,
and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone,
and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the
men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
Judges 9:19 if ye then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal
and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him
also rejoice in you:
Judges 9:20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour
the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out
from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour
Abimelech.
Judges 9:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and
dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Judges 9:22 And Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
Judges 9:23 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the
men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with
Abimelech:
Judges 9:24 that the violence done to the threescore and ten sons of
Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon
Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of
Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.
Judges 9:25 And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the
tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way
by them: and it was told Abimelech.
Judges 9:26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and
went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in
him.
Judges 9:27 And they went out into the field, and gathered their
vineyards, and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the
house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
Judges 9:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and
who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of
Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the
father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?
Judges 9:29 And would that this people were under my hand! then
would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine
army, and come out.
Judges 9:30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of
Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
Judges 9:31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech craftily,
saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren are come to
Shechem; and, behold, they constrain the city [to take part] against
thee.
Judges 9:32 Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are
with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Judges 9:33 and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is
up, thou shalt rise early, and rush upon the city; and, behold, when he
and the people that are with him come out against thee, then mayest
thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
Judges 9:34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were
with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four
companies.
Judges 9:35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the
entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the
people that were with him, from the ambushment.
Judges 9:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul,
Behold, there come people down from the tops of the mountains. And
Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if
they were men.
Judges 9:37 And Gaal spake again and said, See, there come people
down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way
of the oak of Meonenim.
Judges 9:38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, that
thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this
the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with
them.
Judges 9:39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and
fought with Abimelech.
Judges 9:40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and
there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.
Judges 9:41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul drove out
Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
Judges 9:42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went
out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
Judges 9:43 And he took the people, and divided them into three
companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the
people came forth out of the city; And he rose up against them, and
smote them.
Judges 9:44 And Abimelech, and the companies that were with him,
rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and
the two companies rushed upon all that were in the field, and smote
them.
Judges 9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and
he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat
down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Judges 9:46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard
thereof, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
Judges 9:47 And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower
of Shechem were gathered together.
Judges 9:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all
the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his
hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it
on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What
ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
Judges 9:49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his
bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and
set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower
of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Judges 9:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against
Thebez, and took it.
Judges 9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither
fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut
themselves in, and gat them up to the roof of the tower.
Judges 9:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against
it, and drew near unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges 9:53 And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon
Abimelech's head, and brake his skull.
Judges 9:54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his
armorbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and kill me, that
men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust
him through, and he died.
Judges 9:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was
dead, they departed every man unto his place.
Judges 9:56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which
he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
Judges 9:57 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God
requite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the
son of Jerubbaal.
Judges 10
Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the
son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in
Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Judges 10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died,
and was buried in Shamir.
Judges 10:3 And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged
Israel twenty and two years.
Judges 10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and
they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day,
which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
Judges 10:6 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil
in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth,
and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab,
and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the
Philistines; and they forsook Jehovah, and served him not.
Judges 10:7 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel,
and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of
the children of Ammon.
Judges 10:8 And they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that
year: eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that
were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in
Gilead.
Judges 10:9 And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to
fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house
of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
Judges 10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, saying,
We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our
God, and have served the Baalim.
Judges 10:11 And Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not
[I save you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the
children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges 10:12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the
Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried unto me, and I saved you out
of their hand.
Judges 10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods:
wherefore I will save you no more.
Judges 10:14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let
them save you in the time of your distress.
Judges 10:15 And the children of Israel said unto Jehovah, We have
sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; only
deliver us, we pray thee, this day.
Judges 10:16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them,
and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Judges 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together,
and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled
themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.
Judges 10:18 And the people, the 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.
Judges 11
Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor,
and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges 11:2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and when his wife's
sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt
not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another
woman.
Judges 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the
land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and
they went out with him.
Judges 11:4 And it came to pass after a while, that the children of
Ammon made war against Israel.
Judges 11:5 And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon made
war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of
the land of Tob;
Judges 11:6 and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that
we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Judges 11:7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye
hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are ye come
unto me now when ye are in distress?
Judges 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore
are we turned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and
fight with the children of Ammon; and thou shalt be our head over all
the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges 11:9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring
me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Jehovah
deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges 11:10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Jehovah
shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we
do.
Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the
people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all
his words before Jehovah in Mizpah.
Judges 11:12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the
children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou
art come unto me to fight against my land?
Judges 11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto
the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when
he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and
unto the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
Judges 11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of
the children of Ammon;
Judges 11:15 and he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took
not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
Judges 11:16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went
through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
Judges 11:17 then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom,
saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of
Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of
Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Judges 11:18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went
around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east
side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the
Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon
was the border of Moab.
Judges 11:19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass,
we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.
Judges 11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border;
but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz,
and fought against Israel.
Judges 11:21 And Jehovah, the 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.
Judges 11:22 And they possessed all the border of the Amorites,
from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even
unto the Jordan.
Judges 11:23 So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed
the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou
possess them?
Judges 11:24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god
giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath
dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
Judges 11:25 And now art thou anything better than Balak the son of
Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever
fight against them?
Judges 11:26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in
Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of
the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them
within that time?
Judges 11:27 I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest
me wrong to war against me: Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day
between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges 11:28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened
not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Judges 11:29 Then the Spirit of Jehovah 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.
Judges 11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If
thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
Judges 11:31 then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth from the
doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the
children of Ammon, it shall be Jehovah's, and I will offer it up for a
burnt-offering.
Judges 11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon
to fight against them; and Jehovah delivered them into his hand.
Judges 11:33 And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to
Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto Abelcheramim, with a very
great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the
children of Israel.
Judges 11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house; and,
behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with
dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor
daughter.
Judges 11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his
clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low,
and thou art one of them that trouble me; for I have opened my mouth
unto Jehovah, and I cannot go back.
Judges 11:36 And she said unto him, My father, thou hast opened
thy mouth unto Jehovah; do unto me according to that which hath
proceeded out of thy mouth, forasmuch as Jehovah hath taken
vengeance for thee on thine enemies, even on the children of
Ammon.
Judges 11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for
me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon
the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
Judges 11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two
months: and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her
virginity upon the mountains.
Judges 11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she
returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow
which he had vowed: and she knew not man. And it was a custom in
Israel,
Judges 11:40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the
daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Judges 12
Judges 12:1 And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and
passed northward; and they 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 thy house upon thee with fire.
Judges 12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at
great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye
saved me not out of their hand.
Judges 12:3 And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in
my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and
Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up
unto me this day, to fight against me?
Judges 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead,
and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,
because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the
midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh.
Judges 12:5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against
the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when [any of] the fugitives of
Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art
thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Judges 12:6 then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he
said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they
laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there
fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.
Judges 12:7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died
Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of
Gilead.
Judges 12:8 And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
Judges 12:9 And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent
abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons.
And he judged Israel seven years.
Judges 12:10 And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
Judges 12:11 And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and
he judged Israel ten years.
Judges 12:12 And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in
Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
Judges 12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite
judged Israel.
Judges 12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode
on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Judges 12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and
was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of
the Amalekites.
Judges 13
Judges 13:1 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil
in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of
the Philistines forty years.
Judges 13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of
the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and
bare not.
Judges 13:3 And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto the woman, and
said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not; but thou
shalt conceive, and bear a son.
Judges 13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine
nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Judges 13:5 for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God
from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of
the Philistines.
Judges 13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A
man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the
countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked him not
whence he was, neither told he me his name:
Judges 13:7 but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and
bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any
unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the
womb to the day of his death.
Judges 13:8 Then Manoah entreated Jehovah, and said, Oh, Lord, I
pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again unto
us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
Judges 13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the
angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but
Manoah her husband was not with her.
Judges 13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her
husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me,
that came unto me the [other] day.
Judges 13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came
to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the
woman? And he said, I am.
Judges 13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass:
what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do unto
him?
Judges 13:13 And the angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Of all that
I said unto the woman let her beware.
Judges 13:14 She may not eat of anything 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.
Judges 13:15 And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, I pray
thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.
Judges 13:16 And the angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Though
thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make
ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto Jehovah. For Manoah
knew not that he was the angel of Jehovah.
Judges 13:17 And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is
thy name, that, when thy words come to pass, we may do thee honor?
Judges 13:18 And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore
askest thou after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
Judges 13:19 So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and
offered it upon the rock unto Jehovah: and [the angel] did
wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Judges 13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward
heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Jehovah ascended in the
flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell
on their faces to the ground.
Judges 13:21 But the angel of Jehovah did no more appear to
Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of
Jehovah.
Judges 13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die,
because we have seen God.
Judges 13:23 But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to
kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-
offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these
things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
Judges 13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name
Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him.
Judges 13:25 And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him in
Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 14
Judges 14:1 And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman
in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges 14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and
said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the
Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
Judges 14:3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there
never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my
people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised
Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she
pleaseth me well.
Judges 14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of
Jehovah; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at
that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
Judges 14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother,
to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a
young lion roared against him.
Judges 14:6 And the Spirit of Jehovah 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.
Judges 14:7 And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she
pleased Samson well.
Judges 14:8 And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned
aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of
bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Judges 14:9 And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he
went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and
they did eat: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of
the body of the lion.
Judges 14:10 And his father went down unto the woman: and
Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Judges 14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they
brought thirty companions to be with him.
Judges 14:12 And Samson said unto them, Let me now put forth a
riddle unto you: if ye can declare it unto me within the seven days of
the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments
and thirty changes of raiment;
Judges 14:13 but if ye cannot declare it unto me, then shall ye give
me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment. And they said
unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
Judges 14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth
food, And out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not
in three days declare the riddle.
Judges 14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said
unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us
the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye
called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
Judges 14:16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou
dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto
the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto
her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I
tell thee?
Judges 14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their
feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her,
because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children
of her people.
Judges 14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh
day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what
is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed
with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.
Judges 14:19 And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him,
and he went down to Ashkelon, and smote thirty men of them, and
took their spoil, and gave the changes [of raiment] unto them that
declared the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his
father's house.
Judges 14:20 But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion,
whom he had used as his friend.
Judges 15
Judges 15:1 But it came to pass after a while, 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.
Judges 15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst
utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her
younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Judges 15:3 And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be
blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.
Judges 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and
took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst
between every two tails.
Judges 15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go
into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks
and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
Judges 15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken
his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came
up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges 15:7 And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner,
surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Judges 15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter:
and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Judges 15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah,
and spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges 15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up
against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to
him as he hath done to us.
Judges 15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the
cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that
the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done
unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done
unto them.
Judges 15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind
thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And
Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me
yourselves.
Judges 15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind
thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill
thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up
from the rock.
Judges 15:14 When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as
they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and
the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with
fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
Judges 15:15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth
his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
Judges 15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps
upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand
men.
Judges 15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that
place was called Ramath-lehi.
Judges 15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and
said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy
servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the
uncircumcised.
Judges 15:19 But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and
there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came
again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-
hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.
Judges 15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines
twenty years.
Judges 16
Judges 16:1 And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and
went in unto her.
Judges 16:2 [And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come
hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in
the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] till
morning light, then we will kill him.
Judges 16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight,
and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts,
and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders,
and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
Judges 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in
the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Judges 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and
said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth,
and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind
him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven
hundred [pieces] of silver.
Judges 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee,
wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be
bound to afflict thee.
Judges 16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven
green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be
as another man.
Judges 16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven
green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with
them.
Judges 16:9 Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber.
And she said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And
he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the
fire. So his strength was not known.
Judges 16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast
mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith
thou mightest be bound.
Judges 16:11 And he said unto her, If they only bind me with new
ropes wherewith no work hath been done, then shall I become weak,
and be as another man.
Judges 16:12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith,
and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the
liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them
off his arms like a thread.
Judges 16:13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast
mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be
bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my
head with the web.
Judges 16:14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him,
The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his
sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
Judges 16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love
thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three
times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
Judges 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with
her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.
Judges 16:17 And he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There
hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite 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.
Judges 16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his
heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying,
Come up this once, for he hath told me all his heart. Then the lords of
the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their
hand.
Judges 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she
called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she
began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Judges 16:20 And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.
And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other
times, and shake myself free. But he knew not that Jehovah was
departed from him.
Judges 16:21 And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his
eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters
of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
Judges 16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after
he was shaven.
Judges 16:23 And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together
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.
Judges 16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god;
for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and
the destroyer of our country, who hath slain many of us.
Judges 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that
they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they
called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before
them. And they set him between the pillars:
Judges 16:26 and Samson said unto the lad that held him by the
hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house
resteth, that I may lean upon them.
Judges 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the
lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about
three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made
sport.
Judges 16:28 And Samson called unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord
Jehovah, 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.
Judges 16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon
which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his right
hand, and the other with his left.
Judges 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And
he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the
lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he
slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.
Judges 16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came
down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between
Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he
judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 17
Judges 17:1 And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim,
whose name was Micah.
Judges 17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred
[pieces] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst
utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is
with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of
Jehovah.
Judges 17:3 And he restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to
his mother; and his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto
Jehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a
molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges 17:4 And when he restored the money unto his mother, his
mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the
founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and
it was in the house of Micah.
Judges 17:5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made
an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who
became his priest.
Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did
that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges 17:7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of
the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
Judges 17:8 And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-
lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to
the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Judges 17:9 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].
Judges 17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto
me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [pieces] of silver by
the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Judges 17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and
the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
Judges 17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man
became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges 17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me
good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges 18
Judges 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 [their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among
the tribes of Israel.
Judges 18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men
from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from
Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them,
Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim,
unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the
voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and
said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this
place? and what hast thou here?
Judges 18:4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt
with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.
Judges 18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of
God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be
prosperous.
Judges 18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before
Jehovah is your way wherein ye go.
Judges 18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw
the people that were therein, how they dwelt in security, after the
manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the
land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in
anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings
with any man.
Judges 18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol:
and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
Judges 18:9 And they said, Arise, and let us 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 in to possess the land.
Judges 18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and
the land is large; for God hath given it into your hand, a place where
there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
Judges 18:11 And there set forth from thence of the family of the
Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with
weapons of war.
Judges 18:12 And they went up, and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in
Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan, unto this day;
behold, it is behind Kiriath-jearim.
Judges 18:13 And they passed thence unto the hill-country of
Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
Judges 18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the
country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there
is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a
molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges 18:15 And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of
the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked
him of his welfare.
Judges 18:16 And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of
war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the
gate.
Judges 18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went
up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod,
and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the
entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of
war.
Judges 18:18 And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched
the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image,
the priest said unto them, What do ye?
Judges 18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand
upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is
it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest
unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Judges 18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod,
and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the
people.
Judges 18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and
the cattle and the goods before them.
Judges 18:22 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.
Judges 18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they
turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou
comest with such a company?
Judges 18:24 And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I
made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and
how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?
Judges 18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy
voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou
lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
Judges 18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when
Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went
back unto his house.
Judges 18:27 And they took that which Micah had made, and the
priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and
secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt
the city with fire.
Judges 18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from
Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the
valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt
therein.
Judges 18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the
name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the
name of the city was Laish at the first.
Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up for themselves the
graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses,
he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of
the captivity of the land.
Judges 18:31 So they set them up Micah's graven image which he
made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges 19
Judges 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 farther
side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out
of Beth-lehem-judah.
Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the harlot against him, and
went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah,
and was there the space of four months.
Judges 19:3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak
kindly unto her, 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.
Judges 19:4 And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him;
and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and
lodged there.
Judges 19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose
early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father
said unto his son-in-law, Strengthen thy heart with a morsel of bread,
and afterward ye shall go your way.
Judges 19:6 So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them
together: and the damsel's father said unto the man, Be pleased, I pray
thee, to tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.
Judges 19:7 And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law
urged him, and he lodged there again.
Judges 19:8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to
depart; and the damsel's father said, Strengthen thy heart, I pray thee,
and tarry ye until the day declineth; and they did eat, both of them.
Judges 19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his
concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said
unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you
tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thy
heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that
thou mayest go home.
Judges 19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up
and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem):
and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine also
was with him.
Judges 19:11 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
aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
Judges 19:12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside
into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we
will pass over to Gibeah.
Judges 19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come and let us draw
near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in
Ramah.
Judges 19:14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun
went down upon them near to Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
Judges 19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in
Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for
there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.
Judges 19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out
of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim,
and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were
Benjamites.
Judges 19:17 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man
in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou?
and whence comest thou?
Judges 19:18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-
lehem-judah unto the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim;
from thence am I, and I went to Beth-lehem-judah: and I am [now]
going to the house of Jehovah; and there is no man that taketh me
into his house.
Judges 19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses;
and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and
for the young man that is with thy servants: there is no want of
anything.
Judges 19:20 And the old man said, Peace be unto thee; howsoever
let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
Judges 19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses
fodder; and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
Judges 19:22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the
men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about,
beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old
man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we
may know him.
Judges 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto
them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so
wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this
folly.
Judges 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, 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 any
such folly.
Judges 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man laid
hold on 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.
Judges 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and
fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it
was light.
Judges 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the
doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and, behold, the
woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with
her hands upon the threshold.
Judges 19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going; but none
answered: then he took her up upon the ass; and the man rose up, and
gat him unto his place.
Judges 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife,
and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into
twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
Judges 19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no
such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came
up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider it, take counsel,
and speak.
Judges 20
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-
sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto Jehovah at Mizpah.
Judges 20:2 And the chiefs 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.
Judges 20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children
of Israel were gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said,
Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?
Judges 20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was
murdered, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to
Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
Judges 20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the
house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and
my concubine they forced, and she is dead.
Judges 20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and
sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for
they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges 20:7 Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your
advice and counsel.
Judges 20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will
not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn unto his
house.
Judges 20:9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah:
[we will go up] against it by lot;
Judges 20:10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all
the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out
of ten thousand, to fetch victuals 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.
Judges 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city,
knit together as one man.
Judges 20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe
of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass
among you?
Judges 20:13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows,
that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil
from Israel. But Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their
brethren the children of Israel.
Judges 20:14 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the
children of Israel.
Judges 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that
day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword,
besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred
chosen men.
Judges 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred
chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-
breadth, and not miss.
Judges 20:17 And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were
numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were
men of war.
Judges 20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-
el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us
first to battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said,
Judah [shall go up] first.
Judges 20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and
encamped against Gibeah.
Judges 20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against
Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at
Gibeah.
Judges 20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of
Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that
day twenty and two thousand men.
Judges 20:22 And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged
themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they
set themselves in array the first day.
Judges 20:23 And the children of Israel went up and wept before
Jehovah until even; and they asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I again
draw nigh to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And
Jehovah said, Go up against him.
Judges 20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the
children of Benjamin the second day.
Judges 20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah
the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of
Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Judges 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went
up, and came unto Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before Jehovah,
and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and
peace-offerings before Jehovah.
Judges 20:27 And the children of Israel asked of Jehovah (for the ark
of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges 20:28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle
against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And
Jehovah said, Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand.
Judges 20:29 And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
Judges 20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children
of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against
Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the
people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite
and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which
one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about
thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten
down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us
flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.
Judges 20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and
set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel
brake forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.
Judges 20:34 And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew
not that evil was close upon them.
Judges 20:35 And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the
children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five
thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges 20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were
smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they
trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.
Judges 20:37 And the liers-in-wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah;
and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city
with the edge of the sword.
Judges 20:38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and
the liers-in-wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke
rise up out of the city.
Judges 20:39 And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and
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.
Judges 20:40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in
a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold,
the whole of the city went up [in smoke] to heaven.
Judges 20:41 And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin
were dismayed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
Judges 20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of
Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard
after them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the
midst thereof.
Judges 20:43 They inclosed the Benjamites round about, [and]
chased them, [and] trod them down at [their] resting-place, as far as
over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
Judges 20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all
these [were] men of valor.
Judges 20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto
the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five
thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote
of them two thousand men.
Judges 20:46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty
and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of
valor.
Judges 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the
wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of
Rimmon four months.
Judges 20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children
of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the
entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the
cities which they found they set on fire.
Judges 21
Judges 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying,
There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
Judges 21:2 And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even
before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
Judges 21:3 And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this
come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in
Israel?
Judges 21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose
early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-
offerings.
Judges 21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all
the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah?
For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto
Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Judges 21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin
their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Judges 21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing
we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our
daughters to wives?
Judges 21:8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel
that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came
none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
Judges 21:9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were
none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
Judges 21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men
of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the
inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the
women and the little ones.
Judges 21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly
destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Judges 21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead
four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with
him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the
land of Canaan.
Judges 21:13 And the whole congregation sent and spake to the
children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and
proclaimed peace unto them.
Judges 21:14 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave
them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-
gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
Judges 21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because
that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we
do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed
out of Benjamin?
Judges 21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them
that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from
Israel.
Judges 21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters,
for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth
a wife to Benjamin.
Judges 21:19 And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from
year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east
side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on
the south of Lebonah.
Judges 21:20 And they commanded the children of Benjamin,
saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
Judges 21:21 and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come
out to dance in the 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.
Judges 21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren
come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them
graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [of them] his
wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now
be guilty.
Judges 21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them
wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they
carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and
built the cities, and dwelt in them.
Judges 21:24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time,
every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from
thence every man to his inheritance.
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man
did that which was right in his own eyes.
Ruth
Ruth 1
Ruth 1:1 And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged,
that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-
judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and
his two sons.
Ruth 1:2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of
his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of
Moab, and continued there.
Ruth 1:3 And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left,
and her two sons.
Ruth 1:4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the
name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they
dwelt there about ten years.
Ruth 1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman
was left of her two children and of her husband.
Ruth 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might
return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of
Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people in giving them bread.
Ruth 1:7 And 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.
Ruth 1:8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return
each of you to her mother's house: Jehovah deal kindly with you, as
ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Ruth 1:9 Jehovah 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.
Ruth 1:10 And they said unto her, Nay, but we will return with thee
unto thy people.
Ruth 1:11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye
go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your
husbands?
Ruth 1:12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old
to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have
a husband to-night, and should also bear sons;
Ruth 1:13 would ye therefore tarry till they were grown? would ye
therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it
grieveth me much for your sakes, for the hand of Jehovah is gone
forth against me.
Ruth 1:14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah
kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.
Ruth 1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto
her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister-in-law.
Ruth 1:16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and 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;
Ruth 1:17 where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:
Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and
me.
Ruth 1:18 And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go
with her, she left off speaking unto her.
Ruth 1:19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it
came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city
was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?
Ruth 1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me
Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Ruth 1:21 I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again
empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against
me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-
in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they
came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Ruth 2
Ruth 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.
Ruth 2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go
to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose
sight I shall find favor. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
Ruth 2:3 And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the
reapers: and her hap was to light on the portion of the field belonging
unto Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Ruth 2:4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the
reapers, Jehovah be with you. And they answered him, Jehovah bless
thee.
Ruth 2:5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the
reapers, Whose damsel is this?
Ruth 2:6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and
said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the
country of Moab:
Ruth 2:7 And she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the
reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and hath continued even
from the morning until now, save that she tarried a little in the house.
Ruth 2:8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter?
Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide
here fast by my maidens.
Ruth 2:9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou
after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not
touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink
of that which the young men have drawn.
Ruth 2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the
ground, and said unto him, Why have I found favor in thy sight, that
thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
Ruth 2:11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been
showed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the
death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy
mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people that
thou knewest not heretofore.
Ruth 2:12 Jehovah recompense thy work, and a full reward be given
thee of Jehovah, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come
to take refuge.
Ruth 2:13 Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord, for
that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken kindly
unto thy handmaid, though I be not as one of thy handmaidens.
Ruth 2:14 And at meal-time Boaz said unto her, Come hither, and
eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside
the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she did eat, and
was sufficed, and left thereof.
Ruth 2:15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded
his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and
reproach her not.
Ruth 2:16 And also pull out some for her from the bundles, and
leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.
Ruth 2:17 So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out
that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth 2:18 And she took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-
in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to
her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
Ruth 2:19 And her mother-in-law said unto her, Where hast thou
gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that did
take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law with
whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I
wrought to-day is Boaz.
Ruth 2:20 And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he
of Jehovah, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the
dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is nigh of kin unto us, one
of our near kinsmen.
Ruth 2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, Yea, he said unto me, Thou
shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my
harvest.
Ruth 2:22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good,
my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that they meet
thee not in any other field.
Ruth 2:23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean unto the
end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her
mother-in-law.
Ruth 3
Ruth 3:1 And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her, My daughter,
shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
Ruth 3:2 And now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens
thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-
floor.
Ruth 3:3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy
raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the threshing-floor, but make
not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and
drinking.
Ruth 3:4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark
the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his
feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
Ruth 3:5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest I will do.
Ruth 3:6 And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did
according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
Ruth 3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was
merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain: and she
came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
Ruth 3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid,
and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth
thy handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou
art a near kinsman.
Ruth 3:10 And he said, Blessed be thou of Jehovah, my daughter:
thou hast showed more kindness in the latter end than at the
beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor
or rich.
Ruth 3:11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that
thou sayest; for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a
worthy woman.
Ruth 3:12 And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there
is a kinsman nearer than I.
Ruth 3:13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he
will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the
kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee,
then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as Jehovah liveth: lie
down until the morning.
Ruth 3:14 And she lay at his feet until the morning. And she rose up
before one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known
that the woman came to the threshing-floor.
Ruth 3:15 And he said, Bring the mantle that is upon thee, and hold
it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid
it on her: and he went into the city.
Ruth 3:16 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who
art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to
her.
Ruth 3:17 And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me;
for he said, Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.
Ruth 3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how
the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he have finished
the thing this day.
Ruth 4
Ruth 4:1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there:
and, behold, the near 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.
Ruth 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit
ye down here. And they sat down.
Ruth 4:3 And he said unto the near kinsman, Naomi, that is come
again out of the country of Moab, selleth the parcel of land, which
was our brother Elimelech's:
Ruth 4:4 And I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying, Buy it before
them that sit here, 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 besides thee; and I am after
thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
Ruth 4:5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand
of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of
the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Ruth 4:6 And the near kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself,
lest I mar mine own inheritance: take thou my right of redemption on
thee; for I cannot redeem it.
Ruth 4:7 Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel
concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all
things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this
was the [manner of] attestation in Israel.
Ruth 4:8 So the near kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thyself. And
he drew off his shoe.
Ruth 4:9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye
are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's,
and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
Ruth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I
purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his
inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his
brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Ruth 4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders,
said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into
thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of
Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in
Bethlehem:
Ruth 4:12 and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar
bare unto Judah, of the seed which Jehovah shall give thee of this
young woman.
Ruth 4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went
in unto her, and Jehovah gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ruth 4:14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be Jehovah,
who hath not left thee this day without a near kinsman; and let his
name be famous in Israel.
Ruth 4:15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a
nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee,
who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
Ruth 4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and
became nurse unto it.
Ruth 4:17 And the women her neighbors 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.
Ruth 4:18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begat
Hezron,
Ruth 4:19 and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
Ruth 4:20 and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat
Salmon,
Ruth 4:21 and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Ruth 4:22 and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
1 Samuel
1 Samuel 1
1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of
the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of
Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an
Ephraimite:
1 Samuel 1:2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was
Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children,
but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel 1:3 And this man went up out of his city from year to year
to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the
two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were
there.
1 Samuel 1:4 And when the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he
gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters,
portions:
1 Samuel 1:5 but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved
Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:6 And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret,
because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:7 And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to
the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and
did not eat.
1 Samuel 1:8 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why
weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved?
am not I better to thee than ten sons?
1 Samuel 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and
after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting upon his seat by
the door-post of the temple of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto
Jehovah, and wept sore.
1 Samuel 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of hosts,
if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and
remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give unto thy
handmaid a man-child, then I will give him unto Jehovah all the days
of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Samuel 1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before
Jehovah, that Eli marked her mouth.
1 Samuel 1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips
moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had
been drunken.
1 Samuel 1:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be
drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
1 Samuel 1:15 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 I poured out my soul before Jehovah.
1 Samuel 1:16 Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out
of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken
hitherto.
1 Samuel 1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace; and the God
of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
1 Samuel 1:18 And she said, Let thy handmaid find favor in thy
sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat; and her countenance
was no more [sad].
1 Samuel 1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and
worshipped before Jehovah, and returned, and came to their house to
Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Jehovah
remembered her.
1 Samuel 1:20 And it came to pass, when the time was come about,
that Hannah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name
Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to
offer unto Jehovah the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
1 Samuel 1:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her
husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will
bring him, that he may appear before Jehovah, and there abide for
ever.
1 Samuel 1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what
seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only Jehovah
establish his word. So the woman tarried and gave her son suck, until
she weaned him.
1 Samuel 1:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with
her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine,
and brought him unto the house of Jehovah in Shiloh: and the child
was young.
1 Samuel 1:25 And they slew the bullock, and brought the child to
Eli.
1 Samuel 1:26 And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord,
I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto Jehovah.
1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and Jehovah hath given me
my petition which I asked of him:
1 Samuel 1:28 therefore also I have granted him to Jehovah; as long
as he liveth he is granted to Jehovah. And he worshipped Jehovah
there.
1 Samuel 2
1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exulteth in
Jehovah; My horn is exalted in Jehovah; My mouth is enlarged over
mine enemies; Because I rejoice in thy salvation.
1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as Jehovah; For there is none
besides thee, Neither is there any rock like our God.
1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy
come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by
him actions are weighed.
1 Samuel 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that
stumbled are girded with strength.
1 Samuel 2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for
bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: Yea, the
barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children
languisheth.
1 Samuel 2:6 Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to
Sheol, and bringeth up.
1 Samuel 2:7 Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth
low, he also lifteth up.
1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the
needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit
the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, And he
hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked
shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man
prevail.
1 Samuel 2:10 They that strive with Jehovah shall be broken to
pieces; Against them will he thunder in heaven: Jehovah will judge
the ends of the earth; And he will give strength unto his king, And
exalt the horn of his anointed.
1 Samuel 2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the
child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not
Jehovah.
1 Samuel 2:13 And the custom of the priests with the people was,
that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while
the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;
1 Samuel 2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or
pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So
they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
1 Samuel 2:15 Yea, 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 boiled flesh of thee, but raw.
1 Samuel 2:16 And if the man said unto him, They will surely burn
the fat first, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would
say, Nay, but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by
force.
1 Samuel 2:17 And the sin of the young men was very great before
Jehovah; for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 2:18 But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child,
girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and
brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her
husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
1 Samuel 2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said,
Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the petition which was
asked of Jehovah. And they went unto their own home.
1 Samuel 2:21 And Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and
bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before
Jehovah.
1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons
did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did
service at the door of the tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I
hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
1 Samuel 2:24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye
make Jehovah's people to transgress.
1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him;
but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall entreat for him?
Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father,
because Jehovah was minded to slay them.
1 Samuel 2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor
both with Jehovah, and also with men.
1 Samuel 2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto
him, Thus saith Jehovah, Did I reveal myself unto the house of thy
father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?
1 Samuel 2:28 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to
be my priest, to go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an
ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the
offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
1 Samuel 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine
offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honorest
thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the
offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 2:30 Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said
indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before
me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that
honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly
esteemed.
1 Samuel 2:31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm,
and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in
thy house.
1 Samuel 2:32 And thou shalt behold the affliction of [my]
habitation, in all the wealth which [God] shall give Israel; and there
shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
1 Samuel 2:33 And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from
mine altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart;
and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Samuel 2:34 And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come
upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die
both of them.
1 Samuel 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do
according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will
build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for
ever.
1 Samuel 2:36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in
thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a
loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the
priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
1 Samuel 3
1 Samuel 3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto Jehovah before
Eli. And the word of Jehovah was precious in those days; there was
no frequent vision.
1 Samuel 3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid
down in his place (now his eyes had begun to wax dim, so that he
could not see),
1 Samuel 3:3 and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel
was laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Jehovah, where the ark of
God was;
1 Samuel 3:4 that Jehovah called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
1 Samuel 3:5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou
calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went
and lay down.
1 Samuel 3:6 And Jehovah called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel
arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And
he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
1 Samuel 3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know Jehovah, neither was
the word of Jehovah yet revealed unto him.
1 Samuel 3:8 And Jehovah called Samuel again the third time. And
he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me.
And Eli perceived that Jehovah had called the child.
1 Samuel 3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it
shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Jehovah; for thy
servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 3:10 And Jehovah came, and stood, and called as at other
times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for thy servant
heareth.
1 Samuel 3:11 And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing
in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall
tingle.
1 Samuel 3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have
spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end.
1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for
ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a
curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.
1 Samuel 3:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that
the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor
offering for ever.
1 Samuel 3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the
doors of the house of Jehovah. And Samuel feared to show Eli the
vision.
1 Samuel 3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son.
And he said, Here am I.
1 Samuel 3:17 And he said, What is the thing that [Jehovah] hath
spoken unto thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me: God do so to thee,
and more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that he
spake unto thee.
1 Samuel 3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing
from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what seemeth him
good.
1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and Jehovah was with him, and
did let none of his words fall to the ground.
1 Samuel 3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that
Samuel was established to be a prophet of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 3:21 And Jehovah appeared again in Shiloh; for Jehovah
revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 4
1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel
went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-
ezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
1 Samuel 4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against
Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the
Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand
men.
1 Samuel 4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the
elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day
before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah
out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of
the hand of our enemies.
1 Samuel 4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from
thence the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sitteth
[above] the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came
into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth
rang again.
1 Samuel 4:6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout,
they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of
the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of Jehovah was come
into the camp.
1 Samuel 4:7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is
come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not
been such a thing heretofore.
1 Samuel 4:8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of
these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with
all manner of plagues in the wilderness.
1 Samuel 4:9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye
Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have
been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten,
and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great
slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Samuel 4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of
Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and
came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent, and with earth
upon his head.
1 Samuel 4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli was sitting upon his 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.
1 Samuel 4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said,
What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man hasted, and
came and told Eli.
1 Samuel 4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes
were set, so that he could not see.
1 Samuel 4:16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of
the army, and I fled to-day out of the army. And he said, How went
the matter, my son?
1 Samuel 4:17 And he that brought the tidings 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.
1 Samuel 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the
ark of God, that [Eli] feel from off his 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.
1 Samuel 4:19 And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with
child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the
ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband
were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came
upon her.
1 Samuel 4:20 And about the time of her death the women that stood
by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast brought forth a son. But
she answered not, neither did she regard it.
1 Samuel 4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory
is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and
because of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for
the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel 5
1 Samuel 5:1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they
brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
1 Samuel 5:2 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it
into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow,
behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark
of Jehovah. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1 Samuel 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning,
behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark
of Jehovah; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands
[lay] cut off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left
to him.
1 Samuel 5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that
come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod,
unto this day.
1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of
Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even
Ashdod and the borders thereof.
1 Samuel 5:7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they
said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand
is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
1 Samuel 5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the
Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the
God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be
carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel
[thither].
1 Samuel 5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the
hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture:
and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors
brake out upon them.
1 Samuel 5:10 So 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.
1 Samuel 5:11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords
of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that is slay us not, and our
people. For there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city;
the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel 5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the
tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
1 Samuel 6
1 Samuel 6:1 And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the
Philistines seven months.
1 Samuel 6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the
diviners, saying, What shall we do with the ark of Jehovah? show us
wherewith we shall sent it to its place.
1 Samuel 6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of
Israel, send it not empty; but by all means 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.
1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass-offering
which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden tumors, 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.
1 Samuel 6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your tumors, 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.
1 Samuel 6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the
Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought
wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they
departed?
1 Samuel 6:7 Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and
two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke; and tie the kine to
the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Jehovah, 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.
1 Samuel 6:9 And see; if it goeth up by the way of its own border 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.
1 Samuel 6:10 And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied
them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;
1 Samuel 6:11 and they put the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the
coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
1 Samuel 6:12 And the kine took the straight way by the way to
Beth-shemesh; they 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.
1 Samuel 6:13 And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat
harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark,
and rejoiced to see it.
1 Samuel 6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-
shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they
clave the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine for a burnt-
offering unto Jehovah.
1 Samuel 6:15 And the Levites took down the ark of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
1 Samuel 6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it,
they returned to Ekron the same day.
1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines
returned for a trespass-offering unto Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for
Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
1 Samuel 6:18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all
the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of
fortified cities and of country villages, even unto the great stone,
whereon they set down the ark of Jehovah, [which stone remaineth]
unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because
they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people
seventy men, [and] fifty thousand men; and the people mourned,
because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to
stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up
from us?
1 Samuel 6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of
Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of
Jehovah; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel 7
1 Samuel 7:1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came, and fetched up
the ark of Jehovah, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the
hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 7:2 And it came to pass, from the day that the ark abode in
Kiriath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all
the house of Israel lamented after Jehovah.
1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying,
If ye do return unto Jehovah with all your heart, then put away the
foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your
hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out
of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim
and the Ashtaroth, and served Jehovah only.
1 Samuel 7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I
will pray for you unto Jehovah.
1 Samuel 7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water,
and poured it out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said
there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the
children of Israel in Mizpah.
1 Samuel 7:7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of
Israel were gathered together to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines
went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they
were afraid of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to
cry unto Jehovah our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand
of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a
whole burnt-offering unto Jehovah: and Samuel cried unto Jehovah
for Israel; and Jehovah answered him.
1 Samuel 7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the
Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but Jehovah thundered
with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited
them; and they were smitten down before Israel.
1 Samuel 7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and
pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-
car.
1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah
and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath
Jehovah helped us.
1 Samuel 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no
more within the border of Israel: and the hand of Jehovah was against
the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1 Samuel 7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from
Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the
border thereof did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines.
And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1 Samuel 7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Samuel 7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el
and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
1 Samuel 7:17 And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house;
and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar unto Jehovah.
1 Samuel 8
1 Samuel 8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he
made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel 8:2 Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name
of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside
after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves
together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah;
1 Samuel 8:5 and they 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.
1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give
us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto Jehovah.
1 Samuel 8:7 And Jehovah 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 be king over them.
1 Samuel 8:8 According to all the works which they have done since
the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that
they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto
thee.
1 Samuel 8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou
shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt show them the manner of
the king that shall reign over them.
1 Samuel 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the
people that asked of him a king.
1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that
shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto
him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run
before his chariots;
1 Samuel 8:12 and he will appoint them unto him for captains of
thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his
ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war,
and the instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and
to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and
your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:16 And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-
servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them
to his work.
1 Samuel 8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be
his servants.
1 Samuel 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king
whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in
that day.
1 Samuel 8:19 But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of
Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,
1 Samuel 8:20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our
king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1 Samuel 8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he
rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 8:22 And Jehovah 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.
1 Samuel 9
1 Samuel 9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was
Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son
of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
1 Samuel 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a 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.
1 Samuel 9:3 And the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And
Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and
arise, go seek the asses.
1 Samuel 9:4 And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim,
and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found them not:
then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they were
not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found
them not.
1 Samuel 9:5 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 off caring for the asses, and be anxious for us.
1 Samuel 9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city
a man of God, and he is a man that is held in honor; all that he saith
cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can tell
us concerning our journey whereon we go.
1 Samuel 9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go,
what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels,
and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
1 Samuel 9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold,
I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give
to the man of God, to tell us our way.
1 Samuel 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of
God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he that is now
called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
1 Samuel 9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us
go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
1 Samuel 9:11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found
young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the
seer here?
1 Samuel 9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he
is] before thee: make haste now, for he is come to-day into the city;
for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place:
1 Samuel 9:13 as soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall
straightway find him, before he goeth 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 are bidden. Now therefore get
you up; for at this time ye shall find him.
1 Samuel 9:14 And they went up to the city; [and] as they came
within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the
high place.
1 Samuel 9:15 Now Jehovah had revealed unto Samuel a day before
Saul came, saying,
1 Samuel 9:16 To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out
of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be prince over
my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the
Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is
come unto me.
1 Samuel 9:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, Jehovah said unto him,
Behold, the man of whom I spake to thee! this same shall have
authority over my people.
1 Samuel 9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said,
Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.
1 Samuel 9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer;
go up before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat with me to-day:
and in the morning I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in
thy heart.
1 Samuel 9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago,
set not they mind on them; for they are found. And for whom is all
that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for thee, and for all thy father's
house?
1 Samuel 9:21 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite,
of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all
the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou to
me after this manner?
1 Samuel 9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought
them into the guest-chamber, and made them sit in the chiefest place
among them that were bidden, who were about thirty persons.
1 Samuel 9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion
which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
1 Samuel 9:24 And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was
upon it, and set it before Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold, that which
hath been reserved! set it before thee and eat; because unto the
appointed time hath it been kept for thee, for I said, I have invited the
people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
1 Samuel 9:25 And when they were come down from the high place
into the city, he communed with Saul upon the housetop.
1 Samuel 9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the
spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying,
Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out
both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
1 Samuel 9:27 As they were going down at the end of the city,
Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed
on), but stand thou still first, that I may cause thee to hear the word of
God.
1 Samuel 10
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon
his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not that Jehovah hath
anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance?
1 Samuel 10:2 When thou art departed from me to-day, then thou
shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre, in the border of Benjamin
at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest
to seek are found; and, lo, thy father hath left off caring for the asses,
and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1 Samuel 10:3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou
shalt come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet thee there 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:
1 Samuel 10:4 and they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of
bread, which thou shalt receive of their hand.
1 Samuel 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is
the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou
art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets
coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and
a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
1 Samuel 10:6 and the Spirit of Jehovah will come mightily upon
thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into
another man.
1 Samuel 10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee,
that thou do as occasion shall serve thee; for God is with thee.
1 Samuel 10:8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and,
behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt-offerings, and to
sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till
I come unto thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.
1 Samuel 10:9 And it was so, that, when he had turned his back to go
from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came
to pass that day.
1 Samuel 10:10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a
band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily upon
him, and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him
beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied with 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?
1 Samuel 10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, And
who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also
among the prophets?
1 Samuel 10:13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he
came to the high place.
1 Samuel 10:14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant,
Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses; and when we saw
that they were not found, we came to Samuel.
1 Samuel 10:15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what
Samuel said unto you.
1 Samuel 10:16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that
the asses were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom,
whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
1 Samuel 10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto Jehovah
to Mizpah;
1 Samuel 10:18 and he said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I
delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
1 Samuel 10:19 but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself
saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and ye have
said unto him, [Nay], but set a king over us. Now therefore present
yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes, and by your thousands.
1 Samuel 10:20 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and
the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
1 Samuel 10:21 And he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their
families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son
of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.
1 Samuel 10:22 Therefore they asked of Jehovah further, Is there yet
a man to come hither? And Jehovah answered, Behold, he hath hid
himself among the baggage.
1 Samuel 10:23 And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he
stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from
his shoulders and upward.
1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom
Jehovah hath chosen, that there is none like him along all the people?
And all the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
1 Samuel 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the
kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Jehovah. And
Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel 10:26 And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there
went with him the host, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel 10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this
man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no present.
But he held his peace.
1 Samuel 11
1 Samuel 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.
1 Samuel 11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them, On this
condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out;
and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
1 Samuel 11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven
days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of
Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to thee.
1 Samuel 11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and
spake these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted
up their voice, and wept.
1 Samuel 11:5 And, behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the
field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they
told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel 11:6 And the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when
he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.
1 Samuel 11:7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces,
and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of
messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after
Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the dread of Jehovah
fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
1 Samuel 11:8 And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of
Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty
thousand.
1 Samuel 11:9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus
shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, To-morrow, by the time
the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance. And the messengers came
and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
1 Samuel 11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To-morrow we
will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good
unto you.
1 Samuel 11:11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the
people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp
in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until the heat of the
day: and it came to pass, that they that remained were scattered, so
that not two of them were left together.
1 Samuel 11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that
said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them
to death.
1 Samuel 11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death
this day; for to-day Jehovah hath wrought deliverance in Israel.
1 Samuel 11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go
to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they
made Saul king before Jehovah in Gilgal; and there they offered
sacrifices of peace-offerings before Jehovah; and there Saul and all
the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
1 Samuel 12
1 Samuel 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.
1 Samuel 12:2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I
am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I
have walked before you from my youth unto this day.
1 Samuel 12:3 Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, 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 taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and
I will restore it you.
1 Samuel 12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor
oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
1 Samuel 12:5 And he said unto them, Jehovah is witness against
you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found
aught in my hand. And they said, He is witness.
1 Samuel 12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is Jehovah that
appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of
the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you
before Jehovah concerning all the righteous acts of Jehovah, which
he did to you and to your fathers.
1 Samuel 12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers
cried unto Jehovah, then Jehovah sent Moses and Aaron, who
brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in
this place.
1 Samuel 12:9 But they forgat Jehovah their God; and 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.
1 Samuel 12:10 And they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We have
sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the
Baalim and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our
enemies, and we will serve thee.
1 Samuel 12:11 And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and
Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your
enemies on every side; and ye dwelt in safety.
1 Samuel 12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the
children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay, but a
king shall reign over us; when Jehovah your God was your king.
1 Samuel 12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have
chosen, and whom ye have asked for: and, behold, Jehovah hath set a
king over you.
1 Samuel 12:14 If ye will fear Jehovah, and serve him, and hearken
unto his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Jehovah,
and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you be followers of
Jehovah your God, [well]:
1 Samuel 12:15 but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah,
but rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, then will the hand of
Jehovah be against you, as it was against your fathers.
1 Samuel 12:16 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing,
which Jehovah will do before your eyes.
1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to-day? I will call unto
Jehovah, that he may send thunder and rain; and ye shall know and
see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of
Jehovah, in asking you a king.
1 Samuel 12:18 So Samuel called unto Jehovah; and Jehovah sent
thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Jehovah
and Samuel.
1 Samuel 12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy
servants unto Jehovah thy God, that we die not; for we have added
unto all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
1 Samuel 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not; ye have
indeed done all this evil; yet turn not aside from following Jehovah,
but serve Jehovah with all your heart:
1 Samuel 12:21 and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] after
vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
1 Samuel 12:22 For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great
name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people
unto himself.
1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should
sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you
in the good and the right way.
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all
your heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.
1 Samuel 12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be
consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel 13
1 Samuel 13:1 Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign;
and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
1 Samuel 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, whereof
two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the mount of 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.
1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines
that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the
trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1 Samuel 13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten the
garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in
abomination with the Philistines. And the people were gathered
together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines assembled 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 encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait
(for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves
in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
1 Samuel 13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan
to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal,
and all the people followed him trembling.
1 Samuel 13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time
that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the
people were scattered from him.
1 Samuel 13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither the burnt-offering to me,
and the peace-offerings. And he offered the burnt-offering.
1 Samuel 13:10 And it came to pass that, as soon as he had made an
end of offering the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul
went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
1 Samuel 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul
said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that
thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines
assembled themselves together at Michmash;
1 Samuel 13:12 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down
upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of Jehovah: I
forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering.
1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly;
thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God, which he
commanded thee: for now would Jehovah have established thy
kingdom upon Israel for ever.
1 Samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah
hath sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah hath
appointed him to be prince over his people, because thou hast not
kept that which Jehovah commanded thee.
1 Samuel 13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto
Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were
present with him, about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that
were present with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the
Philistines encamped in Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the
Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that
leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;
1 Samuel 13:18 and another company turned the way to Beth-horon;
and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down
upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1 Samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the
land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them
swords or spears:
1 Samuel 13:20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his
mattock;
1 Samuel 13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the
coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
1 Samuel 13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that
were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son
was there found.
1 Samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the
pass of Michmash.
1 Samuel 14
1 Samuel 14:1 Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul
said unto the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go
over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not
his father.
1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under
the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron: and the people that were
with him were about six hundred men;
1 Samuel 14:3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the
son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Jehovah in Shiloh,
wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
1 Samuel 14:4 And between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to
go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the
one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one
was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
1 Samuel 14:5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of
Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his
armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these
uncircumcised: it may be that Jehovah will work for us; for there is
no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.
1 Samuel 14:7 And his armorbearer said unto him, Do all that is in
thy heart: turn thee, behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
1 Samuel 14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto
the men, and we will disclose ourselves unto them.
1 Samuel 14:9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you;
then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
1 Samuel 14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will
go up; for Jehovah hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall
be the sign unto us.
1 Samuel 14:11 And both of them disclosed 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.
1 Samuel 14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and
his armorbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a
thing. And Jonathan said unto his armorbearer, Come up after me; for
Jehovah hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1 Samuel 14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon
his feet, and his armorbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan;
and his armorbearer slew them after him.
1 Samuel 14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his
armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a
furrow's length in an acre of land.
1 Samuel 14:15 And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field,
and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also
trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great
trembling.
1 Samuel 14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin
looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went
[hither] and thither.
1 Samuel 14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him,
Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had
numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armorbearer were not there.
1 Samuel 14:18 And Saul said unto Ahijah, Bring hither the ark of
God. For the ark of God was [there] at that time with the children of
Israel.
1 Samuel 14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the
priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on
and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thy hand.
1 Samuel 14:20 And Saul and all the people that were with him were
gathered together, and came to the battle: and, behold, every man's
sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great
discomfiture.
1 Samuel 14:21 Now the Hebrews that were with the Philistines as
beforetime, and that 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.
1 Samuel 14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel that had hid
themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the
Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
1 Samuel 14:23 So Jehovah saved Israel that day: and the battle
passed over by Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for
Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth
any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on mine enemies. So
none of the people tasted food.
1 Samuel 14:25 And all the people came into the forest; and there
was honey upon the ground.
1 Samuel 14:26 And when the people were come unto the forest,
behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for
the people feared the oath.
1 Samuel 14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the
people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that
was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to
his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1 Samuel 14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy
father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the
man that eateth food this day. And the people were faint.
1 Samuel 14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the
land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because
I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Samuel 14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten
freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now
hath there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.
1 Samuel 14:31 And they smote of the Philistines that day from
Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;
1 Samuel 14:32 and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep,
and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people
did eat them with the blood.
1 Samuel 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin
against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, ye have
dealt treacherously: roll a great stone unto me this day.
1 Samuel 14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the
people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and
every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against
Jehovah in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every
man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
1 Samuel 14:35 And Saul built an altar unto Jehovah: the same was
the first altar that he built unto Jehovah.
1 Samuel 14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines
by night, and take spoil among 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.
1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down
after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?
But he answered him not that day.
1 Samuel 14:38 And Saul said, Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the
people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
1 Samuel 14:39 For, as Jehovah liveth, who 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.
1 Samuel 14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I
and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said
unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
1 Samuel 14:41 Therefore Saul said unto Jehovah, the God of Israel,
Show the right. And Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the
people escaped.
1 Samuel 14:42 And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan
my son. And Jonathan was taken.
1 Samuel 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast
done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little
honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, lo, I must
die.
1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul said, God do so and more also; for thou
shalt surely die, Jonathan.
1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die,
who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as
Jehovah 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.
1 Samuel 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines;
and the Philistines went to their own place.
1 Samuel 14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel,
he 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 put [them] to the worse.
1 Samuel 14:48 And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and
delivered Israel out of the hands of them that despoiled them.
1 Samuel 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and
Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name
of the first-born Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1 Samuel 14:50 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the
daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the captain of his host was
Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
1 Samuel 14:51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father
of Abner was the son of Abiel.
1 Samuel 14:52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the
days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant
man, he took him unto him.
1 Samuel 15
1 Samuel 15:1 And Samuel said unto Saul, Jehovah sent me to
anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore
hearken thou unto the voice of the words of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 15:2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I have marked that which
Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way,
when he came up out of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that
they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant
and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 Samuel 15:4 And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them
in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of
Judah.
1 Samuel 15:5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in
the valley.
1 Samuel 15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you
down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for
ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up
out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou
goest to Shur, that is before Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive,
and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of
the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all
that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything
that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel 15:10 Then came the word of Jehovah unto Samuel,
saying,
1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for
he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my
commandments. And Samuel was wroth; and he cried unto Jehovah
all night.
1 Samuel 15:12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning;
and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he
set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to
Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:13 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him,
Blessed be thou of Jehovah: I have performed the commandment of
Jehovah.
1 Samuel 15:14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating
of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
1 Samuel 15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the
Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the
oxen, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God; and the rest we have utterly
destroyed.
1 Samuel 15:16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell
thee what Jehovah hath said to me this night. And he said unto him,
Say on.
1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said, Though thou wast little in thine
own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And
Jehovah anointed thee king over Israel;
1 Samuel 15:18 and Jehovah sent thee on a journey, and said, Go,
and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them
until they be consumed.
1 Samuel 15:19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of
Jehovah, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in
the sight of Jehovah?
1 Samuel 15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the
voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and
have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed
the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the
chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in
Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in
burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of
rams.
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and
stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected
the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
1 Samuel 15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned; for I have
transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words, because I
feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel 15:25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn
again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.
1 Samuel 15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with
thee; for thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah hath
rejected thee from being king over Israel.
1 Samuel 15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid
hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said unto him, Jehovah hath rent the
kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor
of thine, that is better than thou.
1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor
repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I
pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn
again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.
1 Samuel 15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul
worshipped Jehovah.
1 Samuel 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the
king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him cheerfully. And
Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women
childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And
Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to
his house to Gibeah of Saul.
1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day
of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Jehovah repented that
he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel 16
1 Samuel 16:1 And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou
mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over
Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the
Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he
will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am
come to sacrifice to Jehovah.
1 Samuel 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee
what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name
unto thee.
1 Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which Jehovah spake, and came
to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him
trembling, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
1 Samuel 16:5 And he said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto
Jehovah: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And
he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1 Samuel 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he
looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah's anointed is before him.
1 Samuel 16:7 But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected
him: for [Jehovah seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the
outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass
before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath Jehovah chosen this.
1 Samuel 16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said,
Neither hath Jehovah chosen this.
1 Samuel 16:10 And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before
Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Jehovah hath not chosen these.
1 Samuel 16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy
children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and,
behold, he is keeping the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send
and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.
1 Samuel 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy,
and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look upon. And
Jehovah said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him
in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily
upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to
Ramah.
1 Samuel 16:14 Now the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and
an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.
1 Samuel 16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an
evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
1 Samuel 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, that are
before thee, to seek out a man who is a skilful player on the 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.
1 Samuel 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a
man that can play well, and bring him to me.
1 Samuel 16:18 Then answered one of the young men, and said,
Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in
playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in
speech, and a comely person; and Jehovah is with him.
1 Samuel 16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and
said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.
1 Samuel 16:20 And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a
bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1 Samuel 16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and
he loved him greatly; and he became his armorbearer.
1 Samuel 16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray
thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.
1 Samuel 16:23 And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God
was upon Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so
Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from
him.
1 Samuel 17
1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to
battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongeth to
Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-
dammim.
1 Samuel 17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered
together, and encamped in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array
against the Philistines.
1 Samuel 17:3 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one
side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there
was a valley between them.
1 Samuel 17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the
Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and
a span.
1 Samuel 17:5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he
was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five
thousand shekels of brass.
1 Samuel 17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a
javelin of brass between his shoulders.
1 Samuel 17:7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam;
and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his
shield-bearer went before him.
1 Samuel 17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and
said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am
not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you,
and let him come down to me.
1 Samuel 17:9 If he be able to fight with me, and 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.
1 Samuel 17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel
this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel 17:11 And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of
the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-
lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the
man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among
men.
1 Samuel 17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after
Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the
battle were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the
third Shammah.
1 Samuel 17:14 And David was the youngest; and the three eldest
followed Saul.
1 Samuel 17:15 Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his
father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
1 Samuel 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening,
and presented himself forty days.
1 Samuel 17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy
brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and
carry [them] quickly to the camp to thy brethren;
1 Samuel 17:18 and bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their
thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
1 Samuel 17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were
in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
1 Samuel 17:0 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 place of the wagons, as the host which was
going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
1 Samuel 17:21 And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array,
army against army.
1 Samuel 17:22 And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper
of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and saluted his
brethren.
1 Samuel 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up
the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the
ranks of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and
David heard them.
1 Samuel 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man,
fled from him, and were sore afraid.
1 Samuel 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man
that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be,
that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great
riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house
free in Israel.
1 Samuel 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him,
saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and
taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised
Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Samuel 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner,
saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
1 Samuel 17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake
unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he
said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those
few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of
thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
1 Samuel 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not
a cause?
1 Samuel 17:30 And he turned away from him toward another, and
spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again
after the former manner.
1 Samuel 17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake,
they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
1 Samuel 17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail
because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go
against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and
he a man of war from his youth.
1 Samuel 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant was keeping
his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a
lamb out of the flock,
1 Samuel 17:35 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.
1 Samuel 17:36 Thy servant smote 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.
1 Samuel 17:37 And David said, Jehovah 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
Jehovah shall be with thee.
1 Samuel 17:38 And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a
helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
1 Samuel 17:39 And David girded his sword upon his apparel, 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.
1 Samuel 17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five
smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag
which he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and
he drew near to the Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto
David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
1 Samuel 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw
David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and
withal of a fair countenance.
1 Samuel 17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that
thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by
his gods.
1 Samuel 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I
will give thy flesh unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of
the field.
1 Samuel 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to
me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to
thee in the name of Jehovah of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom thou hast defied.
1 Samuel 17:46 This day will Jehovah deliver thee into my hand; and
I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the
dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day unto the birds of the
heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel,
1 Samuel 17:47 and that all this assembly may know that Jehovah
saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is Jehovah's, and he
will give you into our hand.
1 Samuel 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and
came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran
toward the army to meet the Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a
stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the
stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling
and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there
was no sword in the hand of David.
1 Samuel 17:51 Then David ran, and stood over 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 that
their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Samuel 17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and
shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to Gai, 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.
1 Samuel 17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing
after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
1 Samuel 17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and
brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
1 Samuel 17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the
Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose
son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I
cannot tell.
1 Samuel 17:56 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the
stripling is.
1 Samuel 17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the
head of the Philistine in his hand.
1 Samuel 17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou
young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse
the Beth-lehemite.
1 Samuel 18
1 Samuel 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.
1 Samuel 18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no
more home to his father's house.
1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because
he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was
upon him, and gave it to David, and his apparel, even to his sword,
and to his bow, and to his girdle.
1 Samuel 18:5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
[and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war,
and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of
Saul's servants.
1 Samuel 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David
returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came
out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul,
with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.
1 Samuel 18:7 And the women sang one to another as they played,
and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel 18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and this 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?
1 Samuel 18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
1 Samuel 18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil
spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he prophesied in the
midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by
day. And Saul had his spear in his hand;
1 Samuel 18:11 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will smite
David even to the wall. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
1 Samuel 18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because Jehovah was
with him, and was departed from Saul.
1 Samuel 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made
him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before
the people.
1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways;
and Jehovah was with him.
1 Samuel 18:15 And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very
wisely, he stood in awe of him.
1 Samuel 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out
and came in before them.
1 Samuel 18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter
Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and
fight Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him,
but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
1 Samuel 18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is
my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law
to the king?
1 Samuel 18:19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's
daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given unto
Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
1 Samuel 18:20 And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they
told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a
snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a
second time.
1 Samuel 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, [saying],
Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight
in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's
son-in-law.
1 Samuel 18:23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of
David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the
king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
1 Samuel 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this
manner spake David.
1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king
desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to
be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David
fall by the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it
pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not
expired;
1 Samuel 18:27 and 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 number to the king, that he
might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his
daughter to wife.
1 Samuel 18:28 And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with
David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.
1 Samuel 18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul
was David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it
came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself
more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much
set by.
1 Samuel 19
1 Samuel 19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his
servants, that they should slay David. But Jonathan, Saul's son,
delighted much in David.
1 Samuel 19:2 And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father
seeketh to slay thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself
in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
1 Samuel 19:3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the
field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and
if I see aught, I will tell thee.
1 Samuel 19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his
father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant,
against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because
his works have been to thee-ward very good:
1 Samuel 19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and smote the
Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou
sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Samuel 19:6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and
Saul sware, As Jehovah liveth, he shall not be put to death.
1 Samuel 19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him
all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in
his presence, as beforetime.
1 Samuel 19:8 And there was war again: and David went out, and
fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and
they fled before him.
1 Samuel 19:9 And an evil spirit from Jehovah was upon Saul, as he
sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing
with his hand.
1 Samuel 19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall
with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he
smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 19:11 And Saul 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
wilt be slain.
1 Samuel 19:12 So Michal let David down through the window: and
he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed,
and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head thereof, and covered it
with the clothes.
1 Samuel 19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she
said, He is sick.
1 Samuel 19:15 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying,
Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
1 Samuel 19:16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the
teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head
thereof.
1 Samuel 19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived
me thus, and let mine enemy go, so that he is escaped? And Michal
answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
1 Samuel 19:18 Now 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.
1 Samuel 19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at
Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when
they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel
standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the
messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 19:21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other
messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers
again the third time, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great
well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and
David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 19:23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the
Spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied,
until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 19:24 And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also
prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all
that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel 20
1 Samuel 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?
1 Samuel 20:2 And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die:
behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he
discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from
me? it is not so.
1 Samuel 20:3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father
knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let
not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and
death.
1 Samuel 20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul
desireth, I will even do it for thee.
1 Samuel 20:5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is
the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but
let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at
even.
1 Samuel 20:6 If thy father miss me at all, then say, David earnestly
asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city; for it is
the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
1 Samuel 20:7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace:
but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
1 Samuel 20:8 Therefore deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast
brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee: but if there
be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to
thy father?
1 Samuel 20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee; for if I should
at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon
thee, then would not I tell it thee?
1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if
perchance thy father answer thee roughly?
1 Samuel 20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go
out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
1 Samuel 20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, Jehovah, the God of
Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time
to-morrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David,
shall I not then send unto thee, and disclose it unto thee?
1 Samuel 20:13 Jehovah do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it
please my father to do thee evil, if I disclose it not unto thee, and
send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and Jehovah be with
thee, as he hath been with my father.
1 Samuel 20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the
lovingkindness of Jehovah, that I die not;
1 Samuel 20:15 but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my
house for ever; no, not when Jehovah hath cut off the enemies of
David every one from the face of the earth.
1 Samuel 20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of
David, [saying], And Jehovah will require it at the hand of David's
enemies.
1 Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the
love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said unto him, To-morrow is the new
moon: and thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
1 Samuel 20:19 And when thou hast stayed three days, 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.
1 Samuel 20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as
though I shot at a mark.
1 Samuel 20:21 And, behold, I will send the lad, [saying], Go, find
the arrows. If I say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of
thee; take them, and come; for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as
Jehovah liveth.
1 Samuel 20:22 But if I say thus unto the boy, Behold, the arrows are
beyond thee; go thy way; for Jehovah hath sent thee away.
1 Samuel 20:23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have
spoken of, behold, Jehovah is between thee and me for ever.
1 Samuel 20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new
moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
1 Samuel 20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times,
even upon the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat
by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.
1 Samuel 20:26 Nevertheless Saul spake not anything that day: for
he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is
not clean.
1 Samuel 20:27 And it came to pass on the morrow after the new
moon, [which was] the second [day], 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?
1 Samuel 20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked
leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
1 Samuel 20:29 and he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family
hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me
[to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get
away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto
the king's table.
1 Samuel 20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and
he said unto him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do not I
know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and
unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the
ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore
now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
1 Samuel 20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said
unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?
1 Samuel 20:33 And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him;
whereby Jonathan knew that is was determined of his father to put
David to death.
1 Samuel 20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and
did eat no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for
David, because his father had done him shame.
1 Samuel 20:35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan
went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little
lad with him.
1 Samuel 20:36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find now the arrows
which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel 20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the
arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said,
Is not the arrow beyond thee?
1 Samuel 20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste,
stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his
master.
1 Samuel 20:39 But the lad knew not anything: only Jonathan and
David knew the matter.
1 Samuel 20:40 And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and
said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
1 Samuel 20:41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of
[a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and
bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept
one with another, until David exceeded.
1 Samuel 20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch
as we have sworn both of us in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah
shall 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.
1 Samuel 21
1 Samuel 21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and
Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why
art thou alone, and no man with thee?
1 Samuel 21:2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king
hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man
know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I
have commanded thee: and I have appointed the young men to such
and such a place.
1 Samuel 21:3 Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five
loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.
1 Samuel 21:4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no
common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the
young men have kept themselves from women.
1 Samuel 21:5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of
a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I
came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but
a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be
holy?
1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no
bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah,
to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1 Samuel 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there
that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg the
Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.
1 Samuel 21:8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not
here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my
sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required
haste.
1 Samuel 21:9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the
Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale 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.
1 Samuel 21:10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul,
and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1 Samuel 21:11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this
David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in
dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten
thousands?
1 Samuel 21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was
sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
1 Samuel 21:13 And he changed his behavior 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.
1 Samuel 21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the
man is mad; wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
1 Samuel 21:15 Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow
to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my
house?
1 Samuel 22
1 Samuel 22:1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the
cave of Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house
heard it, they went down thither to him.
1 Samuel 22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that
was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered
themselves unto him; and he became captain over them: and there
were with him about four hundred men.
1 Samuel 22:3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he
said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray
thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for
me.
1 Samuel 22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and
they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
1 Samuel 22:5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in
the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then
David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
1 Samuel 22:6 And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the
men that were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the
tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his
servants were standing about him.
1 Samuel 22:7 And 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, will he make you all captains of thousands and
captains of hundreds,
1 Samuel 22:8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is
none that discloseth to me when my son maketh a league with the son
of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or discloseth
unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in
wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the
servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to
Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 22:10 And he inquired of Jehovah for him, and gave him
victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1 Samuel 22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the
son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob:
and they came all of them to the king.
1 Samuel 22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And
he answered, Here I am, my lord.
1 Samuel 22:13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired
against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him
bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should
rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And
who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's
son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy
house?
1 Samuel 22:15 Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it
far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to
all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this,
less or more.
1 Samuel 22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech,
thou, and all thy father's house.
1 Samuel 22:17 And the king said unto the guard that stood about
him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is
with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose
it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to
fall upon the priests of Jehovah.
1 Samuel 22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon
the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the
priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did
wear a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the
edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and
oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel 22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of
Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
1 Samuel 22:21 And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain
Jehovah's priests.
1 Samuel 22:22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew on 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.
1 Samuel 22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my
life seeketh thy life: for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
1 Samuel 23
1 Samuel 23:1 And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines
are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing-floors.
1 Samuel 23:2 Therefore David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I
go and smite these Philistines? And Jehovah said unto David, Go,
and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we are afraid
here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the
armies of the Philistines?
1 Samuel 23:4 Then David inquired of Jehovah yet again. And
Jehovah answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will
deliver the Philistines into thy hand.
1 Samuel 23:5 And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought
with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them
with a great slaughter. So David save the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of
Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod
in his hand.
1 Samuel 23:7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah.
And Saul said, God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut
in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
1 Samuel 23:8 And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go
down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
1 Samuel 23:9 And David knew that Saul was devising mischief
against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the
ephod.
1 Samuel 23:10 Then said David, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, thy
servant hath surely heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to
destroy the city for my sake.
1 Samuel 23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand?
will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Jehovah, the God
of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And Jehovah said, He will
come down.
1 Samuel 23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up
to me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah said, They
will deliver thee up.
1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, who 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.
1 Samuel 23:14 And David abode in the wilderness in the
strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of
Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into
his hand.
1 Samuel 23:15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his
life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
1 Samuel 23:16 And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David
into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
1 Samuel 23:17 And he said unto him, Fear not; for the hand of Saul
my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I
shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
1 Samuel 23:18 And they two made a covenant before Jehovah: and
David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying,
Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood,
in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1 Samuel 23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all
the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver
him up into the king's hand.
1 Samuel 23:21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have
had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 23:22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, 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 subtly.
1 Samuel 23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-
places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a
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 among all the thousands of Judah.
1 Samuel 23:24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but
David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on
the south of the desert.
1 Samuel 23:25 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they
told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the
wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after
David in the wilderness of Maon.
1 Samuel 23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and
David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made
haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed
David and his men round about to take them.
1 Samuel 23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste
thee, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.
1 Samuel 23:28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and
went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-
hammahlekoth.
1 Samuel 23:29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the
strongholds of En-gedi.
1 Samuel 24
1 Samuel 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.
1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all
Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild
goats.
1 Samuel 24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was
a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men
were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
1 Samuel 24:4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold, the day
of which Jehovah said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy
into thy hand, and thou shalt do to him as it shall seem good unto
thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
1 Samuel 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart
smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
1 Samuel 24:6 And he said unto his men, Jehovah forbid that I
should do this thing unto my lord, Jehovah's anointed, to put forth my
hand against him, seeing he is Jehovah's anointed.
1 Samuel 24:7 So David checked his men with these words, and
suffered them not to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the
cave, and went on his way.
1 Samuel 24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave,
and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked
behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did
obeisance.
1 Samuel 24:9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearkenest thou to
men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
1 Samuel 24:10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that
Jehovah had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave: and
some bade me kill thee; but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will
not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Jehovah's anointed.
1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy
robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed
thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression
in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest
after my life to take it.
1 Samuel 24:12 Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah
avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
1 Samuel 24:13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Out of the
wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
1 Samuel 24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after
whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
1 Samuel 24:15 Jehovah therefore be judge, and give sentence
between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me
out of thy hand.
1 Samuel 24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end
of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice,
my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
1 Samuel 24:17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than
I; for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto
thee evil.
1 Samuel 24:18 And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast
dealt well with me, forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up
into thy hand, thou killedst me not.
1 Samuel 24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well
away? wherefore Jehovah reward thee good for that which thou hast
done unto me this day.
1 Samuel 24:20 And now, behold, I know that thou shalt surely be
king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand.
1 Samuel 24:21 Swear now therefore unto me by Jehovah, that thou
wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my
name out of my father's house.
1 Samuel 24:22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home;
but David and his men gat them up unto the stronghold.
1 Samuel 25
1 Samuel 25:1 And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves
together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.
And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1 Samuel 25:2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions
were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep
in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of
his wife Abigail; and the woman was 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.
1 Samuel 25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was
shearing his sheep.
1 Samuel 25:5 And David sent 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:
1 Samuel 25:6 and thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in prosperity],
Peace be unto thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be unto all
that thou hast.
1 Samuel 25:7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: thy
shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither
was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:8 Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee: wherefore
let the young men find favor in thine eyes; for we come in a good
day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy
servants, and to thy son David.
1 Samuel 25:9 And when David's young men came, they spake to
Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
1 Samuel 25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said,
Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants
now-a-days that break away every man from his master.
1 Samuel 25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my
flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom
I know not whence they are?
1 Samuel 25:12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went
back, and came and told him according to all these words.
1 Samuel 25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man
his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also
girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four
hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.
1 Samuel 25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife,
saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute
our master; and he railed at them.
1 Samuel 25:15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were
not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them,
when we were in the fields:
1 Samuel 25:16 they were a wall unto us both by night and by day,
all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do;
for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house:
for he is such a worthless fellow, that one cannot speak to him.
1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred
loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and
five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and
two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
1 Samuel 25:19 And she said unto her young men, Go on before me;
behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:20 And it was so, as she rode on her ass, and came
down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, David and his men
came down toward her; and she met them.
1 Samuel 25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all
that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of
all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
1 Samuel 25:22 God do so unto the enemies of David, and more
also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much
as one man-child.
1 Samuel 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and
alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground.
1 Samuel 25:24 And she fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord,
upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in
thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.
1 Samuel 25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless
fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name,
and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of
my lord, whom thou didst send.
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from
bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now
therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as
Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:27 And now this present which thy servant hath brought
unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
1 Samuel 25:28 Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid:
for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my
lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in
thee all thy days.
1 Samuel 25:29 And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to
seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of
life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall
he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
1 Samuel 25:30 And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall have
done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken
concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over Israel,
1 Samuel 25:31 that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of
heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or
that my lord hath avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall have
dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.
1 Samuel 25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the
God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me:
1 Samuel 25:33 and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou,
that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging
myself with mine own hand.
1 Samuel 25:34 For in very deed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel,
liveth, who hath withholden me from hurting thee, except thou hadst
hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto
Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.
1 Samuel 25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had
brought him: and he said unto her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I
have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a
feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was
merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him
nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
1 Samuel 25:37 And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine
was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his
heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Samuel 25:38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that
Jehovah smote Nabal, so that he died.
1 Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,
Blessed be Jehovah, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from
the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back his servant from evil: and the
evil-doing of Nabal hath Jehovah returned upon his own head. And
David sent and spake concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
1 Samuel 25:40 And when the servants of David were come to
Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David hath sent us
unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
1 Samuel 25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself with her face to
the earth, and said, Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet
of the servants of my lord.
1 Samuel 25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass,
with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the
messengers of David, and became his wife.
1 Samuel 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they
became both of them his wives.
1 Samuel 25:44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's
wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
1 Samuel 26
1 Samuel 26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying,
Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before
the desert?
1 Samuel 26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of
Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek
David in the wilderness of Ziph.
1 Samuel 26:3 And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is
before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and
he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
1 Samuel 26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that
Saul was come of a certainty.
1 Samuel 26:5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul
had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and
Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the
place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.
1 Samuel 26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the
Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying,
Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I
will go down with thee.
1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night:
and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with
his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people
lay round about him.
1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up
thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I
pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not
smite him the second time.
1 Samuel 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who
can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?
1 Samuel 26:10 And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will
smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into
battle and perish.
1 Samuel 26:11 Jehovah forbid that I should put forth my hand
against Jehovah's anointed: but now take, I pray thee, the spear that is
at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from
Saul's head; and they gat them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it,
neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep
from Jehovah was fallen upon them.
1 Samuel 26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on
the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;
1 Samuel 26:14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son
of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered
and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
1 Samuel 26:15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a [valiant]
man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not
kept watch over thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in
to destroy the king thy lord.
1 Samuel 26:16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As
Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept watch
over your lord, Jehovah's anointed. And now see where the king's
spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.
1 Samuel 26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy
voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O
king.
1 Samuel 26:18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after
his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear
the words of his servant. If it be Jehovah that hath stirred thee up
against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of
men, cursed be they before Jehovah: for they have driven me out this
day that I should not cleave unto the inheritance of Jehovah, saying,
Go, serve other gods.
1 Samuel 26:20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth
away from the presence of Jehovah: for the king of Israel is come out
to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David;
for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in
thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred
exceedingly.
1 Samuel 26:22 And David answered and said, Behold the spear, O
king! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.
1 Samuel 26:23 And Jehovah will render to every man his
righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as Jehovah delivered
thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against
Jehovah's anointed.
1 Samuel 26:24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in
mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Jehovah, and
let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
1 Samuel 26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son
David: thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail. So David
went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 Samuel 27
1 Samuel 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of
me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape
out of his hand.
1 Samuel 27:2 And David arose, and passed over, he and the six
hundred men that were with him, unto Achish the son of Maoch, king
of Gath.
1 Samuel 27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his
men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
1 Samuel 27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and
he sought no more again for him.
1 Samuel 27:5 And David said unto Achish, If now I have found
favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the
country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in
the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel 27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore
Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
1 Samuel 27:7 And the number of the days that David dwelt in the
country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and made a raid
upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those
[nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou
goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 27:9 And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor
woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses,
and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.
1 Samuel 27:10 And Achish said, Against whom have ye made a
raid to-day? And David said, Against the South of Judah, and against
the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
1 Samuel 27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to
bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did
David, and so hath been his manner all the while he hath dwelt in the
country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made
his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my
servant for ever.
1 Samuel 28
1 Samuel 28:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines
gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And
Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out
with me in the host, thou and thy men.
1 Samuel 28:2 And David said to Achish, Therefore thou shalt know
what thy servant will do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I
make thee keeper of my head for ever.
1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented
him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had
put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the
land.
1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and
came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together,
and they encamped in Gilboa.
1 Samuel 28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was
afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
1 Samuel 28:6 And when Saul inquired of Jehovah, Jehovah
answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1 Samuel 28:7 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.
1 Samuel 28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment,
and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by
night: and he said, Divine unto me, I pray thee, by the familiar spirit,
and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.
1 Samuel 28:9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest
what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar
spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a
snare for my life, to cause me to die?
1 Samuel 28:10 And Saul sware to her by Jehovah, saying, As
Jehovah liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this
thing.
1 Samuel 28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto
thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
1 Samuel 28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a
loud voice; and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou
deceived me? for thou art Saul.
1 Samuel 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what
seest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I see a god coming up out
of the earth.
1 Samuel 28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she
said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a robe. And Saul
perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the
ground, and did obeisance.
1 Samuel 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted
me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the
Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and
answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore
I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall
do.
1 Samuel 28:16 And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of
me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine
adversary?
1 Samuel 28:17 And Jehovah hath done unto thee, as he spake by
me: and Jehovah hath rent the kingdom out of thy hand, and given it
to thy neighbor, even to David.
1 Samuel 28:18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of Jehovah, and
didst not execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath
Jehovah done this thing unto thee this day.
1 Samuel 28:19 Moreover Jehovah will deliver Israel also with thee
into the hand of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy
sons be with me: Jehovah will deliver the host of Israel also into the
hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 28:20 Then Saul fell straightway his full length upon 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.
1 Samuel 28:21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he
was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thy handmaid hath
hearkened unto thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and
have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
1 Samuel 28:22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto
the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before
thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy
way.
1 Samuel 28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his
servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he
hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon
the bed.
1 Samuel 28:24 And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and
she hasted, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did
bake unleavened bread thereof:
1 Samuel 28:25 and she brought it before Saul, and before his
servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that
night.
1 Samuel 29
1 Samuel 29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their hosts to
Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the fountain which is in
Jezreel.
1 Samuel 29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by
hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the
rearward with Achish.
1 Samuel 29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do]
these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the
Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel,
who hath been with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have
found no fault in him since he fell away [unto me] unto this day?
1 Samuel 29:4 But he princes of the Philistines were wroth with him;
and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make the man return,
that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and
let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an
adversary to us: for wherewith should this [fellow] reconcile himself
unto his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?
1 Samuel 29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another
in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten
thousands?
1 Samuel 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, As
Jehovah 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 favor thee not.
1 Samuel 29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou
displease not the lords of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 29:8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done?
and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been before
thee unto this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of
my lord the king?
1 Samuel 29:9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that
thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the
princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the
battle.
1 Samuel 29:10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with the
servants of thy lord that are come with thee; and as soon as ye are up
early in the morning, and have light, depart.
1 Samuel 29:11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in
the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the
Philistines went up to Jezreel.
1 Samuel 30
1 Samuel 30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were
come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid
upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned
it with fire,
1 Samuel 30:2 and had taken captive the women [and all] that were
therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off,
and went their way.
1 Samuel 30:3 And when David and his men came to the city,
behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and
their daughters, were taken captive.
1 Samuel 30:4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted
up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
1 Samuel 30:5 And David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam
the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people
spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved,
every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened
himself in Jehovah his God.
1 Samuel 30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of
Ahimelech, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar
brought thither the ephod to David.
1 Samuel 30:8 And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, If I pursue
after this troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue;
for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and shalt without fail recover
[all].
1 Samuel 30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were
with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left
behind stayed.
1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for
two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go
over the brook Besor.
1 Samuel 30:11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought
him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him
water to drink.
1 Samuel 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two
clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to
him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and
three nights.
1 Samuel 30:13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou?
and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt,
servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days
ago I fell sick.
1 Samuel 30:14 We made a raid upon the South of the Cherethites,
and upon that which belongeth to Judah, and upon the South of
Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
1 Samuel 30:15 And David said to him, Wilt thou bring me down to
this troop? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither
kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will
bring thee down to this troop.
1 Samuel 30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they
were spread abroad over all the ground, 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.
1 Samuel 30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto
the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them,
save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled.
1 Samuel 30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had
taken; and David rescued his two wives.
1 Samuel 30:19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small
nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that
they had taken to them: David brought back all.
1 Samuel 30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which]
they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
1 Samuel 30:21 And David came to the two hundred men, who were
so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made
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.
1 Samuel 30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows,
of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with
us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered,
save to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them
away, and depart.
1 Samuel 30:23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren,
with that which Jehovah hath given unto us, who hath preserved us,
and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
1 Samuel 30:24 And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as
his share is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his share be that
tarrieth by the baggage: they shall share alike.
1 Samuel 30:25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it
a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
1 Samuel 30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil
unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present
for you of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah:
1 Samuel 30:27 To them that were in Beth-el, and to them that were
in Ramoth of the South, and to them that were in Jattir,
1 Samuel 30:28 and to them that were in Aroer, and to them that
were in Siphmoth, and to them that were in Eshtemoa,
1 Samuel 30:29 and to them that were in Racal, and to them that
were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them that were in the
cities of the Kenites,
1 Samuel 30:30 and to them that were in Hormah, and to them that
were in Bor-ashan, and to them that were in Athach,
1 Samuel 30:31 and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the
places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
1 Samuel 31
1 Samuel 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.
1 Samuel 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon
his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
1 Samuel 31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers
overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
1 Samuel 31:4 Then said Saul to his armorbearer, Draw thy sword,
and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and
thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for
he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.
1 Samuel 31:5 And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he
likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him.
1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer,
and all his men, that same day together.
1 Samuel 31:7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other
side of the valley, and they that were beyond the 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.
1 Samuel 31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the
Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three
sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel 31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor,
and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the
tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people.
1 Samuel 31:10 And they put his armor in the house of the
Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
1 Samuel 31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard
concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Samuel 31:12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and
took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of
Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1 Samuel 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under
the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 1
2 Samuel 1:1 And 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 Samuel 1:2 it came 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.
2 Samuel 1:3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou?
And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
2 Samuel 1:4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray
thee, tell me. And he answered, 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.
2 Samuel 1:5 And David said unto the young man that told him,
How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
2 Samuel 1:6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened
by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning upon his
spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
2 Samuel 1:7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and
called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
2 Samuel 1:8 And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered
him, I am an Amalekite.
2 Samuel 1:9 And he said unto me, Stand, I pray thee, beside me,
and slay me; for anguish hath taken hold of me, because my life is yet
whole in me.
2 Samuel 1:10 So I stood beside 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.
2 Samuel 1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them;
and likewise all the men that were with him:
2 Samuel 1:12 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even,
for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and
for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 1:13 And David said unto the young man that told him,
Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a sojourner, an
Amalekite.
2 Samuel 1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid
to put forth thy hand to destroy Jehovah's anointed?
2 Samuel 1:15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go
near, and fall upon him. And he smote him, so that he died.
2 Samuel 1:16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy
head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain
Jehovah's anointed.
2 Samuel 1:17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul
and over Jonathan his son
2 Samuel 1:18 (and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the
song of] the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
2 Samuel 1:19 Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places!
How are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, Publish it not in the streets of
Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the
daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel 1:21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain
upon you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the
mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with
oil.
2 Samuel 1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the
mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned not back, And the sword of Saul
returned not empty.
2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their
lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter
than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 1:24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed
you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold upon your
apparel.
2 Samuel 1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
2 Samuel 1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very
pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful,
Passing the love of women.
2 Samuel 1:27 How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war
perished!
2 Samuel 2
2 Samuel 2:1 And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of
Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And
Jehovah said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go
up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
2 Samuel 2:2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.
2 Samuel 2:3 And his men that were with him did David bring up,
every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
2 Samuel 2:4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed
David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying,
The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.
2 Samuel 2:5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-
gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of Jehovah, that ye have
showed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried
him.
2 Samuel 2:6 And now Jehovah show lovingkindness and truth unto
you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done
this thing.
2 Samuel 2:7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye
valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have
anointed me king over them.
2 Samuel 2:8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had
taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to
Mahanaim;
2 Samuel 2:9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the
Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin,
and over all Israel.
2 Samuel 2:10 Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he
began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of
Judah followed David.
2 Samuel 2:11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the
house of Judah was seven years and six months.
2 Samuel 2:12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-
bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of
David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat
down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other
side of the pool.
2 Samuel 2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men, I pray
thee, arise and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
2 Samuel 2:15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for
Benjamin, and for Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the
servants of David.
2 Samuel 2:16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head,
and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together:
wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in
Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:17 And the battle was very sore that day: and Abner was
beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
2 Samuel 2:18 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and
Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
2 Samuel 2:19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he
turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
2 Samuel 2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it thou,
Asahel? And he answered, It is I.
2 Samuel 2:21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right
hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and
take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following
him.
2 Samuel 2:22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from
following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then
should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
2 Samuel 2:23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner
with the hinder end of the spear smote him in the body, so that the
spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the
same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place
where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
2 Samuel 2:24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the
sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth
before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a
hill.
2 Samuel 2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword
devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the
latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return
from following their brethren?
2 Samuel 2:27 And Joab said, As God liveth, if thou hadst not
spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor
followed every one his brother.
2 Samuel 2:28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood
still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
2 Samuel 2:29 And Abner and his men went all that night through
the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all
Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2:30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when
he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's
servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2 Samuel 2:31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin,
and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred and threescore men died.
2 Samuel 2:32 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 the day brake upon them at Hebron.
2 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and
the house of David: and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the
house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
2 Samuel 3:2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his
first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2 Samuel 3:3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal
the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter
of Talmai king of Geshur;
2 Samuel 3:4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the
fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
2 Samuel 3:5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These
were born to David in Hebron.
2 Samuel 3:6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the
house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself
strong in the house of Saul.
2 Samuel 3:7 Now 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?
2 Samuel 3:8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-
bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah? This
day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his
brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand
of David; and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning
this woman.
2 Samuel 3:9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Jehovah hath
sworn to David, I do not even so to him;
2 Samuel 3:10 to transfer 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.
2 Samuel 3:11 And he could not answer Abner another word,
because he feared him.
2 Samuel 3:12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,
saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make thy league with me,
and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto
thee.
2 Samuel 3:13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee; but
one thing I require of thee: that is, thou shalt not see my face, except
thou first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my
face.
2 Samuel 3:14 And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's
son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for
a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 3:15 And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband,
even from Paltiel the son of Laish.
2 Samuel 3:16 And her husband went with her, weeping as he went,
and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return:
and he returned.
2 Samuel 3:17 And Abner had communication with the elders of
Israel, saying, In times past ye sought for David to be king over you:
2 Samuel 3:18 now then do it; for Jehovah 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.
2 Samuel 3:19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and
Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that
seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
2 Samuel 3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men
with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a
feast.
2 Samuel 3:21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and
will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a
covenant with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thy soul
desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
2 Samuel 3:22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came
from a foray, 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.
2 Samuel 3:23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were
come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king,
and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
2 Samuel 3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou
done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him
away, and he is quite gone?
2 Samuel 3:25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to
deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to
know all that thou doest.
2 Samuel 3:26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent
messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of
Sirah: but David knew it not.
2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took
him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and
smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel
his brother.
2 Samuel 3:28 And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and
my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah for ever of the blood of
Abner the son of Ner:
2 Samuel 3:29 let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon 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 by the sword, or that lacketh bread.
2 Samuel 3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because
he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
2 Samuel 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that
were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and
mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.
2 Samuel 3:32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted
up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
2 Samuel 3:33 And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should
Abner die as a fool dieth?
2 Samuel 3:34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into
fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou
fall. And all the people wept again over him.
2 Samuel 3:35 And all the people came to cause David to eat bread
while it was yet day; but David sware, saying, God do so to me, and
more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.
2 Samuel 3:36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased
them; as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
2 Samuel 3:37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day
that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
2 Samuel 3:38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that
there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
2 Samuel 3:39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and
these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me: Jehovah reward
the evil-doer according to his wickedness.
2 Samuel 4
2 Samuel 4:1 And when [Ish-bosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner
was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites
were troubled.
2 Samuel 4:2 And [Ish-bosheth], 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 the Beerothite, of the children
of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin:
2 Samuel 4:3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been
sojourners there until this day).
2 Samuel 4:4 Now 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.
2 Samuel 4:5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and
Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-
bosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
2 Samuel 4:6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as
though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the
body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
2 Samuel 4:7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his
bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded
him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
2 Samuel 4:8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David
to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the
son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah hath
avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2 Samuel 4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother,
the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As Jehovah
liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
2 Samuel 4:10 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead,
thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew
him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.
2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a
righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now
require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
2 Samuel 4:12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew
them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up
beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and
buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
2 Samuel 5
2 Samuel 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 Samuel 5:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou
that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah said to thee,
Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince
over Israel.
2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron;
and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before
Jehovah: and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Samuel 5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned forty years.
2 Samuel 5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six
months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all
Israel and Judah.
2 Samuel 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against
the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who 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.
2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the
same is the city of David.
2 Samuel 5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the
Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and [smite] the lame and
the blind, that are hated of David's soul. Wherefore they say, There
are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.
2 Samuel 5:9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the
city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
2 Samuel 5:10 And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah,
the God of hosts, was with him.
2 Samuel 5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David,
and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a
house.
2 Samuel 5:12 And David perceived that Jehovah had established
him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his
people Israel's sake.
2 Samuel 5:13 And David took him more concubines and wives out
of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet
sons and daughters born to David.
2 Samuel 5:14 And these are the names of those that were born unto
him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
2 Samuel 5:15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
2 Samuel 5:16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
2 Samuel 5:17 And when the Philistines heard that they had anointed
David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and
David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
2 Samuel 5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves
in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:19 And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up
against the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And
Jehovah said unto David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the
Philistines into thy hand.
2 Samuel 5:20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote
them there; and he said, Jehovah hath broken mine enemies before
me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that
place Baal-perazim.
2 Samuel 5:21 And they left their images there; and David and his
men took them away.
2 Samuel 5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:23 And when David inquired of Jehovah, he said, Thou
shalt not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come upon them
over against the mulberry-trees.
2 Samuel 5:24 And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of
marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir
thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of
the Philistines.
2 Samuel 5:25 And David did so, as Jehovah commanded him, and
smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.
2 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 6:1 And David again gathered together all the chosen men
of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 Samuel 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that
were with him, from Baale-judah, to bring up from thence the ark of
God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Jehovah of hosts
that sitteth [above] the cherubim.
2 Samuel 6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and
brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and
Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
2 Samuel 6:4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab,
which was in the hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the
ark.
2 Samuel 6:5 And David and all the house of Israel played before
Jehovah with all manner of [instruments made of] fir-wood, and with
harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with castanets, and
with cymbals.
2 Samuel 6:6 And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon,
Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for
the oxen stumbled.
2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah;
and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of
God.
2 Samuel 6:8 And David was displeased, because Jehovah had
broken forth upon Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-uzzah, unto
this day.
2 Samuel 6:9 And David was afraid of Jehovah that day; and he said,
How shall the ark of Jehovah come unto me?
2 Samuel 6:10 So David would not remove the ark of Jehovah unto
him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of
Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Samuel 6:11 And the ark of Jehovah remained in the house of
Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and Jehovah blessed Obed-
edom, and all his house.
2 Samuel 6:12 And it was told king David, saying, Jehovah hath
blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him,
because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of
God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.
2 Samuel 6:13 And it was so, that, when they that bare the ark of
Jehovah had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
2 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before Jehovah with all his might;
and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the
ark of Jehovah with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2 Samuel 6:16 And it was so, as the ark of Jehovah came into the
city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the
window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah;
and she despised him in her heart.
2 Samuel 6:17 And they brought in the ark of Jehovah, and set it in
its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and
David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.
2 Samuel 6:18 And when David had made an end of offering the
burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the
name of Jehovah of hosts.
2 Samuel 6:19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the
whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a
cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all
the people departed every one to his house.
2 Samuel 6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And
Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How
glorious was the king of Israel 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!
2 Samuel 6:21 And David said unto Michal, [It was] before Jehovah,
who chose me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint
me prince over the people of Jehovah, over Israel: therefore will I
play before Jehovah.
2 Samuel 6:22 And I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base
in mine own sight: but of the handmaids of whom thou hast spoken,
of them shall I be had in honor.
2 Samuel 6:23 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto
the day of her death.
2 Samuel 7
2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house,
and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies round about,
2 Samuel 7:2 that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I
dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within
curtains.
2 Samuel 7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy
heart; for Jehovah is with thee.
2 Samuel 7:4 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of
Jehovah came unto Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel 7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah,
Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?
2 Samuel 7:6 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day 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.
2 Samuel 7:7 In all 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 be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why
have ye not built me a house of cedar?
2 Samuel 7:8 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant
David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote,
from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my
people, over Israel;
2 Samuel 7:9 and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest,
and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make
thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the
earth.
2 Samuel 7:10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and
will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be
moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them
any more, as at the first,
2 Samuel 7:11 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be
over my people Israel; and I will cause thee to rest from all thine
enemies. Moreover Jehovah telleth thee that Jehovah will make thee
a house.
2 Samuel 7:12 When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of
thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will
establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he
commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
stripes of the children of men;
2 Samuel 7:15 but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I
took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
2 Samuel 7:16 And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure
for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
2 Samuel 7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
2 Samuel 7:18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah;
and he said, Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that
thou hast brought me thus far?
2 Samuel 7:19 And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord
Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great
while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, O Lord
Jehovah!
2 Samuel 7:20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou
knowest thy servant, O Lord Jehovah.
2 Samuel 7:21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart,
hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.
2 Samuel 7:22 Wherefore thou art great, O Jehovah God: for there is
none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all
that we have heard with our ears.
2 Samuel 7:23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people,
even like Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a
people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and
terrible things for thy land, before thy people, whom thou redeemest
to thee out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel 7:24 And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to
be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their
God.
2 Samuel 7:25 And now, O Jehovah God, the word that thou hast
spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, confirm
thou it for ever, and do as thou hast spoken.
2 Samuel 7:26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying,
Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of thy servant
David shall be established before thee.
2 Samuel 7:27 For thou, O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast
revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore
hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
2 Samuel 7:28 And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy
words are truth, and thou hast promised this good thing unto thy
servant:
2 Samuel 7:29 now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of
thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O
Lord Jehovah, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of
thy servant be blessed for ever.
2 Samuel 8
2 Samuel 8:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the
Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the
mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line,
making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to
put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites
became servants to David, and brought tribute.
2 Samuel 8:3 David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of
Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
2 Samuel 8:4 And David took from him a thousand and seven
hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hocked
all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.
2 Samuel 8:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor
Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men.
2 Samuel 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and
the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And
Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel 8:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the
servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 8:8 And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of
Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
2 Samuel 8:9 And when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had
smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
2 Samuel 8:10 then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute
him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and
smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And [Joram] brought
with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
2 Samuel 8:11 These also did king David dedicate unto Jehovah,
with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he
subdued;
2 Samuel 8:12 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon,
and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer,
son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
2 Samuel 8:13 And David gat him a name when he returned from
smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand
men.
2 Samuel 8:14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom
put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And
Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel 8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David
executed justice and righteousness unto all his people.
2 Samuel 8:16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
2 Samuel 8:17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son
of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers.
2 Samuel 9
2 Samuel 9:1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the
house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
2 Samuel 9:2 And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose
name was Ziba, and they called him unto David; and the king said
unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
2 Samuel 9:3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of
Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said
unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, who is lame of his feet.
2 Samuel 9:4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba
said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of
Ammiel, in Lo-debar.
2 Samuel 9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house
of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
2 Samuel 9:6 And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of
Saul, came unto David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. And
David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold, thy servant!
2 Samuel 9:7 And David said unto him, Fear not; for I will surely
show 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.
2 Samuel 9:8 And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant,
that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2 Samuel 9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said
unto him, All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given
unto thy master's son.
2 Samuel 9:10 And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy
sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy
master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's
son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and
twenty servants.
2 Samuel 9:11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that
my lord the king commandeth 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.
2 Samuel 9:12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was
Mica. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto
Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he did eat
continually at the king's table. And he was lame in both his feet.
2 Samuel 10
2 Samuel 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 Samuel 10:2 And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the
son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me. So David sent
by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's
servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said unto
Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, in
that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David sent his
servants unto thee to search the city, and to spy it out, and to
overthrow it?
2 Samuel 10:4 So 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.
2 Samuel 10:5 When they told it unto David, 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.
2 Samuel 10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they were
become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the
Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand
footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men
of Tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel 10:7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the
host of the mighty men.
2 Samuel 10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the
battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah
and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves
in the field.
2 Samuel 10:9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against
him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and
put them in array against the Syrians:
2 Samuel 10:10 And the rest of the people he committed into the
hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the
children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10:11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then
thou shalt help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for
thee, then I will come and help thee.
2 Samuel 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our
people, and for the cities of our God: and Jehovah do that which
seemeth him good.
2 Samuel 10:13 So Joab and the people that were with him drew
nigh unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
2 Samuel 10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the
Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into
the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came
to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 10:15 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the
worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
2 Samuel 10:16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that
were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the
captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
2 Samuel 10:17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the
Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
2 Samuel 10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew
of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty
thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so
that he died there.
2 Samuel 10:19 And when all the kings that were servants to
Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they
made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to
help the children of Ammon any more.
2 Samuel 11
2 Samuel 11:1 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the
time when kings go out [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 at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 11:2 And it came to pass at eventide, 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 bathing; and the woman was very beautiful
to look upon.
2 Samuel 11:3 And David send and inquired after the woman. And
one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of
Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she
came in unto him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her
uncleanness); and she returned unto her house.
2 Samuel 11:5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told
David, and said, I am with child.
2 Samuel 11:6 And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the
Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Samuel 11:7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of
him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war
prospered.
2 Samuel 11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and
wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there
followed him a mess [of food] from the king.
2 Samuel 11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all
the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
2 Samuel 11:10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went
not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Art thou not come
from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?
2 Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and
Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my
lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my 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.
2 Samuel 11:12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to-day also, and
to-morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that
day, and the morrow.
2 Samuel 11:13 And when David had called him, he did eat and
drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to
lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his
house.
2 Samuel 11:14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote
a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in
the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may
be smitten, and die.
2 Samuel 11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the
city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant
men were.
2 Samuel 11:17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with
Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David;
and Uriah the Hittite died also.
2 Samuel 11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things
concerning the war;
2 Samuel 11:19 and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou
hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the
king,
2 Samuel 11:20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he say
unto thee, Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye
not that they would shoot from the wall?
2 Samuel 11:21 who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did
not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that
he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say,
Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel 11:22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David
all that Joab had sent him for.
2 Samuel 11:23 And the messenger said unto David, The men
prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were
upon them even unto the entrance of the gate.
2 Samuel 11:24 And the shooters shot at thy servants from off the
wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah
the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel 11:25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou
say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword
devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against
the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
2 Samuel 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her
husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
2 Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and
took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a
son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.
2 Samuel 12
2 Samuel 12:1 And Jehovah 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 Samuel 12:2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;
2 Samuel 12:3 but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe
lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together
with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own morsel, and
drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a
daughter.
2 Samuel 12:4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he
spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the
wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's
lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
2 Samuel 12:5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the
man; and he said to Nathan, As Jehovah liveth, the man that hath
done this is worthy to die:
2 Samuel 12:6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did
this thing, and because he had no pity.
2 Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus
saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and
I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
2 Samuel 12:8 and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's
wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah;
and if that had been too little, I would have added unto thee such and
such things.
2 Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to
do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten 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.
2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy
house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of
Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus saith Jehovah, 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 neighbor, and he shall lie with thy
wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing
before all Israel, and before the sun.
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against
Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away
thy sin; thou shalt not die.
2 Samuel 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great
occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that
is born unto thee shall surely die.
2 Samuel 12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And Jehovah
struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very
sick.
2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and
David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
2 Samuel 12:17 And the elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside
him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he
eat bread with them.
2 Samuel 12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the
child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child
was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we
spake unto him, and he hearkened not unto our voice: how will he
then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
2 Samuel 12:19 But when David saw that his servants were
whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and
David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is
dead.
2 Samuel 12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and
anointed himself, and changed his apparel; and he came into the
house of Jehovah, and worshipped: then he came to his own house;
and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
2 Samuel 12:21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this
that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it
was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
2 Samuel 12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted
and wept: for I said, Who knoweth whether Jehovah will not be
gracious to me, that the child may live?
2 Samuel 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I
bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
2 Samuel 12:24 And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went
in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his
name Solomon. And Jehovah loved him;
2 Samuel 12:25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and
he called his name Jedidiah, for Jehovah's sake.
2 Samuel 12:26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of
Ammon, and took the royal city.
2 Samuel 12:27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have
fought against Rabbah; yea, I have taken the city of waters.
2 Samuel 12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together,
and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be
called after my name.
2 Samuel 12:29 And David gathered all the people together, and
went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
2 Samuel 12:30 And he took the crown of their king from off his
head; and the weight thereof was a talent of gold, and [in it were]
precious stones; and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth
the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought forth the people that were therein,
and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes
of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he
unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the
people returned unto Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 13
2 Samuel 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 Samuel 13:2 And Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of
his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon
to do anything unto her.
2 Samuel 13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab,
the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle
man.
2 Samuel 13:4 And he said unto him, Why, O son of the king, art
thou thus lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon
said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel 13:5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy
bed, and feign thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee,
say unto him, Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and give me
bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat
it from her hand.
2 Samuel 13:6 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and
when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, Let
her sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and make me a couple of cakes in
my sight, that I may eat from her hand.
2 Samuel 13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to
thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
2 Samuel 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he
was laid down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes
in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
2 Samuel 13:9 And she took the 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.
2 Samuel 13:10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the food into
the chamber, that I may eat from thy hand. And Tamar took the cakes
which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon
her brother.
2 Samuel 13:11 And when she had brought them near unto him to
eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come, lie with me, my
sister.
2 Samuel 13:12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not
force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou
this folly.
2 Samuel 13:13 And I, whither shall I carry my shame? and as for
thee, thou wilt 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.
2 Samuel 13:14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but
being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
2 Samuel 13:15 Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred;
for the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love
wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be
gone.
2 Samuel 13:16 And she said unto him, Not so, because this great
wrong in putting me forth is [worse] than the other that thou didst
unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
2 Samuel 13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him,
and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after
her.
2 Samuel 13:18 And she had a garment of divers colors 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.
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her
garment of divers colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her
head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
2 Samuel 13:20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath
Amnon thy brother been with thee? but now hold thy peace, my
sister: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart. So Tamar
remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
2 Samuel 13:21 But when king David heard of all these things, he
was very wroth.
2 Samuel 13:22 And Absalom spake unto Amnon neither good nor
bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister
Tamar.
2 Samuel 13:23 And it came to pass after two full years, that
Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim:
and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
2 Samuel 13:24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold
now, thy servant hath sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray thee, and his
servants go with thy servant.
2 Samuel 13:25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us
not all go, lest we be burdensome unto thee. And he pressed him:
howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
2 Samuel 13:26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my
brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should
he go with thee?
2 Samuel 13:27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all
the king's sons go with him.
2 Samuel 13:28 And Absalom 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.
2 Samuel 13:29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as
Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every
man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
2 Samuel 13:30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that
the tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's
sons, and there is not one of them left.
2 Samuel 13:31 Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay
on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
2 Samuel 13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother,
answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have killed 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.
2 Samuel 13:33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing
to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only
is dead.
2 Samuel 13:34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the
watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much
people by the way of the hill-side behind him.
2 Samuel 13:35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's
sons are come: as thy servant said, so it is.
2 Samuel 13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end
of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their
voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
2 Samuel 13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of
Ammihur, king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every
day.
2 Samuel 13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there
three years.
2 Samuel 13:39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto
Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was
dead.
2 Samuel 14
2 Samuel 14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's
heart was toward Absalom.
2 Samuel 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise
woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner,
and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with
oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead:
2 Samuel 14:3 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto
him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel 14:4 And when the woman of Tekoa spake to the king, she
fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O
king.
2 Samuel 14:5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
2 Samuel 14:6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove
together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one
smote the other, and killed him.
2 Samuel 14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy
handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we
may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy
the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will
leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the
earth.
2 Samuel 14:8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thy house,
and I will give charge concerning thee.
2 Samuel 14:9 And the woman of Tekoa 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.
2 Samuel 14:10 And the king said, Whosoever saith aught unto thee,
bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
2 Samuel 14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember
Jehovah thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest
they destroy my son. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, there shall not
one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
2 Samuel 14:12 Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee,
speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
2 Samuel 14:13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou
devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this
word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch
home again his banished one.
2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the
ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take
away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an
outcast from him.
2 Samuel 14:15 Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this
word 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 servant.
2 Samuel 14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of
the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out
of the inheritance of God.
2 Samuel 14:17 Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word
of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my
lord the king to discern good and bad: and Jehovah thy God be with
thee.
2 Samuel 14:18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman,
Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee. And the
woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
2 Samuel 14:19 And the king said, Is 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 aught
that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me,
and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid;
2 Samuel 14:20 to change the face of the matter 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.
2 Samuel 14:21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have
done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.
2 Samuel 14:22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did
obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, To-day thy servant
knoweth that I have found favor in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that
the king hath performed the request of his servant.
2 Samuel 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought
Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 14:24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house,
but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and
saw not the king's face.
2 Samuel 14:25 Now 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.
2 Samuel 14:26 And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at
every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore
he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels,
after the king's weight.
2 Samuel 14:27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and
one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair
countenance.
2 Samuel 14:28 And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem; and
he saw not the king's face.
2 Samuel 14:29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king;
but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but
he would not come.
2 Samuel 14:30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field
is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And
Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
2 Samuel 14:31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his
house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field
on fire?
2 Samuel 14:32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto
thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say,
Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there
still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity
in me, let him kill me.
2 Samuel 14:33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he
had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on
his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
2 Samuel 15
2 Samuel 15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared
him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel 15:2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way
of the gate: and it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should
come 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.
2 Samuel 15:3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are
good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
2 Samuel 15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in
the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto
me, and I would do him justice!
2 Samuel 15:5 And it was so, that, when any man came nigh to do
him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and
kissed him.
2 Samuel 15:6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that
came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the
men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7 And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that
Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow,
which I have vowed unto Jehovah, in Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur
in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem,
then I will serve Jehovah.
2 Samuel 15:9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose,
and went to Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of
Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye
shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of
Jerusalem, that were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they
knew not anything.
2 Samuel 15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite,
David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was
offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people
increased continually with Absalom.
2 Samuel 15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The
hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
2 Samuel 15:14 And David said unto all his servants that were with
him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall
escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us
quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the
edge of the sword.
2 Samuel 15:15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold,
thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall
choose.
2 Samuel 15:16 And the king went forth, and all his household after
him. And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the
house.
2 Samuel 15:17 And the king went forth, and all the people after
him; and they tarried in Beth-merhak.
2 Samuel 15:18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all
the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred
men that came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
2 Samuel 15:19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore
goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king: for thou art a
foreigner, and also an exile; [return] to thine own place.
2 Samuel 15:20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this
day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may?
return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.
2 Samuel 15:21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As Jehovah
liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord
the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will
thy servant be.
2 Samuel 15:22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai
the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that
were with him.
2 Samuel 15:23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all
the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook
Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the
wilderness.
2 Samuel 15:24 And, lo, Zadok also [came], and all the Levites 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.
2 Samuel 15:25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of
God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will
bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
2 Samuel 15:26 but if he say thus, I have no delight in thee; behold,
here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
2 Samuel 15:27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art thou
[not] a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you,
Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
2 Samuel 15:28 See, I will tarry at the fords of the wilderness, until
there come word from you to certify me.
2 Samuel 15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God
again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.
2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of the [mount of]
Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and
went barefoot: and all the people that were with him covered every
man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
2 Samuel 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among
the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray
thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 15:32 And it came to pass, that, when David was come to
the top [of the ascent], where God was worshipped, behold, Hushai
the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his
head.
2 Samuel 15:33 And David said unto him, If thou passest on with
me, then thou wilt be a burden unto me:
2 Samuel 15:34 but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom,
I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant in
time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me
the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel 15:35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and
Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou
shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and
Abiathar the priests.
2 Samuel 15:36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons,
Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them ye
shall send unto me everything that ye shall hear.
2 Samuel 15:37 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and
Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16
2 Samuel 16:1 And when David was a little past the top [of the
ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a
couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread,
and a hundred clusters of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and
a bottle of wine.
2 Samuel 16:2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by
these? And Ziba said, The asses are 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 are faint in the wilderness may drink.
2 Samuel 16:3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son?
And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem; for he
said, To-day will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my
father.
2 Samuel 16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine is all that
pertaineth unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me
find favor in thy sight, my lord, O king.
2 Samuel 16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there
came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose
name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and cursed still as he
came.
2 Samuel 16:6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of
king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his
right hand and on his left.
2 Samuel 16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone,
begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow:
2 Samuel 16:8 Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the
house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath
delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and,
behold, thou art [taken] in thine own mischief, because thou art a man
of blood.
2 Samuel 16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king,
Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I
pray thee, and take off his head.
2 Samuel 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye
sons of Zeruiah? Because he curseth, and because Jehovah hath said
unto him, Curse David; who then shall say, Wherefore hast thou done
so?
2 Samuel 16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants,
Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life:
how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, and
let him curse; for Jehovah hath bidden him.
2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done
unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for [his] cursing of
me this day.
2 Samuel 16:13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei
went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went,
and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
2 Samuel 16:14 And the king, and all the people that were with him,
came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
2 Samuel 16:15 And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel,
came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
2 Samuel 16:16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite,
David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto
Absalom, [Long] live the king, [Long] live the king.
2 Samuel 16:17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to
thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel 16:18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom
Jehovah, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his
will I be, and with him will I abide.
2 Samuel 16:19 And again, whom should I serve? [should I] not
[serve] in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's
presence, so will I be in thy presence.
2 Samuel 16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your
counsel what we shall do.
2 Samuel 16:21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy
father's concubines, that he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel
will hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then will the hands of
all that are with thee be strong.
2 Samuel 16:22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the
house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight
of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in
those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all
the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel 17
2 Samuel 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 Samuel 17:2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and
weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are
with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
2 Samuel 17:3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man
whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in
peace.
2 Samuel 17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the
elders of Israel.
2 Samuel 17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite
also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
2 Samuel 17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom
spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner:
shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak thou.
2 Samuel 17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that
Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.
2 Samuel 17:8 Hushai said moreover, Thou knowest thy father and
his men, that they are mighty men, and they are 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.
2 Samuel 17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other]
place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the
first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among
the people that follow Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:10 And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the
heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father
is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.
2 Samuel 17:11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together 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.
2 Samuel 17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he
shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the
ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him we will not
leave so much as one.
2 Samuel 17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all
Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until
there be not one small stone found there.
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The
counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of
Ahithophel. For Jehovah had ordained to defeat the good counsel of
Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon
Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the
priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders
of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
2 Samuel 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying,
Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means
pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are
with him.
2 Samuel 17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En-
rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and
told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
2 Samuel 17:18 But a lad saw them, and told Absalom: and they
went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in
Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down thither.
2 Samuel 17:19 And the woman took and spread the covering over
the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was
known.
2 Samuel 17:20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the
house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the
woman said unto them, They are gone over the brook of water. And
when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to
Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 17:21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that
they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they
said unto David, Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus
hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
2 Samuel 17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with
him, and they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there
lacked not one of them that was not gone over the Jordan.
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not
followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his
city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and
was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
2 Samuel 17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom
passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
2 Samuel 17:25 And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of
Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the
Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to
Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2 Samuel 17:26 And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of
Gilead.
2 Samuel 17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to
Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of
Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the
Gileadite of Rogelim,
2 Samuel 17:28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and
wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and
lentils, and parched [pulse],
2 Samuel 17:29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the
herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for
they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the
wilderness.
2 Samuel 18
2 Samuel 18:1 And David numbered the people that were with him,
and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
2 Samuel 18:2 And David sent forth the people, a third part 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.
2 Samuel 18:3 But the people said, 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 thou art worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is
better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city.
2 Samuel 18:4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I
will do. And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went
out by hundreds and by thousands.
2 Samuel 18:5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai,
saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with
Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the
captains charge concerning Absalom.
2 Samuel 18:6 So the people went out into the field against Israel:
and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
2 Samuel 18:7 And the people of Israel were smitten there before the
servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of
twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 18:8 For the battle was there spread over the face of all the
country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword
devoured.
2 Samuel 18:9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David.
And Absalom was riding upon his 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 heaven and earth; and the mule that was
under him went on.
2 Samuel 18:10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said,
Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
2 Samuel 18:11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And,
behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the
ground? and I would have given thee ten [pieces of] silver, and a
girdle.
2 Samuel 18:12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should
receive a thousand [pieces of] silver in my hand, yet would I not put
forth my 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.
2 Samuel 18:13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and
there is no matter hid from the king), then thou thyself wouldest have
set thyself against [me].
2 Samuel 18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And
he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of
Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
2 Samuel 18:15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armor
compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
2 Samuel 18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned
from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
2 Samuel 18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great
pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and
all Israel fled every one to his tent.
2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared
up for himself the 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 Absalom's monument, unto
this day.
2 Samuel 18:19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now
run, and bear the king tidings, how that Jehovah hath avenged him of
his enemies.
2 Samuel 18:20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not be the bearer
of 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.
2 Samuel 18:21 Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what
thou hast seen. And the Cushite bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
2 Samuel 18:22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to
Joab, But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the
Cushite. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that
thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?
2 Samuel 18:23 But come what may, [said he], I will run. And he
said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and
outran the Cushite.
2 Samuel 18:24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and
the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted
up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
2 Samuel 18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the
king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came
apace, and drew near.
2 Samuel 18:26 And the watchman saw another man running; and
the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold, [another] man
running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
2 Samuel 18:27 And the watchman said, I think 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.
2 Samuel 18:28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is
well. And he bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth,
and said, Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who hath delivered up the men
that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
2 Samuel 18:29 And the king said, Is it well with the young man
Absalom? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's
servant, even me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not
what it was.
2 Samuel 18:30 And the king said, Turn aside, and stand here. And
he turned aside, and stood still.
2 Samuel 18:31 And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said,
Tidings for my lord the king; for Jehovah hath avenged thee this day
of all them that rose up against thee.
2 Samuel 18:32 And the king said unto the Cushite, Is it well with
the young man Absalom? And the Cushite answered, The enemies of
my lord the king, and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be
as that young man is.
2 Samuel 18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the
chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my
son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O
Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel 19
2 Samuel 19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and
mourneth for Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning
unto all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king
grieveth for his son.
2 Samuel 19:3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the
city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
2 Samuel 19:4 And the king covered his face, and the king cried with
a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel 19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said,
Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who 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;
2 Samuel 19:6 in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest
them that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and
servants are nought unto thee: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom
had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
2 Samuel 19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably
unto thy servants; for I swear by Jehovah, if thou go not forth, there
will not tarry a man with thee this night: and that will be worse unto
thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now.
2 Samuel 19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told
unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and
all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to
his tent.
2 Samuel 19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the
tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our
enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now
he is fled out of the land from Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in
battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king
back?
2 Samuel 19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the
priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye
the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all
Israel is come to the king, [to bring him] to his house.
2 Samuel 19:12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh:
wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel 19:13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and 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.
2 Samuel 19:14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah,
even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent unto the king,
[saying], Return thou, and all thy servants.
2 Samuel 19:15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And
Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over
the Jordan.
2 Samuel 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who
was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to
meet king David.
2 Samuel 19:17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with
him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons
and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan
in the presence of the king.
2 Samuel 19:18 And there went over a ferry-boat to bring over the
king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the
son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was come over the
Jordan.
2 Samuel 19:19 And he 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.
2 Samuel 19:20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned:
therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of
Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
2 Samuel 19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said,
Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah's
anointed?
2 Samuel 19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons
of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there
any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am
this day king over Israel?
2 Samuel 19:23 And the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die.
And the king sware unto him.
2 Samuel 19:24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to
meet the king; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his
beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until
the day he came home in peace.
2 Samuel 19:25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem
to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not
thou with me, Mephibosheth?
2 Samuel 19:26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant
deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may
ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.
2 Samuel 19:27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the
king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is
good in thine eyes.
2 Samuel 19:28 For all 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 that I should
cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel 19:29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any
more of thy matters? I say, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
2 Samuel 19:30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, yea, let him
take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come in peace unto his own
house.
2 Samuel 19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from
Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him
over the Jordan.
2 Samuel 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore
years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay
at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
2 Samuel 19:33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over
with me, and I will sustain thee with me in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 19:34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How many are the
days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto
Jerusalem?
2 Samuel 19:35 I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern
between good and bad? 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?
2 Samuel 19:36 Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with
the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a
reward?
2 Samuel 19:37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I
may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and 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.
2 Samuel 19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with
me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and
whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
2 Samuel 19:39 And all the people went over the Jordan, and the
king went over: and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and
he returned unto his own place.
2 Samuel 19:40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went
over with him: and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and
also half the people of Israel.
2 Samuel 19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king,
and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah
stolen thee away, and brought the king, and his household, over the
Jordan, and all David's men with him?
2 Samuel 19:42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of
Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then are ye
angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or hath
he given us any gift?
2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah,
and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right]
in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should
not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men
of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose
name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the
trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we
inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
2 Samuel 20:2 So all the men of Israel went up from following
David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah
clave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the
king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep
the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance,
but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their
death, living in widowhood.
2 Samuel 20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of
Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.
2 Samuel 20:5 So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together;
but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
2 Samuel 20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now will 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 fortified cities, and
escape out of our sight.
2 Samuel 20:7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the
Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went
out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon,
Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of
war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword
fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it
fell out.
2 Samuel 20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my
brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to
kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in
Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the body, and shed out his
bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And
Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:11 And there stood by him one of Joab's young men,
and said, He that favoreth Joab, and he that is for David, let him
follow Joab.
2 Samuel 20:12 And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst
of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still,
he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a
garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him
stood still.
2 Samuel 20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the
people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto
Abel, and to Beth-maacah, and all the Berites: and they were
gathered together, and went also after him.
2 Samuel 20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-
maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood
against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered
the wall, to throw it down.
2 Samuel 20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear;
say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with
thee.
2 Samuel 20:17 And he came near unto her; and the woman said, Art
thou Joab? And he answered, I am. Then she said unto him, Hear the
words of thy handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
2 Samuel 20:18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in
old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they
ended [the matter].
2 Samuel 20:19 I am 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 Jehovah?
2 Samuel 20:20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from
me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel 20:21 The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of
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.
2 Samuel 20:22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her
wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and
threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were
dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to
Jerusalem unto the king.
2 Samuel 20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the
Pelethites;
2 Samuel 20:24 and Adoram was over the men subject to taskwork;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
2 Samuel 20:25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were
priests;
2 Samuel 20:26 and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister unto
David.
2 Samuel 21
2 Samuel 21:1 And there was a famine in the days of David three
years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And
Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put
to death the Gibeonites.
2 Samuel 21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto
them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of
the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn
unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of
Israel and Judah);
2 Samuel 21:3 and David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do
for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of Jehovah?
2 Samuel 21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, It is no matter of
silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to
put any man to death in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that
will I do for you.
2 Samuel 21:5 And they said unto the king, The man that consumed
us, and that devised against us, [that] we should be destroyed from
remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
2 Samuel 21:6 let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we
will hang them up unto Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of
Jehovah. And the king said, I will give them.
2 Samuel 21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of
Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between
them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter
of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and
the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bare to Adriel
the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
2 Samuel 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the
Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Jehovah,
and they fell [all] seven together. And they were put to death in the
days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth,
and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest
until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered
neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts
of the field by night.
2 Samuel 21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of
Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
2 Samuel 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the
bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had
stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had
hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;
2 Samuel 21:13 and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and
the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of them
that were hanged.
2 Samuel 21:14 And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his
son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his
father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after
that God was entreated for the land.
2 Samuel 21:15 And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the
Philistines. And David waxed faint;
2 Samuel 21:16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant,
the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in
weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain
David.
2 Samuel 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored 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 lamp of Israel.
2 Samuel 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again
war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew
Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
2 Samuel 21:19 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob;
and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath
the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
2 Samuel 21:20 And there was again war at 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.
2 Samuel 21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of
Shimei, David's brother, slew him.
2 Samuel 21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they
fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
2 Samuel 22
2 Samuel 22:1 And David spake unto Jehovah the words of this song
in the day that Jehovah delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 Samuel 22:2 and he said, Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and
my deliverer, even mine;
2 Samuel 22:3 God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield,
and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My
saviour, thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel 22:4 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
2 Samuel 22:5 For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of
ungodliness made me afraid:
2 Samuel 22:6 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares
of death came upon me.
2 Samuel 22:7 In my distress I called upon Jehovah; Yea, I called
unto my God: And he heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry
[came] into his ears.
2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations
of heaven quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
2 Samuel 22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire
out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
2 Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And
thick darkness was under his feet.
2 Samuel 22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he was
seen upon the wings of the wind.
2 Samuel 22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him,
Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
2 Samuel 22:13 At the brightness before him Coals of fire were
kindled.
2 Samuel 22:14 Jehovah thundered from heaven, And the Most High
uttered his voice.
2 Samuel 22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
Lightning, and discomfited them.
2 Samuel 22:16 Then the channels of the sea appeared, The
foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At
the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
2 Samuel 22:17 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out
of many waters;
2 Samuel 22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, From them
that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
2 Samuel 22:19 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But
Jehovah was my stay.
2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place; He
delivered me, because he delighted in me.
2 Samuel 22:21 Jehovah rewarded me according to my
righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
2 Samuel 22:22 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not
wickedly departed from my God.
2 Samuel 22:23 For all his ordinances were before me; And as for
his statutes, I did not depart from them.
2 Samuel 22:24 I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself
from mine iniquity.
2 Samuel 22:25 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according
to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
2 Samuel 22:26 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with
the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
2 Samuel 22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine
eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will
lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel 22:30 For by thee I run upon a troop; By my God do I leap
over a wall.
2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah
is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
2 Samuel 22:32 For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock,
save our God?
2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strong fortress; And he guideth the
perfect in his way.
2 Samuel 22:34 He maketh his feet like hinds' [feet], And setteth me
upon my high places.
2 Samuel 22:35 He teacheth my hands to war, So that mine arms do
bend a bow of brass.
2 Samuel 22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;
And thy gentleness hath made me great.
2 Samuel 22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; And my feet
have not slipped.
2 Samuel 22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them;
Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
2 Samuel 22:39 And I have consumed them, and smitten them
through, so that they cannot arise: Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
2 Samuel 22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the
battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
2 Samuel 22:41 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs
unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
2 Samuel 22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; Even unto
Jehovah, but he answered them not.
2 Samuel 22:43 Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I
did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
2 Samuel 22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my
people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people
whom I have not known shall serve me.
2 Samuel 22:45 The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As
soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.
2 Samuel 22:46 The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come
trembling out of their close places.
2 Samuel 22:47 Jehovah liveth; And blessed be my rock; And
exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
2 Samuel 22:48 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And
that bringeth down peoples under me,
2 Samuel 22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: Yea,
thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest
me from the violent man.
2 Samuel 22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah,
among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name.
2 Samuel 22:51 Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And
showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for
evermore.
2 Samuel 23
2 Samuel 23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son
of Jesse saith, And the man who was raised on high saith, The
anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel:
2 Samuel 23:2 The Spirit of Jehovah spake by me, And his word was
upon my tongue.
2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spake to
me: One that ruleth over men righteously, That ruleth in the fear of
God,
2 Samuel 23:4 [He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the
sun riseth, A morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass
[springeth] out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
2 Samuel 23:5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath
made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and
sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he
maketh it not to grow.
2 Samuel 23:6 But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be
thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand
2 Samuel 23:7 But the man that toucheth them Must be armed with
iron and the staff of a spear: And they shall be utterly burned with
fire in [their] place
2 Samuel 23:8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David
had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the
same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
2 Samuel 23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of
an 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.
2 Samuel 23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand
was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword; and Jehovah wrought
a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to
take spoil.
2 Samuel 23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee a
Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop,
where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from
the Philistines.
2 Samuel 23:12 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended
it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah wrought a great victory.
2 Samuel 23:13 And three of the thirty chief men went down, and
came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the
troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 23:14 And David was then in the stronghold; and the
garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
2 Samuel 23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give
me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
2 Samuel 23:16 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: but he would
not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah.
2 Samuel 23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O Jehovah, that I
should do this: [shall I drink] the blood of the men that went in
jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things
did the three mighty men.
2 Samuel 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah,
was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three
hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.
2 Samuel 23:19 Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he
was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.
2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a
valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two
[sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the
midst of a pit in time of snow.
2 Samuel 23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the
Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a
staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him
with his own spear.
2 Samuel 23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
had a name among the three mighty men.
2 Samuel 23:23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he
attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
2 Samuel 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty;
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
2 Samuel 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2 Samuel 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2 Samuel 23:27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
2 Samuel 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
2 Samuel 23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the
son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
2 Samuel 23:30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of
Gaash.
2 Samuel 23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
2 Samuel 23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen,
Jonathan,
2 Samuel 23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the
Ararite,
2 Samuel 23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the
Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2 Samuel 23:35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2 Samuel 23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
2 Samuel 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite,
armorbearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
2 Samuel 23:38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
2 Samuel 23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
2 Samuel 24
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against
Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel
and Judah.
2 Samuel 24:2 And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who
was with him, Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from
Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
the sum of the people.
2 Samuel 24:3 And Joab said unto the king, Now Jehovah thy God
add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold;
and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why doth my lord the
king delight in this thing?
2 Samuel 24:4 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against
Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains
of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
people of Israel.
2 Samuel 24:5 And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in
Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley
of Gad, and unto Jazer:
2 Samuel 24:6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-
hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and round about to Sidon,
2 Samuel 24:7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the
cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the
south of Judah, at Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel 24:8 So when they had gone to and from through all the
land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty
days.
2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering 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.
2 Samuel 24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had
numbered the people. And David said unto Jehovah, I have sinned
greatly in that which I have done: but now, O Jehovah, put away, I
beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very
foolishly.
2 Samuel 24:11 And when David rose up in the morning, the word of
Jehovah came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
2 Samuel 24:12 Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I
offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto
thee.
2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto
him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt
thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or
shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and
consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
2 Samuel 24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let
us fall now into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; and let
me not fall into the hand of man.
2 Samuel 24:15 So Jehovah 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.
2 Samuel 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand toward
Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to
the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand.
And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the
Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:17 And David spake unto Jehovah when he saw the
angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have
done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I
pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
2 Samuel 24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him,
Go up, rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah
the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:19 And David went up according to the saying of Gad,
as Jehovah commanded.
2 Samuel 24:20 And Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his
servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed
himself before the king with his face to the ground.
2 Samuel 24:21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king
come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of
thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed
from the people.
2 Samuel 24:22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king
take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, the oxen for
the burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the
oxen for the wood:
2 Samuel 24:23 all this, O king, doth Araunah give unto the king.
And Araunah said unto the king, Jehovah thy God accept thee.
2 Samuel 24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will
verily buy it of thee at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings
unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the
threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Samuel 24:25 And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and
offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. So Jehovah was
entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
1 Kings
1 Kings 1
1 Kings 1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they
covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1 Kings 1:2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be
sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before
the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord
the king may get heat.
1 Kings 1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the
borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought
her to the king.
1 Kings 1:4 And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the
king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself,
saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen,
and fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings 1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in
saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man;
and he was born after Absalom.
1 Kings 1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with
Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
1 Kings 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men
that belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
1 Kings 1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the
stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he called all his
brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's
servants:
1 Kings 1:10 but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty
men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
1 Kings 1:11 Then Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of
Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of
Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
1 Kings 1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee
counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son
Solomon.
1 Kings 1:13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him,
Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon
my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
1 Kings 1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I
also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
1 Kings 1:15 And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the
chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite
was ministering unto the king.
1 Kings 1:16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the
king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
1 Kings 1:17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by
Jehovah thy God unto thy handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon
thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1 Kings 1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and thou, my lord
the king, knowest it not:
1 Kings 1:19 and he hath slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in
abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the
priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon thy servant hath
he not called.
1 Kings 1:20 And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are
upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of
my lord the king after him.
1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king
shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be
counted offenders.
1 Kings 1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the
prophet came in.
1 Kings 1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the
prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed
himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1 Kings 1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said,
Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
1 Kings 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and
fatlings 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
are eating and drinking before him, and say, [Long] live king
Adonijah.
1 Kings 1:26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not
called.
1 Kings 1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not
showed unto thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the
king after him?
1 Kings 1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call to me Bath-
sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the
king.
1 Kings 1:29 And the king sware, and said, As Jehovah liveth, who
hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Kings 1:30 verily as I sware unto thee by Jehovah, the God of
Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and
he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; verily so will I do this day.
1 Kings 1:31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and
did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for
ever.
1 Kings 1:32 And king David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came
before the king.
1 Kings 1:33 And the king said unto them, Take with you the
servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine
own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
1 Kings 1:34 and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint
him there king over Israel; and blow ye the trumpet, and say, [Long]
live king Solomon.
1 Kings 1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, and he shall come and
sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have
appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
1 Kings 1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king,
and said, Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so [too].
1 Kings 1:37 As Jehovah hath been with my lord the king, even so be
he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my
lord king David.
1 Kings 1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites,
went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and
brought him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1:39 And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the
Tent, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the
people said, [Long] live king Solomon.
1 Kings 1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people
piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent
with the sound of them.
1 Kings 1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him
heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the
sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city
being in an uproar?
1 Kings 1:42 While he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of
Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for thou art a
worthy man, and bringest good tidings.
1 Kings 1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily
our lord king David hath made Solomon king:
1 Kings 1:44 and the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride upon
the king's mule;
1 Kings 1:45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have
anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from thence
rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have
heard.
1 Kings 1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
1 Kings 1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our
lord king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon better
than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne: and the
king bowed himself upon the bed.
1 Kings 1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be Jehovah, the
God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine
eyes even seeing it.
1 Kings 1:49 And all the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up,
and went every man his way.
1 Kings 1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he
arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1 Kings 1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah
feareth king Solomon; for, lo, he hath laid hold on the horns of the
altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me first that he will not
slay his servant with the sword.
1 Kings 1:52 And Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy
man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness
be found in him, he shall die.
1 Kings 1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down
from the altar. And he came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and
Solomon said unto him, Go to thy house.
1 Kings 2
1 Kings 2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and
he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings 2:2 I am going the way of all the earth: be thou strong
therefore, and show thyself a man;
1 Kings 2:3 and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his
ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his
ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in
the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and
whithersoever thou turnest thyself.
1 Kings 2:4 That Jehovah may establish 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.
1 Kings 2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of
Zeruiah did unto me, even 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.
1 Kings 2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his
hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.
1 Kings 2:7 But show 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 from Absalom thy brother.
1 Kings 2:8 And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera,
the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in
the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at
the Jordan, and I sware to him by Jehovah, saying, I will not put thee
to death with the sword.
1 Kings 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise
man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou
shalt bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.
1 Kings 2:10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
city of David.
1 Kings 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty
years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years
reigned he in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 2:12 And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father;
and his kingdom was established greatly.
1 Kings 2:13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba
the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And
he said, Peaceably.
1 Kings 2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And she said, Say on.
1 Kings 2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine,
and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit
the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was
his from Jehovah.
1 Kings 2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee; deny me not. And
she said unto him, Say on.
1 Kings 2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king
(for he will not say thee nay), that he give me Abishag the
Shunammite to wife.
1 Kings 2:18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto
the king.
1 Kings 2:19 Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak
unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed
himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to
be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1 Kings 2:20 Then she said, I ask one small petition of thee; deny me
not. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not
deny thee.
1 Kings 2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to
Adonijah thy brother to wife.
1 Kings 2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother,
And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask
for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him,
and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
1 Kings 2:23 Then king Solomon sware by Jehovah, saying, God do
so to me, and more also, if Adonijah hath not spoken this word
against his own life.
1 Kings 2:24 Now therefore as Jehovah liveth, who hath established
me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made
me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this
day.
1 Kings 2:25 And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.
1 Kings 2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to
Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I
will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of
the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast
afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings 2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto
Jehovah, that he might fulfil the word of Jehovah, which he spake
concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1 Kings 2:28 And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after
Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto
the Tent of Jehovah, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1 Kings 2:29 And it was told king Solomon, Joab is fled unto the
Tent of Jehovah, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
1 Kings 2:30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of Jehovah, 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.
1 Kings 2:31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall
upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which
Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.
1 Kings 2:32 And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head,
because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and
slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, [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.
1 Kings 2:33 So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab, and
upon the head of his seed for ever: but unto David, and unto his seed,
and unto his house, and unto his throne, shall there be peace for ever
from Jehovah.
1 Kings 2:34 Then 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.
1 Kings 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his
room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room
of Abiathar.
1 Kings 2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto
him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not
forth thence any whither.
1 Kings 2:37 For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the
brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy
blood shall be upon thine own head.
1 Kings 2:38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as
my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt
in Jerusalem many days.
1 Kings 2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two
of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king
of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants are in
Gath.
1 Kings 2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to
Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought
his servants from Gath.
1 Kings 2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from
Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
1 Kings 2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto
him, Did I not adjure thee by Jehovah, and protest unto thee, saying,
Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad
any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The
saying that I have heard is good.
1 Kings 2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and
the commandment that I have charged thee with?
1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all
the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David
my father: therefore Jehovah shall return thy wickedness upon thine
own head.
1 Kings 2:45 But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of
David shall be established before Jehovah for ever.
1 Kings 2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died. And the kingdom
was established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings 3
1 Kings 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
Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
1 Kings 3:2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because
there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
1 Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of
David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places.
1 Kings 3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that
was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon
offer upon that altar.
1 Kings 3:5 In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by
night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant
David my father great lovingkindness, 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 lovingkindness, that thou
hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1 Kings 3:7 And now, O Jehovah 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.
1 Kings 3:8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou
hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for
multitude.
1 Kings 3:9 Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to
judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who
is able to judge this thy great people?
1 Kings 3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had
asked this thing.
1 Kings 3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this
thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked
riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast
asked for thyself understanding to discern justice;
1 Kings 3:12 behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have
given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been
none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto
thee.
1 Kings 3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not
asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the
kings like unto thee, all thy days.
1 Kings 3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes
and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will
lengthen thy days.
1 Kings 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and
he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings,
and made a feast to all his servants.
1 Kings 3:16 Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the
king, and stood before him.
1 Kings 3:17 And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this
woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in
the house.
1 Kings 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after 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.
1 Kings 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night, because she
lay upon it.
1 Kings 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from
beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and
laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,
behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning,
behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.
1 Kings 3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my
son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy
son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
1 Kings 3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that
liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is
the dead, and my son is the living.
1 Kings 3:24 And the king said, Fetch me a sword. And they brought
a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and
give half to the one, and half to the other.
1 Kings 3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto
the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my
lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other
said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.
1 Kings 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living
child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
1 Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of
God was in him, to do justice.
1 Kings 4
1 Kings 4:1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Kings 4:2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the
son of Zadok, the priest;
1 Kings 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
1 Kings 4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and
Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
1 Kings 4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and
Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend;
1 Kings 4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the
son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork.
1 Kings 4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who
provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to
make provision for a month in the year.
1 Kings 4:8 And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country
of Ephraim;
1 Kings 4:9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-
shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
1 Kings 4:10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and
all the land of Hepher);
1 Kings 4:11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath
the daughter of Solomon to wife);
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and
all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-
shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
1 Kings 4:13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the
towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him
[pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great
cities with walls and brazen bars);
1 Kings 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1 Kings 4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the
daughter of Solomon to wife);
1 Kings 4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1 Kings 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1 Kings 4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
1 Kings 4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country
of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he
was] the only officer that was in the land.
1 Kings 4:20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the
sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1 Kings 4:21 And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the
River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt:
they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1 Kings 4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty
measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
1 Kings 4:23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a
hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted
fowl.
1 Kings 4:24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side
the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side
the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
1 Kings 4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his
vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days
of Solomon.
1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings 4:27 And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon,
and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his
month; they let nothing be lacking.
1 Kings 4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds
brought they unto the place where [the officers] were, every man
according to his charge.
1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding
exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on
the sea-shore.
1 Kings 4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite,
and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame
was in all the nations round about.
1 Kings 4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs
were a thousand and five.
1 Kings 4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in
Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake
also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1 Kings 4:34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kings 5
1 Kings 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.
1 Kings 5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings 5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build
a house for the name of Jehovah his God for the wars which were
about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his
feet.
1 Kings 5:4 But now Jehovah my God hath given me rest on every
side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.
1 Kings 5:5 And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of
Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying,
Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build
the house for my name.
1 Kings 5:6 Now therefore command thou that they cut me cedar-
trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and
I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt
say: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that knoweth
how to cut timber like unto the Sidonians.
1 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of
Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Jehovah this
day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
1 Kings 5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the
message] which thou hast sent unto me: I will do all thy desire
concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
1 Kings 5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto
the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place
that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there,
and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in
giving food for my household.
1 Kings 5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of
fir according to all his desire.
1 Kings 5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of
wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil:
thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings 5:12 And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised
him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two
made a league together.
1 Kings 5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and
the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by
courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home;
and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.
1 Kings 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare
burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings 5:16 besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the
work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the
people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded, and they hewed out great
stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought
stone.
1 Kings 5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the
Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to
build the house.
1 Kings 6
1 Kings 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 Ziv,
which is the second month, that he began to build the house of
Jehovah.
1 Kings 6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah,
the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof
twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
1 Kings 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty
cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house;
[and] ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
1 Kings 6:4 And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-
work.
1 Kings 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built stories round
about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple
and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
1 Kings 6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the
middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for
on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about,
that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of
stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor
axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Kings 6:8 The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right
side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle
[story], and out of the middle into the third.
1 Kings 6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the
house with beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6:10 And he built the stories against all the house, each five
cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1 Kings 6:11 And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings 6:12 Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou
wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all
my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word
with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.
1 Kings 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will
not forsake my people Israel.
1 Kings 6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kings 6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards
of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he
covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of
the house with boards of fir.
1 Kings 6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the
house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [of the
ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most
holy place.
1 Kings 6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle],
was forty cubits [long].
1 Kings 6:18 And there was cedar on the house within, carved with
knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings 6:19 And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house
within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
1 Kings 6:20 And within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in
length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height
thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar
with cedar.
1 Kings 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold:
and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid
it with gold.
1 Kings 6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the
house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he
overlaid with gold.
1 Kings 6:23 And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-
wood, each ten cubits high.
1 Kings 6:24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and
five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of
the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
1 Kings 6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim
were of one measure and one form.
1 Kings 6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was
it of the other cherub.
1 Kings 6:27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the
wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, 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.
1 Kings 6:28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
1 Kings 6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about
with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers,
within and without.
1 Kings 6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within
and without.
1 Kings 6:31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of
olive-wood: the lintel [and] door-posts were a fifth part [of the wall].
1 Kings 6:32 So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved
upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers,
and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the
cherubim, and upon the palm-trees.
1 Kings 6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-
posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];
1 Kings 6:34 and two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one
door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
1 Kings 6:35 And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm-trees and
open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven
work.
1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn
stone, and a course of cedar beams.
1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of
Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.
1 Kings 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof,
and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in
building it.
1 Kings 7
1 Kings 7:1 And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,
and he finished all his house.
1 Kings 7:2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the
length thereof was a 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.
1 Kings 7:3 And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and
five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.
1 Kings 7:4 And there were beams in three rows, and window was
over against window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:5 And all the doors and posts were made square with
beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:6 And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was
fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before
them; and pillars and a threshold before them.
1 Kings 7:7 And he made the porch of the throne where he was to
judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar
from floor to floor.
1 Kings 7:8 And his house where he was to dwell, the other court
within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for
Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken to wife), like unto this
porch.
1 Kings 7:9 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone,
according to measure, sawed with saws, within and without, even
from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the
great court.
1 Kings 7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great
stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings 7:11 And above were costly stones, even hewn stone,
according to measure, and cedar-wood.
1 Kings 7:12 And the great court round about had three courses of
hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of
the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.
1 Kings 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Kings 7:14 He was the son of a widow 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 skill, to work all works in brass.
And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1 Kings 7:15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen
cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of
them about.
1 Kings 7:16 And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon
the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits,
and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
1 Kings 7:17 There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-
work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven
for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
1 Kings 7:18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round
about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the
top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
1 Kings 7:19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in
the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
1 Kings 7:20 And there were capitals above also upon the two
pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the
pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon the other
capital.
1 Kings 7:21 And he set up the pillars at 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.
1 Kings 7:22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was
the work of the pillars finished.
1 Kings 7:23 And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to
brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a
line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
1 Kings 7:24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops
which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about:
the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
1 Kings 7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the
north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward
the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set upon
them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
1 Kings 7:26 And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof
was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held
two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:27 And he made the 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.
1 Kings 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had
panels; and there were panels between the ledges;
1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were
lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the ledges there was a pedestal
above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1 Kings 7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of
brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters: beneath the laver
were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
1 Kings 7:31 And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a
cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a
cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and
their panels were foursquare, not round.
1 Kings 7:32 And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and
the axletrees of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel
was a cubit and half a cubit.
1 Kings 7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a
chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and
their naves, were all molten.
1 Kings 7:34 And there were four undersetters at the four corners of
each base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself.
1 Kings 7:35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass
half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays thereof and the
panels thereof were of the same.
1 Kings 7:36 And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the panels
thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the
space of each, with wreaths round about.
1 Kings 7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them
had one casting, one measure, and one form.
1 Kings 7:38 And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained
forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon very one of the
ten bases one laver.
1 Kings 7:39 And he set the bases, five 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, toward the south.
1 Kings 7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the
basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought
for king Solomon in the house of Jehovah:
1 Kings 7:41 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that
were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
1 Kings 7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the
two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;
1 Kings 7:43 and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;
1 Kings 7:44 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
1 Kings 7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all
these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of
Jehovah, were of burnished brass.
1 Kings 7:46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the
clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
1 Kings 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because
they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be
found out.
1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the
house of Jehovah: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the
showbread was, of gold;
1 Kings 7:49 and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on
the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the
lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
1 Kings 7:50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the
spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the
doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the
house, [to wit], of the temple, of gold.
1 Kings 7:51 Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the
house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things
which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold,
and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of
Jehovah.
1 Kings 8
1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children
of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1 Kings 8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the
seventh month.
1 Kings 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up
the ark.
1 Kings 8:4 And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of
meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did
the priests and the Levites bring up.
1 Kings 8:5 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel,
that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark,
sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered
for multitude.
1 Kings 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah unto its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy
place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
1 Kings 8:7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place
of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof
above.
1 Kings 8:8 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves
were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not
seen without: and there they are unto this day.
1 Kings 8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone
which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with
the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of
the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,
1 Kings 8:11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason
of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.
1 Kings 8:12 Then spake Solomon, Jehovah hath said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness.
1 Kings 8:13 I have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place
for thee to dwell in for ever.
1 Kings 8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the
assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
1 Kings 8:15 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,
who spake with his mouth unto David thy father, and hath with his
hand fulfilled it, saying,
1 Kings 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out
of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a
house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my
people Israel.
1 Kings 8:17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a
house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:18 But Jehovah said unto David my father, Whereas it was
in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it was
in thy heart:
1 Kings 8:19 nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my
name.
1 Kings 8:20 And Jehovah hath established his word that he spake;
for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the
throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for
the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:21 And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the
covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers, when he
brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the
presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven;
1 Kings 8:23 and he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no
God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keepest
covenant and lovingkindness with thy servants, that walk before thee
with all their heart;
1 Kings 8:24 who hast kept with thy servant David my father that
which thou didst promise him: yea, thou spakest with thy mouth, and
hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.
1 Kings 8:25 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the 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 on the throne
of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before
me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings 8:26 Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray
thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my
father.
1 Kings 8:27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold,
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
less this house that I have builded!
1 Kings 8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant,
and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry
and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;
1 Kings 8:29 that thine eyes may be open toward this house night
and day, even toward the place whereof thou hast said, My name
shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray
toward this place.
1 Kings 8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant,
and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yea,
hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place; and when thou hearest,
forgive.
1 Kings 8:31 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid
upon him to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before
thine altar in this house;
1 Kings 8:32 then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own
head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness.
1 Kings 8:33 When thy people Israel are smitten down before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee; if they turn again to
thee, and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee
in this house:
1 Kings 8:34 then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest
unto their fathers.
1 Kings 8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because
they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and
confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict
them:
1 Kings 8:36 then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good
way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which
thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if
there be blasting [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; if their enemy
besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague,
whatsoever sickness there be;
1 Kings 8:38 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any
man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the
plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1 Kings 8:39 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and
forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways,
whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the
hearts of all the children of men;)
1 Kings 8:40 that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
1 Kings 8:41 Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy
people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's
sake
1 Kings 8:42 (for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy
mighty hand, and of thine outstretched arm); when he shall come and
pray toward this house;
1 Kings 8:43 hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do
according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the
peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as doth thy
people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have
built is called by my name.
1 Kings 8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by
whatsoever way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto Jehovah
toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I
have built for thy name;
1 Kings 8:45 then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
1 Kings 8:46 If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth
not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so
that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off
or near;
1 Kings 8:47 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither
they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto
thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have
sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;
1 Kings 8:48 if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them 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:
1 Kings 8:49 then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in
heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
1 Kings 8:50 and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee,
and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against
thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them
captive, that they may have compassion on them
1 Kings 8:51 (for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which
thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of
iron);
1 Kings 8:52 that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy
servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken
unto them whensoever they cry unto thee.
1 Kings 8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the
peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by Moses
thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord
Jehovah.
1 Kings 8:54 And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of
praying all this prayer and supplication unto Jehovah, he arose from
before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his
hands spread forth toward heaven.
1 Kings 8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel
with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kings 8:56 Blessed be Jehovah, 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 Moses his
servant.
1 Kings 8:57 Jehovah our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:
let him not leave us, nor forsake us;
1 Kings 8:58 that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all
his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his
ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kings 8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made
supplication before Jehovah, be nigh unto Jehovah our God day and
night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his
people Israel, as every day shall require;
1 Kings 8:60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah,
he is God; there is none else.
1 Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our
God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this
day.
1 Kings 8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice
before Jehovah.
1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-
offerings, which he offered unto Jehovah, two and twenty thousand
oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all
the children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.
1 Kings 8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the
court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the
burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-
offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Jehovah was too
little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat
of the peace-offerings.
1 Kings 8:65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel
with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the
brook of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days,
even fourteen days.
1 Kings 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they
blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for
all the goodness that Jehovah had showed unto David his servant, and
to Israel his people.
1 Kings 9
1 Kings 9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the
building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all
Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings 9:2 that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he
had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
1 Kings 9:3 And Jehovah 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 my heart shall be there perpetually.
1 Kings 9:4 And as for thee, 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 mine ordinances;
1 Kings 9:5 then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over
Israel for ever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
1 Kings 9:6 But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your
children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I
have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship
them;
1 Kings 9:7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have
given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will
I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all peoples.
1 Kings 9:8 And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that
passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why
hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?
1 Kings 9:9 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah
their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt,
and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath Jehovah brought all this evil upon them.
1 Kings 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the
king's house
1 Kings 9:11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon
with cedar-trees and fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his
desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land
of Galilee.
1 Kings 9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
1 Kings 9:13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast
given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this
day.
1 Kings 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1 Kings 9:15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon
raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo,
and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings 9:16 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 portion unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
1 Kings 9:18 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
1 Kings 9:19 and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities
for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which
Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
1 Kings 9:20 As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of
the children of Israel;
1 Kings 9:21 their children that were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them
did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.
1 Kings 9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no
bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his
princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his
horsemen.
1 Kings 9:23 These were the chief officers that were over Solomon's
work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that
wrought in the work.
1 Kings 9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of
David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he
build Millo.
1 Kings 9:25 And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-
offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto
Jehovah, burning incense therewith, [upon the altar] that was before
Jehovah. So he finished the house.
1 Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-
geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land
of Edom.
1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that
had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1 Kings 9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold,
four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 Kings 10
1 Kings 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, she came to prove him
with hard questions.
1 Kings 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with
camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and
when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that
was in her heart.
1 Kings 10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not
anything hid from the king which he told her not.
1 Kings 10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom
of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
1 Kings 10:5 and the food 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
Jehovah; there was no more spirit in her.
1 Kings 10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I
heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom.
1 Kings 10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and
mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me; thy
wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
1 Kings 10:8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that
stand continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom.
1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to
set thee on the throne of Israel: because Jehovah loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he thee king, to do justice and righteousness.
1 Kings 10:10 And she gave the king a 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.
1 Kings 10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from
Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug-trees and
precious stones.
1 Kings 10:12 And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the
house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries
for the singers: there came no such almug-trees, nor were seen, unto
this day.
1 Kings 10:13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her
desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her
of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and
her servants.
1 Kings 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one
year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
1 Kings 10:15 besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the
traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mingled people,
and of the governors of the country.
1 Kings 10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of
beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
1 Kings 10:17 And [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold;
three pounds of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the
house of the forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with the finest gold.
1 Kings 10:19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the
throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the
place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
1 Kings 10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on
the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any
kingdom.
1 Kings 10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold,
and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure
gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of
Solomon.
1 Kings 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the
navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish,
bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1 Kings 10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in
riches and in wisdom.
1 Kings 10:24 And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to
hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1 Kings 10:25 And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices,
horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
1 Kings 10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and
horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and
with the king at Jerusalem.
1 Kings 10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,
and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the
lowland, for abundance.
1 Kings 10:28 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out
of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each
drove at a price.
1 Kings 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six
hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a 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.
1 Kings 11
1 Kings 11:1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women,
together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
1 Kings 11:2 of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the
children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they
come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their
gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
1 Kings 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
1 Kings 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his
wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not
perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.
1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the
abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for
Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 11:8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt
incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
1 Kings 11:9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his
heart was turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had
appeared unto him twice,
1 Kings 11:10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that
he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Jehovah
commanded.
1 Kings 11:11 Wherefore Jehovah 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.
1 Kings 11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David
thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
1 Kings 11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but I
will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
1 Kings 11:14 And Jehovah raised up an adversary unto Solomon,
Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
1 Kings 11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and
Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had
smitten every male in Edom
1 Kings 11:16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months,
until he had cut off every male in Edom);
1 Kings 11:17 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his
father's servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little
child.
1 Kings 11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and
they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him
victuals, and gave him land.
1 Kings 11:19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh,
so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of
Tahpenes the queen.
1 Kings 11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his
son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was
in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.
1 Kings 11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with
his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said
to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
1 Kings 11:22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou
lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own
country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit only let me depart.
1 Kings 11:23 And God raised up [another] adversary unto him,
Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king
of Zobah.
1 Kings 11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain
over a troop, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to
Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
1 Kings 11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of
Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred
Israel, and reigned over Syria.
1 Kings 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of
Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a
widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.
1 Kings 11:27 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand
against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the
city of David his father.
1 Kings 11:28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor;
and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he
gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
1 Kings 11:29 And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went
out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in
the way; now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new garment; and they
two were alone in the field.
1 Kings 11:30 And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on
him, and rent it in twelve pieces.
1 Kings 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces; for
thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom
out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee
1 Kings 11:32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's
sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel);
1 Kings 11:33 because that they have forsaken me, and have
worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the
god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and
they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine
eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and mine ordinances, as did David his
father.
1 Kings 11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his
hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my
servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my
statutes;
1 Kings 11:35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and
will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
1 Kings 11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my
servant may have a lamp alway before me in Jerusalem, the city
which I have chosen me to put my name there.
1 Kings 11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to
all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
1 Kings 11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I
command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right
in mine eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David
my servant did; that I will be with thee, and will build thee a sure
house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
1 Kings 11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for
ever.
1 Kings 11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but
Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and
was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
1 Kings 11:41 Now 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?
1 Kings 11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over
all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
stead.
1 Kings 12
1 Kings 12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were
come to Shechem to make him king.
1 Kings 12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat
heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the
presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt,
1 Kings 12:3 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the
assembly of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
1 Kings 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore
make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke
which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
1 Kings 12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then
come again to me. And the people departed.
1 Kings 12:6 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?
1 Kings 12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a
servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer
them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants
for ever.
1 Kings 12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they
had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown
up with him, that stood before him.
1 Kings 12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we
may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying,
Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?
1 Kings 12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him
spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say unto this people that
spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make
thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou speak unto them, My little
finger is thicker than my father's loins.
1 Kings 12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy
yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings 12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam
the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third
day.
1 Kings 12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and
forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
1 Kings 12:14 and spake to them after the counsel of the young men,
saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke:
my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions.
1 Kings 12:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a
thing brought about of Jehovah, that he might establish his word,
which Jehovah spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
1 Kings 12:16 And 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.
1 Kings 12:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities
of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1 Kings 12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the
men subject to taskwork; and all Israel stoned him to death with
stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot,
to flee to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this
day.
1 Kings 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that
Jeroboam was returned, 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.
1 Kings 12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he
assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a
hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to
fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to
Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
1 Kings 12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of
God, saying,
1 Kings 12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of
Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest
of the people, saying,
1 Kings 12:24 Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight
against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his
house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the word of
Jehovah, and returned and went their way, according to the word of
Jehovah.
1 Kings 12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of
Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built
Penuel.
1 Kings 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the
kingdom return to the house of David:
1 Kings 12:27 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of
Jehovah at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn again
unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill
me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two
calves of gold; and he 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.
1 Kings 12:29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in
Dan.
1 Kings 12:30 And this thing became a sin; for the people went [to
worship] before the one, even unto Dan.
1 Kings 12:31 And he made houses of high places, and made priests
from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings 12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah,
and he went up unto 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 that he had made.
1 Kings 12:33 And he went up unto the altar which he had made in
Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month
which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the
children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to burn incense.
1 Kings 13
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by
the word of Jehovah unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam was standing by the
altar to burn incense.
1 Kings 13:2 And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah,
and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be
born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he
sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee,
and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.
1 Kings 13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the
sign which Jehovah hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and
the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
1 Kings 13:4 And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of
the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Beth-el, that
Jeroboam 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 draw it back again to him.
1 Kings 13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from
the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by
the word of Jehovah.
1 Kings 13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God,
Entreat now the favor of Jehovah thy God, and pray for me, that my
hand may be restored me again. And the man of God entreated
Jehovah, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as
it was before.
1 Kings 13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home
with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
1 Kings 13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt
give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat
bread nor drink water in this place;
1 Kings 13:9 for so was it charged me by the word of Jehovah,
saying, Thou shalt eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the
way that thou camest.
1 Kings 13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way
that he came to Beth-el.
1 Kings 13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and one of
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 also they told unto their father.
1 Kings 13:12 And their father said unto them, What way went he?
Now his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came
from Judah.
1 Kings 13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
saddled him the ass; and he rode thereon.
1 Kings 13:14 And he 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.
1 Kings 13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat
bread.
1 Kings 13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with
thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1 Kings 13:17 for it was said to me by the word of Jehovah, Thou
shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the
way that thou camest.
1 Kings 13:18 And he said unto him, I also am a prophet as thou art;
and an angel spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring
him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink
water. [But] he lied unto him.
1 Kings 13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his
house, and drank water.
1 Kings 13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the
word of Jehovah came unto the prophet that brought him back;
1 Kings 13:21 and he cried unto the man of God that came from
Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Forasmuch as thou hast been
disobedient unto the mouth of Jehovah, and hast not kept the
commandment which Jehovah thy God commanded thee,
1 Kings 13:22 but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water
in the place of which he said to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no
water; thy body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 Kings 13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and
after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, [to wit], for the
prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings 13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way,
and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by
it; the lion also stood by the body.
1 Kings 13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in
the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it
in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings 13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the
way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient
unto the mouth of Jehovah: therefore Jehovah hath delivered him
unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the
word of Jehovah, which he spake unto him.
1 Kings 13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass.
And they saddled it.
1 Kings 13:28 And he went and found his body cast in the way, and
the ass and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the
body, nor torn the ass.
1 Kings 13:29 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God,
and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city
of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.
1 Kings 13:30 And he laid his body in his own grave; and they
mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
1 Kings 13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he
spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the
sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his
bones.
1 Kings 13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Jehovah
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.
1 Kings 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil
way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high
places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be
priests of the high places.
1 Kings 13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the
earth.
1 Kings 14
1 Kings 14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1 Kings 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam;
and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spake
concerning me that I should be king over this people.
1 Kings 14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of
honey, and go to him: he will tell thee what shall become of the child.
1 Kings 14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to
Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see;
for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
1 Kings 14:5 And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of
Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick:
thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it will be, when she cometh
in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.
1 Kings 14:6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet,
as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of
Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to
thee with heavy tidings.
1 Kings 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made
thee prince over my people Israel,
1 Kings 14:8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David,
and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who
kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to
do that only which was right in mine eyes,
1 Kings 14:9 but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and
hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke
me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
1 Kings 14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of
Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him that
is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep
away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be
all gone.
1 Kings 14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs
eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat:
for Jehovah hath spoken it.
1 Kings 14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thy house: [and] when
thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1 Kings 14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for
he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is
found some good thing toward Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the
house of Jeroboam.
1 Kings 14:14 Moreover Jehovah will raise him up a king over
Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what?
even now.
1 Kings 14:15 For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in
the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he
gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because
they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.
1 Kings 14:16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of
Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel
to sin.
1 Kings 14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to
Tirzah: [and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child
died.
1 Kings 14:18 And all Israel buried him, and mourned for him,
according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant
Ahijah the prophet.
1 Kings 14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred,
and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
1 Kings 14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and
twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned
in his stead.
1 Kings 14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.
Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his
mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which
they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and
Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
1 Kings 14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did
according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove
out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
1 Kings 14:26 and he took away the treasures of the house of
Jehovah, 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.
1 Kings 14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of
brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard,
who kept the door of the king's house.
1 Kings 14:28 And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the
house of Jehovah, the guard bare them, and brought them back into
the guard-chamber.
1 Kings 14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
1 Kings 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually.
1 Kings 14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 15
1 Kings 15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of
Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he
had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his
God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Jehovah his God give
him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
Jerusalem;
1 Kings 15:5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him
all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
all the days of his life.
1 Kings 15:7 And 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.
1 Kings 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him
in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Asa to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and
his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, as did David his father.
1 Kings 15:12 And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15:13 And also Maacah his mother he removed from being
queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah;
and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless
the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
1 Kings 15:15 And he brought into the house of Jehovah the things
that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had
dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
1 Kings 15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of
Israel all their days.
1 Kings 15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and
built Ramah, that he might not suffer any one to go out or come in to
Asa king of Judah.
1 Kings 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left
in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, 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 Tabrimmon, the son of
Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
1 Kings 15:19 [There is] a league between me and thee, between my
father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver
and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
may depart from me.
1 Kings 15:20 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the
captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and
Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of
Naphtali.
1 Kings 15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that
he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
1 Kings 15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah;
none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and
the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built
therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1 Kings 15:23 Now 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? But in the time of
his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1 Kings 15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son
reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over
Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over
Israel two years.
1 Kings 15:26 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin
wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of
Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon,
which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were
laying siege to Gibbethon.
1 Kings 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha
slay him, and reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 15:29 And it came to pass that, as soon as he was king, 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
Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
1 Kings 15:30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and
wherewith he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation
wherewith he provoked Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger.
1 Kings 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
1 Kings 15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of
Israel all their days.
1 Kings 15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha
the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned]
twenty and four years.
1 Kings 15:34 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin
wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16
1 Kings 16:1 And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of
Hanani against Baasha, saying,
1 Kings 16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made
thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to
anger with their sins;
1 Kings 16:3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his
house; and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat.
1 Kings 16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat;
and him that dieth of his in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.
1 Kings 16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did,
and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:6 And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 16:7 And moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani
came the word of Jehovah against Baasha, and against his house,
both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Jehovah, to
provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the
house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.
1 Kings 16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began
Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned]
two years.
1 Kings 16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots,
conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk
in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:
1 Kings 16:10 and Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in
the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his
stead.
1 Kings 16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon
as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasha: he left
him not a single man-child, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his
friends.
1 Kings 16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha,
according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake against Baasha by
Jehu the prophet,
1 Kings 16:13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,
which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke
Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
1 Kings 16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah
did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped
against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
1 Kings 16:16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri
hath conspired, and hath also smitten the king: wherefore all Israel
made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the
camp.
1 Kings 16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with
him, and they besieged Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was
taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the
king's house over him with fire, and died,
1 Kings 16:19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was
evil in the sight of Jehovah, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and
in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that
he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts:
half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him
king; and half followed Omri.
1 Kings 16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against
the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and
Omri reigned.
1 Kings 16:23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began
Omri to reign over Israel, [and reigned] twelve years: six years
reigned he in Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two
talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the
city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill,
Samaria.
1 Kings 16:25 And Omri did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and dealt wickedly above all that were before him.
1 Kings 16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke
Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his
might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah
began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of
Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
1 Kings 16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in
the sight of Jehovah above all that were before him.
1 Kings 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for
him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to
wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went
and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings 16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of
Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings 16:33 And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more
to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of
Israel that were before him.
1 Kings 16:34 In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he
laid the foundation thereof with the loss of Abiram his first-born, and
set up the gates thereof with the loss of his youngest son Segub,
according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Joshua the son
of Nun.
1 Kings 17
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of
Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before
whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
according to my word.
1 Kings 17:2 And the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,
1 Kings 17:3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself
by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
1 Kings 17:4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I
have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
1 Kings 17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of
Jehovah; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before
the Jordan.
1 Kings 17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the
morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the
brook.
1 Kings 17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried
up, because there was no rain in the land.
1 Kings 17:8 And the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,
1 Kings 17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon,
and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain
thee.
1 Kings 17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came
to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks:
and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a
vessel, that I may drink.
1 Kings 17:11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and
said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
1 Kings 17:12 And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a
cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the 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.
1 Kings 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou
hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it forth
unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.
1 Kings 17:14 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, The jar of
meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day
that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the earth.
1 Kings 17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of
Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
1 Kings 17:16 The jar of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil
fail, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Elijah.
1 Kings 17:17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of
the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was
so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings 17:18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee,
O thou man of God? thou art come unto me to bring my sin to
remembrance, and to slay my son!
1 Kings 17:19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took
him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he
abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
1 Kings 17:20 And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my
God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I
sojourn, by slaying her son?
1 Kings 17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times,
and cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, I pray thee, let
this child's soul come into him again.
1 Kings 17:22 And Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and
the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
1 Kings 17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out
of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother;
and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
1 Kings 17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that thou
art a man of God, and that the word of Jehovah in thy mouth is truth.
1 Kings 18
1 Kings 18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of
Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself
unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the
famine was sore in Samaria.
1 Kings 18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the
household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly:
1 Kings 18:4 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of
Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty
in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land,
unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the brooks: peradventure
we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose
not all the beasts.
1 Kings 18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass
throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went
another way by himself.
1 Kings 18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met
him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it thou, my
lord Elijah?
1 Kings 18:8 And he answered him, It is I: go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah [is here].
1 Kings 18:9 And he said, Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest
deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
1 Kings 18:10 As Jehovah 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 here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that
they found thee not.
1 Kings 18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah
[is here].
1 Kings 18:12 And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from
thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not;
and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will
slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.
1 Kings 18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew
the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's
prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah
[is here]; and he will slay me.
1 Kings 18:15 And Elijah said, As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before
whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to-day.
1 Kings 18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and
Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab
said unto him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?
1 Kings 18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou,
and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of
Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baalim.
1 Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto
mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and
the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table.
1 Kings 18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and
gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said,
How long go ye limping between the two sides? if Jehovah be God,
follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered
him not a word.
1 Kings 18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, am
left a prophet of Jehovah; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and
fifty men.
1 Kings 18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them
choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on
the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bullock,
and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.
1 Kings 18:24 And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call
on the name of Jehovah; and the God that answereth by fire, let him
be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
1 Kings 18:25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you
one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and
call on the name of your god, but put no fire under.
1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and
they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even
until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any
that answered. And they leaped about the altar which was made.
1 Kings 18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,
and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone
aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be
awaked.
1 Kings 18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their
manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.
1 Kings 18:29 And it was so, when midday was past, that they
prophesied until the time of the offering of the [evening] oblation; but
there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
1 Kings 18:30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto
me; and all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar
of Jehovah that was thrown down.
1 Kings 18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the
number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of
Jehovah came, saying, Israel shall be thy name.
1 Kings 18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of
Jehovah; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would
contain two measures of seed.
1 Kings 18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in
pieces, and laid it on the wood. And he said, Fill four jars with water,
and pour it on the burnt-offering, and on the wood.
1 Kings 18:34 And he said, Do it the second time; and they did it the
second time. And he said, Do it the third time; and they did it the
third time.
1 Kings 18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled
the trench also with water.
1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the
[evening] oblation, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O
Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of 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.
1 Kings 18:37 Hear me, O Jehovah, hear me, that this people may
know that thou, Jehovah, art God, and [that] thou hast turned their
heart back again.
1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of Jehovah fell, and consumed the burnt-
offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the
water that was in the trench.
1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their
faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God.
1 Kings 18:40 and Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal;
let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Elijah brought
them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
1 Kings 18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink;
for there is the sound of abundance of rain.
1 Kings 18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went
up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth,
and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 18:43 And he 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.
1 Kings 18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said,
Behold, there ariseth a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand.
And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Make ready [thy chariot], and get
thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
1 Kings 18:45 And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens
grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And
Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
1 Kings 18:46 and the hand of Jehovah was on Elijah; and he girded
up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
1 Kings 19
1 Kings 19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and
withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel send 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.
1 Kings 19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life,
and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his
servant there.
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for
himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah,
take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings 19:5 And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and,
behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
1 Kings 19:6 And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a
cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water. And he did eat and
drink, and laid him down again.
1 Kings 19:7 And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time,
and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too
great for thee.
1 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the
strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the
mount of God.
1 Kings 19:9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and,
behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, and he said unto him,
What doest thou here, Elijah?
1 Kings 19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the
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.
1 Kings 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount
before Jehovah. And, behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before
Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an
earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake:
1 Kings 19:12 and after the earthquake a fire; but Jehovah was not in
the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1 Kings 19:13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped
his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the
cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest
thou here, Elijah?
1 Kings 19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the
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.
1 Kings 19:15 And Jehovah said unto him, Go, return on thy way to
the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint
Hazael to be king over Syria;
1 Kings 19:16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be
king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt
thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
1 Kings 19:17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth from
the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth from the
sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
1 Kings 19:18 Yet will I leave [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the
knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath
not kissed him.
1 Kings 19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him,
and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over unto him, and cast his
mantle upon him.
1 Kings 19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said,
Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will
follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again; for what have I
done to thee?
1 Kings 19:21 And he returned from following him, and took the
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.
1 Kings 20
1 Kings 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 fought
against it.
1 Kings 20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the
city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
1 Kings 20:3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy
children, even the goodliest, are mine.
1 Kings 20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, It is
according to thy saying, my lord, O king; I am thine, and all that I
have.
1 Kings 20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus
speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, I sent indeed unto thee, saying, Thou
shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy
children;
1 Kings 20:6 but I will send my servants unto thee to-morrow about
this time, and they shall search thy 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.
1 Kings 20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land,
and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief:
for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my
silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
1 Kings 20:8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him,
Hearken thou not, neither consent.
1 Kings 20:9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad,
Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the
first I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the messengers
departed, and brought him word again.
1 Kings 20:10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do
so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for
handfuls for all the people that follow me.
1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him,
Let not him that girdeth on [his armor] boast himself as he that
putteth it off.
1 Kings 20:12 And it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this
message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that
he said unto his servants, Set [yourselves in array]. And they set
[themselves in array] against the city.
1 Kings 20:13 And, behold, a prophet came near unto Ahab king of
Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou seen all this great
multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou
shalt know that I am Jehovah.
1 Kings 20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith
Jehovah, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he
said, Who shall begin the battle? And he answered, Thou.
1 Kings 20:15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the
provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them
he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven
thousand.
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was
drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty
and two kings that helped him.
1 Kings 20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces
went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying,
There are men come out from Samaria.
1 Kings 20:18 And he said, Whether they are come out for peace,
take them alive, or whether they are come out for war, taken them
alive.
1 Kings 20:19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the
princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
1 Kings 20:20 And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians
fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria
escaped on a horse with horsemen.
1 Kings 20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses
and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1 Kings 20:22 And the prophet came near 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.
1 Kings 20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him,
Their god is a god 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.
1 Kings 20:24 And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out
of his place, and put captains in their room;
1 Kings 20:25 and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast
lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against
them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he
hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
1 Kings 20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-
hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against
Israel.
1 Kings 20:27 And the children of Israel were mustered, and were
victualled, and went against them: and the children of Israel
encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians
filled the country.
1 Kings 20:28 And a man of God came near and spake unto the king
of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Syrians have
said, Jehovah is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;
therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye
shall know that I am Jehovah.
1 Kings 20:29 And they encamped 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 a hundred thousand footmen
in one day.
1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall
fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-
hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
1 Kings 20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have
heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us,
we 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.
1 Kings 20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put]
ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy
servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he
yet alive? he is my brother.
1 Kings 20:33 Now the men observed diligently, and hasted to catch
whether it were his mind; 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.
1 Kings 20:34 And [Ben-hadad] said unto him, The cities which my
father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets
for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I, [said
Ahab], will let thee go with this covenant. So he made a covenant
with him, and let him go.
1 Kings 20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said
unto his fellow by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. And
the man refused to smite him.
1 Kings 20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed
the voice of Jehovah, 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.
1 Kings 20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I
pray thee. And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.
1 Kings 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by
the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
1 Kings 20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king; and
he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold,
a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this
man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life,
or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
1 Kings 20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was
gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be;
thyself hast decided it.
1 Kings 20:41 And he hasted, and took the headband away from his
eyes; and the king of israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
1 Kings 20:42 And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Because
thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to
destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for
his people.
1 Kings 20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and
displeased, and came to Samaria.
1 Kings 21
1 Kings 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.
1 Kings 21:2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy
vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near
unto my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it: or,
if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
1 Kings 21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I
should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
1 Kings 21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased
because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him;
for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And
he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would
eat no bread.
1 Kings 21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him,
Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
1 Kings 21:6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the
Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or
else, if it please thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he
answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
1 Kings 21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now
govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart
be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them
with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that
were in his city, [and] that dwelt with Naboth.
1 Kings 21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast,
and set Naboth on high among the people:
1 Kings 21:10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let
them bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst curse God and the
king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.
1 Kings 21:11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the
nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,
according as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto
them.
1 Kings 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high
among the people.
1 Kings 21:13 And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat
before him: and the base fellows bare witness against him, even
against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did
curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city,
and stoned him to death with stones.
1 Kings 21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned,
and is dead.
1 Kings 21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth
was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take
possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused
to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
1 Kings 21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth
was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
1 Kings 21:17 And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying,
1 Kings 21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who
dwelleth in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither
he is gone down to take possession of it.
1 Kings 21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah, Hast thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shalt
speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, In the place where dogs
licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine
enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold
thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.
1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly
sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and
him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel:
1 Kings 21:22 and I will make thy 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 hast
made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 21:23 And of Jezebel also spake Jehovah, saying, The dogs
shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
1 Kings 21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat;
and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.
1 Kings 21:25 (But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell
himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, whom
Jezebel his wife stirred up.
1 Kings 21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols,
according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah cast out before
the children of Israel.)
1 Kings 21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words,
that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted,
and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
1 Kings 21:28 And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying,
1 Kings 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me?
because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in
his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
1 Kings 22
1 Kings 22:1 And they continued three years without war between
Syria and Israel.
1 Kings 22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye
that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the
hand of the king of Syria?
1 Kings 22:4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to
battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I
am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
1 Kings 22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire
first, I pray thee, for the word of Jehovah.
1 Kings 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together,
about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against
Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for
the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
1 Kings 22:7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
Jehovah besides, that we may inquire of him?
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, there is
yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah, Micaiah the son of
Imlah: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me,
but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
1 Kings 22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Fetch
quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
1 Kings 22:10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an
open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets
were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns
of iron, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, With these shalt thou push the
Syrians, until they be consumed.
1 Kings 22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will deliver it into the hand
of the king.
1 Kings 22:13 And the messenger that went 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 thou good.
1 Kings 22:14 And Micaiah said, As Jehovah liveth, what Jehovah
saith unto me, that will I speak.
1 Kings 22:15 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto
him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we
forbear? And he answered him, Go up and prosper; and Jehovah will
deliver it into the hand of the king.
1 Kings 22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I
adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name
of Jehovah?
1 Kings 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Jehovah said, These
have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
1 Kings 22:18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not
tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
1 Kings 22:19 And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear thou the word of
Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne, and all the host of
heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 22:20 And Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may
go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner; and
another said on that manner.
1 Kings 22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before
Jehovah, and said, I will entice him.
1 Kings 22:22 And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said,
I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also:
go forth, and do so.
1 Kings 22:23 Now therefore, behold, Jehovah hath put a lying spirit
in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and Jehovah hath spoken evil
concerning thee.
1 Kings 22:24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and
smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of
Jehovah from me to speak unto thee?
1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day,
when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
1 Kings 22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry
him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
son;
1 Kings 22:27 and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
affliction, until I come in peace.
1 Kings 22:28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace,
Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of
you.
1 Kings 22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
1 Kings 22:30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will
disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And
the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1 Kings 22:31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty and
two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor
great, save only with the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots
saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and
they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings 22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots
saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from
pursuing him.
1 Kings 22:34 And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and
smote the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: wherefore he
said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand, and carry me out of
the host; for I am sore wounded.
1 Kings 22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was
stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the
blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
1 Kings 22:36 And there went a cry throughout the host about the
going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man
to his country.
1 Kings 22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and
they buried the king in Samaria.
1 Kings 22:38 And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria;
and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots washed themselves
[there]); according unto the word of Jehovah which he spake.
1 Kings 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did,
and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over
Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
1 Kings 22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He
turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people
still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
1 Kings 22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might
that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, that remained in
the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
1 Kings 22:47 And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for
gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
1 Kings 22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat,
Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat
would not.
1 Kings 22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; And Jehoram
his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he
reigned two years over Israel.
1 Kings 22:52 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, 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, wherein he
made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 22:53 And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and
provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his
father had done.
2 Kings
2 Kings 1
2 Kings 1:1 And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab.
2 Kings 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through the 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 sickness.
2 Kings 1:3 But the angel of Jehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite,
Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say
unto them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire
of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
2 Kings 1:4 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not come
down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And
Elijah departed.
2 Kings 1:5 And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto
them, Why is it that ye are returned?
2 Kings 1:6 And they said unto him, There came up a man to meet
us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and
say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in
Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art
gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings 1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he that
came up to meet you, and told you these words?
2 Kings 1:8 And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt
with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the
Tishbite.
2 Kings 1:9 Then [the king] sent unto him a captain of fifty with his
fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of
the hill. And he spake unto him, O man of God, the king hath said,
Come down.
2 Kings 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I
be a man of God, 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.
2 Kings 1:11 And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty and
his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus
hath the king said, Come down quickly.
2 Kings 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man
of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed
him and his fifty.
2 Kings 1:13 And again he sent the captain of a 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.
2 Kings 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and
consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now
let my life be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 1:15 And the angel of Jehovah said unto Elijah, Go down
with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with
him unto the king.
2 Kings 1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Forasmuch
as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of
Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?
therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art
gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings 1:17 So he died according to the word of Jehovah which
Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the
second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah;
because he had no son.
2 Kings 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 2
2 Kings 2:1 And it came to pass, when Jehovah would take up Elijah
by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 Kings 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for
Jehovah hath sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Jehovah
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down
to Beth-el.
2 Kings 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came
forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that Jehovah will
take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he said, Yea, I
know it; hold ye your peace.
2 Kings 2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee;
for Jehovah hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As Jehovah liveth,
and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came
near to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that Jehovah will
take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he answered, Yea, I
know it; hold ye your peace.
2 Kings 2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry here, I pray thee; for
Jehovah hath sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As Jehovah liveth,
and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood over against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan.
2 Kings 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and
smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that
they two went over on dry ground.
2 Kings 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am
taken from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of
thy spirit be upon me.
2 Kings 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
[nevertheless], if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be
so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
2 Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,
that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire,
which parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind
into heaven.
2 Kings 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father,
the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no
more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two
pieces.
2 Kings 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
2 Kings 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
smote the waters, and said, Where is Jehovah, the God of Elijah? and
when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and
thither; and Elisha went over.
2 Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho
over against him saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on
Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before him.
2 Kings 2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there are with thy
servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy
master, lest the Spirit of Jehovah hath taken him up, and cast him
upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not
send.
2 Kings 2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said,
Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but
found him not.
2 Kings 2:18 And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho;
and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
2 Kings 2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, we
pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but
the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth.
2 Kings 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.
And they brought it to him.
2 Kings 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and
cast salt therein, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, I have healed these
waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.
2 Kings 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to
the word of Elisha which he spake.
2 Kings 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he
was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city,
and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up,
thou baldhead.
2 Kings 2:24 And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed
them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out
of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them.
2 Kings 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 3
2 Kings 3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel
in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and
reigned twelve years.
2 Kings 3:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah,
but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar
of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom.
2 Kings 3:4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he
rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand
lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.
2 Kings 3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king
of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
2 Kings 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and
mustered all Israel.
2 Kings 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with
me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art,
my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
2 Kings 3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he
answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.
2 Kings 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and
there was no water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them.
2 Kings 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! for Jehovah hath
called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of
Moab.
2 Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
Jehovah, that we may inquire of Jehovah by him? And one of the
king of Israel's servants answered and said, Elisha the son of Shaphat
is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.
2 Kings 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Jehovah is with
him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom
went down to him.
2 Kings 3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to
do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the
prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay; for
Jehovah hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the
hand of Moab.
2 Kings 3:14 And Elisha said, As Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass,
when the minstrel played, that the hand of Jehovah came upon him.
2 Kings 3:16 And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full
of trenches.
2 Kings 3:17 For thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not see wind, neither
shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and ye
shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts.
2 Kings 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of Jehovah: he
will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
2 Kings 3:19 And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every
choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of
water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings 3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of
offering the oblation, that, behold, there came water by the way of
Edom, and the country was filled with water.
2 Kings 3:21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were
come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all
that were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.
2 Kings 3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun
shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against
them as red as blood:
2 Kings 3:23 and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely
destroyed, and they have smitten each man his fellow: now therefore,
Moab, to the spoil.
2 Kings 3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before
them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.
2 Kings 3:25 And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece
of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped
all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-
hareseth [only] they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went
about it, and smote it.
2 Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too
sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword,
to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not.
2 Kings 3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in
his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And
there was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and
returned to their own land.
2 Kings 4
2 Kings 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 Jehovah: and the
creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.
2 Kings 4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell
me; what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath
not anything in the house, save a pot of oil.
2 Kings 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2 Kings 4:4 And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and
upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set
aside that which is full.
2 Kings 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and
upon her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
2 Kings 4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There
is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2 Kings 4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said,
Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the
rest.
2 Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where
was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it
was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
2 Kings 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive
that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.
2 Kings 4:10 Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall;
and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a
candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn
in thither.
2 Kings 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned
into the chamber and lay there.
2 Kings 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou
hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee?
wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?
And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
2 Kings 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And
Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.
2 Kings 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she
stood in the door.
2 Kings 4:16 And he said, At this season, when the time cometh
round, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou
man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.
2 Kings 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that
season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
2 Kings 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he
went out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he
said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.
2 Kings 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his
mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
2 Kings 4:21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of
God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
2 Kings 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I
pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to
the man of God, and come again.
2 Kings 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day? it
is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2 Kings 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive,
and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.
2 Kings 4:25 So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount
Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off,
that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:
2 Kings 4:26 run, I pray thee, now 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.
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she
caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but
the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her;
and Jehovah hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
2 Kings 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not
say, Do not deceive me?
2 Kings 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my
staff in thy 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.
2 Kings 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As Jehovah liveth,
and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and
followed her.
2 Kings 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff
upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing.
Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is
not awaked.
2 Kings 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the
child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them
twain, and prayed unto Jehovah.
2 Kings 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his
mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands
upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of
the child waxed warm.
2 Kings 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and
fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child
sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
2 Kings 4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite.
So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take
up thy son.
2 Kings 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself
to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a
dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before
him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil
pottage for the sons of the prophets.
2 Kings 4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and
came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.
2 Kings 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to
pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said,
O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat
thereof.
2 Kings 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the
pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there
was no harm in the pot.
2 Kings 4:42 And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and
brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of
barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give unto the
people, that they may eat.
2 Kings 4:43 And his servant said, What, should I set this before a
hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for
thus saith Jehovah, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
2 Kings 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left
thereof, according to the word of Jehovah.
2 Kings 5
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria,
was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him
Jehovah had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of
valor, [but he was] a leper.
2 Kings 5:2 And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited
on Naaman's wife.
2 Kings 5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were
with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his
leprosy.
2 Kings 5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus
said the maiden that is of the land of Israel.
2 Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go now, 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.
2 Kings 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying,
And now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have sent
Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his
leprosy.
2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make
alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his
leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel
against me.
2 Kings 5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God 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.
2 Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots,
and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
2 Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and
wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to
thee, and thou shalt be clean.
2 Kings 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call
on the name of Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the place,
and recover the leper.
2 Kings 5:12 Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the 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.
2 Kings 5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and
said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing,
wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith
to thee, Wash, and be clean?
2 Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times
in the 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.
2 Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, Behold now,
I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now
therefore, I pray thee, take a present of thy servant.
2 Kings 5:16 But he said, As Jehovah liveth, before whom I stand, I
will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said, If not, yet, I pray thee, let there 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 Jehovah.
2 Kings 5:18 In this thing Jehovah pardon thy servant: 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 myself in the house of Rimmon, Jehovah pardon thy servant in
this thing.
2 Kings 5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed
from him a little way.
2 Kings 5:20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
Behold, my master hath spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not
receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Jehovah liveth, I will
run after him, and take somewhat of him.
2 Kings 5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman
saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him,
and said, Is all well?
2 Kings 5:22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me,
saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country
of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I
pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.
2 Kings 5:23 And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And
he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they
bare them before him.
2 Kings 5:24 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their
hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and
they departed.
2 Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha
said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy
servant went no whither.
2 Kings 5:26 And he said unto him, Went not my heart [with thee],
when the man turned 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 men-servants and maid-servants?
2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee,
and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper
[as white] as snow.
2 Kings 6
2 Kings 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold
now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.
2 Kings 6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto the 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.
2 Kings 6:3 And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy
servants. And he answered, I will go.
2 Kings 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to the
Jordan, they cut down wood.
2 Kings 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the
water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
2 Kings 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed
him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and
made the iron to swim.
2 Kings 6:7 And he said, Take it up to thee. So he put out his hand,
and took it.
2 Kings 6:8 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he
took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall
be my camp.
2 Kings 6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,
Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are
coming down.
2 Kings 6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man
of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not
once nor twice.
2 Kings 6:11 And 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
show me which of us is for the king of Israel?
2 Kings 6:12 And one of his servants said, Nay, 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.
2 Kings 6:13 And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send
and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
2 Kings 6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a
great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
2 Kings 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen
early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was
round about the city. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master!
how shall we do?
2 Kings 6:16 And he answered, Fear not; for they that are with us are
more than they that are with them.
2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Jehovah, I pray thee, open
his eyes, that he may see. And Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto
Jehovah, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And
he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings 6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither
is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye
seek. And he led them to Samaria.
2 Kings 6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into
Samaria, that Elisha said, Jehovah, open the eyes of these men, that
they may see. And Jehovah opened their eyes, and they saw; and,
behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
2 Kings 6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw
them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
2 Kings 6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest
thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and
with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and
drink, and go to their master.
2 Kings 6:23 And he prepared great provision for them; and when
they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their
master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2 Kings 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of
Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2 Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold,
they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore [pieces] of
silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of
silver.
2 Kings 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2 Kings 6:27 And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence shall I
help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?
2 Kings 6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat
him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
2 Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto
her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath
hid her son.
2 Kings 6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of
the woman, that he rent his clothes (now he was passing by upon the
wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within
upon his flesh.
2 Kings 6:31 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the
head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2 Kings 6:32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were
sitting 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 my head? look, when the
messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him:
is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
2 Kings 6:33 And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the
messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of
Jehovah; why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?
2 Kings 7
2 Kings 7:1 And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith
Jehovah, 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 Kings 7:2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned
answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make
windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou
shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings 7:3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the
gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2 Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is
in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also.
Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if
they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of
the Syrians; and when they were come to the outermost part of the
camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
2 Kings 7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host:
and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against
us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come
upon us.
2 Kings 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left
their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was,
and fled for their life.
2 Kings 7:8 And when these lepers came to the outermost 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 they
came back, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and
went and hid it.
2 Kings 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well; this day
is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the
morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let
us go and tell the king's household.
2 Kings 7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city; and
they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and,
behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses
tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.
2 Kings 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's
household within.
2 Kings 7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They
know that we are 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 take them alive, and get into the city.
2 Kings 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some
take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the
city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it;
behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are consumed); and
let us send and see.
2 Kings 7:14 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the
king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2 Kings 7:15 And they went after them unto the 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.
2 Kings 7:16 And the people went out, and plundered the camp 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
Jehovah.
2 Kings 7:17 And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he
leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in
the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spake when
the king came down to him.
2 Kings 7:18 And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to
the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure
of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the
gate of Samaria;
2 Kings 7:19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said,
Now, behold, if Jehovah 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:
2 Kings 7:20 it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod
upon him in the gate, and he died.
2 Kings 8
2 Kings 8:1 Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he
had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household,
and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called
for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings 8:2 And the woman arose, and did according to the word of
the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in
the land of the Philistines seven years.
2 Kings 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the
woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth
to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
2 Kings 8:4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the
man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that
Elisha hath done.
2 Kings 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he
had restored to life him that was dead, 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.
2 Kings 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So
the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the
land, even until now.
2 Kings 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king
of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is
come hither.
2 Kings 8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thy
hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Jehovah by him,
saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?
2 Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with
him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden,
and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?
2 Kings 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou shalt
surely recover; howbeit Jehovah hath showed me that he shall surely
die.
2 Kings 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly [upon him],
until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he
answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children
of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men
wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones,
and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a
dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered,
Jehovah hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
2 Kings 8:14 Then 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 wouldest surely recover.
2 Kings 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the
coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he
died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did
the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he
did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Kings 8:19 Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David
his servant's sake, as he promised him to give unto him a lamp for his
children alway.
2 Kings 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2 Kings 8:21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots
with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that
compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people
fled to their tents.
2 Kings 8:22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.
2 Kings 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
stead.
2 Kings 8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began
to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and
did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of
Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
2 Kings 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against
Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded
Joram.
2 Kings 8:29 And king Joram returned 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.
2 Kings 9
2 Kings 9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of
oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings 9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the
son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise
up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber.
2 Kings 9:3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and
say, Thus saith Jehovah, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then
open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
2 Kings 9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet,
went to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings 9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu
said, Unto which of us all? And he said, To thee, O captain.
2 Kings 9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured
the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of Jehovah, even
over Israel.
2 Kings 9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I
may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of
all the servants of Jehovah, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut
off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that
is left at large in Israel.
2 Kings 9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
Ahijah.
2 Kings 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
2 Kings 9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and
one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to
thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man and what his talk
was.
2 Kings 9:12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus
and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I have anointed
thee king over Israel.
2 Kings 9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and
put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying,
Jehu is king.
2 Kings 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he
and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
2 Kings 9:15 but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let
none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.
2 Kings 9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for
Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see
Joram.
2 Kings 9:17 Now the watchman was standing 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 a horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, Is it peace?
2 Kings 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do
with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The
messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.
2 Kings 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who 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.
2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto
them, and cometh not back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu
the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
2 Kings 9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And they made ready his
chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went
out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found
him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he
said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
2 Kings 9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
2 Kings 9:24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and
smote Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart,
and he sunk down in his chariot.
2 Kings 9:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and
cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for
remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his
father, Jehovah laid this burden upon him:
2 Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and
the blood of his sons, saith Jehovah; and I will requite thee in this
plat, saith Jehovah. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat [of
ground], according to the word of Jehovah.
2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled
by the way of the garden-house. And Jehu followed after him, and
said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they smote him] at the ascent
of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2 Kings 9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab
began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of
it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at
the window.
2 Kings 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace,
thou Zimri, thy master's murderer?
2 Kings 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who
is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three
eunuchs.
2 Kings 9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down;
and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses:
and he trod her under foot.
2 Kings 9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he
said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's
daughter.
2 Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her; but they found no more of
her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
2 Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said,
This is the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh
of Jezebel;
2 Kings 9:37 and the body 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.
2 Kings 10
2 Kings 10:1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu
wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, even the
elders, and unto them that brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,
2 Kings 10:2 And 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 fortified city also, and armor;
2 Kings 10:3 look ye 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.
2 Kings 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the
two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
2 Kings 10:5 And he that was over the household, and he that was
over the city, the elders also, and they that brought up [the children],
sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou
shalt bid us; we will not make any man king: do thou that which is
good in thine eyes.
2 Kings 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying,
If ye be on my side, 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, who brought them up.
2 Kings 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that
they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and
put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying,
They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye
them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.
2 Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out,
and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous: behold, I
conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these?
2 Kings 10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing
of the word of Jehovah, which Jehovah spake concerning the house
of Ahab: for Jehovah hath done that which he spake by his servant
Elijah.
2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab
in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his
priests, until he left him none remaining.
2 Kings 10:12 And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And
as he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,
2 Kings 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,
and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of
Ahaziah: and we go down to salute the children of the king and the
children of the queen.
2 Kings 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them
alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and
forty men; neither left he any of them.
2 Kings 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he saluted
him, and said to him, Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy heart?
And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thy hand. And he
gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
2 Kings 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for
Jehovah. So they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that
remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according
to the word of Jehovah, which he spake to Elijah.
2 Kings 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said
unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
2 Kings 10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal,
all his worshippers, 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 subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy
the worshippers of Baal.
2 Kings 10:20 And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.
And they proclaimed it.
2 Kings 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came
not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was
filled from one end to another.
2 Kings 10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring
forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them
forth vestments.
2 Kings 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into
the house of Baal; and he said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search,
and look that there be here with you none of the servants of Jehovah,
but the worshippers of Baal only.
2 Kings 10:24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-
offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and
said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, [he that
letteth him go], his life shall be for the life of him.
2 Kings 10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the
captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote
them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast
them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
2 Kings 10:26 And they brought forth the pillars that were in the
house of Baal, and burned them.
2 Kings 10:27 And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake
down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.
2 Kings 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings 10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
wherewith he 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.
2 Kings 10:30 And Jehovah 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 my heart, thy sons
of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Jehovah,
the God of Israel, with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 10:32 In those days Jehovah began to cut off from Israel:
and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;
2 Kings 10:33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which
is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did,
and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him
in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
was twenty and eight years.
2 Kings 11
2 Kings 11:1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her
son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from
among the king's sons that were slain, even him and his nurse, [and
put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that
he was not slain;
2 Kings 11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of Jehovah six
years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
2 Kings 11:4 And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought
them to him into the house of Jehovah; and he made a covenant with
them, and took an oath of them in the house of Jehovah, and showed
them the king's son.
2 Kings 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that
ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be
keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings 11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part
at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house,
and be a barrier.
2 Kings 11:7 And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on
the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the
king.
2 Kings 11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand; and he that cometh within the ranks, let
him be slain: and be ye with the king when he goeth out, and when he
cometh in.
2 Kings 11:9 And the captains over hundreds did according to all that
Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men,
those that were to come in on the sabbath, with those that were to go
out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
2 Kings 11:10 And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds
the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the
house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in
his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house,
along by the altar and the house, by the king round about.
2 Kings 11:12 Then he brought out 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, [Long] live
the king.
2 Kings 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and
of] the people, she came to the people into the house of Jehovah:
2 Kings 11:14 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the
pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the
king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then
Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
2 Kings 11:15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of
hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her
forth between the ranks; and him that followeth her slay with the
sword. For the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of
Jehovah.
2 Kings 11:16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of
the horses' entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.
2 Kings 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and
the king and the people, that they should be Jehovah's people;
between the king also and the people.
2 Kings 11:18 And all the people of the land went to 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 Jehovah.
2 Kings 11:19 And he took the captains over hundreds, and the
Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they
brought down the king from the house of Jehovah, and came by the
way of the gate of the guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the
throne of the kings.
2 Kings 11:20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
2 Kings 11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
2 Kings 12
2 Kings 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and
he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kings 12:3 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the
people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current
money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all
the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house
of Jehovah,
2 Kings 12:5 let the priests take it to them, every man from his
acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
2 Kings 12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of
king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2 Kings 12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and
for the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money from
your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
2 Kings 12:8 And the priests consented that they should take no
[more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the
house.
2 Kings 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in
the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh
into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put
therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 12:10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much
money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up,
and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the
house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 12:11 And they gave the money that was weighed out into
the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the
house of Jehovah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the
builders, that wrought upon the house of Jehovah,
2 Kings 12:12 and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for
buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of
Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
2 Kings 12:13 But there were not made for the house of Jehovah
cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of
Jehovah;
2 Kings 12:14 for they gave that to them that did the work, and
repaired therewith the house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose
hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for
they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 12:16 The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money
for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it
was the priests'.
2 Kings 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed
things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings
of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the
gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of
the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went
away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:19 Now 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?
2 Kings 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and
smote Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goeth down to
Silla.
2 Kings 12:21 For Jozacar 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.
2 Kings 13
2 Kings 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 Kings 13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah,
and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he
made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2 Kings 13:3 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel,
and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into
the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
2 Kings 13:4 And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah
hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the
king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Kings 13:5 (And Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the
house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked
therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)
2 Kings 13:7 For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of
Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
2 Kings 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did,
and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
2 Kings 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried
him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] sixteen years.
2 Kings 13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.
2 Kings 13:12 Now 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?
2 Kings 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat
upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel.
2 Kings 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he
died: and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept
over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and
the horsemen thereof!
2 Kings 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows; and
he took unto him bow and arrows.
2 Kings 13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon
the bow; and he put his hand [upon it]. And Elisha laid his hands
upon the king's hands.
2 Kings 13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward; and he
opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. And he said,
Jehovah's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for
thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
2 Kings 13:18 And he said, Take the arrows; and he took them. And
he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground; and he smote
thrice, and stayed.
2 Kings 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said,
Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times: then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it, whereas now thou shalt
smite Syria but thrice.
2 Kings 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands
of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2 Kings 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,
behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of
Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he
revived, and stood up on his feet.
2 Kings 13:22 And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days
of Jehoahaz.
2 Kings 13:23 But Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 13:24 And Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the
hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out
of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash
smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
2 Kings 14
2 Kings 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel
began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 14:2 He 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 Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 14:3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah,
yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his
father had done.
2 Kings 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the
king his father:
2 Kings 14:6 but the children of the murderers he put not to death;
according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as
Jehovah 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 die for his own sin.
2 Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand,
and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this
day.
2 Kings 14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one
another in the face.
2 Kings 14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and
there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
2 Kings 14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath
lifted thee up: glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest
thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and
Judah with thee?
2 Kings 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. So 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.
2 Kings 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and
they fled every man to his tent.
2 Kings 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of
Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and
came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Kings 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the
king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and
his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his
stead.
2 Kings 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Kings 14:18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 14:19 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem;
and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew
him there.
2 Kings 14:20 And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried
at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was
sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father
Amaziah.
2 Kings 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the
king slept with his fathers.
2 Kings 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king
of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.
2 Kings 14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 14:25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of
Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of
Jehovah, the God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah the
son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
2 Kings 14:26 For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel, that it was
very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was
there any helper for Israel.
2 Kings 14:27 And Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he
did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus,
and Hamath, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the
kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15
2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and
he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 15:5 And Jehovah smote the king, so that he was a leper
unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham
the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
2 Kings 15:6 Now 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?
2 Kings 15:7 And 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.
2 Kings 15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah
did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months.
2 Kings 15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah,
as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,
and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his
stead.
2 Kings 15:11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:12 This was the word of Jehovah which he spake unto
Jehu, saying, Thy sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the
throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.
2 Kings 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine
and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space
of a month in Samaria.
2 Kings 15:14 And 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.
2 Kings 15:15 Now 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.
2 Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were
therein, and the borders 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.
2 Kings 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned]
ten years in Samaria.
2 Kings 15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria;
and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand
might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of
all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to
give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and
stayed not there in the land.
2 Kings 15:21 Now 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?
2 Kings 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his
son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah
the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] two years.
2 Kings 15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:25 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's
house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the
Gileadites: and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:26 Now 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.
2 Kings 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] twenty years.
2 Kings 15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-
pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and
Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land
of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy
against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of
Uzziah.
2 Kings 15:31 Now 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.
2 Kings 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king
of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings 15:34 And he did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2 Kings 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built
the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2 Kings 15:37 In those days Jehovah began to send against Judah
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2 Kings 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 16
2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign;
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which
was right in the eyes of Jehovah his God, like David his father.
2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea,
and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the
children of Israel.
2 Kings 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah
king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz,
but could not overcome him.
2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to
Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath,
and dwelt there, unto this day.
2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of
Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me
out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of
Israel, who rise up against me.
2 Kings 16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the
house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it
for a present to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the
king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried
[the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-
pileser king of Assyria, and saw the 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.
2 Kings 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all
that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest
make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the
king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered
thereon.
2 Kings 16:13 And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meal-offering,
and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-
offerings, upon the altar.
2 Kings 16:14 And the brazen altar, which was before Jehovah, he
brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and
the house of Jehovah, and put it on the north side of his altar.
2 Kings 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,
Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening
meal-offering, and the king's burnt-offering, and his meal-offering,
with the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-
offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood
of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen
altar shall be for me to inquire by.
2 Kings 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded.
2 Kings 16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and
removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the
brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.
2 Kings 16:18 And the covered way for the sabbath that they had
built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he unto the
house of Jehovah, because of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his
stead.
2 Kings 17
2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea
the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine
years.
2 Kings 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah,
yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2 Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and
Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
2 Kings 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea;
for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no
tribute 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.
2 Kings 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in
Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes.
2 Kings 17:7 And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned
against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of
Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared
other gods,
2 Kings 17:8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom
Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings
of Israel, which they made.
2 Kings 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that were
not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places
in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
2 Kings 17:10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every
high hill, and under every green tree;
2 Kings 17:11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as
did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they
wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
2 Kings 17:12 and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto
them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kings 17:13 Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by
every prophet, and every seer, 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.
2 Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened
their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in
Jehovah their God.
2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that
he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto
them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after
the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah
had charged them that they should not do like them.
2 Kings 17:16 And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah
their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made
an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to
provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 17:18 Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
Judah only.
2 Kings 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah
their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2 Kings 17:20 And Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they
made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel
from following Jehovah, and made them sin a great sin.
2 Kings 17:22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2 Kings 17:23 until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he
spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out
of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon,
and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and 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.
2 Kings 17:25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there,
that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among
them, which killed some of them.
2 Kings 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying,
The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the law of the god of the land: therefore he hath
sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they
know not the law of the god of the land.
2 Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them
go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the
land.
2 Kings 17:28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away
from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they
should fear Jehovah.
2 Kings 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put
them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had
made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2 Kings 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and
the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2 Kings 17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2 Kings 17:32 So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from
among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them
in the houses of the high places.
2 Kings 17:33 They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after
the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried
away.
2 Kings 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manner: they
fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah
commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2 Kings 17:35 with whom Jehovah 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:
2 Kings 17:36 but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of
Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall ye
fear, and unto him shall ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye
sacrifice:
2 Kings 17:37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and
the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods:
2 Kings 17:38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall
not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods:
2 Kings 17:39 but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Kings 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner.
2 Kings 17:41 So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their
graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children,
as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings 18
2 Kings 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 Kings 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah,
according to all that David his father had done.
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and
cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that
Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn
incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings 18:5 He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after
him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among
them] that were before him.
2 Kings 18:6 For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah
commanded Moses.
2 Kings 18:7 And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went
forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and
served him not.
2 Kings 18:8 He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
2 Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria,
and besieged it.
2 Kings 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken.
2 Kings 18:11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto
Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan,
and in the cities of the Medes,
2 Kings 18:12 because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their
God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of
Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
2 Kings 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of
Judah, and took them.
2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that
which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria
appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver
and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found
in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house.
2 Kings 18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the
doors of the temple of Jehovah, and [from] the pillars which
Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
2 Kings 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and
Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto
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.
2 Kings 18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out
to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and
Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
2 Kings 18:19 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?
2 Kings 18:20 Thou sayest (but they are but vain words), [There is]
counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that
thou hast rebelled against me?
2 Kings 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this
bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon 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.
2 Kings 18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is
not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges 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.
2 Kings 18:24 How then canst 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?
2 Kings 18:25 Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place
to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it.
2 Kings 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah,
and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the
Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
2 Kings 18:27 But Rabshakeh 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 that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to
drink their own water with you?
2 Kings 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great
king, the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for
he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
2 Kings 18:30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah,
saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given
into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make your peace with me, 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;
2 Kings 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and
vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and
not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you,
saying, Jehovah will deliver us.
2 Kings 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings 18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where
are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered
Samaria out of my hand?
2 Kings 18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that
have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
2 Kings 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not
a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
2 Kings 18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who 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.
2 Kings 19
2 Kings 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 Jehovah.
2 Kings 19:2 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.
2 Kings 19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day
is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children
are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
2 Kings 19:4 It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the
living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
2 Kings 19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
2 Kings 19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your
master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me.
2 Kings 19:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear
tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land.
2 Kings 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
2 Kings 19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
Behold, he is come out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again
unto Hezekiah, saying,
2 Kings 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which
my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden that were in Telassar?
2 Kings 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
2 Kings 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of
Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.
2 Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah, and said, O
Jehovah, the God of Israel, that sittest [above] the cherubim, thou art
the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast
made heaven and earth.
2 Kings 19:16 Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine
eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib,
wherewith he hath sent him to defy the living God.
2 Kings 19:17 Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste the nations and their lands,
2 Kings 19:18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no
gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they
have destroyed them.
2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save thou us, I
beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that thou Jehovah art God alone.
2 Kings 19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to
me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [thee].
2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning
him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee
to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
2 Kings 19:22 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high?
[even] against the Holy One of Israel.
2 Kings 19:23 By thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast
said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will
enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
2 Kings 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the
sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:25 Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and
formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it
should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they
were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain
blasted before it is grown up.
2 Kings 19:27 But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
2 Kings 19:28 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine
arrogancy 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.
2 Kings 19:29 And this shall be the sign unto thee: Ye shall eat this
year that which groweth of itself, 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 fruit thereof.
2 Kings 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2 Kings 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out
of mount Zion they that shall escape: the zeal of Jehovah shall
perform this.
2 Kings 19:32 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound
against it.
2 Kings 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
2 Kings 19:34 For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own
sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in
the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2 Kings 19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him
with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-
haddon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 20
2 Kings 20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Kings 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto
Jehovah, saying,
2 Kings 20:3 Remember now, O Jehovah, 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.
2 Kings 20:4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the
middle part of the city, that the word of Jehovah came to him, saying,
2 Kings 20:5 Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my
people, Thus saith Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
2 Kings 20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will
deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I
will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.
2 Kings 20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and
laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
2 Kings 20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign
that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of
Jehovah the third day?
2 Kings 20:9 And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign unto thee from
Jehovah, that Jehovah will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
2 Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the
shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward
ten steps.
2 Kings 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Jehovah; and he
brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down
on the dial of Ahaz.
2 Kings 20:12 At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had
heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
2 Kings 20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them
all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the
spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that
was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all
his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
2 Kings 20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and
said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they
unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,
even from Babylon.
2 Kings 20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And
Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
2 Kings 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of
Jehovah.
2 Kings 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house,
and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be
carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.
2 Kings 20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou
shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of
Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if
peace and truth shall be in my days?
2 Kings 20:20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water
into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
2 Kings 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 21
2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 Kings 21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah,
after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before
the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an
Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served them.
2 Kings 21:4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof
Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2 Kings 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and
practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that
had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the
sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 21:7 And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had
made, in the house of which Jehovah said to David and to Solomon
his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of
all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;
2 Kings 21:8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any
more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only 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.
2 Kings 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to
do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah
destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:10 And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
2 Kings 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites
did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his
idols;
2 Kings 21:12 therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel,
Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever
heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
2 Kings 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,
and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a
man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
2 Kings 21:14 And I will cast off 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;
2 Kings 21:15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight,
and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth
out of Egypt, even unto this day.
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin
wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the
sight of Jehovah.
2 Kings 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he
did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried
in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his
son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 21:19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2 Kings 21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father.
2 Kings 21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in,
and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2 Kings 21:22 and he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and
walked not in the way of Jehovah.
2 Kings 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and
put the king to death in his own house.
2 Kings 21:24 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.
2 Kings 21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of
Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 22
2 Kings 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 Bozkath.
2 Kings 22:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah,
and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to
the right hand or to the left.
2 Kings 22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of
Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
2 Kings 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the
money which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers
of the threshold have gathered of the people:
2 Kings 22:5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen
that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and let them give it
to the workmen that are in the house of Jehovah, to repair the
breaches of the house,
2 Kings 22:6 unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the
masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
2 Kings 22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And
Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
2 Kings 22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought
the king word again, and said, Thy servants have emptied out the
money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the
hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah
the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
king.
2 Kings 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Kings 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and
Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
2 Kings 22:13 Go ye, inquire of Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
Shaphan, and Asaiah, 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 second quarter); and they
communed with her.
2 Kings 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God
of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me,
2 Kings 22:16 Thus saith Jehovah, 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.
2 Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all
the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against
this place, and it shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 22:18 But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of
Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard,
2 Kings 22:19 because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble
thyself before Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
2 Kings 22:20 Therefore, 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 which I will bring upon this place. And they
brought the king word again.
2 Kings 23
2 Kings 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the
elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:2 And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant
before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his
commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his]
heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that
were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Kings 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and
the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to
bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were
made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven,
and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron,
and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
2 Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings
of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities
of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that
burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the
planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 23:6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of
Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at
the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon
the graves of the common people.
2 Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for
the Asherah.
2 Kings 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,
and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the
gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of
the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2 Kings 23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up
to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened
bread among their brethren.
2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the
children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire to Molech.
2 Kings 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah
had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the
chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the
precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2 Kings 23:12 And the altars that were on the roof 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 Jehovah,
did the king break down, and beat [them] down from thence, and cast
the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which
were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon
the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the
Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king
defile.
2 Kings 23:14 And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the
Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings 23:15 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, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he
burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
2 Kings 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres
that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of
the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it,
according to the word of Jehovah which the man of God proclaimed,
who proclaimed these things.
2 Kings 23:17 Then he said, What monument is that which I see?
And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of
God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
2 Kings 23:18 And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones.
So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came
out of Samaria.
2 Kings 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in
the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke
[Jehovah] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to
all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
2 Kings 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were
there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he
returned to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep
the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of
the covenant.
2 Kings 23:22 Surely there was not kept 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;
2 Kings 23:23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this
passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:24 Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the
wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that
were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away,
that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the
book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.
2 Kings 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that
turned to Jehovah 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.
2 Kings 23:26 Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the
fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled
against Judah, because of all the provocations wherewith Manasseh
had provoked him.
2 Kings 23:27 And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my
sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I
have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My
name shall be there.
2 Kings 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2 Kings 23:29 In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up
against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah
went against him; and [Pharaoh-necoh] slew him at Megiddo, when
he had seen him.
2 Kings 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
2 Kings 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings 23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Kings 23:33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the
land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the
land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
2 Kings 23:34 And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah
king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to
Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and
died there.
2 Kings 23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to
Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the
commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the
people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it
unto Pharaoh-necoh.
2 Kings 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2 Kings 23:37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Kings 24
2 Kings 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 Kings 24:2 And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans,
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 Jehovah, which he spake by his servants the
prophets.
2 Kings 24:3 Surely at the commandment of Jehovah came this upon
Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according to all that he did,
2 Kings 24:4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.
2 Kings 24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2 Kings 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his
son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of
his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt
unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother's
name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah,
according to all that his father had done.
2 Kings 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the
city, while his servants were besieging it;
2 Kings 24:12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king
of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and
his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of
his reign.
2 Kings 24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the
house of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, as Jehovah had said.
2 Kings 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,
and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all
the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of
the people of the land.
2 Kings 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the
king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief
men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and
the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt
for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah,
[Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his stead, and changed his
name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings 24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings 24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kings 24:20 For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass
in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 25
2 Kings 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 army, against Jerusalem, and
encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 Kings 25:2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
2 Kings 25:3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was
sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
2 Kings 25:4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of
war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls,
which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the
city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
2 Kings 25:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king,
and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was
scattered from him.
2 Kings 25:6 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the
king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
2 Kings 25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,
and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and
carried him to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the
month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king
of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of
the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's
house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt
he with fire.
2 Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were [with]
the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
2 Kings 25:11 And the residue of the people that were left in the city,
and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the
residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carry away captive.
2 Kings 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the
land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
2 Kings 25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of
Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of
Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of
them to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
took they away.
2 Kings 25:15 And the firepans, and the basins, that which was of
gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the
guard took away.
2 Kings 25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which
Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these
vessels was without weight.
2 Kings 25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a
capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three
cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about,
all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with network.
2 Kings 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
threshold:
2 Kings 25:19 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over
the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king's face, who
were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who
mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of
the land, that were found in the city.
2 Kings 25:20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
2 Kings 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to
death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away
captive out of his land.
2 Kings 25:22 And as for the people that were left 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,
governor.
2 Kings 25:23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the
Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their
men.
2 Kings 25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and
said unto them, Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well
with you.
2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,
and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, so that he died, and the
Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
2 Kings 25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the
captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid
of the Chaldeans.
2 Kings 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of
the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the
seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of
Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings 25:28 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above
the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
2 Kings 25:29 and changed his prison garments. And [Jehoiachin]
did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life:
2 Kings 25:30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance
given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 1
1 Chronicles 1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles 1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
1 Chronicles 1:3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
1 Chronicles 1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and
Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
1 Chronicles 1:6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath,
and Togarmah.
1 Chronicles 1:7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish,
Kittim, and Rodanim.
1 Chronicles 1:8 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and
Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1:9 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and
Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and
Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1:10 And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty
one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 1:11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
1 Chronicles 1:12 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came
the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
1 Chronicles 1:13 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
1 Chronicles 1:14 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgashite,
1 Chronicles 1:15 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
1 Chronicles 1:16 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite.
1 Chronicles 1:17 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and
Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Meshech.
1 Chronicles 1:18 And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat
Eber.
1 Chronicles 1:19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of
the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his
brother's name was Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1:20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
1 Chronicles 1:21 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
1 Chronicles 1:22 and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
1 Chronicles 1:23 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were
the sons of Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1:24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
1 Chronicles 1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
1 Chronicles 1:26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
1 Chronicles 1:27 Abram (the same is Abraham).
1 Chronicles 1:28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
1 Chronicles 1:29 These are their generations: the first-born of
Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
1 Chronicles 1:30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
1 Chronicles 1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons
of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles 1:32 And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine:
she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak,
and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1:33 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
1 Chronicles 1:34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac:
Esau, and Israel.
1 Chronicles 1:35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and
Jalam, and Korah.
1 Chronicles 1:36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi,
and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
1 Chronicles 1:37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and
Mizzah.
1 Chronicles 1:38 And the sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and
Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
1 Chronicles 1:39 And the sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and
Timna was Lotan's sister.
1 Chronicles 1:40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and
Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.
1 Chronicles 1:41 The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of
Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
1 Chronicles 1:42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan.
The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.
1 Chronicles 1:43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of
Edom, before there resigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela
the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
1 Chronicles 1:44 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of
Bozrah reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 1:45 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the
Temanites reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 1:46 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.
1 Chronicles 1:47 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned
in his stead.
1 Chronicles 1:48 And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the
River reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 1:49 And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of
Achbor reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 1:50 And Baal-hanan died, and 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 Me-zahab.
1 Chronicles 1:51 And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were:
chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,
1 Chronicles 1:52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
1 Chronicles 1:53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
1 Chronicles 1:54 chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of
Edom.
1 Chronicles 2
1 Chronicles 2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
1 Chronicles 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and
Asher.
1 Chronicles 2:3 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah;
which three were born unto him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess.
And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he
slew him.
1 Chronicles 2:4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Perez and
Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
1 Chronicles 2:5 The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.
1 Chronicles 2:6 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and
Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
1 Chronicles 2:7 And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of
Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
1 Chronicles 2:8 And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.
1 Chronicles 2:9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him:
Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
1 Chronicles 2:10 And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab
begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
1 Chronicles 2:11 and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
1 Chronicles 2:12 and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse;
1 Chronicles 2:13 and Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab
the second, and Shimea the third,
1 Chronicles 2:14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
1 Chronicles 2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
1 Chronicles 2:16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And
the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles 2:17 And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa
was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2:18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of
Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher,
and Shobab, and Ardon.
1 Chronicles 2:19 And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him
Ephrath, who bare him Hur.
1 Chronicles 2:20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezalel.
1 Chronicles 2:21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of
Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took [to wife] when he was
threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
1 Chronicles 2:22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty
cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:23 And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from
them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities.
All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-
ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bare him Ashhur the father of
Tekoa.
1 Chronicles 2:25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of
Hezron were Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem,
Ahijah.
1 Chronicles 2:26 And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was
Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles 2:27 And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel
were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
1 Chronicles 2:28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada.
And the sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.
1 Chronicles 2:29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail;
and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
1 Chronicles 2:30 And the sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but
Seled died without children.
1 Chronicles 2:31 And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of
Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
1 Chronicles 2:32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai:
Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
1 Chronicles 2:33 And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These
were the sons of Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And
Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
1 Chronicles 2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his
servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
1 Chronicles 2:36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
1 Chronicles 2:37 and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
1 Chronicles 2:38 and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
1 Chronicles 2:39 and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat
Eleasah,
1 Chronicles 2:40 and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat
Shallum,
1 Chronicles 2:41 and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat
Elishama.
1 Chronicles 2:42 And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel
were Mesha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons
of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
1 Chronicles 2:43 And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and
Rekem, and Shema.
1 Chronicles 2:44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam;
and Rekem begat Shammai.
1 Chronicles 2:45 And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon
was the father of Beth-zur.
1 Chronicles 2:46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and
Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.
1 Chronicles 2:47 And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and
Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
1 Chronicles 2:48 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber and
Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles 2:49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah,
Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the
daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
1 Chronicles 2:50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the
first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,
1 Chronicles 2:51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father
of Beth-gader.
1 Chronicles 2:52 And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons:
Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
1 Chronicles 2:53 And the families of Kiriath-jearim: The Ithrites,
and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them
came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
1 Chronicles 2:54 The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, and the
Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the
Zorites.
1 Chronicles 2:55 And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the
Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that
came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1 Chronicles 3
1 Chronicles 3:1 Now these were the sons of David, that were born
unto him in Hebron: the first-born, Amnon, of Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
1 Chronicles 3:2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter
of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
1 Chronicles 3:3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by
Eglah his wife:
1 Chronicles 3:4 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;
1 Chronicles 3:5 and these were born unto him in Jerusalem:
Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua
the daughter of Ammiel;
1 Chronicles 3:6 and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
1 Chronicles 3:7 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
1 Chronicles 3:8 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
1 Chronicles 3:9 All these were the sons of David, besides the sons
of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
1 Chronicles 3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah his
son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
1 Chronicles 3:11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
1 Chronicles 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles 3:14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3:15 And the sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the
second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
1 Chronicles 3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son,
Zedekiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3:17 And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel
his son,
1 Chronicles 3:18 and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar,
Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
1 Chronicles 3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei.
And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and
Shelomith was their sister;
1 Chronicles 3:20 and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and
Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.
1 Chronicles 3:21 And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah;
the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the
sons of Shecaniah.
1 Chronicles 3:22 And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the
sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and
Shaphat, six.
1 Chronicles 3:23 And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah,
and Azrikam, three.
1 Chronicles 3:24 And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib,
and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
1 Chronicles 4
1 Chronicles 4:1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and
Hur, and Shobal.
1 Chronicles 4:2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and
Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the
Zorathites.
1 Chronicles 4:3 And these were [the sons of] the father of Etam:
Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was
Hazzelelponi;
1 Chronicles 4:4 and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father
of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the
father of Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles 4:5 And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives,
Helah and Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4:6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and
Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4:7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and
Ethnan.
1 Chronicles 4:8 And Hakkoz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the
families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren:
and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him
with sorrow.
1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh
that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that
thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from
evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he
requested.
1 Chronicles 4:11 And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begat Mehir,
who was the father of Eshton.
1 Chronicles 4:12 And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and
Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
1 Chronicles 4:13 And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. And
the sons of Othniel: Hathath.
1 Chronicles 4:14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat
Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen.
1 Chronicles 4:15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru,
Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
1 Chronicles 4:16 And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah,
Tiria, and Asarel.
1 Chronicles 4:17 And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and
Epher, and Jalon; and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the
father of Eshtemoa.
1 Chronicles 4:18 And his wife the Jewess bare Jered the father of
Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of
Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh,
whom Mered took.
1 Chronicles 4:19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of
Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the
Maacathite.
1 Chronicles 4:20 And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah,
Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
1 Chronicles 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: 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;
1 Chronicles 4:22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and
Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And the
records are ancient.
1 Chronicles 4:23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of
Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
1 Chronicles 4:24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib,
Zerah, Shaul;
1 Chronicles 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
1 Chronicles 4:26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son,
Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
1 Chronicles 4:27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters;
but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family
multiply like to the children of Judah.
1 Chronicles 4:28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and
Hazarshual,
1 Chronicles 4:29 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
1 Chronicles 4:30 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
1 Chronicles 4:31 and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at
Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of
David.
1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon,
and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
1 Chronicles 4:33 and all their villages that were round about the
same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and they have
their genealogy.
1 Chronicles 4:34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son
of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles 4:35 and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of
Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
1 Chronicles 4:36 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and
Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
1 Chronicles 4:37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the
son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-
1 Chronicles 4:38 these mentioned by name were princes in their
families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
1 Chronicles 4:39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto
the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land
was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they that dwelt there
aforetime were of Ham.
1 Chronicles 4:41 And these written by name came in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that
were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt
in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon,
five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains
Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
1 Chronicles 4:43 And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites
that escaped, and have dwelt there unto this day.
1 Chronicles 5
1 Chronicles 5:1 And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for
he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch,
his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and
the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
1 Chronicles 5:2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him
came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
1 Chronicles 5:3 the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch,
and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
1 Chronicles 5:4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son,
Shimei his son,
1 Chronicles 5:5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
1 Chronicles 5:6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of
Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
1 Chronicles 5:7 And his brethren by their families, when the
genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and
Zechariah,
1 Chronicles 5:8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son
of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:
1 Chronicles 5:9 and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the
wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were
multiplied in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5:10 And in the days of Saul, they made war with the
Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents
throughout all the [land] east of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5:11 And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in
the land of Bashan unto Salecah:
1 Chronicles 5:12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai,
and Shaphat in Bashan.
1 Chronicles 5:13 And their brethren of their fathers' houses:
Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia,
and Eber, seven.
1 Chronicles 5:14 These were the sons 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;
1 Chronicles 5:15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of
their fathers' houses.
1 Chronicles 5:16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its
towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
1 Chronicles 5:17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the
days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of
Israel.
1 Chronicles 5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-
tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and
sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty and four
thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to
war.
1 Chronicles 5:19 And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur,
and Naphish, and Nodab.
1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the
Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them;
for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them,
because they put their trust in him.
1 Chronicles 5:21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels
fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of
asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 5:22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of
God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.
1 Chronicles 5:23 And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh
dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and
Senir and mount Hermon.
1 Chronicles 5:24 And these were the heads of their fathers' houses:
even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and
Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of
their fathers' houses.
1 Chronicles 5:25 And they trespassed against the God of their
fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land,
whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul
king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and
he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and
Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.
1 Chronicles 6
1 Chronicles 6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6:2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and
Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6:3 And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses,
and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 6:4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
1 Chronicles 6:5 and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
1 Chronicles 6:6 and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat
Meraioth,
1 Chronicles 6:7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat
Ahitub,
1 Chronicles 6:8 and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat
Ahimaaz,
1 Chronicles 6:9 and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat
Johanan,
1 Chronicles 6:10 and Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed
the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem),
1 Chronicles 6:11 and Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat
Ahitub,
1 Chronicles 6:12 and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat
Shallum,
1 Chronicles 6:13 and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat
Azariah,
1 Chronicles 6:14 and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat
Jehozadak;
1 Chronicles 6:15 And Jehozadak went [into captivity], when
Jehovah carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar.
1 Chronicles 6:16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6:17 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom:
Libni and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 6:18 And the sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar,
and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these
are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
1 Chronicles 6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son,
Zimmah his son,
1 Chronicles 6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai
his son.
1 Chronicles 6:22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah
his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir
his son,
1 Chronicles 6:24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and
Shaul his son.
1 Chronicles 6:25 And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles 6:26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his
son, and Nahath his son,
1 Chronicles 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
1 Chronicles 6:28 And the sons of Samuel: the first-born [Joel], and
the second Abijah.
1 Chronicles 6:29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei
his son, Uzzah his son,
1 Chronicles 6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
1 Chronicles 6:31 And these are they whom David set over the
service of song in the house of Jehovah, after that the ark had rest.
1 Chronicles 6:32 And they ministered with song before the
tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house
of Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to
their order.
1 Chronicles 6:33 And these are they that waited, and their sons. Of
the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son
of Samuel,
1 Chronicles 6:34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of
Eliel, the son of Toah,
1 Chronicles 6:35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of
Mahath, the son of Amasai,
1 Chronicles 6:36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of
Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
1 Chronicles 6:37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
1 Chronicles 6:38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, the son of Israel.
1 Chronicles 6:39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right
hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
1 Chronicles 6:40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of
Malchijah,
1 Chronicles 6:41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of
Adaiah,
1 Chronicles 6:42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of
Shimei,
1 Chronicles 6:43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of
Levi.
1 Chronicles 6:44 And on the left hand their brethren the sons of
Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
1 Chronicles 6:45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son
of Hilkiah,
1 Chronicles 6:46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of
Shemer,
1 Chronicles 6:47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of
Merari, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles 6:48 And their brethren the Levites were appointed for
all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 6:49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of
burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense, for all the work of the
most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all
that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 6:50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son,
Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
1 Chronicles 6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
1 Chronicles 6:52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his
son,
1 Chronicles 6:53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
1 Chronicles 6:54 Now these are their dwelling-places according to
their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the
families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot),
1 Chronicles 6:55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah,
and the suburbs thereof round about it;
1 Chronicles 6:56 but the fields of the city, and the villages thereof,
they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
1 Chronicles 6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of
refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and
Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:58 and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:59 and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh
with its suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its
suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its
suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles 6:61 And unto the rest of the sons of Kohath [were
given] by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the
half of Manasseh, ten cities.
1 Chronicles 6:62 And to the sons of Gershom, according to 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.
1 Chronicles 6:63 Unto the sons of Merari [were given] by lot,
according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the
tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
1 Chronicles 6:64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the
cities with their suburbs.
1 Chronicles 6:65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the
children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and
out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are
mentioned by name.
1 Chronicles 6:66 And some of the families of the sons of Kohath
had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
1 Chronicles 6:67 And they gave unto them the cities of refuge,
Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also
with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:68 and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon
with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:69 and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon
with its suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with
its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of
the sons of Kohath.
1 Chronicles 6:71 Unto the sons of Gershom [were given], out of the
family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its
suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its
suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:73 and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its
suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its
suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:75 and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its
suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee
with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with
its suburbs.
1 Chronicles 6:77 Unto the rest of [the Levites], the sons of Merari,
[were given], out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs,
Tabor with its suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side
of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in
the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:79 and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath
with its suburbs;
1 Chronicles 6:80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with
its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 6:81 and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its
suburbs.
1 Chronicles 7
1 Chronicles 7:1 And of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah,
Jashub, and Shimron, four.
1 Chronicles 7:2 And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and
Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers'
houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations:
their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and
six hundred.
1 Chronicles 7:3 And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of
Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them
chief men.
1 Chronicles 7:4 And with them, by their generations, after their
fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, six and thirty
thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7:5 And their brethren among all the families of
Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were
fourscore and seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 7:6 [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and
Jediael, three.
1 Chronicles 7:7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel,
and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of
valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty and two thousand
and thirty and four.
1 Chronicles 7:8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and
Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and
Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
1 Chronicles 7:9 And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their
generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor,
twenty thousand and two hundred.
1 Chronicles 7:10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of
Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan,
and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles 7:11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the
heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen
thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for
war.
1 Chronicles 7:12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir,
Hushim, the sons of Aher.
1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
1 Chronicles 7:14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his
concubine the Aramitess bare: she bare Machir the father of Gilead:
1 Chronicles 7:15 and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim,
whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was
Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
1 Chronicles 7:16 And Maacah 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.
1 Chronicles 7:17 And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the
sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 7:18 And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and
Abiezer, and Mahlah.
1 Chronicles 7:19 And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, and
Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
1 Chronicles 7:20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered
his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
1 Chronicles 7:21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and
Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land
slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
1 Chronicles 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days,
and his brethren came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 7:23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived,
and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil
with his house.
1 Chronicles 7:24 And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-
horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.
1 Chronicles 7:25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah
his son, and Tahan his son,
1 Chronicles 7:26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his
son,
1 Chronicles 7:27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.
1 Chronicles 7:28 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
Azzah and the towns thereof;
1 Chronicles 7:29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh,
Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its
towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the
son of Israel.
1 Chronicles 7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi,
and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
1 Chronicles 7:31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who
was the father of Birzaith.
1 Chronicles 7:32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and
Hotham, and Shua their sister.
1 Chronicles 7:33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and
Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
1 Chronicles 7:34 And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah,
Jehubbah, and Aram.
1 Chronicles 7:35 And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and
Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
1 Chronicles 7:36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and
Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
1 Chronicles 7:37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and
Ithran, and Beera.
1 Chronicles 7:38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and
Ara.
1 Chronicles 7:39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and
Rizia.
1 Chronicles 7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the
fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes.
And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war
was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles 8
1 Chronicles 8:1 And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the
second, and Aharah the third,
1 Chronicles 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
1 Chronicles 8:3 And Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
1 Chronicles 8:4 and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
1 Chronicles 8:5 and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
1 Chronicles 8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads
of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them
captive to Manahath:
1 Chronicles 8:7 and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them
captive: and he begat Uzza and Ahihud.
1 Chronicles 8:8 And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab,
after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
1 Chronicles 8:9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia,
and Mesha, and Malcam,
1 Chronicles 8:10 and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were
his sons, heads of fathers' [houses].
1 Chronicles 8:11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub and Elpaal.
1 Chronicles 8:12 And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and
Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns thereof;
1 Chronicles 8:13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of
fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the
inhabitants of Gath;
1 Chronicles 8:14 and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
1 Chronicles 8:15 and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,
1 Chronicles 8:16 and Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of
Beriah,
1 Chronicles 8:17 and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and
Heber,
1 Chronicles 8:18 and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of
Elpaal,
1 Chronicles 8:19 and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
1 Chronicles 8:20 and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,
1 Chronicles 8:21 and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons
of Shimei,
1 Chronicles 8:22 and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
1 Chronicles 8:23 and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
1 Chronicles 8:24 and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah,
1 Chronicles 8:25 and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
1 Chronicles 8:26 and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
1 Chronicles 8:27 and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of
Jeroham.
1 Chronicles 8:28 These were heads of fathers' [houses] throughout
their generations, chief men: these dwelt in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 8:29 And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon,
[Jeiel], whose wife's name was Maacah;
1 Chronicles 8:30 and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish,
and Baal, and Nadab,
1 Chronicles 8:31 and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher.
1 Chronicles 8:32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And they also dwelt
with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
1 Chronicles 8:33 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and
Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 8:34 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and
Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles 8:35 And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and
Tarea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 8:36 And Ahaz begat Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah begat
Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza.
1 Chronicles 8:37 And Moza begat Binea; Raphah was his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
1 Chronicles 8:38 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these:
Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and
Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles 8:39 And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his first-
born, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
1 Chronicles 8:40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor,
archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All
these were of the sons of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles 9
1 Chronicles 9:1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah
was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression.
1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their
possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the
Nethinim.
1 Chronicles 9:3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah,
and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and
Manasseh:
1 Chronicles 9:4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the
son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
1 Chronicles 9:5 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first-born, and his
sons.
1 Chronicles 9:6 And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brethren,
six hundred and ninety.
1 Chronicles 9:7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of
Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
1 Chronicles 9:8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of
Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the
son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
1 Chronicles 9:9 and their brethren, according to their generations,
nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were heads of fathers'
[houses] by their fathers' houses.
1 Chronicles 9:10 And of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin,
1 Chronicles 9:11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of
Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub,
the ruler of the house of God;
1 Chronicles 9:12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of
Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son
of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son
of Immer;
1 Chronicles 9:13 and their brethren, heads of their fathers' houses, a
thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the
work of the service of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 9:14 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub,
the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
1 Chronicles 9:15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah
the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
1 Chronicles 9:16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of
Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of
Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
1 Chronicles 9:17 And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and
Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),
1 Chronicles 9:18 who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward:
they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles 9:19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of his father's house, the
Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the
thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of
Jehovah, keepers of the entry.
1 Chronicles 9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over
them in time past, [and] Jehovah was with him.
1 Chronicles 9:21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of
the door of the tent of meeting.
1 Chronicles 9:22 All these that were chosen to be porters in the
thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by
genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did
ordain in their office of trust.
1 Chronicles 9:23 So they and their children had the oversight of the
gates of the house of Jehovah, even the house of the tent, by wards.
1 Chronicles 9:24 On the four sides were the porters, toward the
east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles 9:25 And their brethren, in their villages, were to come
in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
1 Chronicles 9:26 for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were
in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the
treasuries in the house of God.
1 Chronicles 9:27 And they lodged round about the house of God,
because the charge [thereof] was upon them; and to them pertained
the opening thereof morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 9:28 And certain of them had charge of the vessels of
service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these
taken out.
1 Chronicles 9:29 Some of them also were appointed over the
furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine
flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
1 Chronicles 9:30 And some of the sons of the priests prepared the
confection of the spices.
1 Chronicles 9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the
first-born of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the
things that were baked in pans.
1 Chronicles 9:32 And some of their brethren, of the sons of the
Kohathites, were over the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
1 Chronicles 9:33 And these are the singers, heads of fathers'
[houses] of the Levites, [who dwelt] in the chambers [and were] free
[from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and
night.
1 Chronicles 9:34 These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the
Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these dwelt at
Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 9:35 And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon,
Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah:
1 Chronicles 9:36 and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish,
and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
1 Chronicles 9:37 and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
1 Chronicles 9:38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt
with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
1 Chronicles 9:39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and
Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and
Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles 9:41 And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and
Tahrea, [and Ahaz].
1 Chronicles 9:42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth,
and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;
1 Chronicles 9:43 and Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
1 Chronicles 9:44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these:
Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and
Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles 10
1 Chronicles 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.
1 Chronicles 10:2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and
after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
1 Chronicles 10:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the
archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
1 Chronicles 10:4 Then said Saul unto his armor-bearer, Draw thy
sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised
come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was sore
afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.
1 Chronicles 10:5 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was
dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.
1 Chronicles 10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house
died together.
1 Chronicles 10:7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the
valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they
forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in
them.
1 Chronicles 10:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the
Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons
fallen in mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:9 And they stripped him, and took his head, and his
armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry
the tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
1 Chronicles 10:10 And they put his armor in the house of their
gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
1 Chronicles 10:11 And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the
Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Chronicles 10:12 all the valiant men arose, 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.
1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed
against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah, which he kept not;
and also for that he asked counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to
inquire [thereby],
1 Chronicles 10:14 and inquired not of Jehovah: therefore he slew
him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles 11
1 Chronicles 11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto
Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1 Chronicles 11:2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was
thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah thy God
said unto thee, Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou
shalt be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to
Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before
Jehovah; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the
word of Jehovah by Samuel.
1 Chronicles 11:4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the
same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were
there.
1 Chronicles 11:5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou
shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of
Zion; the same is the city of David.
1 Chronicles 11:6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites
first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up
first, and was made chief.
1 Chronicles 11:7 And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they
called it the city of David.
1 Chronicles 11:8 And he built the city round about, from Millo
even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 11:9 And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah
of hosts was with him.
1 Chronicles 11:10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom
David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom,
together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of
Jehovah concerning Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom
David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the
thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them at
one time.
1 Chronicles 11:12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the
Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the
Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of
ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 11:14 And they stood in the midst of the plot, and
defended it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah saved them by a
great victory.
1 Chronicles 11:15 And three of the thirty chief men went down to
the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the
Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11:16 And David was then in the stronghold, and the
garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
1 Chronicles 11:17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would
give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the
gate!
1 Chronicles 11:18 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 thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah,
1 Chronicles 11:19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do
this: 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 the three mighty
men.
1 Chronicles 11:20 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of
the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew
them, and had a name among the three.
1 Chronicles 11:21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the
two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first]
three.
1 Chronicles 11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant
man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two [sons
of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of
a pit in time of snow.
1 Chronicles 11:23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature,
five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a
weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked
the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own
spear.
1 Chronicles 11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and had a name among the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11:25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty,
but he attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his
guard.
1 Chronicles 11:26 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the
brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
1 Chronicles 11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the
Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1 Chronicles 11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of
Baanah the Netophathite,
1 Chronicles 11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children
of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1 Chronicles 11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the
Arbathite,
1 Chronicles 11:33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the
Shaalbonite,
1 Chronicles 11:34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the
son of Shagee the Hararite,
1 Chronicles 11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the
son of Ur,
1 Chronicles 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1 Chronicles 11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of
Hagri,
1 Chronicles 11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the
armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1 Chronicles 11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1 Chronicles 11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1 Chronicles 11:42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of
the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1 Chronicles 11:43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the
Mithnite,
1 Chronicles 11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons
of Hotham the Aroerite,
1 Chronicles 11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother,
the Tizite,
1 Chronicles 11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah,
the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
1 Chronicles 11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
1 Chronicles 12
1 Chronicles 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, his helpers in war.
1 Chronicles 12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both
the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows
from the bow: they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles 12:3 The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of
Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth,
and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 12:4 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among
the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and
Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles 12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah,
and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
1 Chronicles 12:6 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and
Jashobeam, the Korahites,
1 Chronicles 12:7 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of
Gedor.
1 Chronicles 12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves
unto David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor,
men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces
were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes upon
the mountains;
1 Chronicles 12:9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the
third,
1 Chronicles 12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1 Chronicles 12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
1 Chronicles 12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
1 Chronicles 12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
1 Chronicles 12:14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the
host: he that was least was equal to a hundred, and the greatest to a
thousand.
1 Chronicles 12:15 These are they that went over the Jordan in the
first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to
flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the
west.
1 Chronicles 12:16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and
Judah to the stronghold unto David.
1 Chronicles 12:17 And David went out to meet them, and answered
and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, my
heart shall be knit unto you; but if [ye be come] to betray me to mine
adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our
fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
1 Chronicles 12:18 Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who was
chief of the thirty, [and he said], Thine are we, David, and on thy
side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thy
helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and
made them captains of the band.
1 Chronicles 12:19 Of Manasseh also there fell away some 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 away to his master Saul to the
jeopardy of our heads.
1 Chronicles 12:20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of
Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and
Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands that were of
Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 12:21 And they helped David against the band of
rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in
the host.
1 Chronicles 12:22 For from day to day men came to David to help
him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
1 Chronicles 12:23 And these are the numbers of the heads of them
that were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the
kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 12:24 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear
were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
1 Chronicles 12:25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor
for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
1 Chronicles 12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six
hundred.
1 Chronicles 12:27 And Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of]
Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
1 Chronicles 12:28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of
his father's house twenty and two captains.
1 Chronicles 12:29 And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of
Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept
their allegiance to the house of Saul.
1 Chronicles 12:30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand
and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers'
houses.
1 Chronicles 12:31 And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen
thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David
king.
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, 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.
1 Chronicles 12:33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the
host, that could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments
of war, fifty thousand, and that could order [the battle array, and
were] not of double heart.
1 Chronicles 12:34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with
them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 12:35 And of the Danites that could set the battle in
array, twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles 12:36 And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the
host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
1 Chronicles 12:37 And on the other side of the Jordan, of the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with
all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty
thousand.
1 Chronicles 12:38 All these being men of war, that could order the
battle array, 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.
1 Chronicles 12:39 And they were there with David three days,
eating and drinking; for their brethren had made preparation for them.
1 Chronicles 12:40 Moreover they that were nigh unto them, [even]
as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses,
and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, victuals of meal, cakes of
figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in
abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 13
1 Chronicles 13:1 And David consulted with the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
1 Chronicles 13:2 And David said unto all the assembly of Israel, If
it seem good unto you, and if it be of Jehovah our God, let us send
abroad every where unto our brethren that are left in all the land of
Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have
suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us;
1 Chronicles 13:3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for
we sought not unto it in the days of Saul.
1 Chronicles 13:4 And all the assembly said that they would do so;
for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1 Chronicles 13:5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the
Shihor [the brook] of Egypt even unto the entrance of Hamath, to
bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
1 Chronicles 13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that
is], to Kiriath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from
thence the ark of God Jehovah that sitteth [above] the cherubim, that
is called by the Name.
1 Chronicles 13:7 And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart,
[and brought it] out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio
drove the cart.
1 Chronicles 13:8 And David and all Israel played before God with
all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries,
and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Chronicles 13:9 And when they came unto the threshing-floor of
Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen
stumbled.
1 Chronicles 13:10 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against
Uzza, and he smote him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and
there he died before God.
1 Chronicles 13:11 And David was displeased, because Jehovah had
broken forth upon Uzza; and he called that place Perez-uzza, unto
this day.
1 Chronicles 13:12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying,
How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
1 Chronicles 13:13 So David removed not the ark unto him into the
city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the
Gittite.
1 Chronicles 13:14 And the ark of God remained with the family of
Obed-edom in his house three months: and Jehovah blessed the house
of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
1 Chronicles 14
1 Chronicles 14:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to
David, and cedar-trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a
house.
1 Chronicles 14:2 And David perceived that Jehovah had established
him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his
people Israel's sake.
1 Chronicles 14:3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and
David begat more sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 14:4 And these are the names of the children whom he
had in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
1 Chronicles 14:5 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,
1 Chronicles 14:6 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
1 Chronicles 14:7 and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
1 Chronicles 14:8 And when the Philistines heard that David was
anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek
David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.
1 Chronicles 14:9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in
the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 14:10 And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up
against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And
Jehovah said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thy hand.
1 Chronicles 14:11 So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David
smote them there; and David said, God hath broken mine enemies by
my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of
that place Baal-perazim.
1 Chronicles 14:12 And they left their gods there; and David gave
commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles 14:13 And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the
valley.
1 Chronicles 14:14 And David inquired again of God; and God said
unto him, Thou shalt not go up after them: turn away from them, and
come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.
1 Chronicles 14:15 And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of
marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt go out
to battle; for God is gone out before thee to smite the host of the
Philistines.
1 Chronicles 14:16 And David did as God commanded him: and
they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1 Chronicles 14:17 And the fame of David went out into all lands;
and Jehovah brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chronicles 15
1 Chronicles 15:1 And [David] made him houses in the city of
David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a
tent.
1 Chronicles 15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of
God but the Levites: for them hath Jehovah chosen to carry the ark of
God, and to minister unto him for ever.
1 Chronicles 15:3 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to
bring up the ark of Jehovah unto its place, which he had prepared for
it.
1 Chronicles 15:4 And David gathered together the sons of Aaron,
and the Levites:
1 Chronicles 15:5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his
brethren a hundred and twenty;
1 Chronicles 15:6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his
brethren two hundred and twenty;
1 Chronicles 15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his
brethren a hundred and thirty;
1 Chronicles 15:8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and
his brethren two hundred;
1 Chronicles 15:9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his
brethren fourscore;
1 Chronicles 15:10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and
his brethren a hundred and twelve.
1 Chronicles 15:11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the
priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah,
and Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles 15:12 and said unto them, Ye are the heads of the
fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your
brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel,
unto [the place] that I have prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 15:13 For because ye [bare it] not at the first, Jehovah
our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according
to the ordinance.
1 Chronicles 15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified
themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 15:15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of
God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses
commanded according to the word of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 15:16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to
appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music,
psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the
voice with joy.
1 Chronicles 15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel;
and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of
Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1 Chronicles 15:18 and with them their brethren of the second
degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and
Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the
doorkeepers.
1 Chronicles 15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were
appointed] with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
1 Chronicles 15:20 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with
psalteries set to Alamoth;
1 Chronicles 15:21 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah,
and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps set to the
Sheminith, to lead.
1 Chronicles 15:22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over
the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
1 Chronicles 15:23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers
for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15:24 And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel,
and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did
blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah
were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the
captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.
1 Chronicles 15:26 And it came to pass, when God helped the
Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they
sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams.
1 Chronicles 15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen,
and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah
the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had upon him an
ephod of linen.
1 Chronicles 15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant
of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with
trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and
harps.
1 Chronicles 15:29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul
looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing;
and she despised him in her heart.
1 Chronicles 16
1 Chronicles 16:1 And they brought in the ark of God, and set it in
the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered
burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 16:2 And when David had made an end of offering the
burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the
name of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 16:3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and
woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a
cake of raisins.
1 Chronicles 16:4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to
minister before the ark of Jehovah, and to celebrate and to thank and
praise Jehovah, the God of Israel:
1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah,
Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps;
and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1 Chronicles 16:6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets
continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Chronicles 16:7 Then on that day did David first ordain to give
thanks unto Jehovah, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
1 Chronicles 16:8 O give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name;
Make known his doings among the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16:9 Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; Talk ye of
all his marvellous works.
1 Chronicles 16:10 Glory ye in his holy name; Let the heart of them
rejoice that seek Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face
evermore.
1 Chronicles 16:12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath
done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
1 Chronicles 16:13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye children of
Jacob, his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles 16:14 He is Jehovah our God; His judgments are in all
the earth.
1 Chronicles 16:15 Remember his covenant for ever, The word
which he commanded to a thousand generations,
1 Chronicles 16:16 [The covenant] which he made with Abraham,
And his oath unto Isaac,
1 Chronicles 16:17 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute,
To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles 16:18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan,
The lot of your inheritance;
1 Chronicles 16:19 When ye were but a few men in number, Yea,
very few, and sojourners in it;
1 Chronicles 16:20 And they went about from nation to nation, And
from one kingdom to another people.
1 Chronicles 16:21 He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he
reproved kings for their sakes,
1 Chronicles 16:22 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed ones, And do
my prophets no harm.
1 Chronicles 16:23 Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth; Show forth his
salvation from day to day.
1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare his glory among the nations, His
marvellous works among all the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16:25 For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised:
He also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But
Jehovah made the heavens.
1 Chronicles 16:27 Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and
gladness are in his place.
1 Chronicles 16:28 Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the
peoples, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength;
1 Chronicles 16:29 Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his
name: Bring an offering, and come before him: Worship Jehovah in
holy array.
1 Chronicles 16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also
is established that it cannot be moved.
1 Chronicles 16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
And let them say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth.
1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; Let the
field exult, and all that is therein;
1 Chronicles 16:33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy
before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles 16:34 O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For
his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
1 Chronicles 16:35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation,
And gather us together and deliver us from the nations, To give
thanks unto thy holy name, And to triumph in thy praise.
1 Chronicles 16:36 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From
everlasting even to everlasting. And all the people said, Amen, and
praised Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 16:37 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah, Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark
continually, as every day's work required;
1 Chronicles 16:38 and Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore
and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be
doorkeepers;
1 Chronicles 16:39 and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests,
before the tabernacle of Jehovah in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 16:40 to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah upon the
altar of burnt-offering continually morning and evening, even
according to all that is written in the law of Jehovah, which he
commanded unto Israel;
1 Chronicles 16:41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest
that were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to
Jehovah, because his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
1 Chronicles 16:42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with]
trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with]
instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at
the gate.
1 Chronicles 16:43 And all the people departed every man to his
house: and David returned to bless his house.
1 Chronicles 17
1 Chronicles 17:1 And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his
house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house
of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah [dwelleth] under
curtains.
1 Chronicles 17:2 And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thy
heart; for God is with thee.
1 Chronicles 17:3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word
of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah,
Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in:
1 Chronicles 17:5 for I have not dwelt in a 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].
1 Chronicles 17:6 In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel,
spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded
to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a
house of cedar?
1 Chronicles 17:7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant
David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote,
from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my
people Israel:
1 Chronicles 17:8 and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast
gone, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will
make thee a name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the
earth.
1 Chronicles 17:9 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be
moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them
any more, as at the first,
1 Chronicles 17:10 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges
to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all thine enemies.
Moreover I tell thee that Jehovah will build thee a house.
1 Chronicles 17:11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days are
fulfilled that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will set up thy
seed after thee, who shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his
kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish
his throne for ever.
1 Chronicles 17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I
will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him
that was before thee;
1 Chronicles 17:14 but I will settle him in my house and in my
kingdom for ever; and his throne shall be established for ever.
1 Chronicles 17:15 According to all these words, and according to
all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
1 Chronicles 17:16 Then David the king went in, and sat before
Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Jehovah God, and what is my
house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
1 Chronicles 17:17 And this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God;
but thou hast 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 Jehovah God.
1 Chronicles 17:18 What can David [say] yet more unto thee
concerning the honor which is done to thy servant? for thou knowest
thy servant.
1 Chronicles 17:19 O Jehovah, for thy servant's sake, and according
to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make
known all [these] great things.
1 Chronicles 17:20 O Jehovah, there is none like thee, neither is
there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with
our ears.
1 Chronicles 17:21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy
people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people,
to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out
nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemest out of Egypt?
1 Chronicles 17:22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own
people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.
1 Chronicles 17:23 And now, O Jehovah, let the word that thou hast
spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, be
established for ever, and do as thou hast spoken.
1 Chronicles 17:24 And let thy name be established and magnified
for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to
Israel: and the house of David thy servant is established before thee.
1 Chronicles 17:25 For thou, O my God, hast revealed to thy servant
that thou wilt build him a house: therefore hath thy servant found [in
his heart] to pray before thee.
1 Chronicles 17:26 And now, O Jehovah, thou art God, and hast
promised this good thing unto thy servant:
1 Chronicles 17:27 and now it hath pleased thee to bless the house of
thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O
Jehovah, hast blessed, and it is blessed for ever.
1 Chronicles 18
1 Chronicles 18:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote
the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of
the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18:2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became
servants to David, and brought tribute.
1 Chronicles 18:3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto
Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1 Chronicles 18:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots,
and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and
David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a
hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles 18:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to
succor Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and
twenty thousand men.
1 Chronicles 18:6 Then David put [garrisons] in Syria of Damascus;
and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And
Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
1 Chronicles 18:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on
the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 18:8 And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of
Hadarezer, David took very much brass, wherewith Solomon made
the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
1 Chronicles 18:9 And when Tou king of Hamath heard that David
had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,
1 Chronicles 18:10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to salute
him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadarezer and
smitten him; (for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and [he had with
him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
1 Chronicles 18:11 These also did king David dedicate unto
Jehovah, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the
nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of
Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of
the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
1 Chronicles 18:13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the
Edomites became servants to David. And Jehovah gave victory to
David whithersoever he went.
1 Chronicles 18:14 And David reigned over all Israel; and he
executed justice and righteousness unto all his people.
1 Chronicles 18:15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
1 Chronicles 18:16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the
son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles 18:17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief
about the king.
1 Chronicles 19
1 Chronicles 19:1 And it came to pass after this, that Nahash the
king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 19:2 And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun
the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So
David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And
David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to
Hanun, to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to
Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, in that he
hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee to
search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
1 Chronicles 19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them,
and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and
sent them away.
1 Chronicles 19:5 Then there went certain persons, 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.
1 Chronicles 19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they
had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of
Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and
horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of
Zobah.
1 Chronicles 19:7 So they hired them thirty and two thousand
chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and
encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered
themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles 19:8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all
the host of the mighty men.
1 Chronicles 19:9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the
battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings that were come
were by themselves in the field.
1 Chronicles 19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set
against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of
Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 19:11 And the rest of the people he committed into the
hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against
the children of Ammon.
1 Chronicles 19:12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me,
then thou shalt help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong
for thee, then I will help thee.
1 Chronicles 19:13 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for
our people, and for the cities of our God: and Jehovah do that which
seemeth him good.
1 Chronicles 19:14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew
nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the
Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and
entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 19:16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to
the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the
Syrians that were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the
host of Hadarezer at their head.
1 Chronicles 19:17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over the 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.
1 Chronicles 19:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David
slew of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty
thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
1 Chronicles 19:19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that
they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David,
and served him: neither would the Syrians help the children of
Ammon any more.
1 Chronicles 20
1 Chronicles 20:1 And it came to pass, at the time of the return of
the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth
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 overthrew it.
1 Chronicles 20:2 And David took the crown of their king from off
his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were
precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he
brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
1 Chronicles 20:3 And he brought forth the people that were therein,
and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes.
And thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And
David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20:4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war
at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew
Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
1 Chronicles 20:5 And there was again war with the Philistines; and
Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
1 Chronicles 20:6 And there was again 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 born unto
the giant.
1 Chronicles 20:7 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of
Shimea David's brother slew him.
1 Chronicles 20:8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they
fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1 Chronicles 21
1 Chronicles 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved
David to number Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:2 And David said to Joab and to the princes of the
people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring
me word, that I may know the sum of them.
1 Chronicles 21:3 And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a
hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not
all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will
he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?
1 Chronicles 21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against
Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and
came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21:5 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the
people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand
and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four
hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
1 Chronicles 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among
them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore
he smote Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly,
in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beseech thee, the
iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
1 Chronicles 21:9 And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David's seer,
saying,
1 Chronicles 21:10 Go and speak unto David, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may
do it unto thee.
1 Chronicles 21:11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:
1 Chronicles 21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to
be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies
overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even
pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying
throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what
answer I shall return to him that sent me.
1 Chronicles 21:13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait:
let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his
mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
1 Chronicles 21:14 So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and
there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy
it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented
him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now
stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the
threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel
of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword
in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders,
clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that
commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned
and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let
thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against
my father's house; but not against thy people, that they should be
plagued.
1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to
say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar unto Jehovah
in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which
he spake in the name of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 21:20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and
his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was
threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21:21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and
saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to
David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of
this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah:
for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed
from the people.
1 Chronicles 21:23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and
let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give [thee]
the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood,
and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.
1 Chronicles 21:24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will
verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine
for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.
1 Chronicles 21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six
hundred shekels of gold by weight.
1 Chronicles 21:26 And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and
offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah;
and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-
offering.
1 Chronicles 21:27 And Jehovah commanded the angel; and he put
up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
1 Chronicles 21:28 At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had
answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he
sacrificed there.
1 Chronicles 21:29 For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses
made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that
time in the high place at Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 21:30 But David could not go before it to inquire of
God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 22
1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah
God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
1 Chronicles 22:2 And David commanded to gather together the
sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew
wrought stones to build the house of God.
1 Chronicles 22:3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the
nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in
abundance without weight;
1 Chronicles 22:4 and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians
and they of Tyre brought cedar-trees in abundance to David.
1 Chronicles 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and
tender, and the house that is to be builded for Jehovah must be
exceeding magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries:
I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared
abundantly before his death.
1 Chronicles 22:6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged
him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 22:7 And David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it
was in my heart to build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God.
1 Chronicles 22:8 But the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou
shalt not build a house unto my name, because thou hast shed much
blood upon the earth in my sight.
1 Chronicles 22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a
man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round
about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness unto Israel in his days:
1 Chronicles 22:10 he shall build a 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.
1 Chronicles 22:11 Now, my son, Jehovah be with thee; and prosper
thou, and build the house of Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken
concerning thee.
1 Chronicles 22:12 Only Jehovah give thee discretion and
understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou
mayest keep the law of Jehovah thy God.
1 Chronicles 22:13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou observe to do the
statutes and the ordinances which Jehovah charged Moses with
concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; fear not, neither be
dismayed.
1 Chronicles 22:14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for
the house of Jehovah a 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.
1 Chronicles 22:15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in
abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all men that
are skilful in every manner of work:
1 Chronicles 22:16 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron,
there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Jehovah be with thee.
1 Chronicles 22:17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel
to help Solomon his son, [saying],
1 Chronicles 22:18 Is not Jehovah your God with you? and hath he
not given you rest on every side? for he hath delivered the inhabitants
of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Jehovah, and
before his people.
1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek after
Jehovah your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of
Jehovah God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the
holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of
Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 23
1 Chronicles 23:1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made
Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 23:2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel,
with the priests and the Levites.
1 Chronicles 23:3 And the Levites were numbered from thirty years
old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was
thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23:4 Of these, twenty and four thousand were to
oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were
officers and judges;
1 Chronicles 23:5 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four
thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, [said
David], to praise therewith.
1 Chronicles 23:6 And David divided them into courses according to
the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham,
and Joel, three.
1 Chronicles 23:9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and
Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.
1 Chronicles 23:10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush,
and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23:11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second:
but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they became a
fathers' house in one reckoning.
1 Chronicles 23:12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel, four.
1 Chronicles 23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and
Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he
and his sons, for ever, to burn incense before Jehovah, to minister
unto him, and to bless in his name, for ever.
1 Chronicles 23:14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were
named among the tribe of Levi.
1 Chronicles 23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
1 Chronicles 23:16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
1 Chronicles 23:17 And the sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the
chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were
very many.
1 Chronicles 23:18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
1 Chronicles 23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah
the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah
the second.
1 Chronicles 23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons
of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
1 Chronicles 23:22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters
only: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
1 Chronicles 23:23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and
Jeremoth, three.
1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers'
houses, even the heads of the fathers' [houses] of those of them that
were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the
work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from twenty years old
and upward.
1 Chronicles 23:25 For David said, Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath
given rest unto his people; and he dwelleth in Jerusalem for ever:
1 Chronicles 23:26 and also the Levites shall no more have need to
carry the tabernacle and all the vessels of it for the service thereof.
1 Chronicles 23:27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi
were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.
1 Chronicles 23:28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron
for the service of the house of Jehovah, in the courts, and in the
chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of
the service of the house of God;
1 Chronicles 23:29 for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for
a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is
baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of
measure and size;
1 Chronicles 23:30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise
Jehovah, and likewise at even;
1 Chronicles 23:31 and to offer all burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, on
the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number
according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before
Jehovah;
1 Chronicles 23:32 and that they should keep the charge of the tent
of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the
sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 24
1 Chronicles 24:1 And the courses of the sons of Aaron [were these].
The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and
had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's
office.
1 Chronicles 24:3 And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and
Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their
ordering in their service.
1 Chronicles 24:4 And there were more chief men found of the sons
of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided:
of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses;
and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.
1 Chronicles 24:5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with
another; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God,
both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who
was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the
princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar,
and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites;
one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the
second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles 24:8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
1 Chronicles 24:9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
1 Chronicles 24:10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
1 Chronicles 24:11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
1 Chronicles 24:12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
1 Chronicles 24:13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to
Jeshebeab,
1 Chronicles 24:14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
1 Chronicles 24:15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to
Happizzez,
1 Chronicles 24:16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to
Jehezkel,
1 Chronicles 24:17 the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and
twentieth to Gamul,
1 Chronicles 24:18 the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and
twentieth to Maaziah.
1 Chronicles 24:19 This was the ordering of them in their service, to
come into the house of Jehovah according to the ordinance [given]
unto them by Aaron their father, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, had
commanded him.
1 Chronicles 24:20 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of
Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
1 Chronicles 24:21 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah
the chief.
1 Chronicles 24:22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of
Shelomoth, Jahath.
1 Chronicles 24:23 And the sons [of Hebron]: Jeriah [the chief],
Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 24:24 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah,
Shamir.
1 Chronicles 24:25 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of
Isshiah, Zechariah.
1 Chronicles 24:26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons
of Jaaziah: Beno.
1 Chronicles 24:27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and
Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
1 Chronicles 24:28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
1 Chronicles 24:29 Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 24:30 And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and
Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers'
houses.
1 Chronicles 24:31 These likewise cast lots even as their brethren
the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and
Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of
the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his
younger brother.
1 Chronicles 25
1 Chronicles 25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host set
apart for the service certain 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 them that did the work according to
their service was:
1 Chronicles 25:2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and
Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of
Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25:3 Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and
Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of
their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks
and praising Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 25:4 Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah,
Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani,
Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi,
Hothir, Mahazioth.
1 Chronicles 25:5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer
in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman
fourteen sons and three daughters.
1 Chronicles 25:6 All these were under the hands of their father for
song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for
the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being
under the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25:7 And the number of them, with their brethren that
were instructed in singing unto Jehovah, even all that were skilful,
was two hundred fourscore and eight.
1 Chronicles 25:8 And they cast lots for their offices, all alike, as
well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
1 Chronicles 25:9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph:
the second to Gedaliah; he and his brethren and sons were twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his
brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:28 for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:29 for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons
and his brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:30 for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons
and his brethren, twelve:
1 Chronicles 25:31 for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his
sons and his brethren, twelve.
1 Chronicles 26
1 Chronicles 26:1 For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the
Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
1 Chronicles 26:2 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the first-
born, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
1 Chronicles 26:3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the
seventh.
1 Chronicles 26:4 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the first-
born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and
Nethanel the fifth,
1 Chronicles 26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai
the eighth; for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles 26:6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that
ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of
valor.
1 Chronicles 26:7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and
Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu, and
Semachiah.
1 Chronicles 26:8 All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they
and their sons and their brethren, able men in strength for the service;
threescore and two of Obed-edom.
1 Chronicles 26:9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, valiant
men, eighteen.
1 Chronicles 26:10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons:
Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the first-born, yet his father
made him chief),
1 Chronicles 26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah
the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles 26:12 Of these were the courses of the doorkeepers,
even of the chief men, having offices like their brethren, to minister
in the house of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 26:13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great,
according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.
1 Chronicles 26:14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for
Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot
came out northward.
1 Chronicles 26:15 To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the
store-house.
1 Chronicles 26:16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of
Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, watch against watch.
1 Chronicles 26:17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day,
southward four a day, and for the store-house two and two.
1 Chronicles 26:18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and
two at Parbar.
1 Chronicles 26:19 These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of
the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
1 Chronicles 26:20 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures
of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
1 Chronicles 26:21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites
belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' [houses] belonging to
Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
1 Chronicles 26:22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother,
over the treasures of the house of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 26:23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the
Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
1 Chronicles 26:24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of
Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
1 Chronicles 26:25 And his brethren: of Eliezer [came] Rehabiah his
son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and
Shelomoth his son.
1 Chronicles 26:26 This Shelomoth and his brethren were over all
the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the
heads of the fathers' [houses], the captains over thousands and
hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles 26:27 Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate
to repair the house of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 26:28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of
Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had
dedicated, whosoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand
of Shelomoth, and of his brethren.
1 Chronicles 26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for
the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
1 Chronicles 26:30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren,
men of valor, a thousand and seven hundred, had the oversight of
Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Jehovah,
and for the service of the king.
1 Chronicles 26:31 Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of
the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' [houses]. In
the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there
were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 26:32 And his brethren, men of valor, were two
thousand and seven hundred, heads of fathers' [houses], whom king
David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and
for the affairs of the king.
1 Chronicles 27
1 Chronicles 27:1 Now the children of Israel after their number, [to
wit], the heads of fathers' [houses] and the captains of thousands and
of 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.
1 Chronicles 27:2 Over the first course for the first month was
Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:3 [He was] of the children of Perez, the chief of all
the captains of the host for the first month.
1 Chronicles 27:4 And over the course of the second month was
Dodai the Ahohite, and his course; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his
course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:5 The third captain of the host for the third month
was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his course
were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:6 This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of
the thirty, and over the thirty: and [of] his course was Ammizabad his
son.
1 Chronicles 27:7 The fourth [captain] for the fourth month was
Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his
course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:8 The fifth captain for this fifth month was
Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:9 The sixth [captain] for the sixth month was Ira the
son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:10 The seventh [captain] for the seventh month was
Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:11 The eighth [captain] for the eighth month was
Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:12 The ninth [captain] for the ninth month was
Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:13 The tenth [captain] for the tenth month was
Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his course were
twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:14 The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month
was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his
course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:15 The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month was
Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty
and four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the
Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites,
Shephatiah the son of Maacah:
1 Chronicles 27:17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron,
Zadok:
1 Chronicles 27:18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of
Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
1 Chronicles 27:19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of
Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel:
1 Chronicles 27:20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of
Azaziah: of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
1 Chronicles 27:21 of the half -[tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo
the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
1 Chronicles 27:22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were
the captains of the tribes of Israel.
1 Chronicles 27:23 But David took not the number of them from
twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would
increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
1 Chronicles 27:24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but
finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was
the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
1 Chronicles 27:25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the
son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in
the villages, and in the castles, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:
1 Chronicles 27:26 And over them that did the work of the field for
tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
1 Chronicles 27:27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the
Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars
was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
1 Chronicles 27:28 and over the olive-trees and the sycomore-trees
that were in the lowland was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the
cellars of oil was Joash:
1 Chronicles 27:29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai
the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat
the son of Adlai:
1 Chronicles 27:30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and
over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: and over the flocks was
Jaziz the Hagrite.
1 Chronicles 27:31 All these were the rulers of the substance which
was king David's.
1 Chronicles 27:32 Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counsellor, a
man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni
was with the king's sons:
1 Chronicles 27:33 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and
Hushai the Archite was the king's friend:
1 Chronicles 27:34 and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of
Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's host was Joab.
1 Chronicles 28
1 Chronicles 28:1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the
princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that served
the king by course, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of
hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the
king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all
the mighty men of valor, unto Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 28:2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and
said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: as for me, it was in my
heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah,
and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the
building.
1 Chronicles 28:3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build a
house for my name, because thou art a man of war, and hast shed
blood.
1 Chronicles 28:4 Howbeit Jehovah, the God of Israel, chose me out
of all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he
hath chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house
of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me
to make me king over all Israel;
1 Chronicles 28:5 And of all my sons (for Jehovah hath given me
many sons), he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of
the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall
build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son,
and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles 28:7 And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be
constant to do my commandments and mine ordinances, as at this
day.
1 Chronicles 28:8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the
assembly of Jehovah, and in the audience of our God, observe and
seek out all the commandments of Jehovah your God; that ye may
possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children
after you for ever.
1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of
thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing
mind; for Jehovah 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.
1 Chronicles 28:10 Take heed now; for Jehovah hath chosen thee to
build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
1 Chronicles 28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern
of the porch [of the temple], and of the houses thereof, and of the
treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the inner
chambers thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat;
1 Chronicles 28:12 and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for
the courts of the house of Jehovah, and for all the chambers round
about, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of
the dedicated things;
1 Chronicles 28:13 also for the courses of the priests and the Levites,
and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all
the vessels of service in the house of Jehovah;
1 Chronicles 28:14 of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all
vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver
by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
1 Chronicles 28:15 by weight also for the candlesticks of gold, and
for the lamps thereof, of gold, by weight for every candlestick and for
the lamps thereof; and for the candlesticks of silver, [silver] by
weight for [every] candlestick and for the lamps thereof, according to
the use of every candlestick;
1 Chronicles 28:16 and the gold by weight for the tables of
showbread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
1 Chronicles 28:17 and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups,
of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and
for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
1 Chronicles 28:18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by
weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, [even] the cherubim,
that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 28:19 All this, [said David], have I been made to
understand in writing from the hand of Jehovah, even all the works of
this pattern.
1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong
and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed; for
Jehovah God, even my God, is with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee, until all the work for the service of the house of Jehovah
be finished.
1 Chronicles 28:21 And, behold, there are the courses of the priests
and the Levites, for all the service of the house of God: and there
shall be with thee in all manner of work every willing man that hath
skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all the people
will be wholly at thy commandment.
1 Chronicles 29
1 Chronicles 29:1 And David the king said unto all the assembly,
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
Jehovah God.
1 Chronicles 29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the
house of my God the gold for the [things of] gold, and the silver for
the [things of] silver, and the brass for the [things of] brass, the iron
for the [things of] iron, and wood for the [things of] wood; onyx
stones, and [stones] to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of divers
colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in
abundance.
1 Chronicles 29:3 Moreover also, because I have set my affection on
the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of
gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above
all that I have prepared for the holy house,
1 Chronicles 29:4 even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of
Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, wherewith to
overlay the walls of the houses;
1 Chronicles 29:5 of gold for the [things of] gold, and of silver for
the [things of] silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the
hands of artificers. Who then offereth willingly to consecrate himself
this day unto Jehovah?
1 Chronicles 29:6 Then the princes of the fathers' [houses], and the
princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly;
1 Chronicles 29:7 and they gave for the service of the house of God
of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver
ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of
iron a hundred thousand talents.
1 Chronicles 29:8 And they with whom [precious] stones were found
gave them to the treasure of the house of Jehovah, under the hand of
Jehiel the Gershonite.
1 Chronicles 29:9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered
willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to
Jehovah: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
1 Chronicles 29:10 Wherefore David blessed Jehovah before all the
assembly; and David said, Blessed be thou, O Jehovah, the God of
Israel our father, for ever and ever.
1 Chronicles 29:11 Thine, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the
power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is
in the heavens and in the earth [is thine]; thine is the kingdom, O
Jehovah, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles 29:12 Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou
rulest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it
is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
1 Chronicles 29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and
praise thy glorious name.
1 Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we
should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come
of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners,
as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and
there is no abiding.
1 Chronicles 29:16 O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have
prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name cometh of thy hand,
and is all thine own.
1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart,
and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my
heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen
with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee.
1 Chronicles 29:18 O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of 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;
1 Chronicles 29:19 and give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to
keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do
all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made
provision.
1 Chronicles 29:20 And David said to all the assembly, Now bless
Jehovah your God. And all the assembly blessed Jehovah, the God of
their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped Jehovah,
and the king.
1 Chronicles 29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto Jehovah, and
offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, 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,
1 Chronicles 29:22 and did eat and drink before Jehovah on that day
with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king
the second time, and anointed him unto Jehovah to be prince, and
Zadok to be priest.
1 Chronicles 29:23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Jehovah as
king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed
him.
1 Chronicles 29:24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all
the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon
the king.
1 Chronicles 29:25 And Jehovah 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.
1 Chronicles 29:26 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all
Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was
forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three
[years] reigned he in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 29:28 And he died in a good old age, full of days,
riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles 29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last,
behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the
history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
1 Chronicles 29:30 with all his reign and his might, and the times
that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the
countries.
2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 1
2 Chronicles 1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in
his kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him, and magnified him
exceedingly.
2 Chronicles 1:2 And Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains
of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince
in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses].
2 Chronicles 1:3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went
to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting
of God, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the
wilderness.
2 Chronicles 1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from
Kiriath-jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had
pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of
Jehovah: and Solomon and the assembly sought unto it.
2 Chronicles 1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar
before Jehovah, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a
thousand burnt-offerings upon it.
2 Chronicles 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and
said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
2 Chronicles 1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed
great lovingkindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in
his stead.
2 Chronicles 1:9 Now, O Jehovah 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.
2 Chronicles 1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may
go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this thy
people, that is so great?
2 Chronicles 1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in
thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the
life of them that hate thee, 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:
2 Chronicles 1:12 wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I
will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the
kings have had that have been before thee; neither shall there any
after thee have the like.
2 Chronicles 1:13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at
Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, unto Jerusalem; and he
reigned over Israel.
2 Chronicles 1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen:
and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the
king at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:15 And the king made silver and gold to be in
Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees
that are in the lowland, for abundance.
2 Chronicles 1:16 And the horses which Solomon had were brought
out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each
drove at a price.
2 Chronicles 1:17 And they fetched up and brought out of Egypt a
chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred
and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of
Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
2 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the
name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
2 Chronicles 2:2 And Solomon counted out threescore and ten
thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were
hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to
oversee them.
2 Chronicles 2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre,
saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him
cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].
2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of
Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him
incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the
burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the
new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is [an
ordinance] for ever to Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:5 And the house which I build is great; for great is
our God above all gods.
2 Chronicles 2:6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven
and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I
should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
2 Chronicles 2:7 Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in
gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson, and blue, and that knoweth how to grave [all manner of]
gravings, [to be] with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in
Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
2 Chronicles 2:8 Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees,
out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber
in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2 Chronicles 2:9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the
house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
2 Chronicles 2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the
hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,
and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths
of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2 Chronicles 2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing,
which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loveth his people, he
hath made thee king over them.
2 Chronicles 2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be Jehovah, the
God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David
the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that
should build a house for Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
2 Chronicles 2:13 And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with
understanding, of Huram my father's,
2 Chronicles 2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and
his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in
brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine
linen, and in crimson, also to grave any manner of graving, and to
devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed unto him
with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy
father.
2 Chronicles 2:15 Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil
and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his
servants:
2 Chronicles 2:16 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.
2 Chronicles 2:17 And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that
were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his
father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty
thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles 2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to
bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the
mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the
people at work.
2 Chronicles 3
2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah
at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [Jehovah] appeared unto David
his father, which he made ready in the place that David had
appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the
second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid
for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the
first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
2 Chronicles 3:4 And the porch that was before [the house], the
length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits,
and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with
pure gold.
2 Chronicles 3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood,
which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and
chains.
2 Chronicles 3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones
for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
2 Chronicles 3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the
thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold;
and graved cherubim on the walls.
2 Chronicles 3:8 And he made the most holy house: the length
thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and
the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold,
amounting to six hundred talents.
2 Chronicles 3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of
gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
2 Chronicles 3:10 And in the most holy house he made two
cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
2 Chronicles 3:11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits
long: the 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.
2 Chronicles 3:12 And the 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.
2 Chronicles 3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves
forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were
toward the house.
2 Chronicles 3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and
crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
2 Chronicles 3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of
thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each
of them was five cubits.
2 Chronicles 3:16 And he made chains in the oracle, and put [them]
on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and
put them on the chains.
2 Chronicles 3:17 And he set 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.
2 Chronicles 4
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 4:2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from
brim to brim, round in compass; and the height thereof was five
cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
2 Chronicles 4:3 And under it was the likeness of oxen, which did
compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round
about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
2 Chronicles 4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the
north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward
the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set upon
them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
2 Chronicles 4:5 And it was a handbreadth thick; and the brim
thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it
received and held three thousand baths.
2 Chronicles 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right
hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to
the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests
to wash in.
2 Chronicles 4:7 And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according
to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five
on the right hand, and five on the left.
2 Chronicles 4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the
temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a
hundred basins of gold.
2 Chronicles 4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and
the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of
them with brass.
2 Chronicles 4:10 And he set the sea on the right side [of the house]
eastward, toward the south.
2 Chronicles 4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and
the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he wrought
for king Solomon in the house of God:
2 Chronicles 4:12 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals
which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover
the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
2 Chronicles 4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the
two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.
2 Chronicles 4:14 He made also the bases, and the lavers made he
upon the bases;
2 Chronicles 4:15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-
hooks, and all the vessels thereof, did Huram his father make for king
Solomon for the house of Jehovah of bright brass.
2 Chronicles 4:17 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them,
in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
2 Chronicles 4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great
abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the
house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the
showbread;
2 Chronicles 4:20 and the candlesticks with their lamps, to burn
according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
2 Chronicles 4:21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of
gold, and that perfect gold;
2 Chronicles 4:22 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons,
and the firepans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the
inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the
house, [to wit], of the temple, were of gold.
2 Chronicles 5
2 Chronicles 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the
house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things
that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and
all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
2 Chronicles 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and
all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the
children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant
of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:3 nd all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 5:4 And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites
took up the ark;
2 Chronicles 5:5 and they brought up the ark, and the tent of
meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the
priests the Levites bring up.
2 Chronicles 5:6 And king Solomon and all the congregation of
Israel, that were assembled unto him, were before the ark, sacrificing
sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for
multitude.
2 Chronicles 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant
of Jehovah unto its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most
holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 5:8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves
thereof above.
2 Chronicles 5:9 And the staves were so long 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.
2 Chronicles 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables
which Moses put [there] at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant
with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come
out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present had
sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;
2 Chronicles 5:12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them,
even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren,
arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at
the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests
sounding with trumpets;)
2 Chronicles 5:13 it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers
were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking
Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and
cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah, [saying], For
he is good; for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; that then the
house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Jehovah,
2 Chronicles 5:14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by
reason of the cloud: for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of God.
2 Chronicles 6
2 Chronicles 6:1 Then spake Solomon, Jehovah hath said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness.
2 Chronicles 6:2 But I have built thee a house of habitation, and a
place for thee to dwell in for ever.
2 Chronicles 6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the
assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 6:4 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,
who spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his
hands fulfilled it, saying,
2 Chronicles 6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of
the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build
a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to
be prince over my people Israel:
2 Chronicles 6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might
be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build
a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:8 But Jehovah said unto David my father, Whereas it
was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it
was in thy heart:
2 Chronicles 6:9 nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy
son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for
my name.
2 Chronicles 6:10 And Jehovah hath performed his word that he
spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on
the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house
for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:11 And there have I set the ark, wherein is the
covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:12 And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the
presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands
2 Chronicles 6:13 (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, 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 assembly of Israel, and spread forth his
hands toward heaven;)
2 Chronicles 6:14 and he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is
no God like thee, in heaven, or on earth; who keepest covenant and
lovingkindness with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their
heart;
2 Chronicles 6:15 who hast kept with thy servant David my father
that which thou didst promise him: yea, thou spakest with thy mouth,
and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.
2 Chronicles 6:16 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the 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 on the throne
of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk in my
law as thou hast walked before me.
2 Chronicles 6:17 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, let
thy word be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David.
2 Chronicles 6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the
earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house which I have builded!
2 Chronicles 6:19 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy
servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto
the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee;
2 Chronicles 6:20 that thine eyes may be open toward this house day
and night, even toward the place whereof thou hast said that thou
wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy
servant shall pray toward this place.
2 Chronicles 6:21 And hearken thou to the supplications of thy
servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this
place: yea, hear thou from thy dwelling-place, even from heaven; and
when thou hearest forgive.
2 Chronicles 6:22 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be
laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before
thine altar in this house;
2 Chronicles 6:23 then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head;
and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness.
2 Chronicles 6:24 And if thy people Israel be smitten down before
the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn
again and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before
thee in this house;
2 Chronicles 6:25 then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of
thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
gavest to them and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:26 When the heavens are 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 dost
afflict them:
2 Chronicles 6:27 then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of
thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the
good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land,
which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their
enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or
whatsoever sickness there be;
2 Chronicles 6:29 what prayer and supplication soever be made by
any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man his
own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands
toward this house:
2 Chronicles 6:30 then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place
and forgive, and render unto every man according to all his ways,
whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the
hearts of the children of men;)
2 Chronicles 6:31 that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so
long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:32 Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of
thy people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for thy great
name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thine outstretched arm; when
they shall come and pray toward this house:
2 Chronicles 6:33 then hear thou from heaven, even from thy
dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to
thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, and
fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this
house which I have built is called by thy name.
2 Chronicles 6:34 If thy people go out to battle against their
enemies, by whatsoever way 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;
2 Chronicles 6:35 then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
2 Chronicles 6:36 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 captive unto a land far off or
near;
2 Chronicles 6:37 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land
whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make
supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have
sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;
2 Chronicles 6:38 if they return unto thee with all their heart and
with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have
carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and toward
the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles 6:39 then hear thou from heaven, even from thy
dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain
their cause, and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee.
2 Chronicles 6:40 Now, O 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.
2 Chronicles 6:41 Now therefore arise, O Jehovah God, into thy
resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O
Jehovah God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness.
2 Chronicles 6:42 O Jehovah God, turn not away the face of thine
anointed: remember [thy] lovingkindnesses to David thy servant.
2 Chronicles 7
2 Chronicles 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 Jehovah filled the house.
2 Chronicles 7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of
Jehovah, because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah's house.
2 Chronicles 7:3 And all the children of Israel looked on, when the
fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah was upon the house; and
they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the
pavement, and worshipped, and gave thanks unto Jehovah, [saying],
For he is good; for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
2 Chronicles 7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice
before Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty
and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep.
So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles 7:6 And the priests stood, according to their offices; the
Levites also with instruments of music of Jehovah, which David the
king had made to give thanks unto Jehovah, (for his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever,) when David praised by their ministry: and the
priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the
court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the
burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen
altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-
offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.
2 Chronicles 7:8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days,
and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of
Hamath unto the brook of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 7:9 And on the eighth day they held a solemn
assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the
feast seven days.
2 Chronicles 7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh
month he sent the people away unto their tents, joyful and glad of
heart for the goodness that Jehovah had showed unto David, and to
Solomon, and to Israel his people.
2 Chronicles 7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of Jehovah, and
the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in
the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
2 Chronicles 7:12 And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and
said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to
myself for a house of sacrifice.
2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or
if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people;
2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who 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.
2 Chronicles 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears
attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.
2 Chronicles 7:16 For now have I chosen and hallowed this house,
that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart
shall be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles 7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me as
David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;
2 Chronicles 7:18 then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom,
according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall
not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and
my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and
serve other gods, and worship them;
2 Chronicles 7:20 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my
land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed
for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb
and a byword among all peoples.
2 Chronicles 7:21 And this house, which is so high, every one that
passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath Jehovah
done thus unto this land, and to this house?
2 Chronicles 7:22 And they shall answer, Because they forsook
Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who 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.
2 Chronicles 8
2 Chronicles 8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,
wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house,
2 Chronicles 8:2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon,
Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2 Chronicles 8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and
prevailed against it.
2 Chronicles 8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the
store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles 8:5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon
the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
2 Chronicles 8:6 and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon
had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen,
and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem,
and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
2 Chronicles 8:7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites,
and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, that were not of Israel;
2 Chronicles 8:8 of their children that were left after them in the
land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did
Solomon raise a levy [of bondservants] unto this day.
2 Chronicles 8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no
servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his
captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
2 Chronicles 8:10 And these were the chief officers of king
Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
2 Chronicles 8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh
out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he
said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel,
because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.
2 Chronicles 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto
Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,
2 Chronicles 8:13 even as the duty of every day required, offering
according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the
new moons, and on the set 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.
2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the ordinance of
David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the
Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as
the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses
at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
2 Chronicles 8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or
concerning the treasures.
2 Chronicles 8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto
the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was
finished. [So] the house of Jehovah was completed.
2 Chronicles 8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth,
on the seashore in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants
ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came
with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four
hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9
2 Chronicles 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 train, 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 Chronicles 9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions; and there
was not anything hid from Solomon which he told her not.
2 Chronicles 9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom
of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
2 Chronicles 9:4 and the food 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 unto the house of Jehovah; there was no more spirit in her.
2 Chronicles 9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I
heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came,
and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of
thy wisdom was not told me: thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles 9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servants, that stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:8 Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee,
to set thee on his throne, to be king for Jehovah thy God: because thy
God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee
king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
2 Chronicles 9:9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents
of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither
was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king
Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants
of Solomon, that brought gold from Ophir, brought algum-trees and
precious stones.
2 Chronicles 9:11 And the king made of the algum-trees terraces for
the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and
psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the
land of Judah.
2 Chronicles 9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all
her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which she had brought
unto the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her
servants.
2 Chronicles 9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold,
2 Chronicles 9:14 besides that which the traders and merchants
brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country
brought gold and silver to Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of
beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one
buckler.
2 Chronicles 9:16 And [he made] three hundred shields 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.
2 Chronicles 9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory,
and overlaid it with pure gold.
2 Chronicles 9:18 nd there were six steps to the throne, with a
footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on
either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the
stays.
2 Chronicles 9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and
on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any
kingdom.
2 Chronicles 9:20 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: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with
the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of
Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 9:22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the
earth in riches and wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence
of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
2 Chronicles 9:24 And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armor, and spices, horses,
and mules, a rate year by year.
2 Chronicles 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses
and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the
chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:26 And he ruled over all the kings from the River
even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 9:27 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
lowland, for abundance.
2 Chronicles 9:28 And they brought horses for Solomon out of
Egypt, and out of all lands.
2 Chronicles 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,
are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer
concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
2 Chronicles 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
forty years.
2 Chronicles 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was
buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned
in his stead.
2 Chronicles 10
2 Chronicles 10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel
were come to Shechem to make him king.
2 Chronicles 10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of
Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the
presence of king Solomon,) that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 10:3 And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and
all Israel came, and they spake to Rehoboam, saying,
2 Chronicles 10:4 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.
2 Chronicles 10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after
three days. And the people departed.
2 Chronicles 10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old
men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived,
saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
2 Chronicles 10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind
to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then
they will be thy servants for ever.
2 Chronicles 10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which
they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were
grown up with him, that stood before him.
2 Chronicles 10:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that
we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying,
Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?
2 Chronicles 10:10 And the young men that were grown up with him
spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say unto the 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
is thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles 10:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a
heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with
whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
2 Chronicles 10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to
Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again
the third day.
2 Chronicles 10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king
Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
2 Chronicles 10:14 and spake to them after the counsel 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.
2 Chronicles 10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it
was brought about of God, that Jehovah might establish his word,
which he spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 10:16 And 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:
every man to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David.
So all Israel departed unto their tents.
2 Chronicles 10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
2 Chronicles 10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was
over the men subject to taskwork; and the children of Israel stoned
him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him
up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 10:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David
unto this day.
2 Chronicles 11
2 Chronicles 11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he
assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore
thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against Israel, to
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
2 Chronicles 11:2 But the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah the
man of God, saying,
2 Chronicles 11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king
of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2 Chronicles 11:4 Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight
against your brethren: return every man to his house; for this thing is
of me. So they hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, and returned
from going against Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built
cities for defence in Judah.
2 Chronicles 11:6 He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2 Chronicles 11:7 And Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
2 Chronicles 11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2 Chronicles 11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2 Chronicles 11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are
in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
2 Chronicles 11:11 And he fortified the strongholds, and put
captains in them, and stores of victuals, and oil and wine.
2 Chronicles 11:12 And in every city [he put] shields and spears, and
made them exceeding strong. And Judah and Benjamin belonged to
him.
2 Chronicles 11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all
Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
2 Chronicles 11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their
possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his
sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office
unto Jehovah;
2 Chronicles 11:15 and he appointed him priests for the high places,
and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.
2 Chronicles 11:16 And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel,
such as set their hearts to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, came to
Jerusalem to sacrifice unto Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and
made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they
walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
2 Chronicles 11:18 And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the
daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter
of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2 Chronicles 11:19 and she bare him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah,
and Zaham.
2 Chronicles 11:20 And after her he took Maacah the daughter of
Absalom; and she bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and
Shelomith.
2 Chronicles 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maacah 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.)
2 Chronicles 11:22 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of
Maacah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brethren; for [he was
minded] to make him king.
2 Chronicles 11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons
throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fortified
city: and he gave them victuals in abundance. And he sought [for
them] many wives.
2 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles 12:1 And it came to pass, when the kingdom of
Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the
law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.
2 Chronicles 12:2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
because they had trespassed against Jehovah,
2 Chronicles 12:3 with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore
thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came
with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
2 Chronicles 12:4 And he took the fortified cities which pertained to
Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 12:5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam,
and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem
because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have
forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled
themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.
2 Chronicles 12:7 And when Jehovah saw that they humbled
themselves, the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They
have humbled themselves: 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.
2 Chronicles 12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they
may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the
countries.
2 Chronicles 12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and
the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also
the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 12:10 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields
of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the
guard, that kept the door of the king's house.
2 Chronicles 12:11 And it was so, that, as oft as the king entered into
the house of Jehovah, the guard came and bare them, and brought
them back into the guard-chamber.
2 Chronicles 12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of
Jehovah turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and
moreover in Judah there were good things [found].
2 Chronicles 12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in
Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to
put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the
Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles 12:14 And he did that which was evil, because he set
not his heart to seek Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are
they not written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo
the seer, after the manner of genealogies? And there were wars
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
2 Chronicles 12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 13
2 Chronicles 13:1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began
Abijah to reign over Judah.
2 Chronicles 13:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And
there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 13:3 And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant
men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam
set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen
men, who were mighty men of valor.
2 Chronicles 13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim,
which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O
Jeroboam and all Israel:
2 Chronicles 13:5 Ought ye not to know that Jehovah, the God of
Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him
and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chronicles 13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of
Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.
2 Chronicles 13:7 And there were gathered unto him worthless men,
base fellows, that strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son
of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and
could not withstand them.
2 Chronicles 13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of
Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great
multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam
made you for gods.
2 Chronicles 13:9 Have ye not driven out the priests of Jehovah, the
sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner
of the peoples 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.
2 Chronicles 13:10 But as for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have
not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering unto Jehovah, the
sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
2 Chronicles 13:11 and they burn unto Jehovah every morning and
every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense: the showbread 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 Jehovah our God; but ye have forsaken him.
2 Chronicles 13:12 And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his
priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O
children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your
fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles 13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come
about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment
was behind them.
2 Chronicles 13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle
was before and behind them; and they cried unto Jehovah, and the
priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the
men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and
all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
2 Chronicles 13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and
God delivered them into their hand.
2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a
great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles 13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at
that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied
upon Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took
cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with
the towns thereof, and Ephron with the towns thereof.
2 Chronicles 13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in
the days of Abijah: and Jehovah smote him, and he died.
2 Chronicles 13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself
fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen
daughters.
2 Chronicles 13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways,
and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.
2 Chronicles 14
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the
eyes of Jehovah his God:
2 Chronicles 14:3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high
places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
2 Chronicles 14:4 and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God
of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
2 Chronicles 14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the
high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before
him.
2 Chronicles 14:6 And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land
was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Jehovah had
given him rest.
2 Chronicles 14:7 For he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities,
and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is
yet before us, because we have sought Jehovah our God; we have
sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and
prospered.
2 Chronicles 14:8 And Asa had an army that bare bucklers 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 valor.
2 Chronicles 14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the
Ethiopian with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred
chariots; and he came unto Mareshah.
2 Chronicles 14:10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the
battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried unto Jehovah his God, and said,
Jehovah, there is none besides thee to help, between the mighty and
him that hath no strength: help us, O Jehovah our God; for we rely on
thee, and in thy name are we come against this multitude. O Jehovah,
thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
2 Chronicles 14:12 So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and
before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
2 Chronicles 14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him
pursued them unto Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many
that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed
before Jehovah, and before his host; and they carried away very much
booty.
2 Chronicles 14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar;
for the fear of Jehovah came upon them: and they despoiled all the
cities; for there was much spoil in them.
2 Chronicles 14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried
away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 15
2 Chronicles 15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son
of Oded:
2 Chronicles 15:2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him,
Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you,
while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you;
but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel was without the true
God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
2 Chronicles 15:4 But when in their distress they turned unto
Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles 15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that
went out, nor to him that came in; but great vexations were upon all
the inhabitants of the lands.
2 Chronicles 15:6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against
nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles 15:7 But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack;
for your work shall be rewarded.
2 Chronicles 15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the
prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the
abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of
the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and
he renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of
Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and
them that sojourned 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 Jehovah his God was with him.
2 Chronicles 15:10 So they gathered themselves together at
Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
2 Chronicles 15:11 And they sacrificed unto Jehovah in that day, of
the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven
thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles 15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek
Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all
their soul;
2 Chronicles 15:13 and that whosoever would not seek Jehovah, the
God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether
man or woman.
2 Chronicles 15:14 And they sware unto Jehovah with a loud voice,
and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
2 Chronicles 15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had
sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire;
and he was found of them: and Jehovah gave them rest round about.
2 Chronicles 15:16 And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he
removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable
image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of
it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of
Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles 15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things
that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated,
silver, and gold, and vessels.
2 Chronicles 15:19 And there was no more war unto the five and
thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
2 Chronicles 16
2 Chronicles 16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa,
Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he
might not suffer any one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the
treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the king's house, and sent to
Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
2 Chronicles 16:3 [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there
was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver
and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
may depart from me.
2 Chronicles 16:4 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and
sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they
smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store-cities of
Naphtali.
2 Chronicles 16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof,
that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
2 Chronicles 16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried
away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha
had builded; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
2 Chronicles 16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king
of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of
Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore is the host of
the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
2 Chronicles 16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge
host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou
didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout
the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from
henceforth thou shalt have wars.
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him
in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this
thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
2 Chronicles 16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo,
they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 16:12 And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa
was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his
disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians.
2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the
one and fortieth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres,
which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him
in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds [of
spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great
burning for him.
2 Chronicles 17
2 Chronicles 17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and
strengthened himself against Israel.
2 Chronicles 17:2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of
Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
2 Chronicles 17:3 And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, because he
walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the
Baalim,
2 Chronicles 17:4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in
his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 17:5 Therefore Jehovah established the kingdom in his
hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches
and honor in abundance.
2 Chronicles 17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of
Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the
Asherim out of Judah.
2 Chronicles 17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his
princes, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel,
and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
2 Chronicles 17:8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and
Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the
Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
2 Chronicles 17:9 And they taught in Judah, having the book of the
law of Jehovah with them; and they went about throughout all the
cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
2 Chronicles 17:10 And the fear of Jehovah fell upon all the
kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made
no war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 17:11 And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat
presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks,
seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and
seven hundred he-goats.
2 Chronicles 17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and
he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
2 Chronicles 17:13 And he had many works in the cities of Judah;
and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 17:14 And this was the numbering of them according
to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah
the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred
thousand;
2 Chronicles 17:15 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with
him two hundred and fourscore thousand;
2 Chronicles 17:16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who
willingly offered himself unto Jehovah; and with him two hundred
thousand mighty men of valor.
2 Chronicles 17:17 And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor,
and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
2 Chronicles 17:18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him a
hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for war.
2 Chronicles 17:19 These were they that waited on the king, besides
those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 18
2 Chronicles 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in
abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab.
2 Chronicles 18:2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to
Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and
for the people that were with him, and moved him to go up [with
him] to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles 18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat
king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he
answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and [we
will be] with thee in the war.
2 Chronicles 18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel,
Inquire first, I pray thee, for the word of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 18:5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets
together, 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 hand of the king.
2 Chronicles 18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet
of Jehovah besides, that we may inquire of him?
2 Chronicles 18:7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat,
There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah: but I hate
him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil:
the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not
the king say so.
2 Chronicles 18:8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said,
Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
2 Chronicles 18:9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were
sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all
the prophets were prophesying before them.
2 Chronicles 18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him
horns of iron, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, With these shalt thou
push the Syrians, until they be consumed.
2 Chronicles 18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go
up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will deliver it into the
hand of the king.
2 Chronicles 18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah
spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare]
good to the king with one mouth: let thy word therefore, I pray thee,
be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.
2 Chronicles 18:13 And Micaiah said, As Jehovah liveth, what my
God saith, that will I speak.
2 Chronicles 18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said
unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I
forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper; and they shall be
delivered into your hand.
2 Chronicles 18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall
I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the
name of Jehovah?
2 Chronicles 18:16 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Jehovah said, These
have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
2 Chronicles 18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I
not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but
evil?
2 Chronicles 18:18 And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear ye the word
of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting upon his throne, and all the host of
heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
2 Chronicles 18:19 And Jehovah 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.
2 Chronicles 18:20 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before
Jehovah, and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him,
Wherewith?
2 Chronicles 18:21 And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice
him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.
2 Chronicles 18:22 Now therefore, behold, Jehovah hath put a lying
spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets; and Jehovah hath spoken
evil concerning thee.
2 Chronicles 18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near,
and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the
Spirit of Jehovah from me to speak unto thee?
2 Chronicles 18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that
day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
2 Chronicles 18:25 And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and
carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the
king's son;
2 Chronicles 18:26 and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in
the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
affliction, until I return in peace.
2 Chronicles 18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace,
Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of
you.
2 Chronicles 18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles 18:29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I
will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.
So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
2 Chronicles 18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the
captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great,
save only with the king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel.
Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat
cried out, and Jehovah helped him; and God moved them [to depart]
from him.
2 Chronicles 18:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back
from pursuing him.
2 Chronicles 18:33 And a certain man drew his bow at a venture,
and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the armor:
wherefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn thy hand, and
carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.
2 Chronicles 18:34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the
king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until
the even; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.
2 Chronicles 19
2 Chronicles 19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his
house in peace to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to
meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the
wicked, and love them that hate Jehovah? for this thing wrath is upon
thee from before Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee,
in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set
thy heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went
out again among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of
Ephraim, and brought them back unto Jehovah, the God of their
fathers.
2 Chronicles 19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the
fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
2 Chronicles 19:6 and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye
judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and [he is] with you in the
judgment.
2 Chronicles 19:7 Now therefore let the fear of Jehovah be upon
you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Jehovah our
God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
2 Chronicles 19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the
Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of
Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah, and for controversies. And they
returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in
the fear of Jehovah, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 19:10 And whensoever any controversy shall come to
you from your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and
blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye
shall warn them, that they be not guilty towards Jehovah, and so
wrath come upon you and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall
not be guilty.
2 Chronicles 19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over
you in all matters of Jehovah; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the
ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites
shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Jehovah be with
the good.
2 Chronicles 20
2 Chronicles 20:1 And it came to pass after this, that the children of
Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the
Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Chronicles 20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat,
saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the
sea from Syria; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (the same is
En-gedi).
2 Chronicles 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek
unto Jehovah; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek
[help] of Jehovah: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to
seek Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah
and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court;
2 Chronicles 20:6 and he said, O Jehovah, the God of our fathers, art
not thou God in heaven? and art not thou ruler over all the kingdoms
of the nations? and in thy hand is power and might, so that none is
able to withstand thee.
2 Chronicles 20:7 Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the
inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the
seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
2 Chronicles 20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a
sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
2 Chronicles 20:9 If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or
pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before
thee, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our
affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.
2 Chronicles 20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and
Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade,
when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from
them, and destroyed them not;
2 Chronicles 20:11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us
out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we
have no might against this great company that cometh against us;
neither know we what to do: but out eyes are upon thee.
2 Chronicles 20:13 And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their
little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles 20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son
of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the
sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Jehovah in the midst of the
assembly;
2 Chronicles 20:15 and he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat: Thus saith
Jehovah unto you, Fear not ye, neither be dismayed by reason of this
great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
2 Chronicles 20:16 To-morrow go ye down against them: behold,
they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end
of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles 20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this [battle]: set
yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of Jehovah with you,
O Judah and Jerusalem; fear not, nor be dismayed: to-morrow go out
against them: for Jehovah is with you.
2 Chronicles 20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to
the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down
before Jehovah, worshipping Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the
Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise
Jehovah, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went
forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,
Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem: believe in Jehovah your God, so shall ye be established;
believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had taken counsel with the people,
he appointed them that should sing unto Jehovah, and give praise in
holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks
unto Jehovah; for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
2 Chronicles 20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise,
Jehovah set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and
mount Seir, that were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
2 Chronicles 20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up
against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy
them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,
every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles 20:24 And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the
wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were
dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.
2 Chronicles 20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to
take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both
riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off
for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three
days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
2 Chronicles 20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled
themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Jehovah:
therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah
unto this day.
2 Chronicles 20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and
Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to
Jerusalem with joy; for Jehovah had made them to rejoice over their
enemies.
2 Chronicles 20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and
harps and trumpets unto the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of
the countries, when they heard that Jehovah fought against the
enemies of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his
God gave him rest round about.
2 Chronicles 20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was
thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty and five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles 20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and
turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away;
neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their
fathers.
2 Chronicles 20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and
last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani,
which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join
himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly:
2 Chronicles 20:36 and he joined himself with him to make ships to
go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah
prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined
thyself with Ahaziah, Jehovah hath destroyed thy works. And the
ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles 21
2 Chronicles 21:1 And 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 Chronicles 21:2 And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat:
Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and
Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:3 And their father gave them great gifts, of silver,
and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but
the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.
2 Chronicles 21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up over the
kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his
brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife:
and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 21:7 Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy the house of
David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as
he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.
2 Chronicles 21:8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2 Chronicles 21:9 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and
all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the
Edomites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots.
2 Chronicles 21:10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah
unto this day: then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his
hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains
of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot,
and led Judah astray.
2 Chronicles 21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the
prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the 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,
2 Chronicles 21:13 but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the
harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren
of thy father's house, who were better than thyself:
2 Chronicles 21:14 behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague
thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;
2 Chronicles 21:15 and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of
thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by
day.
2 Chronicles 21:16 And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit
of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians:
2 Chronicles 21:17 and they came up against 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.
2 Chronicles 21:18 And after all this Jehovah smote him in his
bowels with an incurable disease.
2 Chronicles 21:19 And it came to pass, in process of time, at the
end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness,
and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for
him, like the burning of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began
to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed
without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but
not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 22
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 22:2 Forty and two 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.
2 Chronicles 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab;
for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
2 Chronicles 22:4 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after
the death of his father, to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with
Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of
Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2 Chronicles 22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was
sick.
2 Chronicles 22:7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in
that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with
Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed
to cut off the house of Ahab.
2 Chronicles 22:8 And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing
judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah,
and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and
slew them.
2 Chronicles 22:9 And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him
(now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and
slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of
Jehoshaphat, who sought Jehovah with all his heart. And the house of
Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 22:10 Now 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.
2 Chronicles 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took
Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's
sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in the 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.
2 Chronicles 22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God
six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
2 Chronicles 23
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the
Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers'
[houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 23:3 And all the assembly made a covenant with the
king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's
son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David.
2 Chronicles 23:4 This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of
you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
shall be porters of the thresholds;
2 Chronicles 23:5 and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a
third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in
the courts of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 23:6 But let none come into the house of Jehovah, save
the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in,
for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round
about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever
cometh into the house, let him be slain: and be ye with the king when
he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
2 Chronicles 23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his
men, those that were to come in on the sabbath; with those that were
to go out on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
courses.
2 Chronicles 23:9 And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains
of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king
David's, which were in the house of God.
2 Chronicles 23:10 And he set all the people, every man with his
weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of
the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about.
2 Chronicles 23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the
crown upon him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king:
and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, [Long] live
the king.
2 Chronicles 23:12 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people
running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house
of Jehovah:
2 Chronicles 23:13 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by
his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the
king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the
singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led the singing of
praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
2 Chronicles 23:14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains
of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her
forth between the ranks; and whoso followeth her, let him be slain
with the sword: for the priest said, Slay her not in the house of
Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 23:15 So they made way for her; and she went to the
entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.
2 Chronicles 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself,
and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people.
2 Chronicles 23:17 And 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.
2 Chronicles 23:18 And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house
of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David
had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of
Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with
singing, according to the order of David.
2 Chronicles 23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of
Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should enter in.
2 Chronicles 23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the
nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the
land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they
came through the upper gate unto the king's house, and set the king
upon the throne of the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 23:21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the
city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
2 Chronicles 24
2 Chronicles 24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Zibiah, of Beer-sheba.
2 Chronicles 24:2 And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles 24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he
begat sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was
minded to restore the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the
Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather
of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year;
and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
2 Chronicles 24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and
said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in
out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of
Jehovah, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
2 Chronicles 24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had
broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the
house of Jehovah did they bestow upon the Baalim.
2 Chronicles 24:8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest,
and set it without at the gate of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and
Jerusalem, to bring in for Jehovah the tax that Moses the servant of
God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced,
and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles 24:11 And it was so, that, at what time the chest was
brought unto the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when
they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief
priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it
to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in
abundance.
2 Chronicles 24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did
the work of the service of the house of Jehovah; and they hired
masons and carpenters to restore the house of Jehovah, and also such
as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work of
repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of
God in its state, and strengthened it.
2 Chronicles 24:14 And when they had made an end, they brought
the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were
made vessels for the house of Jehovah, even vessels wherewith to
minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And
they offered burnt-offerings in the house of Jehovah continually all
the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles 24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days,
and he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles 24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among
the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and
his house.
2 Chronicles 24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes
of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened
unto them.
2 Chronicles 24:18 And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God
of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath
came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
2 Chronicles 24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again
unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not
give ear.
2 Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the
son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said
unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of
Jehovah, so that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken
Jehovah, he hath also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him
with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house
of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the
kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son.
And when he died, he said, Jehovah look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles 24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that
the army of the Syrians 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.
2 Chronicles 24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small
company of men; and Jehovah delivered a very great host into their
hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. So
they executed judgment upon Joash.
2 Chronicles 24:25 And when they were departed for him (for they
left him very sick), 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.
2 Chronicles 24:26 And these are they that conspired against him:
Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son
of Shimrith the Moabitess.
2 Chronicles 24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of
the burdens [laid] upon him, and the rebuilding of the house of God,
behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings.
And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 25
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was
established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king
his father.
2 Chronicles 25:4 But he put not their children to death, but did
according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as
Jehovah 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.
2 Chronicles 25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and
ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of
thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin:
and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found
them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war,
that could handle spear and shield.
2 Chronicles 25:6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of
valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
2 Chronicles 25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O
king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for Jehovah is not with
Israel, [to wit], with all the children of Ephraim.
2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do [valiantly], be strong for
the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath
power to help, and to cast down.
2 Chronicles 25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what
shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of
Israel? And the man of God answered, Jehovah is able to give thee
much more than this.
2 Chronicles 25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army
that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore
their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned
home in fierce anger.
2 Chronicles 25:11 And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his
people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote of the children of
Seir ten thousand.
2 Chronicles 25:12 And [other] ten thousand did the children of
Judah carry away alive, and brought them unto the top of the rock,
and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were
broken in pieces.
2 Chronicles 25:13 But the men of the army whom 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 of them three
thousand, and took much spoil.
2 Chronicles 25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was
come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of
the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down
himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
2 Chronicles 25:15 Wherefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled
against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him,
Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which have not
delivered their own people out of thy hand?
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that
[the king] said unto him, Have we made thee 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.
2 Chronicles 25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and
sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel,
saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
2 Chronicles 25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and
there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
2 Chronicles 25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and
thy heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest
thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and
Judah with thee?
2 Chronicles 25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God,
that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because
they had sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:21 So Joash 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.
2 Chronicles 25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel;
and they fled every man to his tent.
2 Chronicles 25:23 And Joash 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 unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Chronicles 25:24 And [he took] all the gold and 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.
2 Chronicles 25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
2 Chronicles 25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and
last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel?
2 Chronicles 25:27 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away
from following Jehovah they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish,
and slew him there.
2 Chronicles 25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried
him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
2 Chronicles 26
2 Chronicles 26:1 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was
sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father
Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept with his fathers.
2 Chronicles 26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to
reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 26:4 And he did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2 Chronicles 26:5 And he set himself to seek God in the days of
Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long
as he sought Jehovah, God made him to prosper.
2 Chronicles 26:6 And he went forth and warred against the
Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh,
and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of]
Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles 26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and
against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
2 Chronicles 26:8 And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and
his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he waxed
exceeding strong.
2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the
corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall],
and fortified them.
2 Chronicles 26:10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed
out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in
the plain: [and he had] husbandmen and vinedressers in the
mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.
2 Chronicles 26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men,
that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their
reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under
the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2 Chronicles 26:12 The whole number of the heads of fathers'
[houses], even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six
hundred.
2 Chronicles 26:13 And under their hand was an army, three
hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made
war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
2 Chronicles 26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the
host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows,
and stones for slinging.
2 Chronicles 26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by
skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the battlements, wherewith
to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for
he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up,
so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God;
for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar
of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and
with him fourscore priests of Jehovah, that were valiant men:
2 Chronicles 26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said
unto him, It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto
Jehovah, 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 honor from Jehovah God.
2 Chronicles 26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in
his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the
leprosy brake forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of
Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests,
looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and
they thrust him out quickly from thence; yea, himself hasted also to
go out, because Jehovah had smitten him.
2 Chronicles 26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of
his death, and dwelt in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut
off from the house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son was over the
king's house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last,
did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
2 Chronicles 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried
him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the
kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his
stead.
2 Chronicles 27
2 Chronicles 27:1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
2 Chronicles 27:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he
entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet
corruptly.
2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah,
and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
2 Chronicles 27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of
Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
2 Chronicles 27:5 He fought also with the king of the children of
Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon
gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand
measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the
children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in
the third.
2 Chronicles 27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his
ways before Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his
wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles 27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 28
2 Chronicles 28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that
which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father;
2 Chronicles 28:2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,
and made also molten images for the Baalim.
2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the
abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the
children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chronicles 28:5 Wherefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the
hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of
his a great multitude of 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.
2 Chronicles 28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a
hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men;
because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew
Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and
Elkanah that was next to the king.
2 Chronicles 28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of
their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters,
and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:9 But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name
was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria,
and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand,
and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up to heaven.
2 Chronicles 28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children
of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but]
are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah
your God?
2 Chronicles 28:11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the
captives, that ye have taken captive of your brethren; for the fierce
wrath of Jehovah is upon you.
2 Chronicles 28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of
Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son
of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
2 Chronicles 28:13 and said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the
captives hither: for ye purpose that which will bring upon us a
trespass against Jehovah, to add unto our sins and to our trespass; for
our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil
before the princes and all the assembly.
2 Chronicles 28:15 And the men that have been mentioned 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,
unto their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of
Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles 28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten
Judah, and carried away captives.
2 Chronicles 28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the
lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and
Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns thereof, and Timnah
with the towns thereof, Gimzo also and the towns thereof: and they
dwelt there.
2 Chronicles 28:19 For Jehovah brought Judah low because of Ahaz
king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed sore
against Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 28:20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto
him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
2 Chronicles 28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of
Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave
it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.
2 Chronicles 28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet
more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles 28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus,
which smote him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria
helped them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help
me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the
house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and
shut up the doors of the house of Jehovah; and he made him altars in
every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 28:25 And in every city of Judah he made high places
to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the
God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first
and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they brought him not into the
sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his
stead.
2 Chronicles 29
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 29:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.
2 Chronicles 29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,
opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.
2 Chronicles 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and
gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
2 Chronicles 29:5 and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites; now
sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of
your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that
which was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken
him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah,
and turned their backs.
2 Chronicles 29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and
put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-
offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah
and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to
be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and
our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
2 Chronicles 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with
Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from
us.
2 Chronicles 29:11 My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath
chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye
should be his ministers, and burn incense.
2 Chronicles 29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of
Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites;
and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son
of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and
Eden the son of Joah;
2 Chronicles 29:13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel;
and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
2 Chronicles 29:14 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei;
and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
2 Chronicles 29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified
themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king
by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 29:16 And the priests went in unto the inner part of the
house of Jehovah, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness
that they found in the temple of Jehovah into the court of the house of
Jehovah. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook
Kidron.
2 Chronicles 29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first
month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to
the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in
eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an
end.
2 Chronicles 29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within
[the palace], and said, We have cleansed all the house of Jehovah,
and the altar of burnt-offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the
table of showbread, with all the vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles 29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his
reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and
sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 29:20 Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and
gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven
rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-goats, for a sin-offering for the
kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the
priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests
received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the
rams, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the
lambs, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:23 And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-
offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands
upon them:
2 Chronicles 29:24 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-
offering with their blood upon the altar, to make atonement for all
Israel; for the king commanded [that] the burnt-offering and the sin-
offering [should be made] for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of Jehovah
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 the commandment was of Jehovah by his prophets.
2 Chronicles 29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of
David, and the priests with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-
offering upon the altar. And when the burnt-offering began, the song
of Jehovah began also, and the trumpets, together with the
instruments of David king of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:28 And all the assembly worshipped, and the
singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this [continued] until
the burnt-offering was finished.
2 Chronicles 29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the
king and all that were present with him bowed themselves and
worshipped.
2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes
commanded the Levites to sing praises unto Jehovah with the words
of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness,
and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
2 Chronicles 29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have
consecrated yourselves unto Jehovah; come near and bring sacrifices
and thank-offerings into the house of Jehovah. And the assembly
brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a
willing heart [brought] burnt-offerings.
2 Chronicles 29:32 And the number of the burnt-offerings which the
assembly brought was threescore and ten bullocks, a hundred rams,
and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt-offering to
Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred
oxen and three thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could
not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites
did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had
sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to
sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles 29:35 And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance,
with the fat of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for
every burnt-offering. So the service of the house of Jehovah was set
in order.
2 Chronicles 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people,
because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing
was done suddenly.
2 Chronicles 30
2 Chronicles 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 Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto
Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes,
and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second
month.
2 Chronicles 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the
priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had
the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and
of all the assembly.
2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation
throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should
come to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, at
Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it
is written.
2 Chronicles 30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king
and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the
commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again
unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may
return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the
kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your
brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so
that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were;
but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary,
which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that
his fierce anger may turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 30:9 For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren
and your children shall find compassion before them that led them
captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is
gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye
return unto him.
2 Chronicles 30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the
country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they
laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh
and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:12 Also upon Judah came the hand of God to give
them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the
princes by the word of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people
to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very
great assembly.
2 Chronicles 30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that
were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and
cast them into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth
[day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were
ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into
the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 30:16 And they stood in their place after their order,
according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled
the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 30:17 For there were many in the assembly that had not
sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing
the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto
Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of
Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed
themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it is written.
For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon
every one
2 Chronicles 30:19 that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the
God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the
purification of the sanctuary.
2 Chronicles 30:20 And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed
the people.
2 Chronicles 30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at
Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great
gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day,
[singing] with loud instruments unto Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the
Levites that had good understanding [in the service] of Jehovah. So
they did eat throughout the feast for the seven days, offering
sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Jehovah, the
God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep
other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
2 Chronicles 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the
assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand
sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and
ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified
themselves.
2 Chronicles 30:25 And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests
and the Levites, and all the assembly that came out of Israel, and the
sojourners that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,
rejoiced.
2 Chronicles 30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the
time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like
in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the
people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his
holy habitation, even unto heaven.
2 Chronicles 31
2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that
were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the
pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high
places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also
and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the
children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their
own cities.
2 Chronicles 31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests
and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his
service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for
peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the
gates of the camp of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 31:3 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his
substance for the burnt-offerings, [to wit], for the morning and
evening burnt-offerings, and the burnt-offerings for the sabbaths, and
for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of
Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in
Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
might give themselves to the law of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad,
the children of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new
wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the
tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
2 Chronicles 31:6 And 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 dedicated things which were consecrated unto
Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:7 In the third month they began to lay the
foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and
saw the heaps, they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the
Levites concerning the heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:10 And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of
Zadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the
oblations into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and had enough,
and have left plenty: for Jehovah hath blessed his people; and that
which is left is this great store.
2 Chronicles 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers
in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them.
2 Chronicles 31:12 And they brought in the oblations and the tithes
and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the
Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
2 Chronicles 31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and
Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and
Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah
and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and
Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
2 Chronicles 31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter
at the east [gate], was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute
the oblations of Jehovah, and the most holy things.
2 Chronicles 31:15 And under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and
Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the
priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brethren by courses, as
well to the great as to the small:
2 Chronicles 31:16 besides them that were reckoned by genealogy of
males, from three years old and upward, even every one that entered
into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their
service in their offices according to their courses;
2 Chronicles 31:17 and them that were reckoned by genealogy of the
priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old
and upward, in their offices by their courses;
2 Chronicles 31:18 and them that were reckoned by genealogy of all
their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters,
through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified
themselves in holiness.
2 Chronicles 31:19 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, that were
in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were
men that were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males
among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogy among
the Levites.
2 Chronicles 31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and
he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before
Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of
the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek
his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
2 Chronicles 32
2 Chronicles 32:1 After these things, and this faithfulness,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and
encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
2 Chronicles 32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was
come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles 32:3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty
men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city;
and they helped him.
2 Chronicles 32:4 So there was gathered much people together, and
they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the
midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and
find much water?
2 Chronicles 32:5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that
was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall
without, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made
weapons and shields in abundance.
2 Chronicles 32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and
gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the
city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Chronicles 32:7 Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor
dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with
him; for there is a greater with us than with him:
2 Chronicles 32:8 with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Jehovah
our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested
themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send
his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his
power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah
that were at Jerusalem, saying,
2 Chronicles 32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles 32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you
over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will
deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles 32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high
places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying,
Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye burn incense?
2 Chronicles 32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done
unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the
lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those
nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his
people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you
out of my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor
persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him; for no god of
any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand,
and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God
deliver you out of my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:16 And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah
God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17 He wrote also letters, to rail on Jehovah, the God
of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations
of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so
shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my hand.
2 Chronicles 32:18 And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to
affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
2 Chronicles 32:19 And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of
the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's
hands.
2 Chronicles 32:20 And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles 32:21 And Jehovah sent an angel, who cut off all the
mighty men of valor, 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 from his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
2 Chronicles 32:22 Thus Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of
Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every
side.
2 Chronicles 32:23 And many brought gifts unto Jehovah to
Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he
was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick even unto
death: and he prayed unto Jehovah; and he spake unto him, and gave
him a sign.
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to
the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there
was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for
the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so
that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and
honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for
precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of
goodly vessels;
2 Chronicles 32:28 store-houses also for the increase of grain and
new wine and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and flocks in
folds.
2 Chronicles 32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and
possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him
very much substance.
2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper
spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the
west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his
works.
2 Chronicles 32:31 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.
2 Chronicles 32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his
good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the ascent of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and
all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death.
And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 33
2 Chronicles 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast
out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah
his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim,
and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and
served them.
2 Chronicles 33:4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah,
whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 33:6 He also made his children to pass through the fire
in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used
enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had
familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight
of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he
had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Chronicles 33:8 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel
from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they
will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law
and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses.
2 Chronicles 33:9 And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom
Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:10 And Jehovah spake to Manasseh, and to his
people; but they gave no heed.
2 Chronicles 33:11 Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the
captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in
chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in distress, he besought
Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his
fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:13 And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of
him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem
into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
2 Chronicles 33:14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of
David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance
at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it
up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the
fortified cities of Judah.
2 Chronicles 33:15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol
out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the
mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out
of the city.
2 Chronicles 33:16 And he built up the altar of Jehovah, and offered
thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and
commanded Judah to serve Jehovah, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the
high places, but only unto Jehovah their God.
2 Chronicles 33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his
prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in
the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, behold, they are written
among the acts of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of
him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built
high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he
humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 33:21 Amon was twenty and two years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:22 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the
graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served
them.
2 Chronicles 33:23 And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as
Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon
trespassed more and more.
2 Chronicles 33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and put
him to death in his own house.
2 Chronicles 33:25 But the people of the land slew all them that had
conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah
his son king in his stead.
2 Chronicles 34
2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of
Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not
aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was
yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in
the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high
places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten
images.
2 Chronicles 34:4 And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in
his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he
hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the
molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and
strewed it upon the graves [of them] that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chronicles 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their
altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and
Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.
2 Chronicles 34:7 And he brake down the altars, and beat the
Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the
sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he
had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of
Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 34:9 And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and
delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which
the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of
Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all
Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:10 And they delivered it into the hand of the
workmen that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and the
workmen that wrought in the house of Jehovah gave it to mend and
repair the house;
2 Chronicles 34:11 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave
they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make
beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
2 Chronicles 34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the
overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons
of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the
Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all that were
skilful with instruments of music.
2 Chronicles 34:13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and
set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of
the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
2 Chronicles 34:14 And when they brought out the money that was
brought into the house of Jehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the book
of the law of Jehovah [given] by Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And
Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles 34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and
moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was
committed to thy servants, they are doing.
2 Chronicles 34:17 And they have emptied out the money that was
found in the house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of
the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.
2 Chronicles 34:18 And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying,
Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read
therein before the king.
2 Chronicles 34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Chronicles 34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam
the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
2 Chronicles 34:21 Go ye, inquire of Jehovah 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 Jehovah that is poured out upon
us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do
according unto all that is written in this book.
2 Chronicles 34:22 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had
commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she
dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spake to her to
that effect.
2 Chronicles 34:23 And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the
God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me,
2 Chronicles 34:24 Thus saith Jehovah, 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.
2 Chronicles 34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all
the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this
place, and it shall not be quenched.
2 Chronicles 34:26 But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to
inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the
God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard,
2 Chronicles 34:27 because thy heart was tender, and thou didst
humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this
place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself
before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have
heard thee, saith Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou
shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all
the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants
thereof. And they brought back word to the king.
2 Chronicles 34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the
elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:30 And the king went up to the house of Jehovah,
and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both 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 Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a
covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, 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 that
were written in this book.
2 Chronicles 34:32 And he caused all that were found 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.
2 Chronicles 34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out
of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made
all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their
God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God
of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 35
2 Chronicles 35:1 And Josiah kept a passover unto Jehovah in
Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the
first month.
2 Chronicles 35:2 And he set the priests in their offices, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 35:3 And he said unto the Levites that taught all Israel,
that were holy unto Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no
more be a burden upon your shoulders: now serve Jehovah your God,
and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 35:4 And prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses
by your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and
according to the writing of Solomon his son.
2 Chronicles 35:5 And stand in the holy place according to the
divisions of the fathers' houses of your brethren the children of the
people, and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the
Levites.
2 Chronicles 35:6 And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves,
and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah
by Moses.
2 Chronicles 35:7 And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of
the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover-offerings, unto
all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three
thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles 35:8 And his princes gave for a freewill-offering unto
the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah
and Jehiel, the 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.
2 Chronicles 35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his
brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the
Levites, gave unto the Levites for the passover-offerings five
thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests
stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the
king's commandment.
2 Chronicles 35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests
sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the
Levites flayed them.
2 Chronicles 35:12 And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they
might give them according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of
the children of the people, to offer unto Jehovah, as it is written in the
book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire
according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots,
and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the
children of the people.
2 Chronicles 35:14 And afterward they prepared for themselves, and
for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in
offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the
Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of
Aaron.
2 Chronicles 35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their
place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and
Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every
gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren
the Levites prepared for them.
2 Chronicles 35:16 So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the
same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the
altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept
the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days.
2 Chronicles 35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in
Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of 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.
2 Chronicles 35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was
this passover kept.
2 Chronicles 35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by
the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What
have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee
this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; and God hath
commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with]
God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
2 Chronicles 35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from
him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and
hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and
came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king
said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
2 Chronicles 35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and
put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to
Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of his
fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the
singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations
unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and,
behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good
deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Jehovah,
2 Chronicles 35:27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Chronicles 36
2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 36:2 Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:3 And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem,
and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim.
And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did
that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the
house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he
did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 36:10 And at the return of the year king
Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly
vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:11 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles 36:12 and he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah his God; he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the
prophet [speaking] from the mouth of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 36:13 And he also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened
his neck, and hardened his heart against turning unto Jehovah, the
God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the
people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the
nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:15 And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to
them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had
compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:
2 Chronicles 36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and
despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of
Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the
Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of
their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin,
old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
2 Chronicles 36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great
and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the
treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to
Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with
fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles 36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword
carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his
sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
2 Chronicles 36:21 to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: [for] as long as it
lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that
the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put
it] also in writing, saying,
2 Chronicles 36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the
kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me;
and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is
in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, Jehovah
his God be with him, and let him go up.
Ezra
Ezra 1
Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made
a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in
writing, saying,
Ezra 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the
earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath
charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra 1:3 Whosoever there is 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 Jehovah, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in
Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:4 And whosoever is left, 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, besides the freewill-offering for the house of
God which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:5 Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and
Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God
had stirred to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is in
Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:6 And all they that were round about them strengthened their
hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts,
and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
Ezra 1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house
of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of
Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
Ezra 1:8 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand
of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar,
the prince of Judah.
Ezra 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a
thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Ezra 1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four
hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
Ezra 1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand
and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of
the captivity were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Ezra 2
Ezra 2:1 Now 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 unto Babylon,
and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
Ezra 2:2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah,
Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The
number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra 2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy
and two.
Ezra 2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
Ezra 2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
Ezra 2:6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua
[and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Ezra 2:7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
four.
Ezra 2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
Ezra 2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Ezra 2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
Ezra 2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
Ezra 2:12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty
and two.
Ezra 2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
Ezra 2:14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
Ezra 2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
Ezra 2:16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
Ezra 2:17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
Ezra 2:18 The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.
Ezra 2:19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
Ezra 2:20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
Ezra 2:21 The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.
Ezra 2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
Ezra 2:23 The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.
Ezra 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
Ezra 2:25 The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
seven hundred and forty and three.
Ezra 2:26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and
one.
Ezra 2:27 The men of Michmas, a hundred twenty and two.
Ezra 2:28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
Ezra 2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
Ezra 2:30 The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six.
Ezra 2:31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred
fifty and four.
Ezra 2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
Ezra 2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred
twenty and five.
Ezra 2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Ezra 2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred
and thirty.
Ezra 2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of
Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Ezra 2:37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
Ezra 2:38 The children of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred forty and
seven.
Ezra 2:39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
Ezra 2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the
children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
Ezra 2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and
eight.
Ezra 2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the
children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and
nine.
Ezra 2:43 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of
Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Ezra 2:44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of
Padon,
Ezra 2:45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the
children of Akkub,
Ezra 2:46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the
children of Hanan,
Ezra 2:47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children
of Reaiah,
Ezra 2:48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children
of Gazzam,
Ezra 2:49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children
of Besai,
Ezra 2:50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the
children of Nephisim,
Ezra 2:51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the
children of Harhur,
Ezra 2:52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the
children of Harsha,
Ezra 2:53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children
of Temah,
Ezra 2:54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Ezra 2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai,
the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
Ezra 2:56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children
of Giddel,
Ezra 2:57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
Ezra 2:58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants,
were three hundred ninety and two.
Ezra 2:59 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-
harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their
fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Ezra 2:60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the
children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
Ezra 2:61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah,
the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of
the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their
name.
Ezra 2:62 These sought their register [among] those that were
reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they
deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
Ezra 2:63 And the governor said unto them, that they should not eat
of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and
with Thummim.
Ezra 2:64 The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand
three hundred and threescore,
Ezra 2:65 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of
whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and
they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
Ezra 2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their
mules, two hundred forty and five;
Ezra 2:67 their camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their] asses, six
thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Ezra 2:68 And some of the heads of fathers' [houses], when they
came to the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly
for the house of God to set it up in its place:
Ezra 2:69 they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work
threescore and one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds
of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
Ezra 2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people,
and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their
cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Ezra 3
Ezra 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.
Ezra 3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren
the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and
builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt-offerings thereon,
as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 3:3 And they set the altar upon its base; for fear was upon them
because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt-
offerings thereon unto Jehovah, even burnt-offerings morning and
evening.
Ezra 3:4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and
[offered] the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the
ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
Ezra 3:5 and afterward the continual burnt-offering, and [the
offerings] of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that
were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill-
offering unto Jehovah.
Ezra 3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer
burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of
Jehovah was not yet laid.
Ezra 3:7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the
carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to
them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto
Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Ezra 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of
God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest 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 have the oversight of the work of the house
of Jehovah.
Ezra 3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel
and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the
workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons
and their brethren the Levites.
Ezra 3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of
Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the
Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the
order of David king of Israel.
Ezra 3:11 And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks
unto Jehovah, [saying], For he is good, for his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a
great shout, when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the
house of Jehovah was laid.
Ezra 3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers'
[houses], the old 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:
Ezra 3:13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout
of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people
shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Ezra 4
Ezra 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard
that the children of the captivity were building a temple unto
Jehovah, the God of Israel;
Ezra 4:2 then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of
fathers' [houses], and said unto them, Let us build with you; for we
seek your God, as ye do; and we sacrifice unto him since the days of
Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.
Ezra 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of
fathers' [houses] of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with
us in building a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will
build unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of
Persia hath commanded us.
Ezra 4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the
people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
Ezra 4:5 and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their
purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of
Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4:6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his
reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and
Jerusalem.
Ezra 4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath,
Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of
Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian
[character], and set forth in the Syrian [tongue].
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter
against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra 4:9 then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the
scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the
Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the
Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
Ezra 4:10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble
Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest
[of the country] beyond the River, and so forth.
Ezra 4:11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto Artaxerxes
the king: Thy servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.
Ezra 4:12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews that came up
from thee are come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the
rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired
the foundations.
Ezra 4:13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be
builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or
toll, and in the end it will be hurtful unto the kings.
Ezra 4:14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not
meet for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and
certified the king;
Ezra 4:15 that search may be made in the book of the records of thy
fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that
this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and
that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which
cause was this city laid waste.
Ezra 4:16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded, and the
walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the
River.
Ezra 4:17 [Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the
chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their
companions that dwell in Samaria, and in the rest [of the country]
beyond the River: Peace, and so forth.
Ezra 4:18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read
before me.
Ezra 4:19 And I decreed, 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.
Ezra 4:20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who
have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute,
custom, and toll, was paid unto them.
Ezra 4:21 Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and
that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me.
Ezra 4:22 And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should
damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Ezra 4:23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read
before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they
went in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by
force and power.
Ezra 4:24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at
Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius
king of Persia.
Ezra 5
Ezra 5:1 Now 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 [prophesied they] unto
them.
Ezra 5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua
the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at
Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
Ezra 5:3 At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor
beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, and
said thus unto them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and
to finish this wall?
Ezra 5:4 Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the
men were that were making this building.
Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews,
and they did not make them cease, till the matter should come to
Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
Ezra 5:6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond
the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the
Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the
king;
Ezra 5:7 they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: Unto
Darius the king, all peace.
Ezra 5:8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province
of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great
stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goeth on with
diligence and prospereth in their hands.
Ezra 5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who
gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
Ezra 5:10 We asked them their names also, to certify thee, that we
might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
Ezra 5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the
servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house
that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel
builded and finished.
Ezra 5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven
unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the
people away into Babylon.
Ezra 5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the
king made a decree to build this house of God.
Ezra 5:14 And the gold and silver vessels also of the house of God,
which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem,
and brought 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;
Ezra 5:15 and he said unto him, Take these vessels, go, put them in
the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in
its place.
Ezra 5:16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations
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 completed.
Ezra 5:17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be
search made in the king's treasure-house, which is there at Babylon,
whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build
this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to
us concerning this matter.
Ezra 6
Ezra 6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made
in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in
Babylon.
Ezra 6:2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in
the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a
record:
Ezra 6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a
decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be
builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations
thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the
breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Ezra 6:4 with three courses of great stones, and a course of new
timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.
Ezra 6:5 And also let the gold 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 its place; and
thou shalt put them in the house of God.
Ezra 6:6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River,
Shethar-bozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are
beyond the River, be ye far from thence:
Ezra 6:7 let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of
the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its
place.
Ezra 6:8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to these elders
of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's
goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with
all diligence unto these men, that they be not hindered.
Ezra 6:9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and
rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven; [also]
wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are
at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
Ezra 6:10 that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor unto the God
of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
Ezra 6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this
word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted
up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for
this:
Ezra 6:12 and the God that hath caused his name to dwell there
overthrow all kings and peoples that shall put forth their hand to alter
[the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I
Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.
Ezra 6:13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-
bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent,
did accordingly with all diligence.
Ezra 6:14 And the elders of the Jews builded and 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 decree of Cyrus, and Darius,
and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra 6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month
Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Ezra 6:16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and
the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this
house of God with joy.
Ezra 6:17 And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a
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.
Ezra 6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites
in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is
written in the book of Moses.
Ezra 6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon
the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
Ezra 6:20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves
together; all of them were pure: and they killed the passover for all
the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for
themselves.
Ezra 6:21 And the children of Israel that were come again out of the
captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from
the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah, the God of
Israel, did eat,
Ezra 6:22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
joy: for Jehovah had made them joyful, and had 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.
Ezra 7
Ezra 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,
Ezra 7:2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
Ezra 7:3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of
Meraioth,
Ezra 7:4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
Ezra 7:5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the chief priest;
Ezra 7:6 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe
in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and
the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah
his God upon him.
Ezra 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezra 7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in
the seventh year of the king.
Ezra 7:9 For upon the first [day] of the first month began he to go up
from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to
Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and
to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
Ezra 7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes
gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of
the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:
Ezra 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe
of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.
Ezra 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and
their priests and the Levites, in my realm, that are minded of their
own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Ezra 7:14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and his seven
counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to
the law of thy God which is in thy hand,
Ezra 7:15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose
habitation is in Jerusalem,
Ezra 7:16 and all the silver and gold that thou shalt 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;
Ezra 7:17 therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money
bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-
offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your
God which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 7:18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy
brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do ye after
the will of your God.
Ezra 7:19 And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the
house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
Ezra 7:20 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy
God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the
king's treasure-house.
Ezra 7:21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all
the treasurers that 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 with all diligence,
Ezra 7:22 unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures
of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of
oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Ezra 7:23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be
done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should
there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra 7:24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and
Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of
God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, upon
them.
Ezra 7:25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God that is in thy
hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people
that are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God; and
teach ye him that knoweth them not.
Ezra 7:26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the
law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all
diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to
confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra 7:27 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of our fathers, who hath put
such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of
Jehovah which is in Jerusalem;
Ezra 7:28 and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the
king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes.
And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God
upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up
with me.
Ezra 8
Ezra 8:1 Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this
is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the
reign of Artaxerxes the king:
Ezra 8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar,
Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.
Ezra 8:3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah;
and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred
and fifty.
Ezra 8:4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of
Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
Ezra 8:5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him
three hundred males.
Ezra 8:6 And of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and
with him fifty males.
Ezra 8:7 And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and
with him seventy males.
Ezra 8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of
Michael; and with him fourscore males.
Ezra 8:9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with
him two hundred and eighteen males.
Ezra 8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and
with him a hundred and threescore males.
Ezra 8:11 And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and
with him twenty and eight males.
Ezra 8:12 And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan;
and with him a hundred and ten males.
Ezra 8:13 And of the sons of Adonikam, [that were] the last; and
these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them
threescore males.
Ezra 8:14 And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with
them seventy males.
Ezra 8:15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to
Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people,
and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra 8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for
Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for
Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for
Elnathan, who were teachers.
Ezra 8:17 And I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief at the place
Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, [and] his
brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring
unto us ministers for the house of our God.
Ezra 8:18 And according to the good hand of our God upon us they
brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi,
the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren,
eighteen;
Ezra 8:19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of
Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
Ezra 8:20 and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had
given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty
Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.
Ezra 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we
might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight
way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask 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 that seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against
all them that forsake him.
Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was
entreated of us.
Ezra 8:24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
Ezra 8:25 and weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king,
and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had
offered:
Ezra 8:26 I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of
silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents;
Ezra 8:27 and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two
vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
Ezra 8:28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah, and the
vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering
unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers.
Ezra 8:29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the
chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers'
[houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of
Jehovah.
Ezra 8:30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the
silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto
the house of our God.
Ezra 8:31 Then we departed from the river 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 the lier-in-wait by the way.
Ezra 8:32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra 8:33 And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the
vessels were weighed in the house of our God into 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, the Levite;
Ezra 8:34 the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight
was written at that time.
Ezra 8:35 The children of the captivity, that were come out of exile,
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 Jehovah.
Ezra 8:36 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's
satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the
people and the house of God.
Ezra 9
Ezra 9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near
unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites,
have not separated themselves from the peoples 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.
Ezra 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and
for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the
peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been
chief in this trespass.
Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my
robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat
down confounded.
Ezra 9:4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at
the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the
captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.
Ezra 9:5 And at the evening oblation I arose up from my
humiliation, even with my garment and my robe rent; and I fell upon
my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God;
Ezra 9:6 and I 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 guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
Ezra 9:7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty
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 plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is
this day.
Ezra 9:8 And now for a little moment grace hath been showed from
Jehovah 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.
Ezra 9:9 For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in
our bondage, but hath extended lovingkindness 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 ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah
and in Jerusalem.
Ezra 9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we
have forsaken thy commandments,
Ezra 9:11 which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets,
saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land
through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their
abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their
filthiness:
Ezra 9:12 now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons,
neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or
their prosperity 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.
Ezra 9:13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and
for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less
than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,
Ezra 9:14 shall we again break thy commandments, and join in
affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not
thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there
should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Ezra 9:15 O Jehovah, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we
are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are
before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because
of this.
Ezra 10
Ezra 10:1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping
and casting himself down before the house of God, there was
gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great assembly of men
and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
Ezra 10:2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God,
and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now
there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
Ezra 10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put
away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the
counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of
our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Ezra 10:4 Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with
thee: be of good courage, and do it.
Ezra 10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the
Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this
word. So they sware.
Ezra 10:6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went
into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he
came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned
because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
Ezra 10:7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and
Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should
gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;
Ezra 10:8 and that whosoever came not within three days, according
to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should
be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the
captivity.
Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered
themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the
ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people
sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of
this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye
have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the
guilt of Israel.
Ezra 10:11 Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of
your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the
peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Ezra 10:12 Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud
voice, As thou hast said concerning us, so must we do.
Ezra 10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain,
and we are not able to stand without: neither is this a work of one day
or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
Ezra 10:14 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly,
and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women
come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and
the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from
us, until this matter be despatched.
Ezra 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of
Tikvah stood up against this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai
the Levite helped them.
Ezra 10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the
priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers'
houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat
down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Ezra 10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had married
foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Ezra 10:18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that
had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son
of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and
Gedaliah.
Ezra 10:19 And they gave their hand that they would put away their
wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their
guilt.
Ezra 10:20 And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
Ezra 10:21 And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and
Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Ezra 10:22 And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael,
Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
Ezra 10:23 And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah
(the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Ezra 10:24 And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum,
and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra 10:25 And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah,
and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and
Benaiah.
Ezra 10:26 And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and
Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
Ezra 10:27 And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah,
and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Ezra 10:28 And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai,
Athlai.
Ezra 10:29 And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and
Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
Ezra 10:30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal,
Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Ezra 10:31 And [of] the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah,
Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Ezra 10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
Ezra 10:33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad,
Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
Ezra 10:34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
Ezra 10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
Ezra 10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Ezra 10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
Ezra 10:38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Ezra 10:39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Ezra 10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Ezra 10:41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
Ezra 10:42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Ezra 10:43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina,
Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
Ezra 10:44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had
wives by whom they had children.
Nehemiah
Nehemiah 1
Nehemiah 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it
came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in
Shushan the palace,
Nehemiah 1:2 that Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain
men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had
escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of
the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach:
the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are
burned with fire.
Nehemiah 1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I
sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and
prayed before the God of heaven,
Nehemiah 1:5 and said, I beseech thee, O Jehovah, the God of
heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and
lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments:
Nehemiah 1:6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open,
that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer of thy servant, which I pray
before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy
servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we
have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned:
Nehemiah 1:7 we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have
not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances,
which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Nehemiah 1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou
commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter
you abroad among the peoples:
Nehemiah 1:9 but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments
and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the
heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto
the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
Nehemiah 1:10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom
thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
Nehemiah 1:11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive
to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who
delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this
day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was
cupbearer to the king.
Nehemiah 2
Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the
twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him,
that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been
[beforetime] sad in his presence.
Nehemiah 2:2 And 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.
Nehemiah 2:3 And I 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?
Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make
request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 2:5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if
thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me
unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
Nehemiah 2:6 And the king said unto me (the queen also sitting by
him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?
So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
Nehemiah 2:7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let
letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may
let me pass through till I come unto Judah;
Nehemiah 2:8 and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest,
that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle
which appertaineth 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.
Nehemiah 2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and
gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains
of the army and horsemen.
Nehemiah 2:10 And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for
that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of
Israel.
Nehemiah 2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Nehemiah 2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with
me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for
Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I
rode upon.
Nehemiah 2:13 And I went out by night by the valley gate, even
toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls
of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were
consumed with fire.
Nehemiah 2:14 Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's
pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah 2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed
the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so
returned.
Nehemiah 2:16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I
did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to
the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case 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.
Nehemiah 2:18 And I told them of the hand of my God which was
good upon me, as also of 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 the good [work].
Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they
laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that
ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Nehemiah 2:20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God
of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and
build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3
Nehemiah 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 Hammeah they sanctified it,
unto the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 3:2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And
next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
Nehemiah 3:3 And the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build;
they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts
thereof, and the bars thereof.
Nehemiah 3:4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of
Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam
the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. And next unto them
repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
Nehemiah 3:5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their
nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.
Nehemiah 3:6 And the old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah
and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof,
and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars
thereof.
Nehemiah 3:7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite,
and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, [that
appertained] to the throne of the governor beyond the River.
Nehemiah 3:8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah,
goldsmiths. And next unto him repaired Hananiah one of the
perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even unto the broad wall.
Nehemiah 3:9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur,
the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3:10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of
Harumaph, over against his house. And next unto him repaired
Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.
Nehemiah 3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of
Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
Nehemiah 3:12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of
Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his
daughters.
Nehemiah 3:13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants
of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts
thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the wall unto
the dung gate.
Nehemiah 3:14 And the dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of
Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem; he built it, and set
up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.
Nehemiah 3:15 And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of
Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered
it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof,
and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the
stairs that go down from the city of David.
Nehemiah 3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the
ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the
sepulchres of David, and unto the pool that was made, and unto the
house of the mighty men.
Nehemiah 3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of
Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district
of Keilah, for his district.
Nehemiah 3:18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of
Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.
Nehemiah 3:19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the
ruler of Mizpah, another portion, over against the ascent to the
armory at the turning [of the wall].
Nehemiah 3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly
repaired another portion, from the turning [of the wall] unto the door
of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Nehemiah 3:21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the
son of Hakkoz another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib
even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
Nehemiah 3:22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the
Plain.
Nehemiah 3:23 After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over
against their house. After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah
the son of Ananiah beside his own house.
Nehemiah 3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad
another portion, from the house of Azariah unto the turning [of the
wall], and unto the corner.
Nehemiah 3:25 Palal the son of Uzai [repaired] over against the
turning [of the wall], and the tower that standeth out from the upper
house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him
Pedaiah the son of Parosh [repaired].
Nehemiah 3:26 (Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, unto the place
over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that
standeth out.)
Nehemiah 3:27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over
against the great tower that standeth out, and unto the wall of Ophel.
Nehemiah 3:28 Above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one
over against his own house.
Nehemiah 3:29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over
against his own house. And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of
Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
Nehemiah 3:30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah,
and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him
repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
Nehemiah 3:31 After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths
unto the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against
the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
Nehemiah 3:32 And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep
gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Nehemiah 4
Nehemiah 4:1 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we
were building the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and
mocked the Jews.
Nehemiah 4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of
Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? 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 rubbish, seeing they are
burned?
Nehemiah 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said,
Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down
their stone wall.
Nehemiah 4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back
their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a
land of captivity;
Nehemiah 4:5 and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be
blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked [thee] to anger
before the builders.
Nehemiah 4:6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined
together unto half [the height] thereof: for the people had a mind to
work.
Nehemiah 4:7 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah,
and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that
the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the
breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;
Nehemiah 4:8 and they conspired all of them together to come and
fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
Nehemiah 4:9 But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a
watch against them day and night, because of them.
Nehemiah 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of
burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able
to build the wall.
Nehemiah 4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know,
neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and
cause the work to cease.
Nehemiah 4:12 And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt
by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must
return unto us.
Nehemiah 4:13 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space
behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their
families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles,
and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of
them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for
your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your
houses.
Nehemiah 4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it
was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought,
that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
Nehemiah 4:16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of
my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears,
the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were
behind all the house of Judah.
Nehemiah 4:17 They all builded the wall and they that bare burdens
laded themselves; every one with one of his hands wrought in the
work, and with the other held his weapon;
Nehemiah 4:18 and the builders, every one had his sword girded by
his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
Nehemiah 4:19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to
the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are
separated upon the wall, one far from another:
Nehemiah 4:20 in what place soever ye hear the sound of the
trumpet, resort ye thither unto us; our God will fight for us.
Nehemiah 4:21 So we wrought in the work: and half of them held
the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah 4:22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let
every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night
they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.
Nehemiah 4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor
the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes,
every one [went with] his weapon [to] the water.
Nehemiah 5
Nehemiah 5:1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their
wives against their brethren the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our
daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
Nehemiah 5:3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging
our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain,
because of the dearth.
Nehemiah 5:4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money
for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our
children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and
our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought
into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other
men have our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these
words.
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the
nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one
of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have
redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and
would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us?
Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye
not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the
nations our enemies?
Nehemiah 5:10 And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do
lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Nehemiah 5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their
fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the
hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the
oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah 5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will
require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I
called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do
according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5:13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out
every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not
this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the
assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did
according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5:14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be
their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto
the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve
years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that were before me were
chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides
forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the
people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 5:16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither
bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto
the work.
Nehemiah 5:17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the
rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those that came unto us from
among the nations that were round about us.
Nehemiah 5:18 Now that which was prepared for one day 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 I demanded not
the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this
people.
Nehemiah 5:19 Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I
have done for this people.
Nehemiah 6
Nehemiah 6:1 Now it came to pass, when it was reported to
Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and unto the rest
of our enemies, that I had builded the wall, and that there was no
breach left therein; (though even unto that time I had not set up the
doors in the gates;)
Nehemiah 6:2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying,
Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of
Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
Nehemiah 6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing
a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work
cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Nehemiah 6:4 And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I
answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah 6:5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like
manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
Nehemiah 6:6 wherein was written, It is reported among the nations,
and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which
cause thou art building the wall: and thou wouldest be their king,
according to these words.
Nehemiah 6:7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of
thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it
be reported to the king according to these words. Come now
therefore, and let us take counsel together.
Nehemiah 6:8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things
done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Nehemiah 6:9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their
hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now,
[O God], strengthen thou my hands.
Nehemiah 6:10 And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of
Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, 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.
Nehemiah 6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is
there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life?
I will not go in.
Nehemiah 6:12 And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but
he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat
had hired him.
Nehemiah 6:13 For this cause 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.
Nehemiah 6:14 Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat
according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and
the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
Nehemiah 6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day]
of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days.
Nehemiah 6:16 And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard
[thereof], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were
much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work
was wrought of our God.
Nehemiah 6:17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent
many letters unto Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came unto them.
Nehemiah 6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him,
because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his
son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of
Berechiah to wife.
Nehemiah 6:19 Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and
reported my words to him. [And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in
fear.
Nehemiah 7
Nehemiah 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,
Nehemiah 7:2 that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the
governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful
man, and feared God above many.
Nehemiah 7:3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem
be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], let
them shut the doors, and bar ye them: and appoint watches of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one [to
be] over against his house.
Nehemiah 7:4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were
few therein, and the houses were not builded.
Nehemiah 7:5 And my God put into my heart to gather together the
nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by
genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came
up at the first, and I found written therein:
Nehemiah 7:6 These are the children of the province, that went up
out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and that
returned unto Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
Nehemiah 7:7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah,
Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai,
Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Nehemiah 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and
seventy and two.
Nehemiah 7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy
and two.
Nehemiah 7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
Nehemiah 7:11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of
Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred [and] eighteen.
Nehemiah 7:12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty
and four.
Nehemiah 7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah 7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and
threescore.
Nehemiah 7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah 7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah 7:17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred
twenty and two.
Nehemiah 7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore
and seven.
Nehemiah 7:19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and
seven.
Nehemiah 7:20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
Nehemiah 7:21 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
Nehemiah 7:22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and
eight.
Nehemiah 7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and
four.
Nehemiah 7:24 The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.
Nehemiah 7:25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.
Nehemiah 7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred
fourscore and eight.
Nehemiah 7:27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah 7:28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.
Nehemiah 7:29 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
seven hundred forty and three.
Nehemiah 7:30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty
and one.
Nehemiah 7:31 The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty and
two.
Nehemiah 7:32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and
three.
Nehemiah 7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
Nehemiah 7:34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.
Nehemiah 7:35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
Nehemiah 7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah 7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred
twenty and one.
Nehemiah 7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred
and thirty.
Nehemiah 7:39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of
Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Nehemiah 7:40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
Nehemiah 7:41 The children of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred
forty and seven.
Nehemiah 7:42 The children of Harim, a thousand [and] seventeen.
Nehemiah 7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of
the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Nehemiah 7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred forty
and eight.
Nehemiah 7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of
Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of
Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred thirty and eight.
Nehemiah 7:46 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of
Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Nehemiah 7:47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the
children of Padon,
Nehemiah 7:48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the
children of Salmai,
Nehemiah 7:49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the
children of Gahar,
Nehemiah 7:50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the
children of Nekoda,
Nehemiah 7:51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the
children of Paseah.
Nehemiah 7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the
children of Nephushesim,
Nehemiah 7:53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the
children of Harhur,
Nehemiah 7:54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the
children of Harsha,
Nehemiah 7:55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the
children of Temah,
Nehemiah 7:56 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Nehemiah 7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of
Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
Nehemiah 7:58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the
children of Giddel,
Nehemiah 7:59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.
Nehemiah 7:60 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's
servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
Nehemiah 7:61 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah,
Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show
their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Nehemiah 7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the
children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Nehemiah 7:63 And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the
children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the
daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
Nehemiah 7:64 These sought their register [among] those that were
reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they
deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
Nehemiah 7:65 And the governor said unto them, that they should
not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim
and Thummim.
Nehemiah 7:66 The whole assembly together was forty and two
thousand three hundred and threescore,
Nehemiah 7:67 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants,
of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven:
and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing
women.
Nehemiah 7:68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their
mules, two hundred forty and five;
Nehemiah 7:69 [their] camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their]
asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Nehemiah 7:70 And some from among the heads of fathers' [houses]
gave unto the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand
darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
Nehemiah 7:71 And some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into
the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two
thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
Nehemiah 7:72 And that which the rest of the people gave was
twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver,
and threescore and seven priests' garments.
Nehemiah 7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and
the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel,
dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month was come, the
children of Israel were in their cities.
Nehemiah 8
Nehemiah 8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as
one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they
spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses,
which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah 8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the
assembly, both men and women, and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
Nehemiah 8:3 And he read therein before the broad place that was
before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the
presence of the men and the women, and of those that could
understand; and the ears of all the people were [attentive] unto the
book of the law.
Nehemiah 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood,
which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and
Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and
Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah,
[and] Meshullam.
Nehemiah 8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the
people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all
the people stood up:
Nehemiah 8:6 and Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God. And all the
people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: and
they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to
the ground.
Nehemiah 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan,
Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and
the people [stood] in their place.
Nehemiah 8:8 And they read in the book, in the law of God,
distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the
reading.
Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the
priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all
the people, This day is holy unto Jehovah your God; mourn not, nor
weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat,
and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is
prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for
the joy of Jehovah is your strength.
Nehemiah 8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold
your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
Nehemiah 8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to
drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they
had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Nehemiah 8:13 And on the second day were gathered together the
heads of fathers' [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the
Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of
the law.
Nehemiah 8:14 And they found written in the law, how that Jehovah
had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in
booths in the feast of the seventh month;
Nehemiah 8:15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their
cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch
olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and
palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is
written.
Nehemiah 8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and
made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in
their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad
place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.
Nehemiah 8:17 And all the assembly of them that were come again
out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in 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.
Nehemiah 8:18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day,
he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven
days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto
the ordinance.
Nehemiah 9
Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the
children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth,
and earth upon them.
Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all
foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of
their fathers.
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book
of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; and [another]
fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.
Nehemiah 9:4 Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua,
and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and]
Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.
Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani,
Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said,
Stand up and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting;
and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing
and praise.
Nehemiah 9:6 Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made
heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all
things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou
preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Nehemiah 9:7 Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram,
and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him
the name of Abraham,
Nehemiah 9:8 and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest
a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the
Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to
give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art
righteous.
Nehemiah 9:9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
and heardest their cry by the Red Sea,
Nehemiah 9:10 and showedst 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, and didst get thee a name, as it
is this day.
Nehemiah 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that
they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their
pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty
waters.
Nehemiah 9:12 Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by
day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way
wherein they should go.
Nehemiah 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and
spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and
true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Nehemiah 9:14 and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and
commandedst them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by
Moses thy servant,
Nehemiah 9:15 and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger,
and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst,
and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land
which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened
their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
Nehemiah 9:17 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy
wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, 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 abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not.
Nehemiah 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and
said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had
wrought great provocations;
Nehemiah 9:19 yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not
in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by
day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to
show them light, and the way wherein they should go.
Nehemiah 9:20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them,
and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them
water for their thirst.
Nehemiah 9:21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the
wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old,
and their feet swelled not.
Nehemiah 9:22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples,
which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land
of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og
king of Bashan.
Nehemiah 9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of
heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou
didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Nehemiah 9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and
thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and
the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Nehemiah 9:25 And they took fortified cities, and a fat land, and
possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, 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.
Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled
against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy
prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and
they wrought great provocations.
Nehemiah 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of
their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their
trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and
according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours who
saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
Nehemiah 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before
thee; therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that
they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried
unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and many times didst thou
deliver them according to thy mercies,
Nehemiah 9:29 and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring
them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not
unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which
if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and
hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and
testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets: yet would
they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the
peoples of the lands.
Nehemiah 9:31 Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou didst not
make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and
merciful God.
Nehemiah 9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and
the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all
the travail 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.
Nehemiah 9:33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for
thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
Nehemiah 9:34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor
our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and
thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them.
Nehemiah 9:35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and
in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their
wicked works.
Nehemiah 9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land
that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good
thereof, behold, we are servants in it.
Nehemiah 9:37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom
thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over
our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great
distress.
Nehemiah 9:38 And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and
write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal unto it.
Nehemiah 10
Nehemiah 10:1 Now those that sealed were: Nehemiah the governor,
the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
Nehemiah 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
Nehemiah 10:3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
Nehemiah 10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Nehemiah 10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Nehemiah 10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
Nehemiah 10:7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
Nehemiah 10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.
Nehemiah 10:9 And the Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah,
Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
Nehemiah 10:10 and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita,
Pelaiah, Hanan,
Nehemiah 10:11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Nehemiah 10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Nehemiah 10:13 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
Nehemiah 10:14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab,
Elam, Zattu, Bani,
Nehemiah 10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Nehemiah 10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Nehemiah 10:17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
Nehemiah 10:18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
Nehemiah 10:19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
Nehemiah 10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Nehemiah 10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
Nehemiah 10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Nehemiah 10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
Nehemiah 10:24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
Nehemiah 10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
Nehemiah 10:26 and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
Nehemiah 10:27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites,
the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated
themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their
wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one that had knowledge,
and understanding;
Nehemiah 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and
entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which
was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the
commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his
statutes;
Nehemiah 10:30 and that we would not give our daughters unto the
peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Nehemiah 10:31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any
grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the
sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year,
and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah 10:32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge
ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the
house of our God;
Nehemiah 10:33 for the showbread, and for the continual meal-
offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the sabbaths, for the
new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-
offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the
house of our God.
Nehemiah 10:34 And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the
people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God,
according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to
burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;
Nehemiah 10:35 and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the
first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the
house of Jehovah;
Nehemiah 10:36 also the first-born 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;
Nehemiah 10:37 and that we should bring the first-fruits of our
dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees,
the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the
house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for
they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah 10:38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the
Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up
the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into
the treasure-house.
Nehemiah 10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi
shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of
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.
Nehemiah 11
Nehemiah 11:1 And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: the
rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in
Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men that willingly
offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 11:3 Now these are the chiefs 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 Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
Nehemiah 11:4 And in 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 Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
Nehemiah 11:5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of
Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib,
the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
Nehemiah 11:6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were
four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Nehemiah 11:7 And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of
Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah,
the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.
Nehemiah 11:8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty
and eight.
Nehemiah 11:9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and
Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.
Nehemiah 11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
Nehemiah 11:11 Seraiah 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,
Nehemiah 11:12 and their brethren that did the work of the house,
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
Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
Nehemiah 11:13 and his brethren, chiefs of fathers' [houses], two
hundred forty and two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of
Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
Nehemiah 11:14 and their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred
twenty and eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of
Haggedolim.
Nehemiah 11:15 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub,
the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
Nehemiah 11:16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the
Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house
of God;
Nehemiah 11:17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi,
the son of Asaph, who was the chief 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.
Nehemiah 11:18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred
fourscore and four.
Nehemiah 11:19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their
brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and
two.
Nehemiah 11:20 And the residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites,
were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
Nehemiah 11:21 But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and
Gishpa were over the Nethinim.
Nehemiah 11:22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was
Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the
son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of
the house of God.
Nehemiah 11:23 For there was a commandment from the king
concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day
required.
Nehemiah 11:24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the
children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all
matters concerning the people.
Nehemiah 11:25 And as for the villages, with their fields, some of
the children of Judah dwelt in Kiriath-arba and the towns thereof, and
in Dibon and the towns thereof, and in Jekabzeel and the villages
thereof,
Nehemiah 11:26 and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet,
Nehemiah 11:27 and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the
towns thereof,
Nehemiah 11:28 and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in the towns
thereof,
Nehemiah 11:29 and in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,
Nehemiah 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and
the fields thereof, Azekah and the towns thereof. So they encamped
from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 11:31 The children of Benjamin also [dwelt] from Geba
[onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns
thereof,
Nehemiah 11:32 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nehemiah 11:33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Nehemiah 11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
Nehemiah 11:35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
Nehemiah 11:36 And of the Levites, certain courses in Judah [were
joined] to Benjamin.
Nehemiah 12
Nehemiah 12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went
up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah,
Jeremiah, Ezra,
Nehemiah 12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
Nehemiah 12:3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
Nehemiah 12:4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,
Nehemiah 12:5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
Nehemiah 12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.
Nehemiah 12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs
of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
Nehemiah 12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving,
he and his brethren.
Nehemiah 12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brethren, were over
against them according to their offices.
Nehemiah 12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat
Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
Nehemiah 12:11 and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat
Jaddua.
Nehemiah 12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of
fathers' [houses]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah 12:13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
Nehemiah 12:14 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
Nehemiah 12:15 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
Nehemiah 12:16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
Nehemiah 12:17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
Nehemiah 12:18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
Nehemiah 12:19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
Nehemiah 12:20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
Nehemiah 12:21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
Nehemiah 12:22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada,
and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers'
[houses]; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
Nehemiah 12:23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' [houses], were
written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan
the son of Eliashib.
Nehemiah 12:24 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah,
Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over
against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the
commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
Nehemiah 12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam,
Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses
of the gates.
Nehemiah 12:26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of
Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the
governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.
Nehemiah 12:27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they
sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem,
to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and
with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
Nehemiah 12:28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves
together, both out of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the
villages of the Netophathites;
Nehemiah 12:29 also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba
and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about
Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves;
and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah 12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the
wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went
in procession; [whereof one went] on the right hand upon the wall
toward the dung gate:
Nehemiah 12:32 and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the
princes of Judah,
Nehemiah 12:33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
Nehemiah 12:34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
Nehemiah 12:35 and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets:
Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of
Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
Nehemiah 12:36 and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai,
Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical
instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before
them.
Nehemiah 12:37 And by the fountain gate, and straight before them,
they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the
wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
Nehemiah 12:38 And the other company of them that gave thanks
went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, upon
the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even unto the broad wall,
Nehemiah 12:39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate,
and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of
Hammeah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate
of the guard.
Nehemiah 12:40 So stood the two companies of them that gave
thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
Nehemiah 12:41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin,
Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
Nehemiah 12:42 and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and
Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the
singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
Nehemiah 12:43 And they offered great sacrifices that day, and
rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the
women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem
was heard even afar off.
Nehemiah 12:44 And on that day were men appointed over the
chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits,
and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the
cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites:
for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
Nehemiah 12:45 And they kept the charge of their God, and the
charge of the purification, and [so did] the singers and the porters,
according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
Nehemiah 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there
was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto
God.
Nehemiah 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the
days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as
every day required: and they set apart [that which was] for the
Levites; and the Levites set apart [that which was] for the sons of
Aaron.
Nehemiah 13
Nehemiah 13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the
audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an
Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God
for ever,
Nehemiah 13:2 because they met not the children of Israel with
bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them:
howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nehemiah 13:3 And it came to pass, when they had heard the law,
that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
Nehemiah 13:4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was
appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied
unto Tobiah,
Nehemiah 13:5 had prepared for him a great chamber, where
aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the
vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which
were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the
porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.
Nehemiah 13:6 But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in
the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went unto
the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,
Nehemiah 13:7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that
Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the
courts of the house of God.
Nehemiah 13:8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the
household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
Nehemiah 13:9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers:
and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the
meal-offerings and the frankincense.
Nehemiah 13:10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had
not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, that did the
work, were fled every one to his field.
Nehemiah 13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is
the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set
them in their place.
Nehemiah 13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the
new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
Nehemiah 13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries,
Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites,
Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of
Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to
distribute unto their brethren.
Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and
wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my
God, and for the observances thereof.
Nehemiah 13:15 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading
wine-presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading
asses [therewith]; 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.
Nehemiah 13:16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought
in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the sabbath unto the
children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said
unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath
day?
Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God
bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more
wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:19 And it came to pass that, when the gates of
Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the
doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened
till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates,
that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah 13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares
lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
Nehemiah 13:21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them,
Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on
you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should
purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to
sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also,
and spare me according to the greatness of thy lovingkindness.
Nehemiah 13:23 In those days also saw I the Jews that had married
women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Nehemiah 13:24 and their children spake half in the speech of
Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to
the language of each people.
Nehemiah 13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and
smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them
swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their
sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things?
yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was
beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel:
nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
Nehemiah 13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great
evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
Nehemiah 13:28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib
the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I
chased him from me.
Nehemiah 13:29 Remember them, O my God, because they have
defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the
Levites.
Nehemiah 13:30 Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and
appointed charges for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his
work;
Nehemiah 13:31 and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and
for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
Esther
Esther 1
Esther 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is
Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a
hundred and seven and twenty provinces),
Esther 1:2 that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the
throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
Esther 1:3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his
princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles
and princes of the provinces, being before him;
Esther 1:4 when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and
the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and
fourscore days.
Esther 1:5 And when these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast
unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both great
and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
Esther 1:6 [There were hangings of] white [cloth], [of] green, and
[of] blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings
and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, upon a
pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.
Esther 1:7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold (the vessels
being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance,
according to the bounty of the king.
Esther 1:8 And the drinking was according to the law; none could
compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house,
that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther 1:9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the
royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
Esther 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was
merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha,
and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that
ministered in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Esther 1:11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown
royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair
to look on.
Esther 1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's
commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very
wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther 1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times,
(for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment;
Esther 1:14 and the next unto him were Carshena, Shethar,
Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven
princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in
the kingdom),
Esther 1:15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to
law, because she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by
the chamberlains?
Esther 1:16 And Memucan answered before the king and the
princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but
also to all the princes, and to all the peoples that are in all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther 1:17 For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all
women, to make their husbands contemptible 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.
Esther 1:18 And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media
who have heard of the deed of the queen say [the like] unto all the
king's princes. So [will there arise] much contempt and wrath.
Esther 1:19 If it please the king, let there go forth 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.
Esther 1:20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be
published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives
will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
Esther 1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the
king did according to the word of Memucan:
Esther 1:22 for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every
province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after
their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and
should speak according to the language of his people.
Esther 2
Esther 2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was
pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what
was decreed against her.
Esther 2:2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him,
Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
Esther 2:3 and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his
kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto
Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of
Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their
things for purification be given them;
Esther 2:4 and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead
of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Esther 2:5 There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose
name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of
Kish, a Benjamite,
Esther 2:6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the
captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah,
whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Esther 2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's
daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was
fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead,
Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
Esther 2:8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his
decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together
unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was
taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the
women.
Esther 2:9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness
of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with her
portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of
the king's house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best
place of the house of the women.
Esther 2:10 Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred;
for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
Esther 2:11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the
women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of
her.
Esther 2:12 Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in
to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the
law for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their
purifications accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh,
and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying
of the women),
Esther 2:13 then in this wise came the 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.
Esther 2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned
into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the
king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in unto the
king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called
by name.
Esther 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail
the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come
to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's
chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther
obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
Esther 2:16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house
royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh
year of his reign.
Esther 2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she
obtained favor and kindness 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.
Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and
his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the
provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the king.
Esther 2:19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second
time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
Esther 2:20 Esther had not yet made known 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.
Esther 2:21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's
gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those
that kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the
king Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:22 And the thing became known to Mordecai, who showed
it unto Esther the queen; and Esther told the king [thereof] in
Mordecai's name.
Esther 2:23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, and it was
found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in
the book of the chronicles before the king.
Esther 3
Esther 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.
Esther 3:2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate,
bowed down, and did reverence to Haman; for the king had so
commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not down, nor did
him reverence.
Esther 3:3 Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said
unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?
Esther 3:4 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and
he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether
Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a
Jew.
Esther 3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down,
nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Esther 3:6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for
they had made known to 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.
Esther 3:7 In the first month, which 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], which is the month Adar.
Esther 3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain
people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the
provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from [those of]
every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for
the king's profit to suffer them.
Esther 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they be
destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands
of those that have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into
the king's treasuries.
Esther 3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it
unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Esther 3:11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to
thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
Esther 3:12 Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on
the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that
Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors that
were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every
province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after
their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it
was sealed with the king's ring.
Esther 3:13 And letters were sent by posts into all the king's
provinces, to destroy, to slay, 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.
Esther 3:14 A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given
out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they
should be ready against that day.
Esther 3:15 The posts went forth in haste by the king's
commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.
And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan
was perplexed.
Esther 4
Esther 4:1 Now when Mordecai knew 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;
Esther 4:2 and he came even before the king's gate: for none might
enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's
commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among
the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in
sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 4:4 And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told
it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment
to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he
received it not.
Esther 4:5 Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's
chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and
charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it
was.
Esther 4:6 So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place
of the city, which was before the king's gate.
Esther 4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto
him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to
pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
Esther 4:8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree
that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show 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.
Esther 4:9 And Hathach came and told Esther the words of
Mordecai.
Esther 4:10 Then Esther spake unto Hathach, and gave him a
message unto Mordecai [saying]:
Esther 4:11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's
provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall
come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one
law for him, that he be put to death, except those 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.
Esther 4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
Esther 4:13 Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther,
Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more
than all the Jews.
Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then
will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but
thou and thy father's house will perish: and who knoweth whether
thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther 4:15 Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in
Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days,
night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so
will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I
perish, I perish.
Esther 4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that
Esther had commanded him.
Esther 5
Esther 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 entrance of the house.
Esther 5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen
standing in the court, that she obtained favor 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.
Esther 5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen
Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be given thee even to the half
of the kingdom.
Esther 5:4 And Esther said, If it seem good unto the king, let the
king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared
for him.
Esther 5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it
may be done as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the
banquet that Esther had prepared.
Esther 5:6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine,
What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy
request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Esther 5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my
request is:
Esther 5:8 if I have found favor 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.
Esther 5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and glad of heart:
but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not
up nor moved for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
Esther 5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home;
and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.
Esther 5:11 And Haman recounted unto them 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.
Esther 5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no
man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but
myself; and to-morrow also am I invited by her together with the
king.
Esther 5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see
Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him,
Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning 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.
Esther 6
Esther 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.
Esther 6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of
Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those that
kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king
Ahasuerus.
Esther 6:3 And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been
bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that
ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
Esther 6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was
come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the
king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Esther 6:5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman
standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Esther 6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What
shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now
Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor
more than to myself?
Esther 6:7 And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the
king delighteth to honor,
Esther 6:8 let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear,
and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on the head of which a
crown royal is set:
Esther 6:9 and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand
of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man
therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride
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 honor.
Esther 6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the
apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai
the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou
hast spoken.
Esther 6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed
Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and
proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the
king delighteth to honor.
Esther 6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman
hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Esther 6:13 And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his
friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and
Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun
to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him,
but shalt surely fall before him.
Esther 6:14 While they were yet talking with him, came the king's
chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that
Esther had prepared.
Esther 7
Esther 7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the
queen.
Esther 7:2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at
the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall
be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the
kingdom it shall be performed.
Esther 7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found
favor 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:
Esther 7:4 for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be
slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and
bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not
have compensated for the king's damage.
Esther 7:5 Then spake the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the
queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to
do so?
Esther 7:6 And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this
wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the
queen.
Esther 7:7 And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine
[and 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.
Esther 7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the
place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch
whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen
before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth,
they covered Haman's face.
Esther 7:9 Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were
before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which
Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king,
standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him
thereon.
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had
prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther 8
Esther 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.
Esther 8:2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from
Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the
house of Haman.
Esther 8:3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down
at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of
Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the
Jews.
Esther 8:4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. So
Esther arose, and stood before the king.
Esther 8:5 And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found
favor 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 that are in all the king's provinces:
Esther 8:6 for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto
my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Esther 8:7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and
to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of
Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid
his hand upon the Jews.
Esther 8:8 Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleaseth 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.
Esther 8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the
third 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 satraps, and the governors and princes of the
provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a 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.
Esther 8:10 And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it
with the king's ring, and sent letters by post on horseback, riding on
swift steeds that were used in the king's service, bred of the stud:
Esther 8:11 wherein the king granted the Jews that 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, [their] little ones and women, and to take the
spoil of them for a prey,
Esther 8:12 upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,
[namely], upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the
month Adar.
Esther 8:13 A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given
out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, and that the
Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their
enemies.
Esther 8:14 So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used
in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the
king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the
palace.
Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king
in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold,
and with a robe of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan
shouted and was glad.
Esther 8:16 The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.
Esther 8:17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever
the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness
and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples
of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon
them.
Esther 9
Esther 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, which 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, on the day that the enemies
of the Jews hoped to have rule over them, (whereas it was turned to
the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them,)
Esther 9:2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities
throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on
such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the
fear of them was fallen upon all the peoples.
Esther 9:3 And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and
the governors, and they that did the king's business, helped the Jews;
because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon them.
Esther 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame
went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed
greater and greater.
Esther 9:5 And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of
the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they
would unto them that hated them.
Esther 9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed
five hundred men.
Esther 9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Esther 9:8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
Esther 9:9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha,
Esther 9:10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's
enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
Esther 9:11 On that day the number of those that were slain in
Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther 9:12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have
slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the
ten sons of Haman; what then 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.
Esther 9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to
the Jews that 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.
Esther 9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree
was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
Esther 9:15 And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves
together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three
hundred men in Shushan; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
Esther 9:16 And 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 them that hated them seventy and
five thousand; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
Esther 9:17 [This was done] on the thirteenth day of the month Adar;
and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day
of feasting and gladness.
Esther 9:18 But the Jews that were in 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.
Esther 9:19 Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the
unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day
of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions
one to another.
Esther 9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto
all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both
nigh and far,
Esther 9:21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day
of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
Esther 9:22 as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their
enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to
gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make
them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to
another, and gifts to the poor.
Esther 9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
Mordecai had written unto them;
Esther 9:24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,
the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy
them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to
destroy them;
Esther 9:25 but when [the matter] came before the king, he
commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised
against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and
his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther 9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name
of Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that
which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come
unto them,
Esther 9:27 the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their
seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so that it
should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the
writing thereof, and according to the appointed time thereof, every
year;
Esther 9:28 and that these days should be remembered and kept
throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every
city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the
Jews, nor the remembrance of them perish from their seed.
Esther 9:29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and
Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second
letter of Purim.
Esther 9:30 And he sent letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred
twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with]
words of peace and truth,
Esther 9:31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times,
according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined
them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in
the matter of the fastings and their cry.
Esther 9:32 And the commandment of Esther confirmed these
matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Esther 10
Esther 10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and
upon the isles of the sea.
Esther 10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the
full account 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?
Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus,
and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his
brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his
seed.
Job
Job 1
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job;
and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and
turned away from evil.
Job 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three
daughters.
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three
thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred
she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the
greatest of all the children of the east.
Job 1:4 And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one
upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and
to drink with them.
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone
about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the
morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of
them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and
renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job 1:6 Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came
to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among
them.
Job 1:7 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then
Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
Job 1:8 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an
upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.
Job 1:9 Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God
for nought?
Job 1:10 Hast not thou made a 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.
Job 1:11 But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and
he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 1:12 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in
thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went
forth from the presence of Jehovah.
Job 1:13 And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were
eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job 1:14 that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen
were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
Job 1:15 and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away: yea,
they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and
said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the
sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped
alone to tell thee.
Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and
said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and
have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of
the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and
said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in
their eldest brother's house;
Job 1:19 and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness,
and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young
men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and
fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;
Job 1:21 and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and
naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken
away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.
Job 1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job 2
Job 2:1 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came
to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among
them to present himself before Jehovah.
Job 2:2 And Jehovah said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?
And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job 2:3 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an
upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and
he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against
him, to destroy him without cause.
Job 2:4 And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all
that a man hath will he give for his life.
Job 2:5 But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh,
and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 2:6 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only
spare his life.
Job 2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote
Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and
he sat among the ashes.
Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine
integrity? renounce God, and die.
Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish
women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God,
and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Job 2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was
come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the
Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and
they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to
comfort him.
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him
not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his
robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Job 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and
seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his
grief was very great.
Job 3
Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2 And Job answered and said:
Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which
said, There is a man-child conceived.
Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it,
Neither let the light shine upon it.
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
Job 3:6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not
rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number
of the months.
Job 3:7 Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse
up leviathan.
Job 3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for
light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
Job 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb,
Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
Job 3:11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the
ghost when my mother bare me?
Job 3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I
should suck?
Job 3:13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should
have slept; then had I been at rest,
Job 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste
places for themselves;
Job 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with
silver:
Job 3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that
never saw light.
Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the
weary are at rest.
Job 3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the
voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19 The small and the great are there: And the servant is free
from his master.
Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life
unto the bitter in soul;
Job 3:21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more
than for hid treasures;
Job 3:22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find
the grave?
Job 3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom
God hath hedged in?
Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are
poured out like water.
Job 3:25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which
I am afraid of cometh unto me.
Job 3:26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But
trouble cometh.
Job 4
Job 4:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 4:2 If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But
who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast
strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou
hast made firm the feeble knees.
Job 4:5 But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth
thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:6 Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of
thy ways thy hope?
Job 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent?
Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 4:8 According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow
trouble, reap the same.
Job 4:9 By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his
anger are they consumed.
Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And
the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of
the lioness are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And mine ear
received a whisper thereof.
Job 4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep
falleth on men,
Job 4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my
bones to shake.
Job 4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh
stood up.
Job 4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof;
A form was before mine eyes: [There was] silence, and I heard a
voice, [saying],
Job 4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be
more pure than his Maker?
Job 4:18 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels
he chargeth with folly:
Job 4:19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose
foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Job 4:20 Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They
perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and
that without wisdom.
Job 5
Job 5:1 Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of
the holy ones wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2 For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth
the silly one.
Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his
habitation.
Job 5:4 His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the
gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out
of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
Job 5:6 For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth
trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5:7 But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8 But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I
commit my cause;
Job 5:9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things
without number:
Job 5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon
the fields;
Job 5:11 So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those
that mourn are exalted to safety.
Job 5:12 He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands
cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel
of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at
noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15 But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the
needy from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16 So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore
despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his
hands make whole.
Job 5:19 He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there
shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20 In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from
the power of the sword.
Job 5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither
shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:22 At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt
thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And
the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job 5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou
shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
Job 5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine
offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock
of grain cometh in in its season.
Job 5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou
it for thy good.
Job 6
Job 6:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 6:2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity
laid in the balances!
Job 6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas:
Therefore have my words been rash.
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison
whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves
in array against me.
Job 6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox
over his fodder?
Job 6:6 Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is
there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7 My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome
food to me.
Job 6:8 Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant
[me] the thing that I long for!
Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let
loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10 And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that
spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine
end, that I should be patient?
Job 6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of
brass?
Job 6:13 Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is
driven quite from me?
Job 6:14 To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed]
from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the
channel of brooks that pass away;
Job 6:16 Which are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the
snow hideth itself:
Job 6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they
are consumed out of their place.
Job 6:18 The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside;
They go up into the waste, and perish.
Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba
waited for them.
Job 6:20 They were put to shame because they had hoped; They
came thither, and were confounded.
Job 6:21 For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Job 6:22 Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your
substance?
Job 6:23 Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me
from the hand of the oppressors?
Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to
understand wherein I have erred.
Job 6:25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof,
what doth it reprove?
Job 6:26 Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of
one that is desperate are as wind?
Job 6:27 Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make
merchandise of your friend.
Job 6:28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I
shall not lie to your face.
Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return
again, my cause is righteous.
Job 6:30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern
mischievous things?
Job 7
Job 7:1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his
days like the days of a hireling?
Job 7:2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a
hireling that looketh for his wages:
Job 7:3 So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome
nights are appointed to me.
Job 7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be
gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the
day.
Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin
closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent
without hope.
Job 7:7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no
more see good.
Job 7:8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine
eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that
goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Job 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place
know him any more.
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the
anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over
me?
Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease
my complaint;
Job 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me
through visions:
Job 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than
[these] my bones.
Job 7:16 I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for
my days are vanity.
Job 7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that
thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,
Job 7:18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try
him every moment?
Job 7:19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me
alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of
men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden
to myself?
Job 7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take
away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou
wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 8
Job 8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall
the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
Job 8:3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert
righteousness?
Job 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath
delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
Job 8:5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy
supplication to the Almighty;
Job 8:6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake
for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job 8:7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end
would greatly increase.
Job 8:8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself
to that which their fathers have searched out:
Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our
days upon earth are a shadow);
Job 8:10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out
of their heart?
Job 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow
without water?
Job 8:12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It
withereth before any [other] herb.
Job 8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the
godless man shall perish:
Job 8:14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is
a spider's web.
Job 8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall
hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
Job 8:16 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his
garden.
Job 8:17 His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth
the place of stones.
Job 8:18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him,
[saying], I have not seen thee.
Job 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall
others spring.
Job 8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will
he uphold the evil-doers.
Job 8:21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with
shouting.
Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the
tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Job 9
Job 9:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 9:2 Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with
God?
Job 9:3 If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him
one of a thousand.
Job 9:4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath
hardened himself against him, and prospered?-
Job 9:5 [Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not,
When he overturneth them in his anger;
Job 9:6 That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof
tremble;
Job 9:7 That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up
the stars;
Job 9:8 That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the
waves of the sea;
Job 9:9 That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the
chambers of the south;
Job 9:10 That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous
things without number.
Job 9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also,
but I perceive him not.
Job 9:12 Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who
will say unto him, What doest thou?
Job 9:13 God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do
stoop under him.
Job 9:14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my
words [to reason] with him?
Job 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I
would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not
believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
Job 9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my
wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with
bitterness.
Job 9:19 If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of
justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?
Job 9:20 Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me:
Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
Job 9:22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and
the wicked.
Job 9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the
innocent.
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth
the faces of the judges thereof: If [it be] not [he], who then is it?
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they
see no good,
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that
swoopeth on the prey.
Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad]
countenance, and be of good cheer;
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
me innocent.
Job 9:29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands
never so clean;
Job 9:31 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes
shall abhor me.
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That
we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33 There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand
upon us both.
Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror
make me afraid:
Job 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in
myself.
Job 10
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my
complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me
wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou
shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel
of the wicked?
Job 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?
Job 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's
days,
Job 10:6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after
my sin,
Job 10:7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is
none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Job 10:8 Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together
round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as
clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like
cheese?
Job 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me
together with bones and sinews.
Job 10:12 Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy
visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job 10:13 Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that
this is with thee:
Job 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me
from mine iniquity.
Job 10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet
shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking
upon mine affliction.
Job 10:16 And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion;
And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest
thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
Job 10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the
womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Job 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I
may take comfort a little,
Job 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of
darkness and of the shadow of death;
Job 10:22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of
death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Job 11
Job 11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job 11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? And
should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:3 Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And
when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 11:4 For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in
thine eyes.
Job 11:5 But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against
thee,
Job 11:6 And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he
is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of
thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out
the Almighty unto perfection?
Job 11:8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than
Sheol; what canst thou know?
Job 11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader
than the sea.
Job 11:10 If he pass through, and shut up, And all unto judgment,
then who can hinder him?
Job 11:11 For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even
though he consider it not.
Job 11:12 But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born
[as] a wild ass's colt.
Job 11:13 If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands
toward him;
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not
unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.
Job 11:15 Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea,
thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Job 11:16 For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it
as waters that are passed away,
Job 11:17 And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though
there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
Job 11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; Yea, thou
shalt search [about thee], and shalt take thy rest in safety.
Job 11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;
Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have
no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
Job 12
Job 12:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with
you.
Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 12:4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who
called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a
laughing-stock.
Job 12:5 In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for
misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
Job 12:6 The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God
are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the
birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Job 12:9 Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah
hath wrought this,
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the
breath of all mankind?
Job 12:11 Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its
food?
Job 12:12 With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days
understanding.
Job 12:13 With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and
understanding.
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He
shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job 12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up;
Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the
deceiver are his.
Job 12:17 He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh
he fools.
Job 12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins
with a girdle.
Job 12:19 He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the
mighty.
Job 12:20 He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the
understanding of the elders.
Job 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of
the strong.
Job 12:22 He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth
out to light the shadow of death.
Job 12:23 He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He
enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.
Job 12:24 He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the
people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness
where there is no way.
Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them
to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 13
Job 13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], Mine ear hath heard and
understood it.
Job 13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I am not inferior
unto you.
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to
reason with God.
Job 13:4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would
be your wisdom.
Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of
my lips.
Job 13:7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully
for him?
Job 13:8 Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
Job 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one
deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
Job 13:10 He will surely reprove you If ye do secretly show
partiality.
Job 13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall
upon you?
Job 13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your
defences are defences of clay.
Job 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let
come on me what will.
Job 13:14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my
life in my hand?
Job 13:15 Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I
will maintain my ways before him.
Job 13:16 This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall
not come before him.
Job 13:17 Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in
your ears.
Job 13:18 Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I
am righteous.
Job 13:19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I
hold my peace and give up the ghost.
Job 13:20 Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide
myself from thy face:
Job 13:21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror
make me afraid.
Job 13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and
answer thou me.
Job 13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know
my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine
enemy?
Job 13:25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the
dry stubble?
Job 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me
to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
Job 13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all
my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
Job 13:28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a
garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 14
Job 14:1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of
trouble.
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth
also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And
bringest me into judgment with thee?
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months
is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:6 Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall
accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will
sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock
thereof die in the ground;
Job 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth
boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the
ghost, and where is he?
Job 14:11 [As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth
and drieth up;
Job 14:12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 14:13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou
wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest
appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my
warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Job 14:15 Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou
wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
Job 14:16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch
over my sin?
Job 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest
up mine iniquity.
Job 14:18 But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock
is removed out of its place;
Job 14:19 The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof
wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.
Job 14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou
changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they
are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job 14:22 But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him
mourneth.
Job 15
Job 15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 15:2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And
fill himself with the east wind?
Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:4 Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion
before God.
Job 15:5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest
the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine
own lips testify against thee.
Job 15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought
forth before the hills?
Job 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou
limit wisdom to thyself?
Job 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest
thou, which is not in us?
Job 15:10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
Much elder than thy father.
Job 15:11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the
word that is gentle toward thee?
Job 15:12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine
eyes flash,
Job 15:13 That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words
go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born
of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight:
Job 15:16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man
that drinketh iniquity like water!
Job 15:17 I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen
I will declare:
Job 15:18 (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have
not hid it;
Job 15:19 Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger
passed among them):
Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the
number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
Job 15:21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And
he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He
knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail
against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And
behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
Job 15:26 He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick
bosses of his bucklers;
Job 15:27 Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And
gathered fat upon his loins;
Job 15:28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no
man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up
his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.
Job 15:31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity
shall be his recompense.
Job 15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch
shall not be green.
Job 15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall
cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
Job 15:34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire
shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And
their heart prepareth deceit.
Job 16
Job 16:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye
all.
Job 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that
thou answerest?
Job 16:4 I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's
stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at
you.
Job 16:5 [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the
solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].
Job 16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I
forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate
all my company.
Job 16:8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness
[against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to
my face.
Job 16:9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath
gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes
upon me.
Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have
smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves
together against me.
Job 16:11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the
hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken
me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for
his mark.
Job 16:13 His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my
reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the
ground.
Job 16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth
upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my
horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the
shadow of death;
Job 16:17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer
is pure.
Job 16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no
[resting] -place.
Job 16:19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that
voucheth for me is on high.
Job 16:20 My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears
unto God,
Job 16:21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And
of a son of man with his neighbor!
Job 16:22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence
I shall not return.
Job 17
Job 17:1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is
[ready] for me.
Job 17:2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth
upon their provocation.
Job 17:3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is
there that will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore
shalt thou not exalt [them].
Job 17:5 He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of
his children shall fail.
Job 17:6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit
in my face.
Job 17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my
members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent
shall stir up himself against the godless.
Job 17:9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath
clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10 But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find
a wise man among you.
Job 17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the
thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12 They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is
near unto the darkness.
Job 17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch
in the darkness;
Job 17:14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the
worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
Job 17:15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall
see it?
Job 17:16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is
rest in the dust.
Job 18
Job 18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job 18:2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards
we will speak.
Job 18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become
unclean in your sight?
Job 18:4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be
forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Job 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark
of his fire shall not shine.
Job 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him
shall be put out.
Job 18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own
counsel shall cast him down.
Job 18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh
upon the toils.
Job 18:9 A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay
hold on him.
Job 18:10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in
the way.
Job 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall
chase him at his heels.
Job 18:12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be
ready at his side.
Job 18:13 The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the
first-born of death shall devour his members.
Job 18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And
he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Job 18:15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his:
Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his
branch be cut off.
Job 18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall
have no name in the street.
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased
out of the world.
Job 18:19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people,
Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Job 18:20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As
they that went before were affrighted.
Job 18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this
is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job 19
Job 19:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with
words?
Job 19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not
ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
Job 19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth
with myself.
Job 19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead
against me my reproach;
Job 19:6 Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And
hath compassed me with his net.
Job 19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for
help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set
darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from
my head.
Job 19:10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;
And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
Job 19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he
counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
Job 19:12 His troops come on together, And cast up their way
against me, And encamp round about my tent.
Job 19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine
acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Job 19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have
forgotten me.
Job 19:15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for
a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,
[Though] I entreat him with my mouth.
Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to
the children of mine own mother.
Job 19:18 Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak
against me.
Job 19:19 All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved
are turned against me.
Job 19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
For the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied
with my flesh?
Job 19:23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were
inscribed in a book!
Job 19:24 That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the
rock for ever!
Job 19:25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last
he will stand up upon the earth:
Job 19:26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then
without my flesh shall I see God;
Job 19:27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes
shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
Job 19:28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of
the matter is found in me;
Job 19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the
punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20
Job 20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job 20:2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by
reason of my haste that is in me.
Job 20:3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And
the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
Job 20:4 Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed
upon earth,
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of
the godless but for a moment?
Job 20:6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head
reach unto the clouds;
Job 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that
have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea,
he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job 20:9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither
shall his place any more behold him.
Job 20:10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his
hands shall give back his wealth.
Job 20:11 His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with
him in the dust.
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he
hide it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still
within his mouth;
Job 20:14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps
within him.
Job 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them
up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall
slay him.
Job 20:17 He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of
honey and butter.
Job 20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not
swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he
shall not rejoice.
Job 20:19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath
violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job 20:20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not
save aught of that wherein he delighteth.
Job 20:21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his
prosperity shall not endure.
Job 20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The
hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
Job 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the
fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he
is eating.
Job 20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass
shall strike him through.
Job 20:25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea,
the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
Job 20:26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown
[by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his
tent.
Job 20:27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall
rise up against him.
Job 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall
flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the
heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 21
Job 21:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 21:2 Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your
consolations.
Job 21:3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have
spoken, mock on.
Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not
be impatient?
Job 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your
mouth.
Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh
hold on my flesh.
Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax
mighty in power?
Job 21:8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their
offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God
upon them.
Job 21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth,
and casteth not her calf.
Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their
children dance.
Job 21:12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound
of the pipe.
Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they
go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not
the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And
what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job 21:16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the
wicked is far from me.
Job 21:17 How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That
their calamity cometh upon them? That [God] distributeth sorrows in
his anger?
Job 21:18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that
the storm carrieth away?
Job 21:19 [Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let
him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
Job 21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of
the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:21 For what careth he for his house after him, When the
number of his months is cut off?
Job 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those
that are high?
Job 21:23 One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and
quiet:
Job 21:24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is
moistened.
Job 21:25 And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth
of good.
Job 21:26 They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth
them.
Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith
ye would wrong me.
Job 21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where
is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?
Job 21:29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know
their evidences,
Job 21:30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That
they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Job 21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall
repay him what he hath done?
Job 21:32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep
watch over the tomb.
Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all
men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
Job 21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers
there remaineth [only] falsehood?
Job 22
Job 22:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is
profitable unto himself.
Job 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?
Or is it gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job 22:4 Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproveth thee, That he
entereth with thee into judgment?
Job 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to
thine iniquities.
Job 22:6 For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And
stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou
hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the
honorable man, he dwelt in it.
Job 22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the
fatherless have been broken.
Job 22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear
troubleth thee,
Job 22:11 Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of
waters cover thee.
Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height
of the stars, how high they are!
Job 22:13 And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge
through the thick darkness?
Job 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not;
And he walketh on the vault of heaven.
Job 22:15 Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have
trodden?
Job 22:16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose
foundation was poured out as a stream,
Job 22:17 Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the
Almighty do for us?
Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the
counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh
them to scorn,
Job 22:20 [Saying], Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off,
And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.
Job 22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby
good shall come unto thee.
Job 22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up
his words in thy heart.
Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If
thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Job 22:24 And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of]
Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
Job 22:25 And the Almighty will be thy treasure, And precious silver
unto thee.
Job 22:26 For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, And
shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Job 22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear
thee; And thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22:29 When they cast [thee] down, thou shalt say, [There is]
lifting up; And the humble person he will save.
Job 22:30 He will deliver [even] him that is not innocent: Yea, he
shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.
Job 23
Job 23:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 23:2 Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is
heavier than my groaning.
Job 23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come
even to his seat!
Job 23:4 I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my
mouth with arguments.
Job 23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And
understand what he would say unto me.
Job 23:6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?
Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
Job 23:7 There the upright might reason with him; So should I be
delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there]; And backward,
but I cannot perceive him;
Job 23:9 On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold
him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried
me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job 23:11 My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept,
and turned not aside.
Job 23:12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I
have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary
food.
Job 23:13 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what
his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job 23:14 For he performeth that which is appointed for me: And
many such things are with him.
Job 23:15 Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I
am afraid of him.
Job 23:16 For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath
terrified me;
Job 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did
he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Job 24
Job 24:1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do
not they that know him see his days?
Job 24:2 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take
away flocks, and feed them.
Job 24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the
widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth
all hide themselves.
Job 24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their
work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them
bread for their children.
Job 24:6 They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the
vintage of the wicked.
Job 24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no
covering in the cold.
Job 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And
embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take
a pledge of the poor;
Job 24:10 [So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being
hungry they carry the sheaves.
Job 24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread
[their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:12 From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of
the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
Job 24:13 These are of them that rebel against the light; They know
not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job 24:14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and
needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.
Job 24:16 In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves
up in the day-time; They know not the light.
Job 24:17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For
they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job 24:18 Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters;
Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the
vineyards.
Job 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth]
Sheol [those that] have sinned.
Job 24:20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly
on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall
be broken as a tree.
Job 24:21 He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not
good to the widow.
Job 24:22 Yet [God] preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth
up that hath no assurance of life.
Job 24:23 [God] giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon;
And his eyes are upon their ways.
Job 24:24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone;
Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Job 24:25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And
make my speech nothing worth?
Job 25
Job 25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his
high places.
Job 25:3 Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth
not his light arise?
Job 25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be
clean that is born of a woman?
Job 25:5 Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are
not pure in his sight:
Job 25:6 How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man,
that is a worm!
Job 26
Job 26:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job 26:2 How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast
thou saved the arm that hath no strength!
Job 26:3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And
plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Job 26:4 To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came
forth from thee?
Job 26:5 They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the
inhabitants thereof.
Job 26:6 Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no
covering.
Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth
the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud
is not rent under them.
Job 26:9 He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud
upon it.
Job 26:10 He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters,
Unto the confines of light and darkness.
Job 26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his
rebuke.
Job 26:12 He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his
understanding he smiteth through Rahab.
Job 26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath
pierced the swift serpent.
Job 26:14 Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small
a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can
understand?
Job 27
Job 27:1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the
Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:
Job 27:3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in
my nostrils);
Job 27:4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither
shall my tongue utter deceit.
Job 27:5 Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will
not put away mine integrity from me.
Job 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My
heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth
up against me be as the unrighteous.
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain,
When God taketh away his soul?
Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon
God at all times?
Job 27:11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which
is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job 27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye
become altogether vain?
Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the
heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
Job 27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his
widows shall make no lamentation.
Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment
as the clay;
Job 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the
innocent shall divide the silver.
Job 27:18 He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which
the keeper maketh.
Job 27:19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his
fathers]; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Job 27:20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him
away in the night.
Job 27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it
sweepeth him out of his place.
Job 27:22 For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain
flee out of his hand.
Job 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out
of his place.
Job 28
Job 28:1 Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which
they refine.
Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of
the stone.
Job 28:3 [Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the
furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job 28:4 He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;
They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing
to and fro.
Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it
is turned up as it were by fire.
Job 28:6 The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath
dust of gold.
Job 28:7 That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's
eye seen it:
Job 28:8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce
lion passed thereby.
Job 28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He
overturneth the mountains by the roots.
Job 28:10 He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye
seeth every precious thing.
Job 28:11 He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing
that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Job 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place
of understanding?
Job 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in
the land of the living.
Job 28:14 The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not
with me.
Job 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be
weighed for the price thereof.
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the
precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job 28:17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be
exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the
price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
Job 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of
understanding?
Job 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close
from the birds of the heavens.
Job 28:22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof
with our ears.
Job 28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the
place thereof.
Job 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under
the whole heaven;
Job 28:25 To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the
waters by measure.
Job 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the
lightning of the thunder;
Job 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea,
and searched it out.
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is
wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 29
Job 29:1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job 29:2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when
God watched over me;
Job 29:3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I
walked through darkness;
Job 29:4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of
God was upon my tent;
Job 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children
were about me;
Job 29:6 When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock
poured me out streams of oil!
Job 29:7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I
prepared my seat in the street,
Job 29:8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged
rose up and stood;
Job 29:9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on
their mouth;
Job 29:10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue
cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11 For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And
when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me:
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless
also, that had none to help him.
Job 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon
me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was
as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I
knew not I searched out.
Job 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the
prey out of his teeth.
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my
days as the sand:
Job 29:19 My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all
night upon my branch;
Job 29:20 My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my
hand.
Job 29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for
my counsel.
Job 29:22 After my words they spake not again; And my speech
distilled upon them.
Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened
their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
Job 29:24 I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the
light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a
king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
Job 30
Job 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit
me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
Job 30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry
ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
Job 30:4 They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the
broom are their food.
Job 30:5 They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry
after them as after a thief;
Job 30:6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth
and of the rocks.
Job 30:7 Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are
gathered together.
Job 30:8 [They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men;
They were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9 And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto
them.
Job 30:10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not
to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they
have cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my
feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even]
men that have no helper.
Job 30:14 As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the
ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
Job 30:15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the
wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of
affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the
[pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18 By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth
me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust
and ashes.
Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up,
and thou gazest at me.
Job 30:21 Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy
hand thou persecutest me.
Job 30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride
[upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the
house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in
his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my
soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I
waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27 My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are
come upon me.
Job 30:28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly,
and cry for help.
Job 30:29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are
burned with heat.
Job 30:31 Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe
into the voice of them that weep.
Job 31
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look
upon a virgin?
Job 31:2 For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage
from the Almighty on high?
Job 31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the
workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4 Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?
Job 31:5 If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to
deceit
Job 31:6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may
know mine integrity);
Job 31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked
after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
Job 31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce
of my field be rooted out.
Job 31:9 If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have
laid wait at my neighbor's door;
Job 31:10 Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow
down upon her.
Job 31:11 For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to
be punished by the judges:
Job 31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And
would root out all mine increase.
Job 31:13 If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my
maid-servant, When they contended with me;
Job 31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he
visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did
not one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have
caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath
not eaten thereof
Job 31:18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
Job 31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the
needy had no covering;
Job 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been
warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because
I saw my help in the gate:
Job 31:22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And
mine arm be broken from the bone.
Job 31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of
his majesty I can do nothing.
Job 31:24 If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine
gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
Job 31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And
because my hand had gotten much;
Job 31:26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon
walking in brightness,
Job 31:27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth
hath kissed my hand:
Job 31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
For I should have denied the God that is above.
Job 31:29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,
Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
Job 31:30 (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his
life with a curse);
Job 31:31 If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that
hath not been filled with his meat?
Job 31:32 (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have
opened my doors to the traveller);
Job 31:33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding
mine iniquity in my bosom,
Job 31:34 Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of
families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the
door-
Job 31:35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let
the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which
mine adversary hath written!
Job 31:36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it
unto me as a crown:
Job 31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a
prince would I go near unto him.
Job 31:38 If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof
weep together;
Job 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have
caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Job 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of
barley. The words of Job are ended.
Job 32
Job 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was
righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled,
because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled,
because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 32:4 Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were
elder than he.
Job 32:5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth
of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
Job 32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and
said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and
durst not show you mine opinion.
Job 32:7 I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should
teach wisdom.
Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty
giveth them understanding.
Job 32:9 It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that
understand justice.
Job 32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show mine
opinion.
Job 32:11 Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your
reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say.
Job 32:12 Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that
convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.
Job 32:13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may
vanquish him, not man:
Job 32:14 For he hath not directed his words against me; Neither will
I answer him with your speeches.
Job 32:15 They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a
word to say.
Job 32:16 And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they
stand still, and answer no more?
Job 32:17 I also will answer my part, I also will show mine opinion.
Job 32:18 For I am full of words; The spirit within me constraineth
me.
Job 32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like
new wine-skins it is ready to burst.
Job 32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips
and answer.
Job 32:21 Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither
will I give flattering titles unto any man.
Job 32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [Else] would my
Maker soon take me away.
Job 33
Job 33:1 Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to
all my words.
Job 33:2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue hath
spoken in my mouth.
Job 33:3 My words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart; And
that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the
Almighty giveth me life.
Job 33:5 If thou canst, answer thou me; Set [thy words] in order
before me, stand forth.
Job 33:6 Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed
out of the clay.
Job 33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall
my pressure be heavy upon thee.
Job 33:8 Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, And I have heard
the voice of [thy] words, [saying],
Job 33:9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is
there iniquity in me:
Job 33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me
for his enemy:
Job 33:11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
Job 33:12 Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For
God is greater than man.
Job 33:13 Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not
account of any of his matters?
Job 33:14 For God speaketh once, Yea twice, [though man]
regardeth it not.
Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep
falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;
Job 33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their
instruction,
Job 33:17 That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, And hide
pride from man;
Job 33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from
perishing by the sword.
Job 33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with
continual strife in his bones;
Job 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And
his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job 33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the
destroyers.
Job 33:23 If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a
thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;
Job 33:24 Then [God] is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him
from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.
Job 33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returneth to the
days of his youth.
Job 33:26 He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So
that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his
righteousness.
Job 33:27 He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and
perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:
Job 33:28 He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And
my life shall behold the light.
Job 33:29 Lo, all these things doth God work, Twice, [yea] thrice,
with a man,
Job 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be
enlightened with the light of the living.
Job 33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: Hold thy peace, and I
will speak.
Job 33:32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire
to justify thee.
Job 33:33 If not, hearken thou unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will
teach thee wisdom.
Job 34
Job 34:1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,
Job 34:2 Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that
have knowledge.
Job 34:3 For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
Job 34:4 Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among
ourselves what is good.
Job 34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away
my right:
Job 34:6 Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My
wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
Job 34:7 What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
Job 34:8 Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And
walketh with wicked men?
Job 34:9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should
delight himself with God.
Job 34:10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far
be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the
Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Job 34:11 For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause
every man to find according to his ways.
Job 34:12 Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will
the Almighty pervert justice.
Job 34:13 Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath
disposed the whole world?
Job 34:14 If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself
his spirit and his breath;
Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again
unto dust.
Job 34:16 If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: Hearken to the
voice of my words.
Job 34:17 Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou
condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?-
Job 34:18 [Him] that saith to a king, [Thou art] vile, [Or] to nobles,
[Ye are] wicked;
Job 34:19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth
the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
Job 34:20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are
shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
Job 34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all
his goings.
Job 34:22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers
of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 34:23 For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he
should go before God in judgment.
Job 34:24 He breaketh in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding
out, And setteth others in their stead.
Job 34:25 Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he
overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job 34:26 He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of
others;
Job 34:27 Because they turned aside from following him, And would
not have regard in any of his ways:
Job 34:28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him,
And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job 34:29 When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And
when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it
be done] unto a nation, or unto a man:
Job 34:30 That the godless man reign not, That there be none to
ensnare the people.
Job 34:31 For hath any said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I
will not offend [any more]:
Job 34:32 That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done
iniquity, I will do it no more?
Job 34:33 Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it?
For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.
Job 34:34 Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise
man that heareth me:
Job 34:35 Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are
without wisdom.
Job 34:36 Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his
answering like wicked men.
Job 34:37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands
among us, And multiplieth his words against God.
Job 35
Job 35:1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,
Job 35:2 Thinkest thou this to be [thy] right, [Or] sayest thou, My
righteousness is more than God's,
Job 35:3 That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee?
[And], What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
Job 35:4 I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
Job 35:5 Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies,
which are higher than thou.
Job 35:6 If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if
thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Job 35:7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what
receiveth he of thy hand?
Job 35:8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou art; And thy
righteousness [may profit] a son of man.
Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:10 But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth
songs in the night,
Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And
maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Job 35:12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, Because of the
pride of evil men.
Job 35:13 Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], Neither will the
Almighty regard it.
Job 35:14 How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not,
The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him!
Job 35:15 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, Neither
doth he greatly regard arrogance;
Job 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He
multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job 36
Job 36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
Job 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet
somewhat to say on God's behalf.
Job 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker.
Job 36:4 For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee.
Job 36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty
in strength of understanding.
Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the
afflicted [their] right.
Job 36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with
kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
Job 36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of
afflictions;
Job 36:9 Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions,
that they have behaved themselves proudly.
Job 36:10 He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth
that they return from iniquity.
Job 36:11 If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their
days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
Job 36:12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,
And they shall die without knowledge.
Job 36:13 But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry
not for help when he bindeth them.
Job 36:14 They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the
unclean.
Job 36:15 He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth
their ear in oppression.
Job 36:16 Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a
broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy
table would be full of fatness.
Job 36:17 But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment
and justice take hold [on thee].
Job 36:18 For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements;
Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
Job 36:19 Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the
forces of [thy] strength?
Job 36:20 Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their
place.
Job 36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen
rather than affliction.
Job 36:22 Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher
like unto him?
Job 36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou
hast wrought unrighteousness?
Job 36:24 Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have
sung.
Job 36:25 All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
Job 36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number
of his years is unsearchable.
Job 36:27 For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain
from his vapor,
Job 36:28 Which the skies pour down And drop upon man
abundantly.
Job 36:29 Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The
thunderings of his pavilion?
Job 36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he
covereth the bottom of the sea.
Job 36:31 For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in
abundance.
Job 36:32 He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a
charge that it strike the mark.
Job 36:33 The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also
concerning [the storm] that cometh up.
Job 37
Job 37:1 Yea, at this my heart trembleth, And is moved out of its
place.
Job 37:2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, And the sound that
goeth out of his mouth.
Job 37:3 He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his
lightening unto the ends of the earth.
Job 37:4 After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of his
majesty; And he restraineth not [the lightnings] when his voice is
heard.
Job 37:5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things
doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:6 For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to
the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.
Job 37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom
he hath made may know [it].
Job 37:8 Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Job 37:9 Out of the chamber [of the south] cometh the storm, And
cold out of the north.
Job 37:10 By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the
waters is straitened.
Job 37:11 Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth
abroad the cloud of his lightning:
Job 37:12 And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they
may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the
habitable world,
Job 37:13 Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for
lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.
Job 37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: Stand still, and consider the
wondrous works of God.
Job 37:15 Dost thou know how God layeth [his charge] upon them,
And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Job 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The
wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
Job 37:17 How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by
reason of the south [wind]?
Job 37:18 Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as
a molten mirror?
Job 37:19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; [For] we cannot set
[our speech] in order by reason of darkness.
Job 37:20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man
wish that he were swallowed up?
Job 37:21 And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies;
But the wind passeth, and cleareth them.
Job 37:22 Out of the north cometh golden splendor: God hath upon
him terrible majesty.
Job 37:23 [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is
excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will
not afflict.
Job 37:24 Men do therefore fear him: He regardeth not any that are
wise of heart.
Job 38
Job 38:1 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without
knowledge?
Job 38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of
thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:5 Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or
who stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6 Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who
laid the corner-stone thereof,
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of
God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth,
[as if] it had issued out of the womb;
Job 38:9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick
darkness a swaddling-band for it,
Job 38:10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
Job 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And
here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job 38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began],
[And] caused the dayspring to know its place;
Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the
wicked be shaken out of it?
Job 38:14 It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand
forth as a garment:
Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the
high arm is broken.
Job 38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou
walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast
thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Job 38:18 Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare,
if thou knowest it all.
Job 38:19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for
darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job 38:20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that
thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?
Job 38:21 [Doubtless], thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And
the number of thy days is great!
Job 38:22 Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou
seen the treasures of the hail,
Job 38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against
the day of battle and war?
Job 38:24 By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered
upon the earth?
Job 38:25 Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way
for the lightning of the thunder;
Job 38:26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the
wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Job 38:27 To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], And to cause
the tender grass to spring forth?
Job 38:28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of
dew?
Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of
heaven, who hath gendered it?
Job 38:30 The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And
the face of the deep is frozen.
Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the
bands of Orion?
Job 38:32 Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or
canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
Job 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou
establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Job 38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance
of waters may cover thee?
Job 38:35 Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And
say unto thee, Here we are?
Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath
given understanding to the mind?
Job 38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour
out the bottles of heaven,
Job 38:38 When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave
fast together?
Job 38:39 Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the
appetite of the young lions,
Job 38:40 When they couch in their dens, [And] abide in the covert
to lie in wait?
Job 38:41 Who provideth for the raven his prey, When his young
ones cry unto God, [And] wander for lack of food?
Job 39
Job 39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock
bring forth? [Or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Job 39:2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest
thou the time when they bring forth?
Job 39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They
cast out their pains.
Job 39:4 Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open
field; They go forth, and return not again.
Job 39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the
bonds of the swift ass,
Job 39:6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land
his dwelling-place?
Job 39:7 He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the
shoutings of the driver.
Job 39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth
after every green thing.
Job 39:9 Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide
by thy crib?
Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow?
Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job 39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt
thou leave to him thy labor?
Job 39:12 Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed,
And gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?
Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; [But] are they the
pinions and plumage of love?
Job 39:14 For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them
in the dust,
Job 39:15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the
wild beast may trample them.
Job 39:16 She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were
not hers: Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear;
Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath
he imparted to her understanding.
Job 39:18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the
horse and his rider.
Job 39:19 Hast thou given the horse [his] might? Hast thou clothed
his neck with the quivering mane?
Job 39:20 Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his
snorting is terrible.
Job 39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He
goeth out to meet the armed men.
Job 39:22 He mocketh at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither turneth
he back from the sword.
Job 39:23 The quiver rattleth against him, The flashing spear and the
javelin.
Job 39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage;
Neither believeth he that it is the voice of the trumpet.
Job 39:25 As oft as the trumpet [soundeth] he saith, Aha! And he
smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the
shouting.
Job 39:26 Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth
her wings toward the south?
Job 39:27 Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And
maketh her nest on high?
Job 39:28 On the cliff she dwelleth, and maketh her home, Upon the
point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
Job 39:29 From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it
afar off.
Job 39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: And where the slain
are, there is she.
Job 40
Job 40:1 Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said,
Job 40:2 Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that
argueth with God, let him answer it.
Job 40:3 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,
Job 40:4 Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I
lay my hand upon my mouth.
Job 40:5 Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I
will proceed no further.
Job 40:6 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 40:7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee,
and declare thou unto me.
Job 40:8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me,
that thou mayest be justified?
Job 40:9 Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with
a voice like him?
Job 40:10 Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity; And array
thyself with honor and majesty.
Job 40:11 Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon
every one that is proud, and abase him.
Job 40:12 Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And
tread down the wicked where they stand.
Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the
hidden [place].
Job 40:14 Then will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand
can save thee.
Job 40:15 Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He
eateth grass as an ox.
Job 40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the
muscles of his belly.
Job 40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs
are knit together.
Job 40:18 His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of
iron.
Job 40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God: He [only] that made
him giveth him his sword.
Job 40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the
beasts of the field do play.
Job 40:21 He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed,
and the fen.
Job 40:22 The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of
the brook compass him about.
Job 40:23 Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is
confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.
Job 40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce
through his nose with a snare?
Job 41
Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press
down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2 Canst thou put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw
through with a hook?
Job 41:3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he
speak soft words unto thee?
Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest
take him for a servant for ever?
Job 41:5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind
him for thy maidens?
Job 41:6 Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him? Will
they part him among the merchants?
Job 41:7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with
fish-spears?
Job 41:8 Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no
more.
Job 41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast
down even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he
that can stand before me?
Job 41:11 Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him?
[Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
Job 41:12 I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his
mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come
within his jaws?
Job 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth
is terror.
Job 41:15 [His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together [as
with] a close seal.
Job 41:16 One is so near to another, That no air can come between
them.
Job 41:17 They are joined one to another; They stick together, so
that they cannot be sundered.
Job 41:18 His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the
eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire
leap forth.
Job 41:20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, As of a boiling pot and
[burning] rushes.
Job 41:21 His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from
his mouth.
Job 41:22 In his neck abideth strength, And terror danceth before
him.
Job 41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm
upon him; they cannot be moved.
Job 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether
millstone.
Job 41:25 When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By
reason of consternation they are beside themselves.
Job 41:26 If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the
spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
Job 41:27 He counteth iron as straw, [And] brass as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned
with him into stubble.
Job 41:29 Clubs are counted as stubble: He laugheth at the rushing of
the javelin.
Job 41:30 His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds: He spreadeth [as
it were] a threshing-wain upon the mire.
Job 41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea
like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the
deep to be hoary.
Job 41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, That is made without fear.
Job 41:34 He beholdeth everything that is high: He is king over all
the sons of pride.
Job 42
Job 42:1 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,
Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of
thine can be restrained.
Job 42:3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too
wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Job 42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of
thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 42:5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine
eye seeth thee:
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
Job 42:7 And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words
unto Job, Jehovah 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.
Job 42:8 Now therefore, take unto you 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,
that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me
the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar
the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded
them: and Jehovah accepted Job.
Job 42:10 And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed
for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his
sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did
eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and
comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon
him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring
of gold.
Job 42:12 So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand
camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Job 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Job 42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemimah: and the
name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-
happuch.
Job 42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the
daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their
brethren.
Job 42:16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw
his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.
Job 42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Psalms
Psalms 1
Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of
scoffers:
Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law
doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of
water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth
not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalms 1:4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the
wind driveth away.
Psalms 1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalms 1:6 For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous; But the
way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 2
Psalms 2:1 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain
thing?
Psalms 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take
counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying],
Psalms 2:3 Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their
cords from us.
Psalms 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will
have them in derision.
Psalms 2:5 Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them
in his sore displeasure:
Psalms 2:6 Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree: Jehovah said unto me, Thou art
my son; This day have I begotten thee.
Psalms 2:8 Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the nations for thine
inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Psalms 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash
them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psalms 2:10 Now therefore be wise, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye
judges of the earth.
Psalms 2:11 Serve Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
Psalms 2:12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way,
For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take
refuge in him.
Psalms 3
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
Psalms 3:1 Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are
they that rise up against me.
Psalms 3:2 Many there are that say of my soul, There is no help for
him in God. Selah
Psalms 3:3 But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; My glory and
the lifter up of my head.
Psalms 3:4 I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me
out of his holy hill. Selah
Psalms 3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for Jehovah
sustaineth me.
Psalms 3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people That
have set themselves against me round about.
Psalms 3:7 Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast
smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the
teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 3:8 Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah: Thy blessing be upon
thy people. Selah
Psalms 4
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 4:1 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness;
Thou hast set me at large [when I was] in distress: Have mercy upon
me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into
dishonor? [How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood?
Selah
Psalms 4:3 But know that Jehovah hath set apart for himself him that
is godly: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.
Psalms 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart
upon your bed, and be still. Selah
Psalms 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust
in Jehovah.
Psalms 4:6 Many there are that say, Who will show us [any] good?
Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms 4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than [they
have] when their grain and their new wine are increased.
Psalms 4:8 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou,
Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.
Psalms 5
For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 5:1 Give ear to my words, O Jehovah, Consider my
meditation.
Psalms 5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my
God; For unto thee do I pray.
Psalms 5:3 O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In
the morning will I order [my prayer] unto thee, and will keep watch.
Psalms 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
Psalms 5:5 The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all
workers of iniquity.
Psalms 5:6 Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth
the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
Psalms 5:7 But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness
will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy
temple.
Psalms 5:8 Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of
mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.
Psalms 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward
part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They
flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 5:10 Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own
counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For
they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms 5:11 But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice, Let
them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: Let them also
that love thy name be joyful in thee.
Psalms 5:12 For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt
compass him with favor as with a shield.
Psalms 6
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith.
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 6:1 O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, Neither chasten
me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 6:2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered
away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 6:3 My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how
long?
Psalms 6:4 Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy
lovingkindness' sake.
Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol
who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my
bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 6:7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old
because of all mine adversaries.
Psalms 6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For Jehovah
hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms 6:9 Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah will receive
my prayer.
Psalms 6:10 All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore
troubled: They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly.
Psalms 7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto Jehova, concerning the
words of Cush a Benjamite.
Psalms 7:1 O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me
from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
Psalms 7:2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces,
while there is none to deliver.
Psalms 7:3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be
iniquity in my hands;
Psalms 7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with
me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine
adversary;)
Psalms 7:5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let
him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust.
Selah
Psalms 7:6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against
the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast
commanded judgment.
Psalms 7:7 And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee
about; And over them return thou on high.
Psalms 7:8 Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me,
O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that
is in me.
Psalms 7:9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but
establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds
and hearts.
Psalms 7:10 My shield is with God, Who saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms 7:11 God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath
indignation every day.
Psalms 7:12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent
his bow, and made it ready.
Psalms 7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death;
He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].
Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath
conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 7:15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the
ditch which he made.
Psalms 7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his
violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalms 7:17 I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his
righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most
High.
Psalms 8
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 8:1 O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all
the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!
Psalms 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou
established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest
still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalms 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son
of man, that thou visitest him?
Psalms 8:5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And
crownest him with glory and honor.
Psalms 8:6 Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms 8:7 All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field,
Psalms 8:8 The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Psalms 8:9 O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all
the earth!
Psalms 9
For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 9:1 I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart; I
will show forth all thy marvellous works.
Psalms 9:2 I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy
name, O thou Most High.
Psalms 9:3 When mine enemies turn back, They stumble and perish
at thy presence.
Psalms 9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou
sittest in the throne judging righteously.
Psalms 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the
wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
Psalms 9:6 The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever;
And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of
them is perished.
Psalms 9:7 But Jehovah sitteth [as king] for ever: He hath prepared
his throne for judgment;
Psalms 9:8 And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will
minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
Psalms 9:9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A
high tower in times of trouble;
Psalms 9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;
For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Psalms 9:11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare
among the people his doings.
Psalms 9:12 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth
them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
Psalms 9:13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction
[which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from
the gates of death;
Psalms 9:14 That I may show forth all thy praise. In the gates of the
daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms 9:15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In
the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms 9:16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed
judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Higgaion. Selah
Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all
the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the
expectation of the poor perish for ever.
Psalms 9:19 Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail: Let the nations be
judged in thy sight.
Psalms 9:20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know
themselves to be but men. Selah
Psalms 10
Psalms 10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest
thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10:2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let
them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
Psalms 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the
covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
Psalms 10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He
will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalms 10:5 His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far
above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Psalms 10:6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all
generations I shall not be in adversity.
Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalms 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the
secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set
against the helpless.
Psalms 10:9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in
wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him
in his net.
Psalms 10:10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall
by his strong ones.
Psalms 10:11 He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his
face; he will never see it.
Psalms 10:12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not
the poor.
Psalms 10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in
his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]?
Psalms 10:14 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and
spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself]
unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil
man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Psalms 10:16 Jehovah is King for ever and ever: The nations are
perished out of his land.
Psalms 10:17 Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou
wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
Psalms 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man
who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
Psalms 11
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 11:1 In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul,
Flee [as] a bird to your mountain;
Psalms 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready
their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the
upright in heart;
Psalms 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous
do?
Psalms 11:4 Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in
heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Psalms 11:5 Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him
that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psalms 11:6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone
and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 11:7 For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteousness: The
upright shall behold his face.
Psalms 12
For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 12:1 Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth; For the
faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms 12:2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With
flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
Psalms 12:3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that
speaketh great things;
Psalms 12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our
lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Psalms 12:5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the
sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in
the safety he panteth for.
Psalms 12:6 The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in
a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.
Psalms 12:7 Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah, Thou wilt preserve
them from this generation for ever.
Psalms 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is
exalted among the sons of men.
Psalms 13
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 13:1 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever?
How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having
sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be
exalted over me?
Psalms 13:3 Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten
mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
Psalms 13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
[Lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
Psalms 13:5 But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness; My heart shall
rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms 13:6 I will sing unto Jehovah, Because he hath dealt
bountifully with me.
Psalms 14
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They
are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that
doeth good.
Psalms 14:2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of
men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after
God.
Psalms 14:3 They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat
up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Psalms 14:5 There were they in great fear; For God is in the
generation of the righteous.
Psalms 14:6 Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because
Jehovah is his refuge.
Psalms 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall
Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.
Psalms 15
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 15:1 Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall
dwell in thy holy hill?
Psalms 15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,
And speaketh truth in his heart;
Psalms 15:3 He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to
his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;
Psalms 15:4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who
honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt,
and changeth not;
Psalms 15:5 He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh
reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be
moved.
Psalms 16
Michtam of David.
Psalms 16:1 Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge.
Psalms 16:2 [O my soul], thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my
Lord: I have no good beyond thee.
Psalms 16:3 As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the
excellent in whom is all my delight.
Psalms 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for
another [god]: Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor
take their names upon my lips.
Psalms 16:5 Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my
cup: Thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I
have a goodly heritage.
Psalms 16:7 I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea,
my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.
Psalms 16:8 I have set Jehovah always before me: Because he is at
my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalms 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; My
flesh also shall dwell in safety.
Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt
thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Psalms 16:11 Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is
fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalms 17
A Prayer of David.
Psalms 17:1 Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear
unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Psalms 17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let
thine eyes look upon equity.
Psalms 17:3 Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the
night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my
mouth shall not transgress.
Psalms 17:4 As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have
kept me from the ways of the violent.
Psalms 17:5 My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not
slipped.
Psalms 17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O
God: Incline thine ear unto me, [and] hear my speech.
Psalms 17:7 Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest
by thy right hand them that take refuge [in thee ]From those that rise
up [against them].
Psalms 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the
shadow of thy wings,
Psalms 17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies,
that compass me about.
Psalms 17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth
they speak proudly.
Psalms 17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps; They set
their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.
Psalms 17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it
were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms 17:13 Arise, O Jehovah, Confront him, cast him down:
Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;
Psalms 17:14 From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the
world, whose portion is in [this] life, And whose belly thou fillest
with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest
of their substance to their babes.
Psalms 17:15 As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I
shall be satisfied, when I awake, with [beholding] thy form.
Psalms 18
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Jehovah,
who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that
Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the
hand of Saul: and he said,
Psalms 18:1 I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
Psalms 18:2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the
horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Psalms 18:3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Psalms 18:4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of
ungodliness made me afraid.
Psalms 18:5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of
death came upon me.
Psalms 18:6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my
God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him
came into his ears.
Psalms 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations
also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was
wroth.
Psalms 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out
of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick
darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared
upon the wings of the wind.
Psalms 18:11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round
about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most
High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea,
lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Psalms 18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared, And the
foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah,
At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms 18:16 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of
many waters.
Psalms 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from
them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 18:18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But
Jehovah was my stay.
Psalms 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He
delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Psalms 18:20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my
righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
Psalms 18:21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not
wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 18:22 For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not
away his statutes from me.
Psalms 18:23 I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from
mine iniquity.
Psalms 18:24 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to
my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
Psalms 18:25 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
Psalms 18:26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with
the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
Psalms 18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty
eyes thou wilt bring down.
Psalms 18:28 For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will
lighten my darkness.
Psalms 18:29 For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I
leap over a wall.
Psalms 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is
tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
Psalms 18:31 For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock,
besides our God,
Psalms 18:32 The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh
my way perfect?
Psalms 18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: And setteth me
upon my high places.
Psalms 18:34 He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do
bend a bow of brass.
Psalms 18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;
And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made
me great.
Psalms 18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet
have not slipped.
Psalms 18:37 I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them;
Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.
Psalms 18:38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able
to rise: They shall fall under my feet.
Psalms 18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:
Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Psalms 18:40 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs
unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
Psalms 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto
Jehovah, but he answered them not.
Psalms 18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind;
I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Psalms 18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the
people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I
have not known shall serve me.
Psalms 18:44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The
foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
Psalms 18:45 The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come
trembling out of their close places.
Psalms 18:46 Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted
be the God of my salvation,
Psalms 18:47 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And
subdueth peoples under me.
Psalms 18:48 He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest
me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from
the violent man.
Psalms 18:49 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah,
among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name.
Psalms 18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth
lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for
evermore.
Psalms 19
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the
firmament showeth his handiwork.
Psalms 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night
showeth knowledge.
Psalms 19:3 There is no speech nor language; Their voice is not
heard.
Psalms 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their
words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the
sun,
Psalms 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.
Psalms 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his
circuit unto the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat
thereof.
Psalms 19:7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The
testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 19:8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart:
The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 19:9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The
ordinances of Jehovah are true, [and] righteous altogether.
Psalms 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much
fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the
honeycomb.
Psalms 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: In keeping
them there is great reward.
Psalms 19:12 Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from
hidden [faults].
Psalms 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins];
Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, And I
shall be clear from great transgression.
Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my
redeemer.
Psalms 20
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 20:1 Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of
the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
Psalms 20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, And strengthen thee
out of Zion;
Psalms 20:3 Remember all thy offerings, And accept thy burnt-
sacrifice; Selah
Psalms 20:4 Grant thee thy heart's desire, And fulfil all thy counsel.
Psalms 20:5 We will triumph in thy salvation, And in the name of
our God we will set up our banners: Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions.
Psalms 20:6 Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; He will
answer him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his
right hand.
Psalms 20:7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses; But we
will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.
Psalms 20:8 They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and
stand upright.
Psalms 20:9 Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call.
Psalms 21
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 21:1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O Jehovah; And in
thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
Psalms 21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, And hast not
withholden the request of his lips. Selah
Psalms 21:3 For thou meetest him with the blessings of goodness:
Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head.
Psalms 21:4 He asked life of thee, thou gavest it him, Even length of
days for ever and ever.
Psalms 21:5 His glory is great in thy salvation: Honor and majesty
dost thou lay upon him.
Psalms 21:6 For thou makest him most blessed for ever: Thou
makest him glad with joy in thy presence.
Psalms 21:7 For the king trusteth in Jehovah; And through the
lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
Psalms 21:8 Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand
will find out those that hate thee.
Psalms 21:9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of
thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire
shall devour them.
Psalms 21:10 Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their
seed from among the children of men.
Psalms 21:11 For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a
device which they are not able to perform.
Psalms 21:12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt
make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Psalms 21:13 Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: So will we
sing and praise thy power.
Psalms 22
For the Chief Musician; set to Aijaleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of
David.
Psalms 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art
thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?
Psalms 22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not;
And in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
Israel.
Psalms 22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: They trusted, and thou didst
deliver them.
Psalms 22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: They trusted
in thee, and were not put to shame.
Psalms 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and
despised of the people.
Psalms 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out
the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
Psalms 22:8 Commit [thyself] unto Jehovah; Let him deliver him:
Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.
Psalms 22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou
didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God
since my mother bare me.
Psalms 22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; For there is
none to help.
Psalms 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of
Bashan have beset me round.
Psalms 22:13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening
and a roaring lion.
Psalms 22:14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out
of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my
tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust
of death.
Psalms 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-
doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 22:17 I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon
me.
Psalms 22:18 They part my garments among them, And upon my
vesture do they cast lots.
Psalms 22:19 But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor,
haste thee to help me.
Psalms 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the
power of the dog.
Psalms 22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth; Yea, from the horns of
the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Psalms 22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: In the midst
of the assembly will I praise thee.
Psalms 22:23 Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; All ye the seed of
Jacob, glorify him; And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psalms 22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of
the afflicted; Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he
cried unto him, he heard.
Psalms 22:25 Of thee cometh my praise in the great assembly: I will
pay my vows before them that fear him.
Psalms 22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise
Jehovah that seek after him: Let your heart live for ever.
Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto
Jehovah; And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
thee.
Psalms 22:28 For the kingdom is Jehovah's; And he is the ruler over
the nations.
Psalms 22:29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All
they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that
cannot keep his soul alive.
Psalms 22:30 A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto
the [next] generation.
Psalms 22:31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness
Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.
Psalms 23
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 23:1 Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalms 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth
me beside still waters.
Psalms 23:3 He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalms 23:4 Yea, thou 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.
Psalms 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of
mine enemies: Thou hast anointed my head with oil; My cup runneth
over.
Psalms 23:6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all
the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah for
ever.
Psalms 24
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 24:1 The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The
world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms 24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it
upon the floods.
Psalms 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who
shall stand in his holy place?
Psalms 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath
not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 24:5 He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah, And
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek after him, That
seek thy face, [even] Jacob. Selah
Psalms 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye
everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 24:8 Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty,
Jehovah mighty in battle.
Psalms 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye
everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 24:10 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, He is the
King of glory. Selah
Psalms 25
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 25:1 Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 25:2 O my God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be put to
shame; Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Psalms 25:3 Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame: They
shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without cause.
Psalms 25:4 Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths.
Psalms 25:5 Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; For thou art the
God of my salvation; For thee do I wait all the day.
Psalms 25:6 Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy
lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.
Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my
transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me,
For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.
Psalms 25:8 Good and upright is Jehovah: Therefore will he instruct
sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:9 The meek will he guide in justice; And the meek will he
teach his way.
Psalms 25:10 All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth
Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 25:11 For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Pardon mine iniquity,
for it is great.
Psalms 25:12 What man is he that feareth Jehovah? Him shall he
instruct in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit
the land.
Psalms 25:14 The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him;
And he will show them his covenant.
Psalms 25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; For he will pluck
my feet out of the net.
Psalms 25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am
desolate and afflicted.
Psalms 25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring thou
me out of my distresses.
Psalms 25:18 Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive
all my sins.
Psalms 25:19 Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they
hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 25:20 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to
shame, for I take refuge in thee.
Psalms 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait
for thee.
Psalms 25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, Out all of his troubles.
Psalms 26
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 26:1 Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine
integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
Psalms 26:2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart
and my mind.
Psalms 26:3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; And I have
walked in thy truth.
Psalms 26:4 I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go
in with dissemblers.
Psalms 26:5 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with
the wicked.
Psalms 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass
thine altar, O Jehovah;
Psalms 26:7 That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard,
And tell of all thy wondrous works.
Psalms 26:8 Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house, And the
place where thy glory dwelleth.
Psalms 26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men
of blood;
Psalms 26:10 In whose hands is wickedness, And their right hand is
full of bribes.
Psalms 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem
me, and be merciful unto me.
Psalms 26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: In the
congregations will I bless Jehovah.
Psalms 27
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 27:1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I
fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 27:2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh,
[Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:3 Though a host should encamp against me, My heart
shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be
confident.
Psalms 27:4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after;
That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To
behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 27:5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his
pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift
me up upon a rock.
Psalms 27:6 And now shall my head be lifted up above mine
enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices
of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto Jehovah.
Psalms 27:7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have
mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalms 27:8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; My heart said
unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.
Psalms 27:9 Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in
anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
Psalms 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then
Jehovah will take me up.
Psalms 27:11 Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; And lead me in a plain
path, Because of mine enemies.
Psalms 27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries:
For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out
cruelty.
Psalms 27:13 [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the
goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.
Psalms 27:14 Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take
courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.
Psalms 28
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 28:1 Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou
deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that
go down into the pit.
Psalms 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto
thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the
workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But
mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms 28:4 Give them according to their work, and according to the
wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their
hands; Render to them their desert.
Psalms 28:5 Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the
operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them
up.
Psalms 28:6 Blessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of
my supplications.
Psalms 28:7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath
trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
And with my song will I praise him.
Psalms 28:8 Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of
salvation to his anointed.
Psalms 28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their
shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
Psalms 29
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 29:1 Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe
unto Jehovah glory and strength.
Psalms 29:2 Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name;
Worship Jehovah in holy array.
Psalms 29:3 The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: The God of
glory thundereth, Even Jehovah upon many waters.
Psalms 29:4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful; The voice of Jehovah
is full of majesty.
Psalms 29:5 The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah
breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalms 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and
Sirion like a young wild-ox.
Psalms 29:7 The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire.
Psalms 29:8 The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah
shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms 29:9 The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And
strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory.
Psalms 29:10 Jehovah sat [as King] at the Flood; Yea, Jehovah
sitteth as King for ever.
Psalms 29:11 Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah
will bless his people with peace.
Psalms 30
A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. [A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 30:1 I will extol thee, O Jehovah; for thou hast raised me up,
And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Psalms 30:2 O Jehovah my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast
healed me.
Psalms 30:3 O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol;
Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms 30:4 Sing praise unto Jehovah, O ye saints of his, And give
thanks to his holy memorial [name].
Psalms 30:5 For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-
time: Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy [cometh] in the
morning.
Psalms 30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be
moved.
Psalms 30:7 Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to
stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
Psalms 30:8 I cried to thee, O Jehovah; And unto Jehovah I made
supplication:
Psalms 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the
pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Psalms 30:10 Hear, O Jehovah, and have mercy upon me: Jehovah,
be thou my helper.
Psalms 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing;
Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Psalms 30:12 To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and
not be silent. O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks unto thee for
ever.
Psalms 31
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 31:1 In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; Let me never be
put to shame: Deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms 31:2 Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily: Be
thou to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me.
Psalms 31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy
name's sake lead me and guide me.
Psalms 31:4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for
me; For thou art my stronghold.
Psalms 31:5 Into thy hand I commend my spirit: Thou hast redeemed
me, O Jehovah, thou God of truth.
Psalms 31:6 I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in
Jehovah.
Psalms 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For
thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Psalms 31:8 And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the
enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.
Psalms 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress:
Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
Psalms 31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with
sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones
are wasted away.
Psalms 31:11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a
reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine
acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a
broken vessel.
Psalms 31:13 For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on
every side: While they took counsel together against me, They
devised to take away my life.
Psalms 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my
God.
Psalms 31:15 My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of
mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in
thy lovingkindness.
Psalms 31:17 Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have
called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in
Sheol.
Psalms 31:18 Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the
righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Psalms 31:19 Oh how great is thy goodness, Which thou hast laid up
for them that fear thee, Which thou hast wrought for them that take
refuge in thee, Before the sons of men!
Psalms 31:20 In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from
the plottings of man: Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from
the strife of tongues.
Psalms 31:21 Blessed be Jehovah; For he hath showed me his
marvellous lovingkindness in a strong city.
Psalms 31:22 As for me, 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.
Psalms 31:23 Oh love Jehovah, all ye his saints: Jehovah preserveth
the faithful, And plentifully rewardeth him that dealeth proudly.
Psalms 31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All ye that
hope in Jehovah.
Psalms 32
[A Psalm] of David. Maschil.
Psalms 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose
sin is covered.
Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not
iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalms 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through
my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My
moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah
Psalms 32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did
I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And
thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Psalms 32:6 For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a
time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters
overflow they shall not reach unto him.
Psalms 32:7 Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from
trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Selah
Psalms 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
Psalms 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no
understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them
in, [Else] they will not come near unto thee.
Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that
trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.
Psalms 32:11 Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous; And
shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Psalms 33
Psalms 33:1 Rejoice in Jehovah, O ye righteous: Praise is comely for
the upright.
Psalms 33:2 Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises
unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.
Psalms 33:3 Sing unto him a new song; Play skilfully with a loud
noise.
Psalms 33:4 For the word of Jehovah is right; And all his work is
[done] in faithfulness.
Psalms 33:5 He loveth righteousness and justice: The earth is full of
the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
Psalms 33:6 By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all
the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap:
He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
Psalms 33:8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah: Let all the inhabitants of
the world stand in awe of him.
Psalms 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it
stood fast.
Psalms 33:10 Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought;
He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Psalms 33:11 The counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever, The
thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The
people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalms 33:13 Jehovah looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the
sons of men;
Psalms 33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh forth Upon
all the inhabitants of the earth,
Psalms 33:15 He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, That
considereth all their works.
Psalms 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A
mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Psalms 33:17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he
deliver any by his great power.
Psalms 33:18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him,
Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;
Psalms 33:19 To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them
alive in famine.
Psalms 33:20 Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and
our shield.
Psalms 33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have
trusted in his holy name.
Psalms 33:22 Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us,
According as we have hoped in thee.
Psalms 34
A Psalm of David; when he changed his behavior before Abimelech,
who drove him away, and he departed.
Psalms 34:1 I will bless Jehovah at all times: His praise shall
continually be in my mouth.
Psalms 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah: The meek
shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms 34:3 Oh magnify Jehovah with me, And let us exalt his name
together.
Psalms 34:4 I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, And delivered
me from all my fears.
Psalms 34:5 They looked unto him, and were radiant; And their faces
shall never be confounded.
Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved
him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 34:7 The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that
fear him, And delivereth them.
Psalms 34:8 Oh taste and see that Jehovah is good: Blessed is the
man that taketh refuge in him.
Psalms 34:9 Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints; For there is no want to
them that fear him.
Psalms 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they
that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
Psalms 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you
the fear of Jehovah.
Psalms 34:12 What man is he that desireth life, And loveth [many]
days, that he may see good?
Psalms 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking
guile.
Psalms 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue
it.
Psalms 34:15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his
ears are [open] unto their cry.
Psalms 34:16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut
off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms 34:17 [The righteous] cried, and Jehovah heard, And
delivered them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 34:18 Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,
And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah
delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms 34:20 He keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken.
Psalms 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the
righteous shall be condemned.
Psalms 34:22 Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; And none
of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned.
Psalms 35
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 35:1 Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me:
Fight thou against them that fight against me.
Psalms 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my
help.
Psalms 35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them
that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms 35:4 Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that
seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that
devise my hurt.
Psalms 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of
Jehovah driving [them] on.
Psalms 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of
Jehovah pursuing them.
Psalms 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a
pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.
Psalms 35:8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his
net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall
therein.
Psalms 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah: It shall rejoice
in his salvation.
Psalms 35:10 All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee,
Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the
poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?
Psalms 35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things
that I know not.
Psalms 35:12 They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of
my soul.
Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned
into mine own bosom.
Psalms 35:14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or
my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his
mother.
Psalms 35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together
against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon
me with their teeth.
Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul
from their destructions, My darling from the lions.
Psalms 35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great assembly: I will
praise thee among much people.
Psalms 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice
over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a
cause.
Psalms 35:20 For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful
words against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalms 35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms 35:22 Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O
Lord, be not far from me.
Psalms 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice [due] unto me,
[Even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 35:24 Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy
righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.
Psalms 35:25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have
it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalms 35:26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together that
rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that
magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my
righteous cause: Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified,
Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Psalms 35:28 And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness [And] of
thy praise all the day long.
Psalms 36
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Jehovah.
Psalms 36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, That his
iniquity will not be found out and be hated.
Psalms 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath
ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
Psalms 36:4 He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in
a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.
Psalms 36:5 Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens; Thy
faithfulness [reacheth] unto the skies.
Psalms 36:6 Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy
judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and
beast.
Psalms 36:7 How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the
children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of
thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures.
Psalms 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we
see light.
Psalms 36:10 Oh continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know
thee, And thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not
the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Psalms 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: They are
thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms 37
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou
envious against them that work unrighteousness.
Psalms 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And
wither as the green herb.
Psalms 37:3 Trust in Jehovah, and do good; Dwell in the land, and
feed on [his] faithfulness.
Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee
the desires of thy heart.
Psalms 37:5 Commit thy way unto Jehovah; Trust also in him, and
he will bring it to pass.
Psalms 37:6 And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the
light, And thy justice as the noon-day.
Psalms 37:7 Rest in Jehovah, 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.
Psalms 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself,
[it tendeth] only to evil-doing.
Psalms 37:9 For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for
Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.
Psalms 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea,
thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.
Psalms 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the land, And shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth
upon him with his teeth.
Psalms 37:13 The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is
coming.
Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent
their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are
upright in the way.
Psalms 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their
bows shall be broken.
Psalms 37:16 Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the
abundance of many wicked.
Psalms 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But
Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.
Psalms 37:18 Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect; And their
inheritance shall be for ever.
Psalms 37:19 They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; And
in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of
Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; In smoke
shall they consume away.
Psalms 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; But the
righteous dealeth graciously, and giveth.
Psalms 37:22 For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land;
And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.
Psalms 37:23 A man's goings are established of Jehovah; And he
delighteth in his way.
Psalms 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For
Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not
seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.
Psalms 37:26 All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth;
And his seed is blessed.
Psalms 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell for
evermore.
Psalms 37:28 For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his
saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall
be cut off.
Psalms 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein
for ever.
Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, And his
tongue speaketh justice.
Psalms 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps
shall slide.
Psalms 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to
slay him.
Psalms 37:33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn
him when he is judged.
Psalms 37:34 Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, And he will exalt
thee to inherit the land: When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading
himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought
him, but he could not be found.
Psalms 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For
there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
Psalms 37:38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together;
The end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah; He is
their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 37:40 And Jehovah helpeth them, and rescueth them; He
rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, Because they have
taken refuge in him.
Psalms 38
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
Psalms 38:1 O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten
me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth
me sore.
Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine
indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my
sin.
Psalms 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy
burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my
foolishness.
Psalms 38:6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all
the day long.
Psalms 38:7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no
soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of
the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is
not hid from thee.
Psalms 38:10 My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the
light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me];
And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate
deceits all the day long.
Psalms 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb
man that openeth not his mouth.
Psalms 38:14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose
mouth are no reproofs.
Psalms 38:15 For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O
Lord my God.
Psalms 38:16 For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot
slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 38:17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually
before me.
Psalms 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my
sin.
Psalms 38:19 But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And
they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Psalms 38:20 They also that render evil for good Are adversaries
unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
Psalms 38:21 Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far
from me.
Psalms 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Psalms 39
For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with
my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is
before me.
Psalms 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from
good; And my sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 39:3 My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the
fire burned: [Then] spake I with my tongue:
Psalms 39:4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure
of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
Psalms 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And
my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best
estate is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalms 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they
are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who
shall gather them.
Psalms 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.
Psalms 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst
it.
Psalms 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by
the blow of thy hand.
Psalms 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,
Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every
man is vanity. Selah
Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;
Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A
sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 39:13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go
hence, and be no more.
Psalms 40
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 40:1 I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me,
and heard my cry.
Psalms 40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the
miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my
goings.
Psalms 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise
unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah.
Psalms 40:4 Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psalms 40:5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works
which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They
cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of
them, They are more than can be numbered.
Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears
hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not
required.
Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is
written of me:
Psalms 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is
within my heart.
Psalms 40:9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the
great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou
knowest.
Psalms 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I
have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed
thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.
Psalms 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O
Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve
me.
Psalms 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine
iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They
are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
Psalms 40:13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to
help me, O Jehovah.
Psalms 40:14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together
That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward
and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
Psalms 40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say
unto me, Aha, aha.
Psalms 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.
Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy; [Yet] the Lord thinketh upon
me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my
God.
Psalms 41
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will
deliver him in the day of evil.
Psalms 41:2 Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he
shall be blessed upon the earth; And deliver not thou him unto the
will of his enemies.
Psalms 41:3 Jehovah will support him upon the couch of
languishing: Thou makest all his bed in his sickness.
Psalms 41:4 I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul;
for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms 41:5 Mine enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When
will he die, and his name perish?
Psalms 41:6 And if he come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; His
heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me; Against
me do they devise my hurt.
Psalms 41:8 An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him; And
now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Psalms 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who
did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psalms 41:10 But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise
me up, That I may requite them.
Psalms 41:11 By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because
mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psalms 41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,
And settest me before thy face for ever.
Psalms 41:13 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From
everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 42
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah.
Psalms 42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth
my soul after thee, O God.
Psalms 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When
shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they
continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 42:4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within
me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
Psalms 42:5 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
[For] the help of his countenance.
Psalms 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore
do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons,
from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All
thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalms 42:8 [Yet] Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the
day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, [Even] a prayer
unto the God of my life.
Psalms 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten
me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries
reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou
disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him,
[Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43
Psalms 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an
ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms 43:2 For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast
me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 43:3 Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me:
Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.
Psalms 43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my
exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
Psalms 43:5 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 help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 44
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
Psalms 44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have
told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
Psalms 44:2 Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But
them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou
didst spread abroad.
Psalms 44:3 For they gat 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 wast
favorable unto them.
Psalms 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for
Jacob.
Psalms 44:5 Through thee will we push down our adversaries:
Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Psalms 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword
save me.
Psalms 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast
put them to shame that hate us.
Psalms 44:8 In God have we made our boast all the day long, And
we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah
Psalms 44:9 But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to
dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Psalms 44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And
they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
Psalms 44:11 Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food,
And hast scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not
increased [thy wealth] by their price.
Psalms 44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A
scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A
shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44:15 All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the
shame of my face hath covered me,
Psalms 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,
By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 44:17 All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten
thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps
declined from thy way,
Psalms 44:19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread
forth our hands to a strange god;
Psalms 44:21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the
secrets of the heart.
Psalms 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not
off for ever.
Psalms 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our
affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body
cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms 44:26 Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy
lovingkindness' sake.
Psalms 45
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of the sons of
Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.
Psalms 45:1 My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the
things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of
a ready writer.
Psalms 45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men; Grace is
poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms 45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, Thy glory
and thy majesty.
Psalms 45:4 And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, Because of
truth and meekness [and] righteousness: And thy right hand shall
teach thee terrible things.
Psalms 45:5 Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee;
[They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
Psalms 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A sceptre of
equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Psalms 45:7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness:
Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness
above thy fellows.
Psalms 45:8 All thy garments [smell of] myrrh, and aloes, [and]
cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee
glad.
Psalms 45:9 Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women: At
thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Psalms 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine
ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:
Psalms 45:11 So will the king desire thy beauty; For he is thy lord;
and reverence thou him.
Psalms 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift;
The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.
Psalms 45:13 The king's daughter within [the palace] is all glorious:
Her clothing is inwrought with gold.
Psalms 45:14 She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: The
virgins her companions that follow her Shall be brought unto thee.
Psalms 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They
shall enter into the king's palace.
Psalms 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, Whom thou
shalt make princes in all the earth.
Psalms 45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all
generations: Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and
ever.
Psalms 46
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah; set to
Alamoth. A Song.
Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in
trouble.
Psalms 46:2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change,
And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;
Psalms 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though
the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah
Psalms 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city
of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Psalms 46:5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God
will help her, and that right early.
Psalms 46:6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He
uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psalms 46:7 Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our
refuge. Selah
Psalms 46:8 Come, behold the works of Jehovah, What desolations
he hath made in the earth.
Psalms 46:9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He
breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the
chariots in the fire.
Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted
among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalms 46:11 Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our
refuge. Selah
Psalms 47
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Psalms 47:1 Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples; Shout unto God
with the voice of triumph.
Psalms 47:2 For Jehovah Most High is terrible; He is a great King
over all the earth.
Psalms 47:3 He subdueth peoples under us, And nations under our
feet.
Psalms 47:4 He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob
whom he loved. Selah
Psalms 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of
a trumpet.
Psalms 47:6 Sing praise to God, sing praises: Sing praises unto our
King, sing praises.
Psalms 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with
understanding.
Psalms 47:8 God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy
throne.
Psalms 47:9 The princes of the peoples are gathered together [To be]
the people of the God of Abraham: For the shields of the earth belong
unto God; He is greatly exalted.
Psalms 48
A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Psalms 48:1 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of
our God, in his holy mountain.
Psalms 48:2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is
mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
Psalms 48:3 God hath made himself known in her palaces for a
refuge.
Psalms 48:4 For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by
together.
Psalms 48:5 They saw it, then were they amazed; They were
dismayed, they hasted away.
Psalms 48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman
in travail.
Psalms 48:7 With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
Psalms 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of
Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for
ever. Selah
Psalms 48:9 We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the
midst of thy temple.
Psalms 48:10 As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends
of the earth: Thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms 48:11 Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah
rejoice, Because of thy judgments.
Psalms 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the
towers thereof;
Psalms 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That
ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psalms 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be
our guide [even] unto death.
Psalms 49
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Psalms 49:1 Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of
the world,
Psalms 49:2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
Psalms 49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of
my heart shall be of understanding.
Psalms 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark
saying upon the harp.
Psalms 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When
iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?
Psalms 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in
the multitude of their riches;
Psalms 49:7 None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him;
Psalms 49:8 (For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth
for ever;)
Psalms 49:9 That he should still live alway, That he should not see
corruption.
Psalms 49:10 For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the
brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall
continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.
Psalms 49:12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the
beasts that perish.
Psalms 49:13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men
approve their sayings. Selah
Psalms 49:14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be
their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there
be no habitation for it.
Psalms 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol;
For he will receive me. Selah
Psalms 49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the
glory of his house is increased.
Psalms 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His
glory shall not descend after him.
Psalms 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men
praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,)
Psalms 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall
never see the light.
Psalms 49:20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the
beasts that perish.
Psalms 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 50:1 The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And
called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.
Psalms 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined
forth.
Psalms 50:3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire
devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms 50:4 He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that
he may judge his people:
Psalms 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have
made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Psalms 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For
God is judge himself. Selah
Psalms 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify unto thee: I am God, [even] thy God.
Psalms 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-
offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out
of thy folds.
Psalms 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle
upon a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild
beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is
mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of
goats?
Psalms 50:14 Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay
thy vows unto the Most High:
Psalms 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to
declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy
mouth,
Psalms 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words
behind thee?
Psalms 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him,
And hast been partaker with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth
deceit.
Psalms 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou
slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou
thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will
reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Psalms 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you
in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
Psalms 50:23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth
me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the
salvation of God.
Psalms 51
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet
came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Psalms 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot
out my transgressions.
Psalms 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse
me from my sin.
Psalms 51:3 For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever
before me.
Psalms 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that
which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou
speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.
Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did
my mother conceive me.
Psalms 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in
the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
Psalms 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me,
and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones
which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psalms 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine
iniquities.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right
spirit within me.
Psalms 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy
holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold
me with a willing spirit.
Psalms 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners
shall be converted unto thee.
Psalms 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of
my salvation; [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psalms 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show
forth thy praise.
Psalms 51:16 For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give
it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalms 51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou
the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 51:19 Then will thou delight in the sacrifices of
righteousness, In burnt-offering and in whole burnt-offering: Then
will they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalms 52
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite
came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of
Abimelech.
Psalms 52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God [endureth] continually.
Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp
razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than
to speak righteousness. Selah
Psalms 52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.
Psalms 52:5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take
thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land
of the living. Selah
Psalms 52:6 The righteous also shall see [it], and fear, And shall
laugh at him, [saying],
Psalms 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But
trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in
his wickedness.
Psalms 52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house
of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.
Psalms 52:9 I will give thee thanks for ever, because thou hast done
it; And I will hope in thy name, for it is good, in the presence of thy
saints.
Psalms 53
For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David.
Psalms 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt
are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth
good.
Psalms 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of
men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after
God.
Psalms 53:3 Every one of them is gone back; they are together
become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up
my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?
Psalms 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For
God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee:
Thou hast put them to shame, because of God hath rejected them.
Psalms 53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob
rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.
Psalms 54
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David;
when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide
himself with us?
Psalms 54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, And judge me in thy
might.
Psalms 54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; Give ear to the words of my
mouth.
Psalms 54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men
have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah
Psalms 54:4 Behold, God is my helper: The Lord is of them that
uphold my soul.
Psalms 54:5 He will requite the evil unto mine enemies: Destroy
thou them in thy truth.
Psalms 54:6 With a freewill-offering will I sacrifice unto thee: I will
give thanks unto thy name, O Jehovah, for it is good.
Psalms 54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; And mine
eye hath seen [my desire] upon mine enemies.
Psalms 55
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David.
Psalms 55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself
from my supplication.
Psalms 55:2 Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my
complaint, and moan,
Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the
oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in
anger they persecute me.
Psalms 55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of
death are fallen upon me.
Psalms 55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And
horror hath overwhelmed me.
Psalms 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would
I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms 55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the
wilderness. Selah
Psalms 55:8 I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and
tempest.
Psalms 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongue; For I have
seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
Psalms 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and
guile depart not from its streets.
Psalms 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I
could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify
himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion,
and my familiar friend.
Psalms 55:14 We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the
house of God with the throng.
Psalms 55:15 Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go
down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the
midst of them.
Psalms 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; And Jehovah will save
me.
Psalms 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I
complain, and moan; And he will hear my voice.
Psalms 55:18 He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that
was against me; For they were many [that strove] with me.
Psalms 55:19 God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth
of old, Selah [The men] who have no changes, And who fear not
God.
Psalms 55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as were at
peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
Psalms 55:21 His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was
war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain
thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of
destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half
their days; But I will trust in thee.
Psalms 56
For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of
David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.
Psalms 56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow
me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
Psalms 56:2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long;
For they are many that fight proudly against me.
Psalms 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
Psalms 56:4 In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my
trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?
Psalms 56:5 All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts
are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
Psalms 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the
peoples, O God.
Psalms 56:8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into
thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
Psalms 56:9 Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:
This I know, that God is for me.
Psalms 56:10 In God (I will praise [his] word), In Jehovah (I will
praise [his] word),
Psalms 56:11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What
can man do unto me?
Psalms 56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-
offerings unto thee.
Psalms 56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast
thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before
God In the light of the living?
Psalms 57
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. [A Psalm] of David.
Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
Psalms 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For
my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I
take refuge, Until [these] calamities be overpast.
Psalms 57:2 I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that
performeth [all things] for me.
Psalms 57:3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that
would swallow me up reproacheth; Selah God will send forth his
lovingkindness and his truth.
Psalms 57:4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on
fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And
their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [Let] thy
glory [be] above all the earth.
Psalms 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is
bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into
the midst thereof themselves. Selah
Psalms 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing,
yea, I will sing praises.
Psalms 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself
will awake right early.
Psalms 57:9 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the peoples:
I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
Psalms 57:10 For thy lovingkindness is great unto the heavens, And
thy truth unto the skies.
Psalms 57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [Let] thy
glory [be] above all the earth.
Psalms 58
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David.
Michtam.
Psalms 58:1 Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye
judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms 58:2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the
violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go
astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalms 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are]
like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
Psalms 58:5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,
Charming never so wisely.
Psalms 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the
great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Psalms 58:7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When
he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
Psalms 58:8 [Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth
away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the
sun.
Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them
away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Psalms 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the
vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
Psalms 58:11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalms 59
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David.
Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
Psalms 59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: Set me on
high from them that rise up against me.
Psalms 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me
from the bloodthirsty men.
Psalms 59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather
themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my
sin, O Jehovah.
Psalms 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault:
Awake thou to help me, and behold.
Psalms 59:5 Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Arise to visit all the nations: Be not merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Selah
Psalms 59:6 They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go
round about the city.
Psalms 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in
their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
Psalms 59:8 But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt have
all the nations in derision.
Psalms 59:9 [Because of] his strength I will give heed unto thee; For
God is my high tower.
Psalms 59:10 My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God
will let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.
Psalms 59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by
thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms 59:12 [For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their
lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying
which they speak.
Psalms 59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they
shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto
the ends of the earth. Selah
Psalms 59:14 And at evening let them return, let them howl like a
dog, And go round about the city.
Psalms 59:15 They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all
night if they be not satisfied.
Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of thy strength; Yea, I will sing aloud of
thy lovingkindness in the morning: For thou hast been my high tower,
And a refuge in the day of my distress.
Psalms 59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God
is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
Psalms 60
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David,
to teach; and when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-
zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt
twelve thousand.
Psalms 60:1 O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down;
Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
Psalms 60:2 Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it:
Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Psalms 60:3 Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast
made us to drink the wine of staggering.
Psalms 60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, That it
may be displayed because of the truth. Selah
Psalms 60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right
hand, and answer us.
Psalms 60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will
divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Psalms 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is
the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
Psalms 60:8 Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe:
Philistia, shout thou because of me.
Psalms 60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who hath led
me unto Edom?
Psalms 60:10 Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not
forth, O God, with our hosts.
Psalms 60:11 Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help
of man.
Psalms 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that
will tread down our adversaries.
Psalms 61
For the Chief Musician; on a stringed instrument. [A Psalm] of
David.
Psalms 61:1 Hear my cry, O God; Attend unto my prayer.
Psalms 61:2 From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my
heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 61:3 For thou hast been a refuge for me, A strong tower from
the enemy.
Psalms 61:4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge
in the covert of thy wings. Selah
Psalms 61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: Thou hast given
[me] the heritage of those that fear thy name.
Psalms 61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life; His years shall be as
many generations.
Psalms 61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: Oh prepare
lovingkindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
Psalms 61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, That I may
daily perform my vows.
Psalms 62
For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of
David.
Psalms 62:1 My soul waiteth in silence for God only: From him
[cometh] my salvation.
Psalms 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high
tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalms 62:3 How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay
[him], all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Psalms 62:4 They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity;
They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse
inwardly. Selah
Psalms 62:5 My soul, wait thou in silence for God only; For my
expectation is from him.
Psalms 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high
tower; I shall not be moved.
Psalms 62:7 With God is my salvation and my glory: The rock of my
strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Psalms 62:8 Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart
before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah
Psalms 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high
degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together
lighter than vanity.
Psalms 62:10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in
robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon].
Psalms 62:11 God hath spoken once, Twice have I heard this, That
power belongeth unto God.
Psalms 62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth lovingkindness; For
thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms 63
A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
Psalms 63:1 O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My
soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary
land, where no water is.
Psalms 63:2 So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy
power and thy glory.
Psalms 63:3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips
shall praise thee.
Psalms 63:4 So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands
in thy name.
Psalms 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;
And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;
Psalms 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [And] meditate on
thee in the night-watches.
Psalms 63:7 For thou hast been my help, And in the shadow of thy
wings will I rejoice.
Psalms 63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: Thy right hand
upholdeth me.
Psalms 63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into
the lower parts of the earth.
Psalms 63:10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword:
They shall be a portion for foxes.
Psalms 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that
sweareth by him shall glory; For the mouth of them that speak lies
shall be stopped.
Psalms 64
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my
life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the
tumult of the workers of iniquity;
Psalms 64:3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have
aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Psalms 64:4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect:
Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Psalms 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They
commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
Psalms 64:6 They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, [say
they], a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of
every one is deep.
Psalms 64:7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly
shall they be wounded.
Psalms 64:8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue
being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
Psalms 64:9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work
of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.
Psalms 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take
refuge in him; And all the upright in heart shall glory.
Psalms 65
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of David.
Psalms 65:1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion; And unto thee
shall the vow be performed.
Psalms 65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, Unto thee shall all flesh
come.
Psalms 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions,
thou wilt forgive them.
Psalms 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to
approach [unto thee], That he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be
satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple.
Psalms 65:5 By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness,
Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends
of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms 65:6 Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains, Being
girded about with might;
Psalms 65:7 Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their
waves, And the tumult of the peoples.
Psalms 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at
thy tokens: Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to
rejoice.
Psalms 65:9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly
enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them
grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
Psalms 65:10 Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the
ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the
springing thereof.
Psalms 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy
paths drop fatness.
Psalms 65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And
the hills are girded with joy.
Psalms 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also
are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Psalms 66
For the Chief Musician. A song, a Psalm.
Psalms 66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all the earth:
Psalms 66:2 Sing forth the glory of his name: Make his praise
glorious.
Psalms 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! Through the
greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto
thee.
Psalms 66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, And shall sing unto
thee; They shall sing to thy name. Selah
Psalms 66:5 Come, and see the works of God; [He is] terrible in his
doing toward the children of men.
Psalms 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the
river on foot: There did we rejoice in him.
Psalms 66:7 He ruleth by his might for ever; His eyes observe the
nations: Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Psalms 66:8 Oh bless our God, ye peoples, And make the voice of
his praise to be heard;
Psalms 66:9 Who holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet
to be moved.
Psalms 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as
silver is tried.
Psalms 66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; Thou layedst a sore
burden upon our loins.
Psalms 66:12 Thou didst cause men to ride over our heads; We went
through fire and through water; But thou broughtest us out into a
wealthy place.
Psalms 66:13 I will come into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will
pay thee my vows,
Psalms 66:14 Which my lips uttered, And my mouth spake, when I
was in distress.
Psalms 66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt-offerings of fatlings, With
the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah
Psalms 66:16 Come, and hear, all ye that fear God, And I will
declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms 66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, And he was extolled
with my tongue.
Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:
Psalms 66:19 But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the
voice of my prayer.
Psalms 66:20 Blessed be God, Who hath not turned away my prayer,
Nor his lovingkindness from me.
Psalms 67
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm, a song.
Psalms 67:1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us, [And] cause his
face to shine upon us; Selah
Psalms 67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy salvation
among all nations.
Psalms 67:3 Let the peoples praise thee, O God; Let all the peoples
praise thee.
Psalms 67:4 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For thou wilt
judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth.
Selah
Psalms 67:5 Let the peoples praise thee, O God; Let all the peoples
praise thee.
Psalms 67:6 The earth hath yielded its increase: God, even our own
God, will bless us.
Psalms 67:7 God will bless us; And all the ends of the earth shall
fear him.
Psalms 68
For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a song.
Psalms 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them
also that hate him flee before him.
Psalms 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax
melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of
God.
Psalms 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God:
Yea, let them rejoice with gladness.
Psalms 68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a
highway for him that rideth through the deserts; His name is Jehovah;
and exult ye before him.
Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is
God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the
prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Psalms 68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,
When thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah
Psalms 68:8 The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped [rain] at
the presence of God: Yon Sinai [trembled] at the presence of God,
the God of Israel.
Psalms 68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, Thou didst
confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Psalms 68:10 Thy congregation dwelt therein: Thou, O God, didst
prepare of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms 68:11 The Lord giveth the word: The women that publish the
tidings are a great host.
Psalms 68:12 Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at
home divideth the spoil.
Psalms 68:13 When ye lie among the sheepfolds, [It is as] the wings
of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.
Psalms 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings therein, [It was as
when] it snoweth in Zalmon.
Psalms 68:15 A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high
mountain is the mountain of Bashan.
Psalms 68:16 Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the
mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will
dwell [in it] for ever.
Psalms 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even
thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, [as in] Sinai, in
the sanctuary.
Psalms 68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led away
captives; Thou hast received gifts among men, Yea, [among] the
rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell [with them].
Psalms 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden,
Even the God who is our salvation. Selah
Psalms 68:20 God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto
Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
Psalms 68:21 But God will smite through the head of his enemies,
The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.
Psalms 68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will
bring [them] again from the depths of the sea;
Psalms 68:23 That thou mayest crush [them], [dipping] thy foot in
blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from [thine]
enemies.
Psalms 68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God, Even the goings of
my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
Psalms 68:25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
Psalms 68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, Even the Lord, [ye
that are] of the fountain of Israel.
Psalms 68:27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, The princes of
Judah [and] their council, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of
Naphtali.
Psalms 68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: Strengthen, O
God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Psalms 68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem Kings shall bring
presents unto thee.
Psalms 68:30 Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of
the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, Trampling under foot the
pieces of silver: He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.
Psalms 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to
stretch out her hands unto God.
Psalms 68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; Oh sing
praises unto the Lord; Selah
Psalms 68:33 To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens, which
are of old; Lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.
Psalms 68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: His excellency is over
Israel, And his strength is in the skies.
Psalms 68:35 O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: The
God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto [his] people.
Blessed be God.
Psalms 69
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshanim. [A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 69:1 Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my
soul.
Psalms 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am
come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms 69:3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine
eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the
hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies
wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.
Psalms 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are
not hid from thee.
Psalms 69:6 Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through
me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought
to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
Psalms 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath
covered my face.
Psalms 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien
unto my mother's children.
Psalms 69:9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the
reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms 69:10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting,
That was to my reproach.
Psalms 69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a
byword unto them.
Psalms 69:12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the
song of the drunkards.
Psalms 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an
acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness,
Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.
Psalms 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me
be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 69:15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the
deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
Psalms 69:16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is
good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto
me.
Psalms 69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in
distress; answer me speedily.
Psalms 69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me
because of mine enemies.
Psalms 69:19 Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my
dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of
heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
And for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 69:21 They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms 69:22 Let their table before them become a snare; And when
they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.
Psalms 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;
And make their loins continually to shake.
Psalms 69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the
fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
Psalms 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their
tents.
Psalms 69:26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And
they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms 69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not
come into thy righteousness.
Psalms 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be
written with the righteous.
Psalms 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God,
set me up on high.
Psalms 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, And will
magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 69:31 And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, [Or] a
bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Psalms 69:32 The meek have seen it, and are glad: Ye that seek after
God, let your heart live.
Psalms 69:33 For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his
prisoners.
Psalms 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and
everything that moveth therein.
Psalms 69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah;
And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.
Psalms 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And they
that love his name shall dwell therein.
Psalms 70
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David; to bring to
remembrance.
Psalms 70:1 [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help
me, O Jehovah.
Psalms 70:2 Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek
after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
That delight in my hurt.
Psalms 70:3 Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That
say, Aha, aha.
Psalms 70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee;
And let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
magnified.
Psalms 70:5 But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God:
Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.
Psalms 71
Psalms 71:1 In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge: Let me never be
put to shame.
Psalms 71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow
down thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms 71:3 Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may
continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For
thou art my rock and my fortress.
Psalms 71:4 Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psalms 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: [Thou art] my
trust from my youth.
Psalms 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art
he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be
continually of thee.
Psalms 71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong
refuge.
Psalms 71:8 My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, And with thy
honor all the day.
Psalms 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not
when my strength faileth.
Psalms 71:10 For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that
watch for my soul take counsel together,
Psalms 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: Pursue and take him;
for there is none to deliver.
Psalms 71:12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to
help me.
Psalms 71:13 Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are
adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and
dishonor that seek my hurt.
Psalms 71:14 But I will hope continually, And will praise thee yet
more and more.
Psalms 71:15 My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy
salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof].
Psalms 71:16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I
will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Psalms 71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And
hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Psalms 71:18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God,
forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next]
generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
Psalms 71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou
who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?
Psalms 71:20 Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles,
Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of
the earth.
Psalms 71:21 Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and
comfort me.
Psalms 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [Even] thy
truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou
Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 71:23 My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto
thee; And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalms 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the
day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that
seek my hurt
Psalms 72
. [A Psalm] of Solomon.
Psalms 72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, And thy
righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalms 72:2 He will judge thy people with righteousness, And thy
poor with justice.
Psalms 72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the
hills, in righteousness.
Psalms 72:4 He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the
children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalms 72:5 They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, And so long
as the moon, throughout all generations.
Psalms 72:6 He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As
showers that water the earth.
Psalms 72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish, And abundance
of peace, till the moon be no more.
Psalms 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from
the River unto the ends of the earth.
Psalms 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;
And his enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalms 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render
tribute: The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Psalms 72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him; All nations
shall serve him.
Psalms 72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he crieth, And the
poor, that hath no helper.
Psalms 72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls
of the needy he will save.
Psalms 72:14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and
violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight:
Psalms 72:15 And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the
gold of Sheba: And men shall pray for him continually; They shall
bless him all the day long.
Psalms 72:16 There shall be abundance of grain 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.
Psalms 72:17 His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be
continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All
nations shall call him happy.
Psalms 72:18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who only
doeth wondrous things:
Psalms 72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the
whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Psalms 73
A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure
in heart.
Psalms 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had
well nigh slipped.
Psalms 73:3 For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the
prosperity of the wicked.
Psalms 73:4 For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength
is firm.
Psalms 73:5 They are not in trouble as [other] men; Neither are they
plagued like [other] men.
Psalms 73:6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence
covereth them as a garment.
Psalms 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than
heart could wish.
Psalms 73:8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They
speak loftily.
Psalms 73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their
tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full
[cup] are drained by them.
Psalms 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? And is there
knowledge in the Most High?
Psalms 73:12 Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at
ease, they increase in riches.
Psalms 73:13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed
my hands in innocency;
Psalms 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, And
chastened every morning.
Psalms 73:15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt
treacherously with the generation of thy children.
Psalms 73:16 When I thought how I might know this, It was too
painful for me;
Psalms 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered
their latter end.
Psalms 73:18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou
castest them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They
are utterly consumed with terrors.
Psalms 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou
awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
Psalms 73:21 For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my
heart:
Psalms 73:22 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast
before thee.
Psalms 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast
holden my right hand.
Psalms 73:24 Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward
receive me to glory.
Psalms 73:25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? And there is none
upon earth that I desire besides thee.
Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the
strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
Psalms 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou
hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, [departing] from thee.
Psalms 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have
made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.
Psalms 74
Maschil of Asaph.
Psalms 74:1 O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth
thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of
old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance;
[And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psalms 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that
the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
Psalms 74:4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine
assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
Psalms 74:5 They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket
of trees.
Psalms 74:6 And now all the carved work thereof They break down
with hatchet and hammers.
Psalms 74:7 They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned
the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting it] to the ground.
Psalms 74:8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them
altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the
land.
Psalms 74:9 We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet;
Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms 74:10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall
the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 74:11 Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand?
[Pluck it] out of thy bosom [and] consume [them].
Psalms 74:12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the
midst of the earth.
Psalms 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest
the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
Psalms 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou
gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms 74:15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up
mighty rivers.
Psalms 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast
prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast
made summer and winter.
Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O
Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 74:19 Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild
beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.
Psalms 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of
the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Psalms 74:21 Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor
and needy praise thy name.
Psalms 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how
the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
Psalms 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of
those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
Psalms 75
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a
song.
Psalms 75:1 We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for
thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works.
Psalms 75:2 When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.
Psalms 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I
have set up the pillars of it. Selah
Psalms 75:4 I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the
wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Psalms 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff
neck.
Psalms 75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet
from the south, [cometh] lifting up.
Psalms 75:7 But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth
up another.
Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine
foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely
the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and
drink them.
Psalms 75:9 But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God
of Jacob.
Psalms 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the
horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
Psalms 76
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a
song.
Psalms 76:1 In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel.
Psalms 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place
in Zion.
Psalms 76:3 There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and
the sword, and the battle. Selah
Psalms 76:4 Glorious art thou [and] excellent, From the mountains
of prey.
Psalms 76:5 The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their
sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.
Psalms 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse
are cast into a deep sleep.
Psalms 76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared; And who may stand in
thy sight when once thou art angry?
Psalms 76:8 Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The
earth feared, and was still,
Psalms 76:9 When God arose to judgment, To save all the meek of
the earth. Selah
Psalms 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue
of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
Psalms 76:11 Vow, and pay unto Jehovah your God: Let all that are
round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Psalms 76:12 He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the
kings of the earth.
Psalms 77
For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of
Asaph.
Psalms 77:1 I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with
my voice; and he will give ear unto me.
Psalms 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand
was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be
comforted.
Psalms 77:3 I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and
my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah
Psalms 77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that
I cannot speak.
Psalms 77:5 I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient
times.
Psalms 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune
with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.
Psalms 77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be
favorable no more?
Psalms 77:8 Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his
promise fail for evermore?
Psalms 77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger
shut up his tender mercies? Selah
Psalms 77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity; [But I will remember]
the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Psalms 77:11 I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah; For I will
remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms 77:12 I will meditate also upon all thy work, And muse on
thy doings.
Psalms 77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great
god like unto God?
Psalms 77:14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made
known thy strength among the peoples.
Psalms 77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The
sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
Psalms 77:16 The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee,
they were afraid: The depths also trembled.
Psalms 77:17 The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a
sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.
Psalms 77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The
lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
Psalms 77:19 Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great
waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
Psalms 77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of
Moses and Aaron.
Psalms 78
Maschil of Asaph.
Psalms 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to
the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark
sayings of old,
Psalms 78:3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have
told us.
Psalms 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the
generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his
wondrous works that he hath done.
Psalms 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed
a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should
make them known to their children;
Psalms 78:6 That the generation to come might know [them], even
the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to
their children,
Psalms 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget
the works of God, But keep his commandments,
Psalms 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and
rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And
whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying
bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to
walk in his law;
Psalms 78:11 And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works
that he had showed them.
Psalms 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In
the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through;
And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
Psalms 78:14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all
the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78:15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink
abundantly as out of the depths.
Psalms 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused
waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms 78:17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel
against the Most High in the desert.
Psalms 78:18 And they tempted God in their heart By asking food
according to their desire.
Psalms 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God
prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out,
And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide
flesh for his people?
Psalms 78:21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire
was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
Psalms 78:22 Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in
his salvation.
Psalms 78:23 Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the
doors of heaven;
Psalms 78:24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And
gave them food from heaven.
Psalms 78:25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them
food to the full.
Psalms 78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And
by his power he guided the south wind.
Psalms 78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And
winged birds as the sand of the seas:
Psalms 78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round
about their habitations.
Psalms 78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave
them their own desire.
Psalms 78:30 They were not estranged from that which they desired,
Their food was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78:31 When the anger of God went up against them, And
slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
Psalms 78:32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his
wondrous works.
Psalms 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And
their years in terror.
Psalms 78:34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And
they returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And
the Most High God their redeemer.
Psalms 78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto
him with their tongue.
Psalms 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were
they faithful in his covenant.
Psalms 78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and
destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
And did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 78:39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind
that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Psalms 78:40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness,
And grieve him in the desert!
Psalms 78:41 And they turned again and tempted God, And
provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:42 They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he
redeemed them from the adversary;
Psalms 78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the
field of Zoan,
Psalms 78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams,
so that they could not drink.
Psalms 78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured
them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And
their labor unto the locust.
Psalms 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their
sycomore-trees with frost.
Psalms 78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their
flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath,
and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
Psalms 78:50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul
from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
Psalms 78:51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of
their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided
them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78:53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the
sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To
this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
Psalms 78:55 He drove out the nations also before them, And
allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel
to dwell in their tents.
Psalms 78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High
God, And kept not his testimonies;
Psalms 78:57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their
fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78:59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly
abhorred Israel;
Psalms 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent
which he placed among men;
Psalms 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory
into the adversary's hand.
Psalms 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was
wroth with his inheritance.
Psalms 78:63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had
no marriage-song.
Psalms 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made
no lamentation.
Psalms 78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a
mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 78:66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them
to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 78:67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not
the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he
loved.
Psalms 78:69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the
earth which he hath established for ever.
Psalms 78:70 He chose David also his servant, And took him from
the sheepfolds:
Psalms 78:71 From following the ewes that have their young he
brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his
inheritance.
Psalms 78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of
his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 79
A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 79:1 O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy
holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Psalms 79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be
food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the
beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about
Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
Psalms 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing
and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:5 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever?
Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not,
And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.
Psalms 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his
habitation.
Psalms 79:8 Remember not against us the iniquities of our
forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are
brought very low.
Psalms 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
Psalms 79:10 Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God?
Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known
among the nations in our sight.
Psalms 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee:
According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are
appointed to death;
Psalms 79:12 And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their
bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Psalms 79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give
thee thanks for ever: We will show forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalms 80
For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph
like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.
Psalms 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up
thy might, And come to save us.
Psalms 80:3 Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and
we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:4 O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry
against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms 80:5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given
them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalms 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our
enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to
shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive
out the nations, and plantedst it.
Psalms 80:9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root,
and filled the land.
Psalms 80:10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,
And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.
Psalms 80:11 It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots
unto the River.
Psalms 80:12 Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they
that pass by the way do pluck it?
Psalms 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild
beasts of the field feed on it.
Psalms 80:14 Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look
down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
Psalms 80:15 And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the
branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Psalms 80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the
rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms 80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon
the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
Psalms 80:18 So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us,
and we will call upon thy name.
Psalms 80:19 Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face
to shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalms 81
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.
Psalms 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise
unto the God of Jacob.
Psalms 81:2 Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant
harp with the psaltery.
Psalms 81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on
our feast-day.
Psalms 81:4 For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of
Jacob.
Psalms 81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he
went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I
knew not.
Psalms 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were
freed from the basket.
Psalms 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I
answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the
waters of Meribah. Selah
Psalms 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel,
if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
Psalms 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou
worship any foreign god.
Psalms 81:10 I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalms 81:11 But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel
would none of me.
Psalms 81:12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,
That they might walk in their own counsels.
Psalms 81:13 Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel
would walk in my ways!
Psalms 81:14 I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand
against their adversaries.
Psalms 81:15 The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto
him: But their time should endure for ever.
Psalms 81:16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
Psalms 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth
among the gods.
Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the
persons of the wicked? Selah
Psalms 82:3 Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted
and destitute.
Psalms 82:4 Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the
hand of the wicked.
Psalms 82:5 They know not, neither do they understand; They walk
to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 82:6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most
High.
Psalms 82:7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of
the princes.
Psalms 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all
the nations.
Psalms 83
A song. A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 83:1 O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and
be not still, O God.
Psalms 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate
thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms 83:3 Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult
together against thy hidden ones.
Psalms 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from
being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in
remembrance.
Psalms 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent;
Against thee do they make a covenant:
Psalms 83:6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
Psalms 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the
inhabitants of Tyre:
Psalms 83:8 Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the
children of Lot. Selah
Psalms 83:9 Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to
Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Psalms 83:10 Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the
earth.
Psalms 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their
princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
Psalms 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The
habitations of God.
Psalms 83:13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As
stubble before the wind.
Psalms 83:14 As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame
that setteth the mountains on fire,
Psalms 83:15 So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them
with thy storm.
Psalms 83:16 Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy
name, O Jehovah.
Psalms 83:17 Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea,
let them be confounded and perish;
Psalms 83:18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is
Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.
Psalms 84
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of
Korah.
Psalms 84:1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
Psalms 84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of
Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
Psalms 84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine
altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God.
Psalms 84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be
still praising thee. Selah
Psalms 84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose
heart are the highways [to Zion].
Psalms 84:6 Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a
place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.
Psalms 84:7 They go from strength to strength; Every one of them
appeareth before God in Zion.
Psalms 84:8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O
God of Jacob. Selah
Psalms 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of
thine anointed.
Psalms 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had
rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the
tents of wickedness.
Psalms 84:11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will
give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that
walk uprightly.
Psalms 84:12 O Jehovah of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in
thee.
Psalms 85
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Psalms 85:1 Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou
hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Psalms 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast
covered all their sin. Selah
Psalms 85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned
[thyself] from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psalms 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine
indignation toward us to cease.
Psalms 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out
thine anger to all generations?
Psalms 85:6 Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may
rejoice in thee?
Psalms 85:7 Show us thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, And grant us
thy salvation.
Psalms 85:8 I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will
speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn
again to folly.
Psalms 85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, That
glory may dwell in our land.
Psalms 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and
peace have kissed each other.
Psalms 85:11 Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness
hath looked down from heaven.
Psalms 85:12 Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good; And our
land shall yield its increase.
Psalms 85:13 Righteousness shall go before him, And shall make his
footsteps a way [to walk in].
Psalms 86
A Prayer of David
Psalms 86:1 Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I
am poor and needy.
Psalms 86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save
thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms 86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all
the day long.
Psalms 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant; For unto thee, O Lord,
do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And
abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.
Psalms 86:6 Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer; And hearken unto
the voice of my supplications.
Psalms 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee; For thou
wilt answer me.
Psalms 86:8 There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord;
Neither [are there any works] like unto thy works.
Psalms 86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and
worship before thee, O Lord; And they shall glorify thy name.
Psalms 86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: Thou art
God alone.
Psalms 86:11 Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth:
Unite my heart to fear thy name.
Psalms 86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole
heart; And I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Psalms 86:13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou
hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 86:14 O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a
company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set
thee before them.
Psalms 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Psalms 86:16 Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy
strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid.
Psalms 86:17 Show me a token for good, That they who hate me
may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped
me, and comforted me.
Psalms 87
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.
Psalms 87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psalms 87:2 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the
dwellings of Jacob.
Psalms 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah
Psalms 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among
them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This
one was born there.
Psalms 87:5 Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was
born in her; And the Most High himself will establish her.
Psalms 87:6 Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples,
This one was born there. Selah
Psalms 87:7 They that sing as well as they that dance [shall say], All
my fountains are in thee.
Psalms 88
A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to
Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
Psalms 88:1 O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day
and night before thee.
Psalms 88:2 Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear
unto my cry.
Psalms 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth
nigh unto Sheol.
Psalms 88:4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am
as a man that hath no help,
Psalms 88:5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the
grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from
thy hand.
Psalms 88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in
the deeps.
Psalms 88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted
me with all thy waves. Selah
Psalms 88:8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou
hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot
come forth.
Psalms 88:9 Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have
called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto
thee.
Psalms 88:10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that
are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah
Psalms 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or
thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Psalms 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy
righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms 88:13 But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the
morning shall my prayer come before thee.
Psalms 88:14 Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest
thou thy face from me?
Psalms 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:
While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Psalms 88:16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut
me off.
Psalms 88:17 They came round about me like water all the day long;
They compassed me about together.
Psalms 88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine
acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 89
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
Psalms 89:1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever:
With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy
faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
Psalms 89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn
unto David my servant:
Psalms 89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy
throne to all generations. Selah
Psalms 89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah;
Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Psalms 89:6 For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah?
Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,
Psalms 89:7 A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And
to be feared above all them that are round about him?
Psalms 89:8 O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto
thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
Psalms 89:9 Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof
arise, thou stillest them.
Psalms 89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;
Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
Psalms 89:11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The
world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Psalms 89:12 The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor
and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
Psalms 89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high
is thy right hand.
Psalms 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy
throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.
Psalms 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They
walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 89:16 In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy
righteousness are they exalted.
Psalms 89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy
favor our horn shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:18 For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king
to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I
have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out
of the people.
Psalms 89:20 I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have
I anointed him:
Psalms 89:21 With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm
also shall strengthen him.
Psalms 89:22 The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of
wickedness afflict him.
Psalms 89:23 And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And
smite them that hate him.
Psalms 89:24 But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be
with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psalms 89:25 I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand
on the rivers.
Psalms 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God,
and the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 89:27 I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of
the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89:28 My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;
And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his
throne as the days of heaven.
Psalms 89:30 If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine
ordinances;
Psalms 89:31 If they break my statutes, And keep not my
commandments;
Psalms 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And
their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 89:33 But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from
him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 89:34 My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is
gone out of my lips.
Psalms 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto
David:
Psalms 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the
sun before me.
Psalms 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as]
the faithful witness in the sky. Selah
Psalms 89:38 But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been
wroth with thine anointed.
Psalms 89:39 Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou
hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
Psalms 89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast
brought his strongholds to ruin.
Psalms 89:41 All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a
reproach to his neighbors.
Psalms 89:42 Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Psalms 89:43 Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast
not made him to stand in the battle.
Psalms 89:44 Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his
throne down to the ground.
Psalms 89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast
covered him with shame. Selah
Psalms 89:46 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
[How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89:47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity
hast thou created all the children of men!
Psalms 89:48 What man is he that shall live and not see death, That
shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Psalms 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which
thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
Psalms 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I
do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,
Psalms 89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,
Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psalms 89:52 Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 90
BOOK IV A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
Psalms 90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all
generations.
Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou
hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God.
Psalms 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye
children of men.
Psalms 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday
when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a
sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the
evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 90:7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath
are we troubled.
Psalms 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins
in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring
our years to an end as a sigh.
Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or
even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but
labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalms 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath
according to the fear that is due unto thee?
Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a
heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:13 Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee
concerning thy servants.
Psalms 90:14 Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psalms 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast
afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psalms 90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory
upon their children.
Psalms 90:17 And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our
hands establish thou it.
Psalms 91
Psalms 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 91:2 I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in whom I trust.
Psalms 91:3 For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
And from the deadly pestilence.
Psalms 91:4 He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his
wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler.
Psalms 91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for
the arrow that flieth by day;
Psalms 91:6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the
destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalms 91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at
thy right hand; [But] it shall not come nigh thee.
Psalms 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the
reward of the wicked.
Psalms 91:9 For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the
Most High thy habitation;
Psalms 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague
come nigh thy tent.
Psalms 91:11 For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep
thee in all thy ways.
Psalms 91:12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash
thy foot against a stone.
Psalms 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young
lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.
Psalms 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I
deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be
with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him.
Psalms 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, And show him my
salvation.
Psalms 92
A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.
Psalms 92:1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah, And to
sing praises unto thy name, O Most High;
Psalms 92:2 To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, And
thy faithfulness every night,
Psalms 92:3 With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery;
With a solemn sound upon the harp.
Psalms 92:4 For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work:
I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Psalms 92:5 How great are thy works, O Jehovah! Thy thoughts are
very deep.
Psalms 92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool
understand this:
Psalms 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the
workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for
ever.
Psalms 92:8 But thou, O Jehovah, art on high for evermore.
Psalms 92:9 For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, thine enemies
shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
Psalms 92:10 But my horn hast thou exalted like [the horn of] the
wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.
Psalms 92:11 Mine eye also hath seen [my desire] on mine enemies,
Mine ears have heard [my desire] of the evil-doers that rise up against
me.
Psalms 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall
grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 92:13 They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall
flourish in the courts of our God.
Psalms 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall
be full of sap and green:
Psalms 92:15 To show that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and
there is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms 93
Psalms 93:1 Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is
clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world
also is established, that it cannot be moved.
Psalms 93:2 Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from
everlasting.
Psalms 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have
lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
Psalms 93:4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers
of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
Psalms 93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thy
house, O Jehovah, for evermore.
Psalms 94
Psalms 94:1 O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
Psalms 94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the
proud [their] desert.
Psalms 94:3 Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the
wicked triumph?
Psalms 94:4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of
iniquity boast themselves.
Psalms 94:5 They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict
thy heritage.
Psalms 94:6 They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the
fatherless.
Psalms 94:7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God
of Jacob consider.
Psalms 94:8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools,
when will ye be wise?
Psalms 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that
formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalms 94:10 He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,
[Even] he that teacheth man knowledge?
Psalms 94:11 Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are
vanity.
Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah,
And teachest out of thy law;
Psalms 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of
adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Psalms 94:14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will
he forsake his inheritance.
Psalms 94:15 For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all
the upright in heart shall follow it.
Psalms 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who
will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Psalms 94:17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon
dwelt in silence.
Psalms 94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O
Jehovah, held me up.
Psalms 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy
comforts delight my soul.
Psalms 94:20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with
thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?
Psalms 94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the
righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms 94:22 But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God
the rock of my refuge.
Psalms 94:23 And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will
cut them off.
Psalms 95
Psalms 95:1 Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah; Let us make a joyful
noise to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; Let
us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalms 95:3 For Jehovah is a great God, And a great King above all
gods.
Psalms 95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights
of the mountains are his also.
Psalms 95:5 The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the
dry land.
Psalms 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel
before Jehovah our Maker:
Psalms 95:7 For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!
Psalms 95:8 Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of
Massah in the wilderness;
Psalms 95:9 When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my
work.
Psalms 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation,
And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not
known my ways:
Psalms 95:11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not
enter into my rest.
Psalms 96
Psalms 96:1 Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song: Sing unto Jehovah,
all the earth.
Psalms 96:2 Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name; Show forth his
salvation from day to day.
Psalms 96:3 Declare his glory among the nations, His marvellous
works among all the peoples.
Psalms 96:4 For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: He is to
be feared above all gods.
Psalms 96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah
made the heavens.
Psalms 96:6 Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and beauty
are in his sanctuary.
Psalms 96:7 Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples,
Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.
Psalms 96:8 Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name:
Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
Psalms 96:9 Oh worship Jehovah in holy array: Tremble before him,
all the earth.
Psalms 96:10 Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: The world
also is established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples
with equity.
Psalms 96:11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let
the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
Psalms 96:12 Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all
the trees of the wood sing for joy
Psalms 96:13 Before Jehovah; for he cometh, For he cometh to judge
the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the
peoples with his truth.
Psalms 97
Psalms 97:1 Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude
of isles be glad.
Psalms 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him:
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Psalms 97:3 A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries
round about.
Psalms 97:4 His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and
trembled.
Psalms 97:5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of
Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psalms 97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, And all the
peoples have seen his glory.
Psalms 97:7 Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images,
That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms 97:8 Zion heard and was glad, And the daughters of Judah
rejoiced, Because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.
Psalms 97:9 For thou, Jehovah, art most high above all the earth:
Thou art exalted far above all gods.
Psalms 97:10 O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: He preserveth the
souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the
upright in heart.
Psalms 97:12 Be glad in Jehovah, ye righteous; And give thanks to
his holy memorial [name].
Psalms 98
A Psalm.
Psalms 98:1 Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song; For he hath done
marvellous things: His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought
salvation for him.
Psalms 98:2 Jehovah hath made known his salvation: His
righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the nations.
Psalms 98:3 He hath remembered his lovingkindness and his
faithfulness toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms 98:4 Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all the earth: Break
forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises.
Psalms 98:5 Sing praises unto Jehovah with the harp; With the harp
and the voice of melody.
Psalms 98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet Make a joyful noise
before the King, Jehovah.
Psalms 98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; The world, and
they that dwell therein;
Psalms 98:8 Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy
together
Psalms 98:9 Before Jehovah; for he cometh to judge the earth: He
will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
Psalms 99
Psalms 99:1 Jehovah reigneth; let the peoples tremble: He sitteth
[above] the cherubim; let the earth be moved.
Psalms 99:2 Jehovah is great in Zion; And he is high above all the
peoples.
Psalms 99:3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name: Holy is he.
Psalms 99:4 The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost
establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Psalms 99:5 Exalt ye Jehovah our God, And worship at his footstool:
Holy is he.
Psalms 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, And Samuel
among them that call upon his name; They called upon Jehovah, and
he answered them.
Psalms 99:7 He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his
testimonies, And the statute that he gave them.
Psalms 99:8 Thou answeredst them, O Jehovah our God: Thou wast
a God that forgavest them, Though thou tookest vengeance of their
doings.
Psalms 99:9 Exalt ye Jehovah our God, And worship at his holy hill;
For Jehovah our God is holy.
Psalms 100
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
Psalms 100:1 Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands.
Psalms 100:2 Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his
presence with singing.
Psalms 100:3 Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath
made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his
pasture.
Psalms 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, And into his
courts with praise: Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.
Psalms 100:5 For Jehovah is good; his lovingkindness [endureth] for
ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations.
Psalms 101
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 101:1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice: Unto thee, O
Jehovah, will I sing praises.
Psalms 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when
wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect
heart.
Psalms 101:3 I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the
work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.
Psalms 101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no
evil thing.
Psalms 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I
destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
Psalms 101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that
they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall
minister unto me.
Psalms 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my
house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before
mine eyes.
Psalms 101:8 Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of
the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of
Jehovah. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and
poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.
Psalms 102
Psalms 102:1 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And let my cry come unto
thee.
Psalms 102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress:
Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.
Psalms 102:3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones
are burned as a firebrand.
Psalms 102:4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I
forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones
cleave to my flesh.
Psalms 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as
an owl of the waste places.
Psalms 102:7 I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone
upon the house-top.
Psalms 102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are
mad against me do curse by me.
Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my
drink with weeping,
Psalms 102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou
hast taken me up, and cast me away.
Psalms 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am
withered like grass.
Psalms 102:12 But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy
memorial [name] unto all generations.
Psalms 102:13 Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is
time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come.
Psalms 102:14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have
pity upon her dust.
Psalms 102:15 So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, And all
the kings of the earth thy glory.
Psalms 102:16 For Jehovah hath built up Zion; He hath appeared in
his glory.
Psalms 102:17 He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath
not despised their prayer.
Psalms 102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come; And
a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah.
Psalms 102:19 For he hath looked down from the height of his
sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;
Psalms 102:20 To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those
that are appointed to death;
Psalms 102:21 That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion,
And his praise in Jerusalem;
Psalms 102:22 When the peoples are gathered together, And the
kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
Psalms 102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened
my days.
Psalms 102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of
my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalms 102:25 Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And
the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Psalms 102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of
them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change
them, and they shall be changed:
Psalms 102:27 But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no
end.
Psalms 102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue, And their
seed shall be established before thee.
Psalms 103
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 103:1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; And all that is within me,
[bless] his holy name.
Psalms 103:2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And forget not all his
benefits:
Psalms 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy
diseases;
Psalms 103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who
crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalms 103:5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, [So that]
thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
Psalms 103:6 Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for
all that are oppressed.
Psalms 103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, His doings unto
the children of Israel.
Psalms 103:8 Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and
abundant in lovingkindness.
Psalms 103:9 He will not always chide; Neither will he keep [his
anger] for ever.
Psalms 103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded
us after our iniquities.
Psalms 103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great
is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he
removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah
pitieth them that fear him.
Psalms 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we
are dust.
Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the
field, so he flourisheth.
Psalms 103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the
place thereof shall know it no more.
Psalms 103:17 But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting
to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto
children's children;
Psalms 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, And to those that
remember his precepts to do them.
Psalms 103:19 Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens;
And his kingdom ruleth over all.
Psalms 103:20 Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, That are mighty in
strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psalms 103:21 Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts, Ye ministers of his,
that do his pleasure.
Psalms 103:22 Bless Jehovah, all ye his works, In all places of his
dominion: Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
Psalms 104
Psalms 104:1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, thou
art very great; Thou art clothed with honor and majesty:
Psalms 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment;
Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
Psalms 104:3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters;
Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of
the wind;
Psalms 104:4 Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his
ministers;
Psalms 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should
not be moved for ever.
Psalms 104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The
waters stood above the mountains.
Psalms 104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder
they hasted away
Psalms 104:8 (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the
place which thou hadst founded for them.
Psalms 104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over;
That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms 104:10 He sendeth forth springs into the valleys; They run
among the mountains;
Psalms 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild
asses quench their thirst.
Psalms 104:12 By them the birds of the heavens have their
habitation; They sing among the branches.
Psalms 104:13 He watereth the mountains from his chambers: The
earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.
Psalms 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb
for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth,
Psalms 104:15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, [And]
oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's
heart.
Psalms 104:16 The trees of Jehovah are filled [with moisture], The
cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
Psalms 104:17 Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the
fir-trees are her house.
Psalms 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks
are a refuge for the conies.
Psalms 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth
his going down.
Psalms 104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the
beasts of the forest creep forth.
Psalms 104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their
food from God.
Psalms 104:22 The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them
down in their dens.
Psalms 104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until
the evening.
Psalms 104:24 O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom
hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.
Psalms 104:25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things
creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Psalms 104:26 There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou
hast formed to play therein.
Psalms 104:27 These wait all for thee, That thou mayest give them
their food in due season.
Psalms 104:28 Thou givest unto them, they gather; Thou openest thy
hand, they are satisfied with good.
Psalms 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest
away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
Psalms 104:30 Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And
thou renewest the face of the ground.
Psalms 104:31 Let the glory of Jehovah endure for ever; Let Jehovah
rejoice in his works:
Psalms 104:32 Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He
toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
Psalms 104:33 I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live: I will sing
praise to my God while I have any being.
Psalms 104:34 Let thy meditation be sweet unto him: I will rejoice in
Jehovah.
Psalms 104:35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. And let the
wicked be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 105
Psalms 105:1 Oh give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name;
Make known among the peoples his doings.
Psalms 105:2 Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; Talk ye of all his
marvelous works.
Psalms 105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them
rejoice that seek Jehovah.
Psalms 105:4 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face
evermore.
Psalms 105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done,
His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
Psalms 105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of
Jacob, his chosen ones.
Psalms 105:7 He is Jehovah our God: His judgments are in all the
earth.
Psalms 105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word
which he commanded to a thousand generations,
Psalms 105:9 [The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his
oath unto Isaac,
Psalms 105:10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To
Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Psalms 105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The
lot of your inheritance;
Psalms 105:12 When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very
few, and sojourners in it.
Psalms 105:13 And they went about from nation to nation, From one
kingdom to another people.
Psalms 105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he
reproved kings for their sakes,
Psalms 105:15 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my
prophets no harm.
Psalms 105:16 And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake
the whole staff of bread.
Psalms 105:17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a
servant:
Psalms 105:18 His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in [chains
of] iron,
Psalms 105:19 Until the time that his word came to pass, The word
of Jehovah tried him.
Psalms 105:20 The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of
peoples, and let him go free.
Psalms 105:21 He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his
substance;
Psalms 105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his
elders wisdom.
Psalms 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in
the land of Ham.
Psalms 105:24 And he increased his people greatly, And made them
stronger than their adversaries.
Psalms 105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal
subtly with his servants.
Psalms 105:26 He sent Moses his servant, [And] Aaron whom he
had chosen.
Psalms 105:27 They set among them his signs, And wonders in the
land of Ham.
Psalms 105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled
not against his words.
Psalms 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.
Psalms 105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of
their kings.
Psalms 105:31 He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in
all their borders.
Psalms 105:32 He gave them hail for rain, [And] flaming fire in their
land.
Psalms 105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And
brake the trees of their borders.
Psalms 105:34 He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper,
and that without number,
Psalms 105:35 And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat
up the fruit of their ground.
Psalms 105:36 He smote also all the first-born in their land, The
chief of all their strength.
Psalms 105:37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold; And
there was not one feeble person among his tribes.
Psalms 105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed; For the fear of
them had fallen upon them.
Psalms 105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give
light in the night.
Psalms 105:40 They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied
them with the bread of heaven.
Psalms 105:41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran
in the dry places [like] a river.
Psalms 105:42 For he remembered his holy word, [And] Abraham
his servant.
Psalms 105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, [And] his
chosen with singing.
Psalms 105:44 And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they
took the labor of the peoples in possession:
Psalms 105:45 That they might keep his statutes, And observe his
laws. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 106
Psalms 106:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he
is good; For his lovingkindness [endureth] forever.
Psalms 106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, Or show
forth all his praise?
Psalms 106:3 Blessed are they that keep justice, And he that doeth
righteousness at all times.
Psalms 106:4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou
bearest unto thy people; Oh visit me with thy salvation,
Psalms 106:5 That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I
may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That I may glory with thine
inheritance.
Psalms 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed
iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Psalms 106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They
remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were
rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That
he might make his mighty power to be known.
Psalms 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So
he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
Psalms 106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated
them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Psalms 106:11 And the waters covered their adversaries; There was
not one of them left.
Psalms 106:12 Then believed they his words; They sang his praise.
Psalms 106:13 They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his
counsel,
Psalms 106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And
tempted God in the desert.
Psalms 106:15 And he gave them their request, But sent leanness
into their soul.
Psalms 106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, [And] Aaron
the saint of Jehovah.
Psalms 106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And
covered the company of Abiram.
Psalms 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame
burned up the wicked.
Psalms 106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten
image.
Psalms 106:20 Thus they changed their glory For the likeness of an
ox that eateth grass.
Psalms 106:21 They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great
things in Egypt,
Psalms 106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [And] terrible
things by the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had
not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, To turn away
his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].
Psalms 106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed
not his word,
Psalms 106:25 But murmured in their tents, And hearkened not unto
the voice of Jehovah.
Psalms 106:26 Therefore he sware unto them, That he would
overthrow them in the wilderness,
Psalms 106:27 And that he would overthrow their seed among the
nations, And scatter them in the lands.
Psalms 106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate
the sacrifices of the dead.
Psalms 106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;
And the plague brake in upon them.
Psalms 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment; And
so the plague was stayed.
Psalms 106:31 And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness,
Unto all generations for evermore.
Psalms 106:32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So
that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;
Psalms 106:33 Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And
he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms 106:34 They did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah
commanded them,
Psalms 106:35 But mingled themselves with the nations, And
learned their works,
Psalms 106:36 And served their idols, Which became a snare unto
them.
Psalms 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters
unto demons,
Psalms 106:38 And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their
sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of
Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
Psalms 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works, And played
the harlot in their doings.
Psalms 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against
his people, And he abhorred his inheritance.
Psalms 106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the nations; And
they that hated them ruled over them.
Psalms 106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were
brought into subjection under their hand.
Psalms 106:43 Many times did he deliver them; But they were
rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.
Psalms 106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he
heard their cry:
Psalms 106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, And
repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
Psalms 106:46 He made them also to be pitied Of all those that
carried them captive.
Psalms 106:47 Save us, O Jehovah our God, And gather us from
among the nations, To give thanks unto thy holy name, And to
triumph in thy praise.
Psalms 106:48 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From
everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen.
Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 107
Psalms 107:1 O give thanks unto Jehovah; For he is good; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 107:2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say [so], Whom he hath
redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
Psalms 107:3 And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from
the west, From the north and from the south.
Psalms 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They
found no city of habitation.
Psalms 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Psalms 107:6 Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he
delivered them out of their distresses,
Psalms 107:7 He led them also by a straight way, That they might go
to a city of habitation.
Psalms 107:8 Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his
lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul
he filleth with good.
Psalms 107:10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalms 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, And
contemned the counsel of the Most High:
Psalms 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was none to help.
Psalms 107:13 Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he
saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of
death, And brake their bonds in sunder.
Psalms 107:15 Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his
lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the
bars of iron in sunder.
Psalms 107:17 Fools because of their transgression, And because of
their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psalms 107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they
draw near unto the gates of death.
Psalms 107:19 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he
saveth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:20 He sendeth his word, and healeth them, And
delivereth [them] from their destructions.
Psalms 107:21 Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his
lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And
declare his works with singing.
Psalms 107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, That do
business in great waters;
Psalms 107:24 These see the works of Jehovah, And his wonders in
the deep.
Psalms 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind,
Which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psalms 107:26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to
the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.
Psalms 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,
And are at their wits' end.
Psalms 107:28 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he
bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves
thereof are still.
Psalms 107:30 Then are they glad because they are quiet; So he
bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psalms 107:31 Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his
lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:32 Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,
And praise him in the seat of the elders.
Psalms 107:33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings
into a thirsty ground;
Psalms 107:34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness
of them that dwell therein.
Psalms 107:35 He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a
dry land into watersprings.
Psalms 107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, That they
may prepare a city of habitation,
Psalms 107:37 And sow fields, and plant vineyards, And get them
fruits of increase.
Psalms 107:38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied
greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Psalms 107:39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through
oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
Psalms 107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them
to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
Psalms 107:41 Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction, And
maketh [him] families like a flock.
Psalms 107:42 The upright shall see it, and be glad; And all iniquity
shall stop her mouth.
Psalms 107:43 Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And
they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
Psalms 108
A Song, A Psalm of David.
Psalms 108:1 My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, yea, I will sing
praises, even with my glory.
Psalms 108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right
early.
Psalms 108:3 I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the
peoples; And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
Psalms 108:4 For thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens;
And thy truth [reacheth] unto the skies.
Psalms 108:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, And thy
glory above all the earth.
Psalms 108:6 That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right
hand, and answer us.
Psalms 108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will
divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Psalms 108:8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
Psalms 108:9 Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe;
Over Philistia will I shout.
Psalms 108:10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who hath
led me unto Edom?
Psalms 108:11 Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not
forth, O God, with our hosts.
Psalms 108:12 Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the
help of man.
Psalms 108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that
will tread down our adversaries.
Psalms 109
For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Psalms 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit
have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying
tongue.
Psalms 109:3 They have compassed me about also with words of
hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: But I [give
myself unto] prayer.
Psalms 109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred
for my love.
Psalms 109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary
stand at his right hand.
Psalms 109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let
his prayer be turned into sin.
Psalms 109:8 Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office.
Psalms 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them
seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let
strangers make spoil of his labor.
Psalms 109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation
following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with
Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may
cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Psalms 109:16 Because he remembered not to show kindness, But
persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay
[them].
Psalms 109:17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he
delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
Psalms 109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his
garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil
into his bones.
Psalms 109:19 Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he
covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded
continually.
Psalms 109:20 This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy
name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
Psalms 109:22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded
within me.
Psalms 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am
tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh
faileth of fatness.
Psalms 109:25 I am become also a reproach unto them: When they
see me, they shake their head.
Psalms 109:26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according
to thy lovingkindness:
Psalms 109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; [That] thou,
Jehovah, hast done it.
Psalms 109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they
shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.
Psalms 109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And
let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
Psalms 109:30 I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To
save him from them that judge his soul.
Psalms 110
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 110:1 Jehovah saith unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand,
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Psalms 110:2 Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of
Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Psalms 110:3 Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy
power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the
dew of thy youth.
Psalms 110:4 Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent: Thou art a
priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms 110:5 The Lord at thy right hand Will strike through kings in
the day of his wrath.
Psalms 110:6 He will judge among the nations, He will fill [the
places] with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many
countries.
Psalms 110:7 He will drink of the brook in the way: Therefore will
he lift up the head.
Psalms 111
Psalms 111:1 Praise ye Jehovah. I will give thanks unto Jehovah
with my whole heart, In the council of the upright, and in the
congregation.
Psalms 111:2 The works of Jehovah are great, Sought out of all them
that have pleasure therein.
Psalms 111:3 His work is honor and majesty; And his righteousness
endureth for ever.
Psalms 111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered:
Jehovah is gracious and merciful.
Psalms 111:5 He hath given food unto them that fear him: He will
ever be mindful of his covenant.
Psalms 111:6 He hath showed his people the power of his works, In
giving them the heritage of the nations.
Psalms 111:7 The works of his hands are truth and justice; All his
precepts are sure.
Psalms 111:8 They are established for ever and ever; They are done
in truth and uprightness.
Psalms 111:9 He hath sent redemption unto his people; He hath
commanded his covenant for ever: Holy and reverend is his name.
Psalms 111:10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; A
good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: His
praise endureth for ever.
Psalms 112
Psalms 112:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Blessed is the man that feareth
Jehovah, That delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Psalms 112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of
the upright shall be blessed.
Psalms 112:3 Wealth and riches are in his house; And his
righteousness endureth for ever.
Psalms 112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [He
is] gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Psalms 112:5 Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and
lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.
Psalms 112:6 For he shall never be moved; The righteous shall be
had in everlasting remembrance.
Psalms 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His heart is fixed,
trusting in Jehovah.
Psalms 112:8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, Until he
see [his desire] upon his adversaries.
Psalms 112:9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; His
righteousness endureth for ever: His horn shall be exalted with honor.
Psalms 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall
gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall
perish.
Psalms 113
Psalms 113:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise, O ye servants of Jehovah,
Praise the name of Jehovah.
Psalms 113:2 Blessed be the name of Jehovah From this time forth
and for evermore.
Psalms 113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the
same Jehovah's name is to be praised.
Psalms 113:4 Jehovah is high above all nations, And his glory above
the heavens.
Psalms 113:5 Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat
on high,
Psalms 113:6 That humbleth himself to behold [The things that are]
in heaven and in the earth?
Psalms 113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up
the needy from the dunghill;
Psalms 113:8 That he may set him with princes, Even with the
princes of his people.
Psalms 113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [And to
be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 114
Psalms 114:1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of
Jacob from a people of strange language;
Psalms 114:2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
Psalms 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
Psalms 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like
lambs.
Psalms 114:5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou
Jordan, that thou turnest back?
Psalms 114:6 Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills,
like lambs?
Psalms 114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the
presence of the God of Jacob,
Psalms 114:8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into
a fountain of waters.
Psalms 115
Psalms 115:1 Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, But unto thy
name give glory, For thy lovingkindness, and for thy truth's sake.
Psalms 115:2 Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their
God?
Psalms 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: He hath done
whatsoever he pleased.
Psalms 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's
hands.
Psalms 115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they,
but they see not;
Psalms 115:6 They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but
they smell not;
Psalms 115:7 They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they,
but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.
Psalms 115:8 They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea,
every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms 115:9 O Israel, trust thou in Jehovah: He is their help and
their shield.
Psalms 115:10 O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: He is their
help and their shield.
Psalms 115:11 Ye that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah: He is their
help and their shield.
Psalms 115:12 Jehovah hath been mindful of us; he will bless [us]:
He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.
Psalms 115:13 He will bless them that fear Jehovah, Both small and
great.
Psalms 115:14 Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your
children.
Psalms 115:15 Blessed are ye of Jehovah, Who made heaven and
earth.
Psalms 115:16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah; But the
earth hath he given to the children of men.
Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go
down into silence;
Psalms 115:18 But we will bless Jehovah From this time forth and
for evermore. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 116
Psalms 116:1 I love Jehovah, because he heareth My voice and my
supplications.
Psalms 116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore
will I call [upon him] as long as I live.
Psalms 116:3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of
Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 116:4 Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I
beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Psalms 116:5 Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; Yea, our God is
merciful.
Psalms 116:6 Jehovah preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and
he saved me.
Psalms 116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath
dealt bountifully with thee.
Psalms 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes
from tears, [And] my feet from falling.
Psalms 116:9 I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.
Psalms 116:10 I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly afflicted:
Psalms 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Psalms 116:12 What shall I render unto Jehovah For all his benefits
toward me?
Psalms 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, And call upon the
name of Jehovah.
Psalms 116:14 I will pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the
presence of all his people.
Psalms 116:15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his
saints.
Psalms 116:16 O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant,
the son of thy handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds.
Psalms 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And
will call upon the name of Jehovah.
Psalms 116:18 I will pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the
presence of all his people,
Psalms 116:19 In the courts of Jehovah's house, In the midst of thee,
O Jerusalem. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 117
Psalms 117:1 O praise Jehovah, all ye nations; Laud him, all ye
peoples.
Psalms 117:2 For his lovingkindness is great toward us; And the
truth of Jehovah [endureth] for ever. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 118
Psalms 118:1 Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 118:2 Let Israel now say, That his lovingkindness [endureth]
for ever.
Psalms 118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, That his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 118:4 Let them now that fear Jehovah say, That his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 118:5 Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah: Jehovah
answered me [and set me] in a large place.
Psalms 118:6 Jehovah is on my side; I will not fear: What can man
do unto me?
Psalms 118:7 Jehovah is on my side among them that help me:
Therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.
Psalms 118:8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put
confidence in man.
Psalms 118:9 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put
confidence in princes.
Psalms 118:10 All nations compassed me about: In the name of
Jehovah I will cut them off.
Psalms 118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me
about: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Psalms 118:12 They compassed me about like bees; They are
quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them
off.
Psalms 118:13 Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But
Jehovah helped me.
Psalms 118:14 Jehovah is my strength and song; And he is become
my salvation.
Psalms 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of
the righteous: The right hand of Jehovah doeth valiantly.
Psalms 118:16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalted: The right hand
of Jehovah doeth valiantly.
Psalms 118:17 I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of
Jehovah.
Psalms 118:18 Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not
given me over unto death.
Psalms 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter
into them, I will give thanks unto Jehovah.
Psalms 118:20 This is the gate of Jehovah; The righteous shall enter
into it.
Psalms 118:21 I will give thanks unto thee; for thou hast answered
me, And art become my salvation.
Psalms 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected Is become the
head of the corner.
Psalms 118:23 This is Jehovah's doing; It is marvellous in our eyes.
Psalms 118:24 This is the day which Jehovah hath made; We will
rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:25 Save now, we beseech thee, O Jehovah: O Jehovah,
we beseech thee, send now prosperity.
Psalms 118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of Jehovah:
We have blessed you out of the house of Jehovah.
Psalms 118:27 Jehovah is God, and he hath given us light: Bind the
sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Psalms 118:28 Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto thee:
Thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
Psalms 118:29 Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 119
ALEPH.
Psalms 119:1 Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk
in the law of Jehovah.
Psalms 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek
him with the whole heart.
Psalms 119:3 Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his
ways.
Psalms 119:4 Thou hast commanded [us] thy precepts, That we
should observe them diligently.
Psalms 119:5 Oh that my ways were established To observe thy
statutes!
Psalms 119:6 Then shall I not be put to shame, When I have respect
unto all thy commandments.
Psalms 119:7 I will give thanks unto thee with uprightness of heart,
When I learn thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:8 I will observe thy statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly.
BETH.
Psalms 119:9 Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By
taking heed [thereto] according to thy word.
Psalms 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me
not wander from thy commandments.
Psalms 119:11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not
sin against thee.
Psalms 119:12 Blessed art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes.
Psalms 119:13 With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of
thy mouth.
Psalms 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, As
much as in all riches.
Psalms 119:15 I will meditate on thy precepts, And have respect unto
thy ways.
Psalms 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget
thy word.
GIMEL.
Psalms 119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live; So
will I observe thy word.
Psalms 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous
things out of thy law.
Psalms 119:19 I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy
commandments from me.
Psalms 119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto
thine ordinances at all times.
Psalms 119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do
wander from thy commandments.
Psalms 119:22 Take away from me reproach and contempt; For I
have kept thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:23 Princes also sat and talked against me; [But] thy
servant did meditate on thy statutes.
Psalms 119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight [And] my
counsellors.
DALETH.
Psalms 119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: Quicken thou me
according to thy word.
Psalms 119:26 I declared my ways, and thou answeredst me: Teach
me thy statutes.
Psalms 119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So
shall I meditate on thy wondrous works.
Psalms 119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me
according unto thy word.
Psalms 119:29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me
thy law graciously.
Psalms 119:30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness: Thine
ordinances have I set [before me].
Psalms 119:31 I cleave unto thy testimonies: O Jehovah, put me not
to shame.
Psalms 119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou
shalt enlarge my heart.
HE.
Psalms 119:33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes; And I
shall keep it unto the end.
Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law;
Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; For
therein do I delight.
Psalms 119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to
covetousness.
Psalms 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And
quicken me in thy ways.
Psalms 119:38 Confirm unto thy servant thy word, Which [is in
order] unto the fear of thee.
Psalms 119:39 Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid; For
thine ordinances are good.
Psalms 119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me
in thy righteousness.
VAV.
Psalms 119:41 Let thy lovingkindnesses also come unto me, O
Jehovah, Even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Psalms 119:42 So shall I have an answer for him that reproacheth
me; For I trust in thy word.
Psalms 119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my
mouth; For I have hoped in thine ordinances.
Psalms 119:44 So shall I observe thy law continually For ever and
ever.
Psalms 119:45 And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought thy
precepts.
Psalms 119:46 I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, And
shall not be put to shame.
Psalms 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments,
Which I have loved.
Psalms 119:48 I will lift up my hands also unto thy commandments,
which I have loved; And I will meditate on thy statutes.
ZAYIN.
Psalms 119:49 Remember the word unto thy servant, Because thou
hast made me to hope.
Psalms 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word
hath quickened me.
Psalms 119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: [Yet]
have I not swerved from thy law.
Psalms 119:52 I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O
Jehovah, And have comforted myself.
Psalms 119:53 Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me, Because of
the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms 119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my
pilgrimage.
Psalms 119:55 I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the
night, And have observed thy law.
Psalms 119:56 This I have had, Because I have kept thy precepts.
HHETH.
Psalms 119:57 Jehovah is my portion: I have said that I would
observe thy words.
Psalms 119:58 I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: Be
merciful unto me according to thy word.
Psalms 119:59 I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy
testimonies.
Psalms 119:60 I made haste, and delayed not, To observe thy
commandments.
Psalms 119:61 The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round;
[But] I have not forgotten thy law.
Psalms 119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee
Because of thy righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, And of
them that observe thy precepts.
Psalms 119:64 The earth, O Jehovah, is full of thy lovingkindness:
Teach me thy statutes.
TETH.
Psalms 119:65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Jehovah,
according unto thy word.
Psalms 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have
believed in thy commandments.
Psalms 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I
observe thy word.
Psalms 119:68 Thou art good, and doest good; Teach me thy
statutes.
Psalms 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: With my
whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms 119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy
law.
Psalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I
may learn thy statutes.
Psalms 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than
thousands of gold and silver.
YODH.
Psalms 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me
understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
Psalms 119:74 They that fear thee shall see me and be glad, Because
I have hoped in thy word.
Psalms 119:75 I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous,
And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
Psalms 119:76 Let, I pray thee, thy lovingkindness be for my
comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant.
Psalms 119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live;
For thy law is my delight.
Psalms 119:78 Let the proud be put to shame; For they have
overthrown me wrongfully: [But] I will meditate on thy precepts.
Psalms 119:79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me; And they shall
know thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:80 Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, That I be not
put to shame.
KAPH.
Psalms 119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation; [But] I hope in thy
word.
Psalms 119:82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt
thou comfort me?
Psalms 119:83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet
do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms 119:84 How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt
thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms 119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not
according to thy law.
Psalms 119:86 All thy commandments are faithful: They persecute
me wrongfully; help thou me.
Psalms 119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; But I
forsook not thy precepts.
LAMEDH.
Psalms 119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; So shall I
observe the testimony of thy mouth.
Psalms 119:89 For ever, O Jehovah, Thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalms 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: Thou hast
established the earth, and it abideth.
Psalms 119:91 They abide this day according to thine ordinances;
For all things are thy servants.
Psalms 119:92 Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then
have perished in mine affliction.
Psalms 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts; For with them thou
hast quickened me.
Psalms 119:94 I am thine, save me; For I have sought thy precepts.
Psalms 119:95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; [But]
I will consider thy testimonies.
MEM.
Psalms 119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection; [But] thy
commandment is exceeding broad.
Psalms 119:97 Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the
day.
Psalms 119:98 Thy commandments make me wiser than mine
enemies; For they are ever with me.
Psalms 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; For
thy testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have
kept thy precepts.
Psalms 119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I
might observe thy word.
Psalms 119:102 I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For
thou hast taught me.
Psalms 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [Yea,
sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore
I hate every false way.
NUN.
Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my
path.
Psalms 119:106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will
observe thy righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119:107 I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Jehovah,
according unto thy word.
Psalms 119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill-offerings of my
mouth, O Jehovah, And teach me thine ordinances.
Psalms 119:109 My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not
forget thy law.
Psalms 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not
gone astray from thy precepts.
Psalms 119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever;
For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Psalms 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes For
ever, even unto the end.
SAMEKH.
Psalms 119:113 I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law
do I love.
Psalms 119:114 Thou art my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in
thy word.
Psalms 119:115 Depart from me, ye evil-doers, That I may keep the
commandments of my God.
Psalms 119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live;
And let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Psalms 119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, And shall have
respect unto thy statutes continually.
Psalms 119:118 Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy
statutes; For their deceit is falsehood.
Psalms 119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like
dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; And I am afraid
of thy judgments.
AYIN.
Psalms 119:121 I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not
to mine oppressors.
Psalms 119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud
oppress me.
Psalms 119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy
righteous word.
Psalms 119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy
lovingkindness, And teach me thy statutes.
Psalms 119:125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, That I may
know thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:126 It is time for Jehovah to work; [For] they have made
void thy law.
Psalms 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold,
yea, above fine gold.
Psalms 119:128 Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts concerning all
[things] to be right; [And] I hate every false way.
PE.
Psalms 119:129 Thy testimonies are wonderful; Therefore doth my
soul keep them.
Psalms 119:130 The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth
understanding unto the simple.
Psalms 119:131 I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed
for thy commandments.
Psalms 119:132 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, As
thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Psalms 119:133 Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any
iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms 119:134 Redeem me from the oppression of man: So will I
observe thy precepts.
Psalms 119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; And teach
me thy statutes.
Psalms 119:136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they
observe not thy law.
TSADHE.
Psalms 119:137 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, And upright are thy
judgments.
Psalms 119:138 Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in
righteousness And very faithfulness.
Psalms 119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine
adversaries have forgotten thy words.
Psalms 119:140 Thy word is very pure; Therefore thy servant loveth
it.
Psalms 119:141 I am small and despised; [Yet] do I not forget thy
precepts.
Psalms 119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And thy law is truth.
Psalms 119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet]
thy commandments are my delight.
Psalms 119:144 Thy testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me
understanding, and I shall live.
QOPH.
Psalms 119:145 I have called with my whole heart; answer me, O
Jehovah: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms 119:146 I have called unto thee; save me, And I shall observe
thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:147 I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried:
I hoped in thy words.
Psalms 119:148 Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I
might meditate on thy word.
Psalms 119:149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness:
Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances.
Psalms 119:150 They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; They
are far from thy law.
Psalms 119:151 Thou art nigh, O Jehovah; And all thy
commandments are truth.
Psalms 119:152 Of old have I known from thy testimonies, That thou
hast founded them for ever.
RESH.
Psalms 119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do
not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:154 Plead thou my cause, and redeem me: Quicken me
according to thy word.
Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not
thy statutes.
Psalms 119:156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Jehovah: Quicken
me according to thine ordinances.
Psalms 119:157 Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries;
[Yet] have I not swerved from thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:158 I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because
they observe not thy word.
Psalms 119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O
Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.
Psalms 119:160 The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy
righteous ordinances [endureth] for ever.
SHIN.
Psalms 119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my
heart standeth in awe of thy words.
Psalms 119:162 I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil.
Psalms 119:163 I hate and abhor falsehood; [But] thy law do I love.
Psalms 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, Because of thy
righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they that love thy law; And they
have no occasion of stumbling.
Psalms 119:166 I have hoped for thy salvation, O Jehovah, And have
done thy commandments.
Psalms 119:167 My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love
them exceedingly.
Psalms 119:168 I have observed thy precepts and thy testimonies;
For all my ways are before thee. TAV.
Psalms 119:169 Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give
me understanding according to thy word.
Psalms 119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: Deliver me
according to thy word.
Psalms 119:171 Let my lips utter praise; For thou teachest me thy
statutes.
Psalms 119:172 Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy
commandments are righteousness.
Psalms 119:173 Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen
thy precepts.
Psalms 119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy
law is my delight.
Psalms 119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; And let
thine ordinances help me.
Psalms 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy
servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms 120
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 120:1 In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered
me.
Psalms 120:2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And]
from a deceitful tongue.
Psalms 120:3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done
more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?
Psalms 120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
Psalms 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell
among the tents of Kedar!
Psalms 120:6 My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that
hateth peace.
Psalms 120:7 I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 121
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From
whence shall my help come?
Psalms 121:2 My help [cometh] from Jehovah, Who made heaven
and earth.
Psalms 121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that
keepeth thee will not slumber.
Psalms 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor
sleep.
Psalms 121:5 Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy
right hand.
Psalms 121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by
night.
Psalms 121:7 Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy
soul.
Psalms 121:8 Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in
From this time forth and for evermore.
Psalms 122
A Song of Ascents; of David.
Psalms 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the
house of Jehovah.
Psalms 122:2 Our feet are standing Within thy gates, O Jerusalem,
Psalms 122:3 Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact
together;
Psalms 122:4 Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah,
[For] an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of
Jehovah.
Psalms 122:5 For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of
the house of David.
Psalms 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper
that love thee.
Psalms 122:7 Peace be within thy walls, And prosperity within thy
palaces.
Psalms 122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now
say, Peace be within thee.
Psalms 122:9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will
seek thy good.
Psalms 123
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 123:1 Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in
the heavens.
Psalms 123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of
their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress; So
our eyes [look] unto Jehovah our God, Until he have mercy upon us.
Psalms 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us;
For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of
those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 124
A Song of Ascents; of David.
Psalms 124:1 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, Let
Israel now say,
Psalms 124:2 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When
men rose up against us;
Psalms 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their
wrath was kindled against us;
Psalms 124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had
gone over our soul;
Psalms 124:5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Psalms 124:6 Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey
to their teeth.
Psalms 124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the
fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Psalms 124:8 Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven
and earth.
Psalms 125
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 125:1 They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which
cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.
Psalms 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So
Jehovah is round about his people From this time forth and for
evermore.
Psalms 125:3 For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the
lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto
iniquity.
Psalms 125:4 Do good, O Jehovah, unto those that are good, And to
them that are upright in their hearts.
Psalms 125:5 But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways,
Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be
upon Israel.
Psalms 126
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 126:1 When Jehovah brought back those that returned to
Zion, We were like unto them that dream.
Psalms 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our
tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath
done great things for them.
Psalms 126:3 Jehovah hath done great things for us, [Whereof] we
are glad.
Psalms 126:4 Turn again our captivity, O Jehovah, As the streams in
the South.
Psalms 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psalms 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for
sowing, Shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves
[with him].
Psalms 127
A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.
Psalms 127:1 Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain
that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but
in vain.
Psalms 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To
eat the bread of toil; [For] so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.
Psalms 127:3 Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; [And] the fruit
of the womb is [his] reward.
Psalms 127:4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the
children of youth.
Psalms 127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies
in the gate.
Psalms 128
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 128:1 Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah, That
walketh in his ways.
Psalms 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt
thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Psalms 128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost
parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy
table.
Psalms 128:4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed That feareth
Jehovah.
Psalms 128:5 Jehovah bless thee out of Zion: And see thou the good
of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Psalms 128:6 Yea, see thou thy children's children. Peace be upon
Israel.
Psalms 129
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,
Psalms 129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long
their furrows.
Psalms 129:4 Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of
the wicked.
Psalms 129:5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All
they that hate Zion.
Psalms 129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which
withereth before it groweth up;
Psalms 129:7 Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that
bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms 129:8 Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of
Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.
Psalms 130
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 130:1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.
Psalms 130:2 Lord, hear my voice: Let thine ears be attentive To the
voice of my supplications.
Psalms 130:3 If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord,
who could stand?
Psalms 130:4 But there is forgiveness with thee, That thou mayest be
feared.
Psalms 130:5 I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait, And in his word
do I hope.
Psalms 130:6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord More than watchmen
[wait] for the morning; [Yea, more than] watchmen for the morning.
Psalms 130:7 O Israel, hope in Jehovah; For with Jehovah there is
lovingkindness, And with him is plenteous redemption.
Psalms 130:8 And he will redeem Israel From all his iniquities.
Psalms 131
A Song of Ascents; of David.
Psalms 131:1 Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty;
Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too
wonderful for me.
Psalms 131:2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a
weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within
me.
Psalms 131:3 O Israel, hope in Jehovah From this time forth and for
evermore.
Psalms 132
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 132:1 Jehovah, remember for David All his affliction;
Psalms 132:2 How he sware unto Jehovah, And vowed unto the
Mighty One of Jacob:
Psalms 132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house,
Nor go up into my bed;
Psalms 132:4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine
eyelids;
Psalms 132:5 Until I find out a place for Jehovah, A tabernacle for
the Mighty One of Jacob.
Psalms 132:6 Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah: We found it in the
field of the wood.
Psalms 132:7 We will go into his tabernacles; We will worship at his
footstool.
Psalms 132:8 Arise, O Jehovah, into thy resting-place; Thou, and the
ark of thy strength.
Psalms 132:9 Let thy priest be clothed with righteousness; And let
thy saints shout for joy.
Psalms 132:10 For thy servant David's sake Turn not away the face
of thine anointed.
Psalms 132:11 Jehovah hath sworn unto David in truth; He will not
turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
Psalms 132:12 If thy children will keep my covenant And my
testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon
thy throne for evermore.
Psalms 132:13 For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for
his habitation.
Psalms 132:14 This is my resting-place for ever: Here will I dwell;
for I have desired it.
Psalms 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy
her poor with bread.
Psalms 132:16 Her priests also will I clothe with salvation; And her
saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Psalms 132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have
ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
Psalms 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame; But upon
himself shall his crown flourish
Psalms 133
. A Song of Ascents; of David.
Psalms 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren
to dwell together in unity!
Psalms 133:2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, That ran down
upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down upon the skirt
of his garments;
Psalms 133:3 Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the
mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even
life for evermore.
Psalms 134
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 134:1 Behold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah,
That by night stand in the house of Jehovah.
Psalms 134:2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye
Jehovah.
Psalms 134:3 Jehovah bless thee out of Zion; Even he that made
heaven and earth.
Psalms 135
Psalms 135:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye the name of Jehovah;
Praise [him], O ye servants of Jehovah,
Psalms 135:2 Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of
the house of our God.
Psalms 135:3 Praise ye Jehovah; for Jehovah is good: Sing praises
unto his name; for it is pleasant.
Psalms 135:4 For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [And]
Israel for his own possession.
Psalms 135:5 For I know that Jehovah is great, And that our Lord is
above all gods.
Psalms 135:6 Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done, In
heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
Psalms 135:7 Who causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the
earth; Who maketh lightnings for the rain; Who bringeth forth the
wind out of his treasuries;
Psalms 135:8 Who smote the first-born of Egypt, Both of man and
beast;
Psalms 135:9 Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O
Egypt, Upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants;
Psalms 135:10 Who smote many nations, And slew mighty kings,
Psalms 135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, And Og king of Bashan,
And all the kingdoms of Canaan,
Psalms 135:12 And gave their land for a heritage, A heritage unto
Israel his people.
Psalms 135:13 Thy name, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; Thy
memorial [name], O Jehovah, throughout all generations.
Psalms 135:14 For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent
himself concerning his servants.
Psalms 135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work
of men's hands.
Psalms 135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have
they, but they see not;
Psalms 135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there
any breath in their mouths.
Psalms 135:18 They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea,
every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms 135:19 O house of Israel, bless ye Jehovah: O house of
Aaron, bless ye Jehovah:
Psalms 135:20 O house of Levi, bless ye Jehovah: Ye that fear
Jehovah, bless ye Jehovah.
Psalms 135:21 Blessed be Jehovah out of Zion, Who dwelleth at
Jerusalem. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 136
Psalms 136:1 Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 136:2 Oh give thanks unto the God of gods; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 136:3 Oh give thanks unto the Lord of lords; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:4 To him who alone doeth great wonders; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:5 To him that by understanding made the heavens; For
his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:6 To him that spread forth the earth above the waters;
For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:7 To him that made great lights; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:8 The sun to rule by day; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their first-born; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:11 And brought out Israel from among them; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:12 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; For
his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:13 To him that divided the Red Sea in sunder; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For
his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea;
For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:16 To him that led his people through the wilderness;
For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:17 To him that smote great kings; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:18 And slew famous kings; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] forever;
Psalms 136:20 And Og king of Bashan; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:21 And gave their land for a heritage; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:22 Even a heritage unto Israel his servant; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
Psalms 136:24 And hath delivered us from our adversaries; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Psalms 136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh; For his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever.
Psalms 136:26 Oh give thanks unto the God of heaven; For his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Psalms 137
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we
wept, When we remembered Zion.
Psalms 137:2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up
our harps.
Psalms 137:3 For there they that led us captive required of us songs,
And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us one
of the songs of Zion.
Psalms 137:4 How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land?
Psalms 137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget
[her skill].
Psalms 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I
remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
Psalms 137:7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom
The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the
foundation thereof.
Psalms 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy
shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.
Psalms 137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little
ones Against the rock.
Psalms 138
A [Psalm] of David.
Psalms 138:1 I will give thee thanks with my whole heart: Before the
gods will I sing praises unto thee.
Psalms 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give
thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For
thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalms 138:3 In the day that I called thou answeredst me, Thou didst
encourage me with strength in my soul.
Psalms 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall give thee thanks, O
Jehovah, For they have heard the words of thy mouth.
Psalms 138:5 Yea, they shall sing of the ways of Jehovah; For great
is the glory of Jehovah.
Psalms 138:6 For though Jehovah is high, yet hath he respect unto
the lowly; But the haughty he knoweth from afar.
Psalms 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive
me; Thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of mine
enemies, And thy right hand will save me.
Psalms 138:8 Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy
lovingkindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; Forsake not the
works of thine own hands.
Psalms 139
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 139:1 O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
Psalms 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;
Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalms 139:3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And
art acquainted with all my ways.
Psalms 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O
Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
Psalms 139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy
hand upon me.
Psalms 139:6 [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I
cannot attain unto it.
Psalms 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I
flee from thy presence?
Psalms 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my
bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
Psalms 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea;
Psalms 139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand
shall hold me.
Psalms 139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me,
And the light about me shall be night;
Psalms 139:12 Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night
shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee].
Psalms 139:13 For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst
cover me in my mother's womb.
Psalms 139:14 I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul
knoweth right well.
Psalms 139:15 My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was
made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the
earth.
Psalms 139:16 Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in
thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained
[for me], When as yet there was none of them.
Psalms 139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
Psalms 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than
the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalms 139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from
me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
Psalms 139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine
enemies take [thy name] in vain.
Psalms 139:21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And
am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Psalms 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become
mine enemies.
Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and
know my thoughts;
Psalms 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead
me in the way everlasting.
Psalms 140
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 140:1 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; Preserve
me from the violent man:
Psalms 140:2 Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do
they gather themselves together for war.
Psalms 140:3 They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent;
Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah
Psalms 140:4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside
my steps.
Psalms 140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They
have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah
Psalms 140:6 I said unto Jehovah, Thou art my God: Give ear unto
the voice of my supplications, O Jehovah.
Psalms 140:7 O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalms 140:8 Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked;
Further not his evil device, [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah
Psalms 140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, Let
the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psalms 140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast
into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.
Psalms 140:11 An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth:
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Psalms 140:12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the
afflicted, And justice for the needy.
Psalms 140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name:
The upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms 141
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 141:1 Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me:
Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
Psalms 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms 141:3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the
door of my lips.
Psalms 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise
deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat
of their dainties.
Psalms 141:5 Let the righteous smite me, [it shall be] a kindness;
And let him reprove me, [it shall be as] oil upon the head; Let not my
head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.
Psalms 141:6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock;
And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
Psalms 141:7 As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our
bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Psalms 141:8 For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord: In
thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute.
Psalms 141:9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I
withal escape
Psalms 142
. Maschil of David, when he was in the cave; a Prayer.
Psalms 142:1 I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto
Jehovah do I make supplication.
Psalms 142:2 I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him
my trouble.
Psalms 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou
knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a
snare for me.
Psalms 142:4 Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man
that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
Psalms 142:5 I cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my
refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
Psalms 142:6 Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low:
Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.
Psalms 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks
unto thy name: The righteous shall compass me about; For thou wilt
deal bountifully with me.
Psalms 143
A Psalm of David.
Psalms 143:1 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my
supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy
righteousness.
Psalms 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in
thy sight no man living is righteous.
Psalms 143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath
smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in
dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My
heart within me is desolate.
Psalms 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy
doings; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Psalms 143:6 I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth]
after thee, as a weary land. Selah
Psalms 143:7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth:
Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down
into the pit.
Psalms 143:8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;
For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should
walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.
Psalms 143:9 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies: I flee unto
thee to hide me.
Psalms 143:10 Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy
Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Psalms 143:11 Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name's sake: In thy
righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
Psalms 143:12 And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And
destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.
Psalms 144
[A Psalm] of David.
Psalms 144:1 Blessed be Jehovah my rock, Who teacheth my hands
to war, [And] my fingers to fight:
Psalms 144:2 My lovingkindness, and my fortress, My high tower,
and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who
subdueth my people under me.
Psalms 144:3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of
him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Psalms 144:4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that
passeth away.
Psalms 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch
the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psalms 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine
arrows, and discomfit them.
Psalms 144:7 Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and
deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens;
Psalms 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand
is a right hand of falsehood.
Psalms 144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: Upon a
psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
Psalms 144:10 Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who
rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Psalms 144:11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,
Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand
of falsehood.
Psalms 144:12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their
youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a
palace;
Psalms 144:13 [When] our garners are full, affording all manner of
store, [And] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our
fields;
Psalms 144:14 [When] our oxen are well laden; [When there is] no
breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets:
Psalms 144:15 Happy is the people that is in such a case; [Yea],
happy is the people whose God is Jehovah
Psalms 145
. [A] [Psalm] [of] praise; of David.
Psalms 145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O King; And I will bless thy
name for ever and ever.
Psalms 145:2 Every day will I bless thee; And I will praise thy name
for ever and ever.
Psalms 145:3 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; And his
greatness is unsearchable.
Psalms 145:4 One generation shall laud thy works to another, And
shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms 145:5 Of the glorious majesty of thine honor, And of thy
wondrous works, will I meditate.
Psalms 145:6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts;
And I will declare thy greatness.
Psalms 145:7 They shall utter the memory of thy great goodness,
And shall sing of thy righteousness.
Psalms 145:8 Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and
of great lovingkindness.
Psalms 145:9 Jehovah is good to all; And his tender mercies are over
all his works.
Psalms 145:10 All thy works shall give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah;
And thy saints shall bless thee.
Psalms 145:11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, And
talk of thy power;
Psalms 145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
And the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
Psalms 145:13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And thy
dominion [endureth] throughout all generations.
Psalms 145:14 Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all
those that are bowed down.
Psalms 145:15 The eyes of all wait for thee; And thou givest them
their food in due season.
Psalms 145:16 Thou openest thy hand, And satisfiest the desire of
every living thing.
Psalms 145:17 Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in
all his works.
Psalms 145:18 Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To
all that call upon him in truth.
Psalms 145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him; He also
will hear their cry and will save them.
Psalms 145:20 Jehovah preserveth all them that love him; But all the
wicked will he destroy.
Psalms 145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; And let
all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Psalms 146
Psalms 146:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
Psalms 146:2 While I live will I praise Jehovah: I will sing praises
unto my God while I have any being.
Psalms 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in
whom there is no help.
Psalms 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that
very day his thoughts perish.
Psalms 146:5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:
Psalms 146:6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in
them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;
Psalms 146:7 Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth
food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
Psalms 146:8 Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah
raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;
Psalms 146:9 Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the
fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside
down.
Psalms 146:10 Jehovah will reign for ever, Thy God, O Zion, unto
all generations. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 147
Psalms 147:1 Praise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto
our God; For it is pleasant, [and] praise is comely.
Psalms 147:2 Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth
together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their
wounds.
Psalms 147:4 He counteth the number of the stars; He calleth them
all by [their] names.
Psalms 147:5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His
understanding is infinite.
Psalms 147:6 Jehovah upholdeth the meek: He bringeth the wicked
down to the ground.
Psalms 147:7 Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; Sing praises
upon the harp unto our God,
Psalms 147:8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth
rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psalms 147:9 He giveth to the beast his food, [And] to the young
ravens which cry.
Psalms 147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: He
taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psalms 147:11 Jehovah taketh pleasure in them that fear him, In
those that hope in his lovingkindness.
Psalms 147:12 Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; Praise thy God, O Zion.
Psalms 147:13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He
hath blessed thy children within thee.
Psalms 147:14 He maketh peace in thy borders; He filleth thee with
the finest of the wheat.
Psalms 147:15 He sendeth out his commandment upon earth; His
word runneth very swiftly.
Psalms 147:16 He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-
frost like ashes.
Psalms 147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand
before his cold?
Psalms 147:18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He
causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Psalms 147:19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his
ordinances unto Israel.
Psalms 147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his
ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 148
Psalms 148:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah from the
heavens: Praise him in the heights.
Psalms 148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: Praise ye him, all his
host.
Psalms 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars
of light.
Psalms 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that
are above the heavens.
Psalms 148:5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For he
commanded, and they were created.
Psalms 148:6 He hath also established them for ever and ever: He
hath made a decree which shall not pass away.
Psalms 148:7 Praise Jehovah from the earth, Ye sea-monsters, and
all deeps.
Psalms 148:8 Fire and hail, snow and vapor; Stormy wind, fulfilling
his word;
Psalms 148:9 Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars;
Psalms 148:10 Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and flying
birds;
Psalms 148:11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all
judges of the earth;
Psalms 148:12 Both young men and virgins; Old men and children:
Psalms 148:13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For his name
alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Psalms 148:14 And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, The
praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near
unto him. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 149
Psalms 149:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Sing unto Jehovah a new song, And
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
Psalms 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Psalms 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing
praises unto him with timbrel and harp.
Psalms 149:4 For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people: He will
beautify the meek with salvation.
Psalms 149:5 Let the saints exult in glory: Let them sing for joy
upon their beds.
Psalms 149:6 [Let] the high praises of God [be] in their mouth, And
a two-edged sword in their hand;
Psalms 149:7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, And
punishments upon the peoples;
Psalms 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with
fetters of iron;
Psalms 149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: This
honor have all his saints. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalms 150
Psalms 150:1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise
him in the firmament of his power.
Psalms 150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: Praise him according to
his excellent greatness.
Psalms 150:3 Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with
psaltery and harp.
Psalms 150:4 Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with
stringed instruments and pipe.
Psalms 150:5 Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high
sounding cymbals.
Psalms 150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise Jehovah. Praise
ye Jehovah.
Proverbs
Proverbs 1
Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of
Israel:
Proverbs 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words
of understanding;
Proverbs 1:3 To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness
and justice and equity;
Proverbs 1:4 To give prudence to the simple, To the young man
knowledge and discretion:
Proverbs 1:5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
Proverbs 1:6 To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of
the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge;
[But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake
not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And
chains about thy neck.
Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood;
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as
those that go down into the pit;
Proverbs 1:13 We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our
houses with spoil;
Proverbs 1:14 Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have
one purse:
Proverbs 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain
thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
blood.
Proverbs 1:17 For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
Proverbs 1:18 And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk
privily for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It
taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her
voice in the broad places;
Proverbs 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the
entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my
spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have
stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
Proverbs 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would
none of my reproof:
Proverbs 1:26 I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will
mock when your fear cometh;
Proverbs 1:27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity
cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon
you.
Proverbs 1:28 Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose
the fear of Jehovah:
Proverbs 1:30 They would none of my counsel; They despised all
my reproof.
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
And be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 1:32 For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And
the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
Proverbs 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely,
And shall be quiet without fear of evil.
Proverbs 2
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my
commandments with thee;
Proverbs 2:2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy
heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy
voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4 If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid
treasures:
Proverbs 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And
find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh]
knowledge and understanding:
Proverbs 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a
shield to them that walk in integrity;
Proverbs 2:8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve
the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice,
And equity, [yea], every good path.
Proverbs 2:10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge
shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall
keep thee:
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men
that speak perverse things;
Proverbs 2:13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the
ways of darkness;
Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the
perverseness of evil;
Proverbs 2:15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their
paths:
Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from
the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 2:17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth
the covenant of her God:
Proverbs 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths
unto the dead;
Proverbs 2:19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they
attain unto the paths of life:
Proverbs 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And
keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the
perfect shall remain in it.
Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the
treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 3
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my
commandments:
Proverbs 3:2 For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will
they add to thee.
Proverbs 3:3 Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them
about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
Proverbs 3:4 So shalt thou find favor and good understanding In the
sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon
thine own understanding:
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct
thy paths.
Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes; Fear Jehovah, and
depart from evil:
Proverbs 3:8 It will be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-
fruits of all thine increase:
Proverbs 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, And thy vats
shall overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah;
Neither be weary of his reproof:
Proverbs 3:12 For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth; Even as a
father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man
that getteth understanding.
Proverbs 3:14 For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of
silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold.
Proverbs 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: And none of the
things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.
Proverbs 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand
are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths
are peace.
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her:
And happy is every one that retaineth her.
Proverbs 3:19 Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By
understanding he established the heavens.
Proverbs 3:20 By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the
skies drop down the dew.
Proverbs 3:21 My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep
sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, And grace to thy
neck.
Proverbs 3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way securely, And thy
foot shall not stumble.
Proverbs 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea,
thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Proverbs 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation
of the wicked, when it cometh:
Proverbs 3:26 For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy
foot from being taken.
Proverbs 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due,
When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
Proverbs 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, And
to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.
Proverbs 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbor, Seeing he
dwelleth securely by thee.
Proverbs 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done
thee no harm.
Proverbs 3:31 Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none
of his ways.
Proverbs 3:32 For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But
his friendship is with the upright.
Proverbs 3:33 The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked;
But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.
Proverbs 3:34 Surely he scoffeth at the scoffers; But he giveth grace
unto the lowly.
Proverbs 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory; But shame shall be the
promotion of fools.
Proverbs 4
Proverbs 4:1 Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a father, And attend
to know understanding:
Proverbs 4:2 For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.
Proverbs 4:3 For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only
beloved in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs 4:4 And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart
retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither
decline from the words of my mouth;
Proverbs 4:6 Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her,
and she will keep thee.
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get
wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 4:8 Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring
thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
Proverbs 4:9 She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown
of beauty will she deliver to thee.
Proverbs 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the
years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led
thee in paths of uprightness.
Proverbs 4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened;
And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Proverbs 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her;
for she is thy life.
Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in
the way of evil men.
Proverbs 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their
sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the
wine of violence.
Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light,
That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not
at what they stumble.
Proverbs 4:20 My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto
my sayings.
Proverbs 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the
midst of thy heart.
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health
to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the
issues of life.
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse
lips put far from thee.
Proverbs 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids
look straight before thee.
Proverbs 4:26 Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways
be established.
Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy
foot from evil.
Proverbs 5
Proverbs 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to
my understanding:
Proverbs 5:2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips
may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her
mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a
two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on
Sheol;
Proverbs 5:6 So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways
are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
Proverbs 5:7 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And
depart not from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the
door of her house;
Proverbs 5:9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years
unto the cruel;
Proverbs 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy
labors [be] in the house of an alien,
Proverbs 5:11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and
thy body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart
despised reproof;
Proverbs 5:13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor
inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14 I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the
assembly and congregation.
Proverbs 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running
waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams
of water in the streets?
Proverbs 5:17 Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers
with thee.
Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of
thy youth.
Proverbs 5:19 [As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts
satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
Proverbs 5:20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a
strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;
And he maketh level all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall
be holden with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the
greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6:1 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If
thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
Proverbs 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art
taken with the words of thy mouth.
Proverbs 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou
art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and
importune thy neighbor;
Proverbs 6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine
eyelids;
Proverbs 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter],
And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be
wise:
Proverbs 6:7 Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8 Provideth her bread in the summer, And gathereth her
food in the harvest.
Proverbs 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou
arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of
the hands to sleep:
Proverbs 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want
as an armed man.
Proverbs 6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that
walketh with a perverse mouth;
Proverbs 6:13 That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his
feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;
Proverbs 6:14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil
continually, Who soweth discord.
Proverbs 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a
sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
Proverbs 6:16 There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven
which are an abomination unto him:
Proverbs 6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed
innocent blood;
Proverbs 6:18 A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are
swift in running to mischief,
Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth
discord among brethren.
Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And
forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 6:21 Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about
thy neck.
Proverbs 6:22 When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou
sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall
talk with thee.
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;
And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery
of the foreigner's tongue.
Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her
take thee with her eyelids.
Proverbs 6:26 For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a
piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
Proverbs 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not
be burned?
Proverbs 6:28 Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be
scorched?
Proverbs 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever
toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy
himself when he is hungry:
Proverbs 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He
shall give all the substance of his house.
Proverbs 6:32 He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of
understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
Proverbs 6:33 Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach
shall not be wiped away.
Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not
spare in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest
content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 7
Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, And lay up my
commandments with thee.
Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the
apple of thine eye.
Proverbs 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet
of thy heart.
Proverbs 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call
understanding [thy] kinswoman:
Proverbs 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through
my lattice;
Proverbs 7:7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned
among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he went
the way to her house,
Proverbs 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle
of the night and in the darkness.
Proverbs 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire
of a harlot, and wily of heart.
Proverbs 7:11 She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her
house:
Proverbs 7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places,
And lieth in wait at every corner.
Proverbs 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an
impudent face she said unto him:
Proverbs 7:14 Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day
have I paid my vows.
Proverbs 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to
seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Proverbs 7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With
striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
Proverbs 7:17 I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and
cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;
Let us solace ourselves with loves.
Proverbs 7:19 For the man is not at home; He is gone a long
journey:
Proverbs 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come
home at the full moon.
Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield;
With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
Proverbs 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the
slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
Proverbs 7:23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird
hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs 7:24 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And
attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in
her paths.
Proverbs 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her
slain are a mighty host.
Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the
chambers of death.
Proverbs 8
Proverbs 8:1 Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her
voice?
Proverbs 8:2 On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths
meet, she standeth;
Proverbs 8:3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming
in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
Proverbs 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of
men.
Proverbs 8:5 O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of
an understanding heart.
Proverbs 8:6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening
of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 8:7 For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an
abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There
is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right
to them that find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; And
knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things
that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find
out knowledge [and] discretion.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am
understanding; I have might.
Proverbs 8:15 By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
Proverbs 8:16 By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges
of the earth.
Proverbs 8:17 I love them that love me; And those that seek me
diligently shall find me.
Proverbs 8:18 Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth
and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And
my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the
paths of justice;
Proverbs 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
Proverbs 8:22 Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way,
Before his works of old.
Proverbs 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
Before the earth was.
Proverbs 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth,
When there were no fountains abounding with water.
Proverbs 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills
was I brought forth;
Proverbs 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Proverbs 8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When
he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:28 When he made firm the skies above, When the
fountains of the deep became strong,
Proverbs 8:29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters
should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the
foundations of the earth;
Proverbs 8:30 Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was
daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,
Proverbs 8:31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was
with the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:32 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For
blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.
Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at
my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain
favor of Jehovah.
Proverbs 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:
All they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 9
Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her
seven pillars:
Proverbs 9:2 She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine;
She hath also furnished her table:
Proverbs 9:3 She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the
highest places of the city:
Proverbs 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that
is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs 9:5 Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine
which I have mingled.
Proverbs 9:6 Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the
way of understanding.
Proverbs 9:7 He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling;
And he that reproveth a wicked man [getteth] himself a blot.
Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise
man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs 9:9 Give [instruction] to a wise man, and he will be yet
wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And
the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years
of thy life shall be increased.
Proverbs 9:12 If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou
scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs 9:13 The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and
knoweth nothing.
Proverbs 9:14 And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in
the high places of the city,
Proverbs 9:15 To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their
ways:
Proverbs 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for
him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is
pleasant.
Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her
guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 10
Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad
father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But
righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 10:3 Jehovah will not suffer the soul of the righteous to
famish; But he thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:4 He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand;
But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 10:5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; [But] he
that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Proverbs 10:6 Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But
violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name
of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a
prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely; But he that
perverteth his ways shall be known.
Proverbs 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a
prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But
violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all
transgressions.
Proverbs 10:13 In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is
found; But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs 10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the
foolish is a present destruction.
Proverbs 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The
destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 10:16 The labor of the righteous [tendeth] to life; The
increase of the wicked, to sin.
Proverbs 10:17 He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But
he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
Proverbs 10:18 He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that
uttereth a slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not
transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the righteous is [as] choice silver: The
heart of the wicked is little worth.
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish
die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he
addeth no sorrow therewith.
Proverbs 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And [so is]
wisdom to a man of understanding.
Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And
the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs 10:25 When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more;
But the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So
is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs 10:27 The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; But the years
of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness; But
the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 10:29 The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright;
But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed; But the
wicked shall not dwell in the land.
Proverbs 10:31 The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom;
But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.
Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable;
But the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] perverseness.
Proverbs 11
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a
just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the
lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the
perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But
righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way;
But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them;
But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.
Proverbs 11:7 When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall
perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.
Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, And the
wicked cometh in his stead.
Proverbs 11:9 With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his
neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.
Proverbs 11:10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city
rejoiceth; And when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs 11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; But
it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 11:12 He that despiseth his neighbor is void of wisdom;
But a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Proverbs 11:13 He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth
secrets; But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth a matter.
Proverbs 11:14 Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in
the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; But
he that hateth suretyship is secure.
Proverbs 11:16 A gracious woman obtaineth honor; And violent
men obtain riches.
Proverbs 11:17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; But
he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Proverbs 11:18 The wicked earneth deceitful wages; But he that
soweth righteousness [hath] a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:19 He that is stedfast in righteousness [shall attain] unto
life; And he that pursueth evil [doeth it] to his own death.
Proverbs 11:20 They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to
Jehovah; But such as are perfect in [their] way are his delight.
Proverbs 11:21 [Though] hand [join] in hand, the evil man shall not
be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Proverbs 11:22 [As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair
woman that is without discretion.
Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good; [But] the
expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 11:24 There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more;
And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] only
to want.
Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat; And he that
watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 11:26 He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse
him; But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
Proverbs 11:27 He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favor; But he
that searcheth after evil, it shall come unto him.
Proverbs 11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; But the
righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the
wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that
is wise winneth souls.
Proverbs 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the
earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Proverbs 12
Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he
that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 12:2 A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man
of wicked devices will he condemn.
Proverbs 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness; But
the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Proverbs 12:4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But
she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are just; [But] the
counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for
blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Proverbs 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the
house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom;
But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Proverbs 12:9 Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a
servant, Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But
the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread;
But he that followeth after vain [persons] is void of understanding.
Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root
of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
Proverbs 12:13 In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil
man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his
mouth; And the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he
that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
Proverbs 12:16 A fool's vexation is presently known; But a prudent
man concealeth shame.
Proverbs 12:17 He that uttereth truth showeth forth righteousness;
But a false witness, deceit.
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a
sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a
lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; But to
the counsellors of peace is joy.
Proverbs 12:21 There shall no mischief happen to the righteous; But
the wicked shall be filled with evil.
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they
that deal truly are his delight.
Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge; But the heart
of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the
slothful shall be put under taskwork.
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But
a good word maketh it glad.
Proverbs 12:26 The righteous is a guide to his neighbor; But the way
of the wicked causeth them to err.
Proverbs 12:27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in
hunting; But the precious substance of men [is to] the diligent.
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life; And in the
pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs 13
Proverbs 13:1 A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction; But a
scoffer heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But
the soul of the treacherous [shall eat] violence.
Proverbs 13:3 He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; [But] he
that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing;
But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hateth lying; But a wicked man is
loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the
way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs 13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing:
There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.
Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life is his riches; But the poor
heareth no threatening.
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of
the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs 13:10 By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-
advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he
that gathereth by labor shall have increase.
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the
desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:13 Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on
himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one
may depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the
transgressor is hard.
Proverbs 13:16 Every prudent man worketh with knowledge; But a
fool flaunteth [his] folly.
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful
ambassador is health.
Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth
correction; But he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.
Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; But it
is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs 13:20 Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the
companion of fools shall smart for it.
Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursueth sinners; But the righteous shall be
recompensed with good.
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's
children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:23 Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor; But there is
that is destroyed by reason of injustice.
Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that
loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 13:25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But
the belly of the wicked shall want.
Proverbs 14
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish
plucketh it down with her own hands.
Proverbs 14:2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah;
But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for [his] pride; But
the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Proverbs 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much
increase is by the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness
uttereth lies.
Proverbs 14:6 A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not; But
knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
Proverbs 14:7 Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt
not perceive [in him] the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way;
But the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 14:9 A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the
upright there is good will.
Proverbs 14:10 The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger
doth not intermeddle with its joy.
Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But
the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But
the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end
of mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own
ways; And a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
Proverbs 14:15 The simple believeth every word; But the prudent
man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; But the
fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.
Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man
of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs 14:18 The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are
crowned with knowledge.
Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow down before the good; And the
wicked, at the gates of the righteous.
Proverbs 14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the
rich hath many friends.
Proverbs 14:21 He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth; But he that
hath pity on the poor, happy is he.
Proverbs 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth
[shall be to] them that devise good.
Proverbs 14:23 In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips
[tendeth] only to penury.
Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches; [But] the folly
of fools is [only] folly.
Proverbs 14:25 A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth
lies [causeth] deceit.
Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his
children shall have a place of refuge.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, That one
may depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in
the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to anger is of great understanding;
But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is
the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker;
But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the
righteous hath a refuge in his death.
Proverbs 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath
understanding; But [that which is] in the inward part of fools is made
known.
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a
reproach to any people.
Proverbs 14:35 The king's favor is toward a servant that dealeth
wisely; But his wrath will be [against] him that causeth shame.
Proverbs 15
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous
word stirreth up anger.
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright; But
the mouth of fools poureth out folly.
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, Keeping
watch upon the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness
therein is a breaking of the spirit.
Proverbs 15:5 A fool despiseth his father's correction; But he that
regardeth reproof getteth prudence.
Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure; But in
the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart
of the foolish [doeth] not so.
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to
Jehovah; But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah;
But he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Proverbs 15:10 There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh
the way; [And] he that hateth reproof shall die.
Proverbs 15:11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much
more then the hearts of the children of men!
Proverbs 15:12 A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go
unto the wise.
Proverbs 15:13 A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by
sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh
knowledge; But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.
Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of
a cheerful heart [hath] a continual feast.
Proverbs 15:16 Better is little, with the fear of Jehovah, Than great
treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a
stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is
slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 15:19 The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But
the path of the upright is made a highway.
Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man
despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man
of understanding maketh straight his going.
Proverbs 15:22 Where there is no counsel, purposes are
disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Proverbs 15:23 A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a
word in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs 15:24 To the wise the way of life [goeth] upward, That he
may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 15:25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he
will establish the border of the widow.
Proverbs 15:26 Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But
pleasant words [are] pure.
Proverbs 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house;
But he that hateth bribes shall live.
Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; But
the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Proverbs 15:29 Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the
prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; [And] good
tidings make the bones fat.
Proverbs 15:31 The ear that hearkeneth to the reproof of life Shall
abide among the wise.
Proverbs 15:32 He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul;
But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of Jehovah is the instruction of wisdom;
And before honor [goeth] humility.
Proverbs 16
Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer
of the tongue is from Jehovah.
Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But
Jehovah weigheth the spirits.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes
shall be established.
Proverbs 16:4 Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea,
even the wicked for the day of evil.
Proverbs 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to
Jehovah: [Though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the
fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please Jehovah, He maketh even
his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great
revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth
his steps.
Proverbs 16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His
mouth shall not transgress in judgment.
Proverbs 16:11 A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the
weights of the bag are his work.
Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness;
For the throne is established by righteousness.
Proverbs 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they
love him that speaketh right.
Proverbs 16:14 The wrath of a king is [as] messengers of death; But
a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 16:15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his
favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea,
to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He
that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride [goeth] before destruction, And a haughty
spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than
to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 16:20 He that giveth heed unto the word shall find good;
And whoso trusteth in Jehovah, happy is he.
Proverbs 16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the
sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that
hath it; But the correction of fools is [their] folly.
Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And
addeth learning to his lips.
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, Sweet to the
soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But
the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 16:26 The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him;
For his mouth urgeth him [thereto].
Proverbs 16:27 A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips
there is as a scorching fire.
Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a
whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 16:29 A man of violence enticeth his neighbor, And
leadeth him in a way that is not good.
Proverbs 16:30 He that shutteth his eyes, [it is] to devise perverse
things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.
Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found
in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; But the whole disposing
thereof is of Jehovah.
Proverbs 17
Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than
a house full of feasting with strife.
Proverbs 17:2 A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a
son that causeth shame, And shall have part in the inheritance among
the brethren.
Proverbs 17:3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold;
But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Proverbs 17:4 An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; [And] a liar
giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 17:5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker;
[And] he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; And the
glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool; Much less do
lying lips a prince.
Proverbs 17:8 A bribe is [as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that
hath it; Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Proverbs 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he
that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 17:10 A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath
understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a
cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather
than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs 17:13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart
from his house.
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is [as] when one letteth out
water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that
condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to
Jehovah.
Proverbs 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to
buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for
adversity.
Proverbs 17:18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, And
becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.
Proverbs 17:19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: He that
raiseth high his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs 17:20 He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And
he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Proverbs 17:21 He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And
the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken
spirit drieth up the bones.
Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom,
To pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom is before the face of him that hath
understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness
to her that bare him.
Proverbs 17:26 Also to punish the righteous is not good, [Nor] to
smite the noble for [their] uprightness.
Proverbs 17:27 He that spareth his words hath knowledge; And he
that is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted
wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is [esteemed as] prudent.
Proverbs 18
Proverbs 18:1 He that separateth himself seeketh [his own] desire,
And rageth against all sound wisdom.
Proverbs 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that
his heart may reveal itself.
Proverbs 18:3 When the wicked cometh, there cometh also
contempt, And with ignominy [cometh] reproach.
Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are [as] deep waters; The
wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook.
Proverbs 18:5 To respect the person of the wicked is not good, [Nor]
to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth
calleth for stripes.
Proverbs 18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the
snare of his soul.
Proverbs 18:8 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And
they go down into the innermost parts.
Proverbs 18:9 He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that
is a destroyer.
Proverbs 18:10 The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The
righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Proverbs 18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a
high wall in his own imagination.
Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And
before honor [goeth] humility.
Proverbs 18:13 He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly
and shame unto him.
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a
broken spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; And the
ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs 18:16 A man's gift maketh room for him, And bringeth
him before great men.
Proverbs 18:17 He that pleadeth his cause first [seemeth] just; But
his neighbor cometh and searcheth him out.
Proverbs 18:18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, And parteth
between the mighty.
Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a
strong city; And [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Proverbs 18:20 A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his
mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And
they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And
obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
Proverbs 18:23 The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth
roughly.
Proverbs 18:24 He that maketh many friends [doeth it] to his own
destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he
that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Proverbs 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good;
And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Proverbs 19:3 The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his
heart fretteth against Jehovah.
Proverbs 19:4 Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated
from his friend.
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that
uttereth lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 19:6 Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And
every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Proverbs 19:7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much
more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth [them with] words,
[but] they are gone.
Proverbs 19:8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: He that
keepeth understanding shall find good.
Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that
uttereth lies shall perish.
Proverbs 19:10 Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less
for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger;
And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs 19:12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his
favor is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the
contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers;
But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle
soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his soul;
[But] he that is careless of his ways shall die.
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto
Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.
Proverbs 19:18 Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; nd set not thy
heart on his destruction.
Proverbs 19:19 A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if
thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou
mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; But the
counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
Proverbs 19:22 That which maketh a man to be desired is his
kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs 19:23 The fear of Jehovah [tendeth] to life; And he [that
hath it] shall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.
Proverbs 19:24 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will
not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs 19:25 Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
And reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand
knowledge.
Proverbs 19:26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth
away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction [Only] to err from
the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 19:28 A worthless witness mocketh at justice; And the
mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for
the back of fools.
Proverbs 20
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And
whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that
provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life.
Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But
every fool will be quarrelling.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is [like] deep water; But a
man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness;
But a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 20:7 A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed
are his children after him.
Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment
Scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure
from my sin?
Proverbs 20:10 Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of
them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:11 Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath
made even both of them.
Proverbs 20:13 Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine
eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs 20:14 It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; But when he is
gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs 20:15 There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips
of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And
hold him in pledge [that is surety] for foreigners.
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards
his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel; And by
wise guidance make thou war.
Proverbs 20:19 He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth
secrets; Therefore company not with him that openeth wide his lips.
Proverbs 20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp
shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the
beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for
Jehovah, and he will save thee.
Proverbs 20:23 Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And
a false balance is not good.
Proverbs 20:24 A man's goings are of Jehovah; How then can man
understand his way?
Proverbs 20:25 It is a snare to a man rashly to say, [It is] holy, And
after vows to make inquiry.
Proverbs 20:26 A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth
the [threshing] -wheel over them.
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching
all his innermost parts.
Proverbs 20:28 Kindness and truth preserve the king; And his throne
is upholden by kindness.
Proverbs 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength; And the
beauty of old men is the hoary head.
Proverbs 20:30 Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes
[reach] the innermost parts.
Proverbs 21
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the
watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.
Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But
Jehovah weigheth the hearts.
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to
Jehovah than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:4 A high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the
wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to
plenteousness; But every one that is hasty [hasteth] only to want.
Proverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor
driven to and fro by them that seek death.
Proverbs 21:7 The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away,
Because they refuse to do justice.
Proverbs 21:8 The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding
crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop,
Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: His neighbor
findeth no favor in his eyes.
Proverbs 21:11 When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made
wise; And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man considereth the house of the
wicked, [How] the wicked are overthrown to [their] ruin.
Proverbs 21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He
also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger; And a present in the
bosom, strong wrath.
Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a
destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of
understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
Proverbs 21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that
loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Proverbs 21:18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the
treacherous [cometh] in the stead of the upright.
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a
contentious and fretful woman.
Proverbs 21:20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of
the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.
Proverbs 21:21 He that followeth after righteousness and kindness
Findeth life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:22 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And
bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
Proverbs 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue Keepeth
his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 21:24 The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He
worketh in the arrogance of pride.
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands
refuse to labor.
Proverbs 21:26 There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; But
the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How
much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!
Proverbs 21:28 A false witness shall perish; But the man that
heareth shall speak so as to endure.
Proverbs 21:29 A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the
upright, he establisheth his ways.
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel
against Jehovah.
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle; But
victory is of Jehovah.
Proverbs 22
Proverbs 22:1 A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great
riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the
maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But
the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Proverbs 22:4 The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah [Is]
riches, and honor, and life.
Proverbs 22:5 Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He
that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And even
when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is
servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the
rod of his wrath shall fail.
Proverbs 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he
giveth of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea,
strife and ignominy will cease.
Proverbs 22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of
his lips the king will be his friend.
Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath]
knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
Proverbs 22:13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be
slain in the streets.
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is
abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But]
the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 22:16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain],
[And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.
Proverbs 22:17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,
And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
Proverbs 22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within
thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
Proverbs 22:19 That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made
[them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
Proverbs 22:20 Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of
counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21 To make thee know the certainty of the words of
truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send
thee?
Proverbs 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither
oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs 22:23 For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of
life those that despoil them.
Proverbs 22:24 Make no friendship with a man that is given to
anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs 22:25 Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy
soul.
Proverbs 22:26 Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of
them that are sureties for debts.
Proverbs 22:27 If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he
take away thy bed from under thee?
Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers
have set.
Proverbs 22:29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall
stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.
Proverbs 23
Proverbs 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider
diligently him that is before thee;
Proverbs 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given
to appetite.
Proverbs 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are
deceitful food.
Proverbs 23:4 Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own
wisdom.
Proverbs 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For
[riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth
toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
Neither desire thou his dainties:
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and
drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up,
And lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 23:9 Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise
the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 23:10 Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not
into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23:11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their
cause against thee.
Proverbs 23:12 Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to
the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou
beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver
his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 23:15 My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad,
even mine:
Proverbs 23:16 Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right
things.
Proverbs 23:17 Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the
fear of Jehovah all the day long:
Proverbs 23:18 For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not
be cut off.
Proverbs 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart
in the way.
Proverbs 23:20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous
eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to
poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
Proverbs 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise
not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and
instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And
he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Proverbs 23:25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her
that bare thee rejoice.
Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes
delight in my ways.
Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is
a narrow pit.
Proverbs 23:28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the
treacherous among men.
Proverbs 23:29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without
cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek
out mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it
sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
Proverbs 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like
an adder.
Proverbs 23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy
heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst
of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Proverbs 23:35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was
not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake?
I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs 24
Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire
to be with them:
Proverbs 24:2 For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk
of mischief.
Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom is a house builded; And by
understanding it is established;
Proverbs 24:4 And by knowledge are the chambers filled With all
precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong; Yea, a man of knowledge
increaseth might
Proverbs 24:6 For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in
the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his
mouth in the gate.
Proverbs 24:8 He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a
mischief-maker.
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin; And the scoffer is
an abomination to men.
Proverbs 24:10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is
small.
Proverbs 24:11 Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And
those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.
Proverbs 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this; Doth not
he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul,
doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according
to his work?
Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the
droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:
Proverbs 24:14 So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If
thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall
not be cut off.
Proverbs 24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation
of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:
Proverbs 24:16 For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth
up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not
thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;
Proverbs 24:18 Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he
turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; Neither be
thou envious at the wicked:
Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The
lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king; [And]
company not with them that are given to change:
Proverbs 24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the
destruction from them both, who knoweth it?
Proverbs 24:23 These also are [sayings] of the wise. To have respect
of persons in judgment is not good.
Proverbs 24:24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous;
Peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him:
Proverbs 24:25 But to them that rebuke [him] shall be delight, And a
good blessing shall come upon them.
Proverbs 24:26 He kisseth the lips Who giveth a right answer.
Proverbs 24:27 Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for
thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.
Proverbs 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause;
And deceive not with thy lips.
Proverbs 24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to his work.
Proverbs 24:30 I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the
vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Proverbs 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face
thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was
broken down.
Proverbs 24:32 Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and
received instruction:
Proverbs 24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of
the hands to sleep;
Proverbs 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want
as an armed man.
Proverbs 25
Proverbs 25:1 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men
of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But the glory
of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 25:3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, So
the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Proverbs 25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, And there
cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:
Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked [from] before the king, And his
throne shall be established in righteousness.
Proverbs 25:6 Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king,
And stand not in the place of great men:
Proverbs 25:7 For better is it 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.
Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest [thou know not]
what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to
shame.
Proverbs 25:9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbor [himself], And
disclose not the secret of another;
Proverbs 25:10 Lest he that heareth it revile thee, And thine infamy
turn not away.
Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken Is [like] apples of gold in
network of silver.
Proverbs 25:12 [As] an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine
gold, [So is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [So is] a
faithful messenger to them that send him; For he refresheth the soul
of his masters.
Proverbs 25:14 [As] clouds and wind without rain, [So is] he that
boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.
Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft
tongue breaketh the bone.
Proverbs 25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient
for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs 25:17 Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, Lest
he be weary of thee, and hate thee.
Proverbs 25:18 A man that beareth false witness against his
neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is
[like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Proverbs 25:20 [As] one that taketh off a garment in cold weather,
[and as] vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy
heart.
Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Proverbs 25:22 For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, And
Jehovah will reward thee.
Proverbs 25:23 The north wind bringeth forth rain: So doth a
backbiting tongue an angry countenance.
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop,
Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 25:25 [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news
from a far country.
Proverbs 25:26 [As] a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [So
is] a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: So [for men] to
search out their own glory is grievous.
Proverbs 25:28 He whose spirit is without restraint Is [like] a city
that is broken down and without walls.
Proverbs 26
Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor
is not seemly for a fool.
Proverbs 26:2 As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in
her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.
Proverbs 26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod
for the back of fools.
Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou
also be like unto him.
Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise
in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool
Cutteth off [his own] feet, [and] drinketh in damage.
Proverbs 26:7 The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the
mouth of fools.
Proverbs 26:8 As one that bindeth a stone in a sling, So is he that
giveth honor to a fool.
Proverbs 26:9 [As] a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs 26:10 [As] an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth
a fool and he that hireth them that pass by.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, [So is] a fool
that repeateth his folly.
Proverbs 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is
more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 26:13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion
is in the streets.
Proverbs 26:14 [As] the door turneth upon its hinges, So doth the
sluggard upon his bed.
Proverbs 26:15 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish; It wearieth
him to bring it again to his mouth.
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven
men that can render a reason.
Proverbs 26:17 He that passeth by, [and] vexeth himself with strife
belonging not to him, Is [like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Proverbs 26:18 As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and
death,
Proverbs 26:19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith,
Am not I in sport?
Proverbs 26:20 For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there
is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
Proverbs 26:21 [As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is
a contentious man to inflame strife.
Proverbs 26:22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And
they go down into the innermost parts.
Proverbs 26:23 Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are [like] an earthen
vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Proverbs 26:24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips; But he
layeth up deceit within him:
Proverbs 26:25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not; For there
are seven abominations in his heart:
Proverbs 26:26 Though [his] hatred cover itself with guile, His
wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.
Proverbs 26:27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that
rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded;
And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Proverbs 27
Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not
what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own
mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's
vexation is heavier than they both.
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who
is able to stand before jealousy?
Proverbs 27:5 Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of
an enemy are profuse.
Proverbs 27:7 The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry
soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs 27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man
that wandereth from his place.
Proverbs 27:9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the
sweetness of a man's friend [that cometh] of hearty counsel.
Proverbs 27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake
not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I
may answer him that reproacheth me.
Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself;
[But] the simple pass on, [and] suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And
hold him in pledge [that is surety] for a foreign woman.
Proverbs 27:14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising
early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.
Proverbs 27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a
contentious woman are alike:
Proverbs 27:16 He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And
his right hand encountereth oil.
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the
countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 27:18 Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof;
And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.
Proverbs 27:19 As in water face [answereth] to face, So the heart of
man to man.
Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes
of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 27:21 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for
gold; And a man is [tried] by his praise.
Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a
pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart
from him.
Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,
[And] look well to thy herds:
Proverbs 27:24 For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown
endure unto all generations?
Proverbs 27:25 The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth
itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
Proverbs 27:26 The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the
price of the field;
Proverbs 27:27 And [there will be] goats' milk enough for thy food,
for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.
Proverbs 28
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the
righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes
thereof; But by men of understanding [and] knowledge the state
[thereof] shall be prolonged.
Proverbs 28:3 A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is [like] a
sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such
as keep the law contend with them.
Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek
Jehovah understand all things.
Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, Than
he that is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs 28:7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a
companion of gluttons shameth his father.
Proverbs 28:8 He that augmenteth his substance by interest and
increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.
Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,
Even his prayer is an abomination.
Proverbs 28:10 Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil
way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall
inherit good.
Proverbs 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; But the
poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Proverbs 28:12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But
when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper:
But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man that feareth alway; But he that
hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs 28:15 [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a
wicked ruler over a poor people.
Proverbs 28:16 The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great
oppressor; [But] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Proverbs 28:17 A man that is laden with the blood of any person
Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.
Proverbs 28:18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he
that is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
Proverbs 28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread;
But he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.
Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he
that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that
a man should transgress for a piece of bread.
Proverbs 28:22 he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And
knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
Proverbs 28:23 He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more
favor Than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Proverbs 28:24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It
is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 28:25 He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; But he
that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.
Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso
walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; But he
that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Proverbs 28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But
when they perish, the righteous increase.
Proverbs 29
Proverbs 29:1 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall
suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.
Proverbs 29:3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that
keepeth company with harlots wasteth [his] substance.
Proverbs 29:4 The king by justice establisheth the land; But he that
exacteth gifts overthroweth it.
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for
his steps.
Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare;
But the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Proverbs 29:7 The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the
poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know [it].
Proverbs 29:8 Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away
wrath.
Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man,
Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.
Proverbs 29:10 The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect; And as for
the upright, they seek his life.
Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth
it back and stilleth it.
Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants
are wicked.
Proverbs 29:13 The poor man and the oppressor meet together;
Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.
Proverbs 29:14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, His throne
shall be established for ever.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to
himself causeth shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked are increased, transgression
increaseth; But the righteous shall look upon their fall.
Proverbs 29:17 Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he
will give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people cast off
restraint; But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words; For though
he understand, he will not give heed.
Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is
more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 29:21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a
child Shall have him become a son at the last.
Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man
aboundeth in transgression.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low; But he that is of a
lowly spirit shall obtain honor.
Proverbs 29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul;
He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth
his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the ruler's favor; But a man's judgment
[cometh] from Jehovah.
Proverbs 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous;
And he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.
Proverbs 30
Proverbs 30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; The oracle. The
man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal:
Proverbs 30:2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not
the understanding of a man;
Proverbs 30:3 And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the
knowledge of the Holy One.
Proverbs 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?
Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters
in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What
is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?
Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them
that take refuge in him.
Proverbs 30:6 Add thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee,
and thou be found a liar.
Proverbs 30:7 Two things have I asked of thee; Deny me [them] not
before I die:
Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me
neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for
me:
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is
Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of
my God.
Proverbs 30:10 Slander not a servant unto his master, Lest he curse
thee, and thou be held guilty.
Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation that curse their father, And
bless not their mother.
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,
And [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
Proverbs 30:13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are lifted up.
Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation whose teeth are [as] swords,
and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor from off the earth,
and the needy from among men.
Proverbs 30:15 The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give,
give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [Yea], four that
say not, Enough:
Proverbs 30:16 Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not
satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.
Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to
obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the
young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs 30:18 There are three things which are too wonderful for
me, Yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent
upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way
of a man with a maiden.
Proverbs 30:20 So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth,
and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
Proverbs 30:21 For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four,
[which] it cannot bear:
Proverbs 30:22 For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is
filled with food;
Proverbs 30:23 For an odious woman when she is married; And a
handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs 30:24 There are four things which are little upon the earth,
But they are exceeding wise:
Proverbs 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide
their food in the summer;
Proverbs 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their
houses in the rocks;
Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of
them by bands;
Proverbs 30:28 The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in
kings' palaces.
Proverbs 30:29 There are three things which are stately in their
march, Yea, four which are stately in going:
Proverbs 30:30 The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And
turneth not away for any;
Proverbs 30:31 The greyhound; the he-goat also; And the king
against whom there is no rising up.
Proverbs 30:32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if
thou hast thought evil, [Lay] thy hand upon thy mouth.
Proverbs 30:33 For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And
the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; So the forcing of wrath
bringeth forth strife.
Proverbs 31
Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his
mother taught him.
Proverbs 31:2 What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And
what, O son of my vows?
Proverbs 31:3 Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to
that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to
drink wine; Nor for princes [to say], Where is strong drink?
Proverbs 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the
justice [due] to any that is afflicted.
Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish,
And wine unto the bitter in soul:
Proverbs 31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember
his misery no more.
Proverbs 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such
as are left desolate.
Proverbs 31:9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister
justice to the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:10 A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far
above rubies.
Proverbs 31:11 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he
shall have no lack of gain.
Proverbs 31:12 She doeth him good and not evil All the days of her
life.
Proverbs 31:13 She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly
with her hands.
Proverbs 31:14 She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her
bread from afar.
Proverbs 31:15 She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food
to her household, And their task to her maidens.
Proverbs 31:16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it; With the fruit
of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Proverbs 31:17 She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh
strong her arms.
Proverbs 31:18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable:
Her lamp goeth not out by night.
Proverbs 31:19 She layeth her hands to the distaff, And her hands
hold the spindle.
Proverbs 31:20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; Yea, she
reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Proverbs 31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For
all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Proverbs 31:22 She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; Her
clothing is fine linen and purple.
Proverbs 31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth
among the elders of the land.
Proverbs 31:24 She maketh linen garments and selleth them, And
delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Proverbs 31:25 Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she
laugheth at the time to come.
Proverbs 31:26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of
kindness is on her tongue.
Proverbs 31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, And
eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her
husband [also], and he praiseth her, [saying]:
Proverbs 31:29 Many daughters have done worthily, But thou
excellest them all.
Proverbs 31:30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a
woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works
praise her in the gates.
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 1
Ecclesiastes 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in
Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of
vanities, all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he
laboreth under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:4 One generation goeth, and another generation
cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and
hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about
unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind
returneth again to its circuits.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full;
unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter
[it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with
hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 That which hath been is that which shall be; and that
which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new
thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is
new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 There is no remembrance of the former
[generations]; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter
[generations] that are to come, among those that shall come after.
Ecclesiastes 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by
wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail
that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the
sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and
that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with mine own hear, saying, Lo, I
have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in
Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and
knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to
know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after
wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2
Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with
mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What
doeth it?
Ecclesiastes 2:3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with
wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how to lay hold
on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that
they should do under heaven all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 2:4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I
planted me vineyards;
Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in
them of all kinds of fruit;
Ecclesiastes 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the
forest where trees were reared;
Ecclesiastes 2:7 I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had
servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and
flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;
Ecclesiastes 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure
of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-
singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and
that of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were
before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from
them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced
because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had
wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all
was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under
the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and
madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the
king? [even] that which hath been done long ago.
Ecclesiastes 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as
light excelleth darkness.
Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool
walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to
them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the
fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?
Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no
remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have
been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!
Ecclesiastes 2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is wrought
under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving
after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:18 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under
the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man
or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have
labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This
also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:20 Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to
despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and
with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not
labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and
a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the
striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is
grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is
vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man [than] that he
should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This
also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more
than I?
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth
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 pleaseth God.
This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 3
Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for very
purpose under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,
and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecclesiastes 3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break
down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn,
and a time to dance;
Ecclesiastes 3:5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather
stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
embracing;
Ecclesiastes 3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep,
and a time to cast away;
Ecclesiastes 3:7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep
silence, and a time to speak;
Ecclesiastes 3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war,
and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he
laboreth?
Ecclesiastes 3:10 I have seen the travail which God hath given to the
sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also
he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the
work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them, than to
rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and
enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for
ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God
hath done it, that men should fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 3:15 That which is hath been long ago; and that which is
to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed
away.
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of
justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness,
that wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and
the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every
work.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of
men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they
themselves are [but as] beasts.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth
beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the
other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence
above the beasts: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all
turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth
upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the
earth?
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than
that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who
shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 4
Ecclesiastes 4:1 Then I returned and saw 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.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long
dead more than the living that are yet alive;
Ecclesiastes 4:3 yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that
hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under
the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for
this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving
after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his
own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two
handfuls with labor and striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second;
yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his
labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [saith
he], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea,
it is a sore travail.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good
reward for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but
woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift
him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth;
but how can one be warm [alone]?
Ecclesiastes 4:12 And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two
shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and
foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
Ecclesiastes 4:14 For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea,
even in his kingdom he was born poor.
Ecclesiastes 4:15 I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that
they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.
Ecclesiastes 4:16 There was no end of all the people, even of all
them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in
him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 5
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God;
for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools:
for they know not that they do evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be
hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou
upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream cometh with a multitude of business,
and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay
it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that
thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin;
neither say thou before the angel, that is was an error: wherefore
should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
Ecclesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities,
and in many words: but fear thou God.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the
violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel
not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are
higher than they.
Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king
[himself] is served by the field.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with
silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat
them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the
beholding [of them] with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he
eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to
sleep.
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under
the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
Ecclesiastes 5:14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he
hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked
shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor,
which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as
he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for
the wind?
Ecclesiastes 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is
sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to
be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his
labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which
God hath given him: for this is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches
and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his
portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his
life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.
Ecclesiastes 6
Ecclesiastes 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun,
and it is heavy upon men:
Ecclesiastes 6:2 a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and
honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth,
yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it;
this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many
years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled
with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely
birth is better than he:
Ecclesiastes 6:4 for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness,
and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
Ecclesiastes 6:5 moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this
hath rest rather than the other:
Ecclesiastes 6:6 yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and
yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the
appetite is not filled.
Ecclesiastes 6:8 For what advantage hath the wise more than the
fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before
the living?
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of
the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:10 Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given
long ago; and it is know what man is; neither can he contend with
him that is mightier than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there are many things that increase vanity,
what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in [his]
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?
Ecclesiastes 7
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A [good] name is better than precious oil; and the
day of death, than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go
to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living
will lay it to his heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of
the countenance the heart is made glad.
Ecclesiastes 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning;
but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a
man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the
laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a
bribe destroyeth the understanding.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning
thereof; [and] the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger
resteth in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former
days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely
concerning this.
Ecclesiastes 7:11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more
excellent is it for them that see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a
defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth
the life of him that hath it.
Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that
straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of
adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the
other, to the end that man should not find out anything [that shall be]
after him.
Ecclesiastes 7:15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a
righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a
wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.
Ecclesiastes 7:16 Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself
overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Ecclesiastes 7:17 Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish:
why shouldest thou die before thy time?
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea,
also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall
come forth from them all.
Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than
ten rulers that are in a city.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that
doeth good, and sinneth not.
Ecclesiastes 7:21 Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken,
lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;
Ecclesiastes 7:22 for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that
thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7:23 All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be
wise; but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7:24 That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who
can find it out?
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and
to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to
know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman
whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso
pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by
her.
Ecclesiastes 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher,
[laying] one thing to another, to find out the account;
Ecclesiastes 7:28 which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found:
one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all
those have I not found.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man
upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes 8
Ecclesiastes 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 hardness of his face is changed.
Ecclesiastes 8:2 I [counsel thee], Keep the king's command, and that
in regard of the oath of God.
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in
an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Ecclesiastes 8:4 For the king's word [hath] power; and who may say
unto him, What doest thou?
Ecclesiastes 8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no
evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment:
Ecclesiastes 8:6 for to every purpose there is a time and judgment;
because the misery of man is great upon him:
Ecclesiastes 8:7 for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can
tell him how it shall be?
Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to
retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and
there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that
is given to it.
Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every
work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man
hath power over another to his hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8:10 So I saw the wicked buried, and they came [to the
grave]; and they that had done right went away from the holy place,
and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not
executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set
in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and
prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them
that fear God, that fear before him:
Ecclesiastes 8:13 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither
shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he
feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that
there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the
work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it
happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also
is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no
better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful:
for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life
which God hath given him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my 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),
Ecclesiastes 8:17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot
find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a
man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though
a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Ecclesiastes 9
Ecclesiastes 9:1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all
this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand
of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before
them.
Ecclesiastes 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the
righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the
unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is
the good, so is the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as he that feareth an
oath.
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil in all that is 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:4 For to him that is joined with all the living there is
hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead
know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the
memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 9:6 As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is
perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in
anything that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy
wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let not thy
head lack oil.
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the
days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all
thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor
wherein thou laborest under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy
might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,
in Sheol, whither thou goest.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is
not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the
wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of
skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes
that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the
snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it
falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes 9:13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this
wise, and it seemed great unto me:
Ecclesiastes 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and
there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great
bulwarks against it.
Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he
by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same
poor man.
Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength:
nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are
not heard.
Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than
the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one
sinner destroyeth much good.
Ecclesiastes 10
Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send
forth an evil odor; [so] doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's
heart at his left.
Ecclesiastes 10:3 Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his
understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one [that] he is a
fool.
Ecclesiastes 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave
not thy place; for gentleness allayeth great offences.
Ecclesiastes 10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as
it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Ecclesiastes 10:6 folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low
place.
Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes
walking like servants upon the earth.
Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso
breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Ecclesiastes 10:9 Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith;
[and] he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.
Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge,
then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Ecclesiastes 10:11 If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is
there no advantage in the charmer.
Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious;
but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is
foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool also multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth
not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell
him?
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for
he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Ecclesiastes 10:16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and
thy princes eat in the morning!
Ecclesiastes 10:17 Happy 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!
Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through
idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh
glad the life; and money answereth all things.
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and
revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall
carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Ecclesiastes 11
Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find
it after many days.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give a portion to seven, yea, even unto eight; for
thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves
upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north,
in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he
that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind,
[nor] how the bones [do grow] in the womb of her that is with child;
even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening
withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper,
whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Ecclesiastes 11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is
for the eyes to behold the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in
them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be
many. All that cometh is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy
heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy
heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these
things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put
away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou
shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecclesiastes 12:2 before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the
stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
Ecclesiastes 12:3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall
tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders
cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows
shall be darkened,
Ecclesiastes 12:4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the
sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a
bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
Ecclesiastes 12:5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and
terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and
the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man
goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Ecclesiastes 12:6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl
is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken
at the cistern,
Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the
spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:9 And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still
taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, [and]
set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes 12:10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words,
and that which was written uprightly, [even] words of truth.
Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails
well fastened are [the words of] the masters of assemblies, [which]
are given from one shepherd.
Ecclesiastes 12:12 And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of
making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of
the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 [This is] the end of the matter; all hath been
heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole
[duty] of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every work into judgment,
with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 1
Song of Solomon 1:1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.
Song of Solomon 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
For thy love is better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:3 Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name
is [as] oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Song of Solomon 1:4 Draw me; we will run after thee: The king hath
brought me into his chambers; We will be glad and rejoice in thee;
We will make mention of thy love more than of wine: Rightly do
they love thee.
Song of Solomon 1:5 I am black, but comely, Oh ye daughters of
Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 1:6 Look not upon me, because I am swarthy,
Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed
against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; [But] mine own
vineyard have I not kept.
Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where
thou feedest [thy flock], Where thou makest [it] to rest at noon: For
why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy
companions?
Song of Solomon 1:8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among
women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy
kids beside the shepherds' tents.
Song of Solomon 1:9 I have compared thee, O my love, To a steed in
Pharaoh's chariots.
Song of Solomon 1:10 Thy cheeks are comely with plaits [of hair],
Thy neck with strings of jewels.
Song of Solomon 1:11 We will make thee plaits of gold With studs
of silver.
Song of Solomon 1:12 While the king sat at his table, My spikenard
sent forth its fragrance.
Song of Solomon 1:13 My beloved is unto me [as] a bundle of
myrrh, That lieth betwixt my breasts.
Song of Solomon 1:14 My beloved is unto me [as] a cluster of
henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi.
Song of Solomon 1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou
art fair; Thine eyes are [as] doves.
Song of Solomon 1:16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea,
pleasant: Also our couch is green.
Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars, [And] our
rafters are firs.
Song of Solomon 2
Song of Solomon 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.
Song of Solomon 2:2 As a lily among thorns, So is my love among
the daughters.
Song of Solomon 2:3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood,
So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with
great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting-house, And
his banner over me was love.
Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with
apples; For I am sick from love.
Song of Solomon 2:6 His left hand [is] under my head, And his right
hand doth embrace me.
Song of Solomon 2:7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the
roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my]
love, Until he please.
Song of Solomon 2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh,
Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills.
Song of Solomon 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:
Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows;
He glanceth through the lattice.
Song of Solomon 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up,
my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song of Solomon 2:11 For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and
gone;
Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; The time of
the singing [of birds] is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is
heard in our land;
Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs, And the
vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love,
my fair one, and come away.
Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock,
In the covert of the steep place, Let me see thy countenance, Let me
hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is
comely.
Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil
the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.
Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth
[his flock] among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2:17 Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee
away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon
the mountains of Bether.
Song of Solomon 3
Song of Solomon 3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my
soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Song of Solomon 3:2 [I said], 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.
Song of Solomon 3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found me;
[To whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Song of Solomon 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them,
When 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.
Song of Solomon 3:5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the
roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my]
love, Until he please.
Song of Solomon 3:6 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness
Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With
all powders of the merchant?
Song of Solomon 3:7 Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Threescore
mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel.
Song of Solomon 3:8 They all handle the sword, [and] are expert in
war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, Because of fear in the
night.
Song of Solomon 3:9 King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of
the wood of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 3:10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, The
bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, The midst thereof
being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold
king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned
him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his
heart.
Song of Solomon 4
Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art
fair; Thine eyes are [as] doves behind thy veil. Thy hair is as a flock
of goats, That lie along the side of mount Gilead.
Song of Solomon 4:2 Thy teeth are like a flock [of ewes] that are
[newly] shorn, Which are come up from the washing, Whereof every
one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.
Song of Solomon 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy
mouth is comely. Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate
Behind thy veil.
Song of Solomon 4:4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for
an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, All the shields
of the mighty men.
Song of Solomon 4:5 Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are
twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee
away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of
frankincense.
Song of Solomon 4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot
in thee.
Song of Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, [my] bride,
With me from Lebanon: Look from the top of Amana, From the top
of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of
the leopards.
Song of Solomon 4:9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my]
bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one
chain of thy neck.
Song of Solomon 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] bride!
How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine
oils than all manner of spices!
Song of Solomon 4:11 Thy lips, O [my] bride, drop [as] the
honeycomb: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of
thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4:12 A garden shut up is my sister, [my] bride; A
spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Song of Solomon 4:13 Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates,
with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants,
Song of Solomon 4:14 Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and
cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all
the chief spices.
Song of Solomon 4:15 [Thou art] a fountain of gardens, A well of
living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south;
Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my
beloved come into his garden, And eat his precious fruits.
Song of Solomon 5
Song of Solomon 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, [my]
bride: 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.
Song of Solomon 5:2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: 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, My
locks with the drops of the night.
Song of Solomon 5:3 I have put off my garment; how shall I put it
on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Song of Solomon 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the
door], And my heart was moved for him.
Song of Solomon 5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my
hands droppeth with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon
the handles of the bolt.
Song of Solomon 5:6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had
withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he
spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he
gave me no answer.
Song of Solomon 5:7 The watchmen that go about the city found me,
They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took
away my mantle from me.
Song of Solomon 5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye
find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
Song of Solomon 5:9 What is thy beloved more than [another]
beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more
than [another] beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?
Song of Solomon 5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest
among ten thousand.
Song of Solomon 5:11 His head is [as] the most fine gold; His locks
are bushy, [and] black as a raven.
Song of Solomon 5:12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-
brooks, Washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
Song of Solomon 5:13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, [As] banks
of sweet herbs: His lips are [as] lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
Song of Solomon 5:14 His hands are [as] rings of gold set with
beryl: His body is [as] ivory work overlaid [with] sapphires.
Song of Solomon 5:15 His legs are [as] pillars of marble, set upon
sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the
cedars.
Song of Solomon 5:16 His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is
altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O
daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 6
Song of Solomon 6:1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest
among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, That we may
seek him with thee?
Song of Solomon 6:2 My beloved is gone down to his garden, To the
beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine;
He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies,
Song of Solomon 6:4 Thou art fair, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as
Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners.
Song of Solomon 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, For they have
overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side
of Gilead.
Song of Solomon 6:6 Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are
come up from the washing; Whereof every one hath twins, And none
is bereaved among them.
Song of Solomon 6:7 Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate
Behind thy veil.
Song of Solomon 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore
concubines, And virgins without number.
Song of Solomon 6:9 My dove, my undefiled, is [but] one; She is the
only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bare her.
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; [Yea], the queens and
the concubines, and they praised her.
Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Terrible as an army with banners?
Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts, To see
the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, [And]
the pomegranates were in flower.
Song of Solomon 6:12 Before I was aware, my soul set me [Among]
the chariots of my princely people.
Song of Solomon 6:13 Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return,
that we may look upon thee. Why will ye look upon the Shulammite,
As upon the dance of Mahanaim?
Song of Solomon 7
Song of Solomon 7:1 How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O
prince's daughter! Thy rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of
the hands of a skilful workman.
Song of Solomon 7:2 Thy body is [like] a round goblet, [Wherein]
no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is [like] a heap of wheat Set
about with lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:3 Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are
twins of a roe.
Song of Solomon 7:4 Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; Thine eyes
[as] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is
like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.
Song of Solomon 7:5 Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the
hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses
[thereof].
Song of Solomon 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for
delights!
Song of Solomon 7:7 This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy
breasts to its clusters.
Song of Solomon 7:8 I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will
take hold of the branches thereof: Let thy breasts be as clusters of the
vine, And the smell of thy breath like apples,
Song of Solomon 7:9 And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth
down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that
are asleep.
Song of Solomon 7:10 I am my beloved's; And his desire is toward
me.
Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the
field; Let us lodge in the villages.
Song of Solomon 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us
see whether the vine hath budded, [And] its blossom is open, [And]
the pomegranates are in flower: There will I give thee my love.
Song of Solomon 7:13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance; And at
our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, Which I
have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Song of Solomon 8
Song of Solomon 8:1 Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked
the breasts of my mother! [When] I should find thee without, I would
kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.
Song of Solomon 8:2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my
mother's house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink
of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.
Song of Solomon 8:3 His left hand [should be] under my head, And
his right hand should embrace me.
Song of Solomon 8:4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That
ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, Until he please.
Song of Solomon 8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the
wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I
awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was
she in travail that brought thee forth.
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon
thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The
flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.
Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can
floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house
for love, He would utterly be contemned.
Song of Solomon 8:8 We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts:
What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken
for?
Song of Solomon 8:9 If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret
of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of
cedar.
Song of Solomon 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers
[thereof] Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
Song of Solomon 8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He
let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was
to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.
Song of Solomon 8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:
Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the
fruit thereof two hundred.
Song of Solomon 8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The
companions hearken for thy voice: Cause me to hear it.
Song of Solomon 8:14 Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to
a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
Isaiah
Isaiah 1
Isaiah 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath
spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against me.
Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib;
[but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah,
they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and
gone] backward.
Isaiah 1:5 Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and
more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they
have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.
Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire;
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah 1:9 Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like
unto Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear
unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:11 What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith
Jehovah: I have had enough 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.
Isaiah 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required
this at your hand, to trample my courts?
Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot
away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.
Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine
eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:
your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your
doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isaiah 1:17 learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land:
Isaiah 1:20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full
of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Isaiah 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.
Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves;
every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not
the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty
One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me
of mine enemies;
Isaiah 1:25 and I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge
away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin;
Isaiah 1:26 and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The
city of righteousness, a faithful town.
Isaiah 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts
with righteousness.
Isaiah 1:28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.
Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have
chosen.
Isaiah 1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a
garden that hath no water.
Isaiah 1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark;
and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 2
Isaiah 2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the
mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it.
Isaiah 2:3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us
go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah from
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:4 And he will judge between the nations, and will decide
concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
Jehovah.
Isaiah 2:6 For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
because they are filled [with customs] from the east, and [are]
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the
children of foreigners.
Isaiah 2:7 And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there
any end of their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is
there any end of their chariots.
Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Isaiah 2:9 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is
brought low: therefore forgive them not.
Isaiah 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before
the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be
exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:12 For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that
is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be
brought low;
Isaiah 2:13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and
lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 2:14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills
that are lifted up,
Isaiah 2:15 and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified
wall,
Isaiah 2:16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
imagery.
Isaiah 2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be
exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:18 And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Isaiah 2:19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the
holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
Isaiah 2:20 In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and
their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the
moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 2:21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of
the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for
wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isaiah 3
Isaiah 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water;
Isaiah 3:2 the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the
prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
Isaiah 3:3 the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the
counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.
Isaiah 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes
shall rule over them.
Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another,
and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly
against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
Isaiah 3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of
his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this
ruin be under thy hand;
Isaiah 3:7 in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I will not be
a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not
make me ruler of the people.
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their
tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of
his glory.
Isaiah 3:9 The show 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 done evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 3:10 Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him];
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for
what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah 3:13 Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the
peoples.
Isaiah 3:14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his
people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
Isaiah 3:15 what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face
of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 3:16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion
are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their
feet;
Isaiah 3:17 therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret
parts.
Isaiah 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their
anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents;
Isaiah 3:19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
Isaiah 3:20 the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and
the perfume-boxes, and the amulets;
Isaiah 3:21 the rings, and the nose-jewels;
Isaiah 3:22 the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and
the satchels;
Isaiah 3:23 the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and
the veils.
Isaiah 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices
there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead
of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of
sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.
Isaiah 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the
war.
Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be
desolate and sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4
Isaiah 4:1 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only
let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for
them that are escaped of Israel.
Isaiah 4:3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and
he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one
that is written among the living in Jerusalem;
Isaiah 4:4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from
the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 4:5 And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of
mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and
the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory [shall be
spread] a covering.
Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time
from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from
rain.
Isaiah 5
Isaiah 5:1 Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill:
Isaiah 5:2 and he digged 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 hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isaiah 5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I
have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I
will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break
down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah 5:6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but
there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice,
but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Isaiah 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to
field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the
midst of the land!
Isaiah 5:9 In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a
homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that
they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine
inflame them!
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and
wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of
knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude are parched with thirst.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its
mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their
pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it].
Isaiah 5:15 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:
Isaiah 5:16 but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the
Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 5:17 Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the
waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
Isaiah 5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
Isaiah 5:19 that say, Let him make speed, let him 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!
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that
put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah 5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink;
Isaiah 5:23 that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and
as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have
rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5:25 Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath
smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as
refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and
will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall
come with speed swiftly.
Isaiah 5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall
slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor
the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Isaiah 5:28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their
horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a
whirlwind:
Isaiah 5:29 their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like
young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it
away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
Isaiah 5:30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the
roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness
[and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
Isaiah 6
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting
upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:2 Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings;
with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
and with twain he did fly.
Isaiah 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is
Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isaiah 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice
of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a
man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal
in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isaiah 6:7 and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
forgiven.
Isaiah 6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.
Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes, and hear with
their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be
healed.
Isaiah 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until
cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the
land become utterly waste,
Isaiah 6:12 and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the
forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 6:13 And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be
eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when
they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
Isaiah 7
Isaiah 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 to Jerusalem to
war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah 7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of
his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
Isaiah 7:3 Then said Jehovah 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;
Isaiah 7:4 and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah.
Isaiah 7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have
purposed evil against thee, saying,
Isaiah 7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son
of Tabeel;
Isaiah 7:7 thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall
it come to pass.
Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that is shall not be a people:
Isaiah 7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of
Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not
be established.
Isaiah 7:10 And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Isaiah 7:11 Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above.
Isaiah 7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt
Jehovah.
Isaiah 7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a
small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold,
a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
Isaiah 7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken.
Isaiah 7:17 Jehovah will 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.
Isaiah 7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will
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.
Isaiah 7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-
hedges, and upon all pastures.
Isaiah 7:20 In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired
in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the
head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
Isaiah 7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:22 and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance
of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey
shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place,
where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be
for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7:24 With arrows and with bow shall one come thither,
because all the land shall be briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7:25 And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou
shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for
the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Isaiah 8
Isaiah 8:1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and
write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
Isaiah 8:2 and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah
the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Isaiah 8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and
bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-
hash-baz.
Isaiah 8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My
father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of
Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 8:5 And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying,
Isaiah 8:6 Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
Isaiah 8:7 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and
all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over
all its banks;
Isaiah 8:8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and
pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of
its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 8:9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces;
and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in
pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Isaiah 8:11 For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isaiah 8:12 Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this
people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in
dread [thereof].
Isaiah 8:13 Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be
your fear, and let him be your dread.
Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a
gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 8:15 And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken.
Isaiah 8:16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the
house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me
are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who
dwelleth in mount Zion.
Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that
have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living
[should they seek] unto the dead?
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not
according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and
hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God,
and turn their faces upward:
Isaiah 8:22 and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress
and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they
shall be] driven away.
Isaiah 9
Isaiah 9:1 But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In
the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by
the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great
light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
hath the light shined.
Isaiah 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their
joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah 9:5 For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the
garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace.
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform
this.
Isaiah 9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
Isaiah 9:9 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart,
Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone;
the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
Isaiah 9:11 Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the
adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Isaiah 9:12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they
shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:13 Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them,
neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 9:14 Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail,
palm-branch and rush, in one day.
Isaiah 9:15 The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the
prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 9:16 For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they
that are led of them are destroyed.
Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for
every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh
folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the
briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and
they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 9:19 Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt
up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother.
Isaiah 9:20 And one 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:
Isaiah 9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they
together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10
Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to
the writers that write perverseness;
Isaiah 10:2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor
of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that
they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isaiah 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help?
and where will ye leave your glory?
Isaiah 10:4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall
fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose
hand is mine indignation!
Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against a profane 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.
Isaiah 10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think
so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
Isaiah 10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?
Isaiah 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is
not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,
whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Isaiah 10:11 shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Isaiah 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord
hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the
glory of his high looks.
Isaiah 10:13 For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have
done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have
removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures,
and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit [on thrones]:
Isaiah 10:14 and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered
all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened
the mouth, or chirped.
Isaiah 10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it?
as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift
up [him that is] not wood.
Isaiah 10:16 Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among
his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a
burning like the burning of fire.
Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy
One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers
in one day.
Isaiah 10:18 And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his
fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-
bearer fainteth.
Isaiah 10:19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few,
so that a child may write them.
Isaiah 10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant
of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no
more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon
Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 10:21 A remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob,
unto the mighty God.
Isaiah 10:22 For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
[only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined,
overflowing with righteousness.
Isaiah 10:23 For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
Isaiah 10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, O my
people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he
smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the
manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against
thee] shall be accomplished, and mine anger [shall be directed] to his
destruction.
Isaiah 10:26 And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge,
as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be
over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden
shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck,
and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
Isaiah 10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at
Michmash he layeth up his baggage;
Isaiah 10:29 they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their
lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
Isaiah 10:30 Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim!
hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!
Isaiah 10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee
for safety.
Isaiah 10:32 This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand
at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:33 Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will lop the boughs
with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty
shall be brought low.
Isaiah 10:34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with
iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Isaiah 11
Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of
Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
Isaiah 11:2 And the Spirit of Jehovah 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 Jehovah.
Isaiah 11:3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the
hearing of his ears;
Isaiah 11:4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
decide 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.
Isaiah 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and
faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
Isaiah 11:6 And the wolf 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.
Isaiah 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters
cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of
Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the
nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will
set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, that shall remain, 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.
Isaiah 11:12 And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that
vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim.
Isaiah 11:14 And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the
Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the
east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the
children of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah 11:15 And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over
the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to
march over dryshod.
Isaiah 11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his
people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in
the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 12
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto
thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is
turned away and thou comfortest me.
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be
afraid; for Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he
is become my salvation.
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells
of salvation.
Isaiah 12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah,
call upon his name, declare his doings among the peoples, make
mention that his name is exalted.
Isaiah 12:5 Sing unto Jehovah; for he hath done excellent things: let
this be known in all the earth.
Isaiah 12:6 Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in
the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 13
Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see.
Isaiah 13:2 Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the
voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles.
Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have
called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting
ones.
Isaiah 13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great
people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered
together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.
Isaiah 13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of
heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land.
Isaiah 13:6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction
from the Almighty shall it come.
Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of
man shall melt:
Isaiah 13:8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take
hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall
look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of
flame.
Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath
and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the
sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth,
and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
Isaiah 13:11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud
to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 13:12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man
than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the
earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of
hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 13:14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as
sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own
people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
Isaiah 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and
every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
Isaiah 13:16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall
not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Isaiah 13:18 And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces;
and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall
not spare children.
Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
Isaiah 13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent
there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.
Isaiah 13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell
there, and wild goats shall dance there.
Isaiah 13:22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the
pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not
be prolonged.
Isaiah 14
Isaiah 14:1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall
join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their
place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of
Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them
captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their
oppressors.
Isaiah 14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall
give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the
hard service wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isaiah 14:4 that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city
ceased!
Isaiah 14:5 Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre
of the rulers;
Isaiah 14:6 that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke,
that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none
restrained.
Isaiah 14:7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth
into singing.
Isaiah 14:8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of
Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid low, no hewer is come up
against us.
Isaiah 14:9 Sheol 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.
Isaiah 14:10 All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also
become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of
thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the
nations!
Isaiah 14:13 And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the
mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will
make myself like the Most High.
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the
uttermost parts of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16 They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider
thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did
shake kingdoms;
Isaiah 14:17 that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the
cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
Isaiah 14:18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory,
every one in his own house.
Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an
abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through
with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body
trodden under foot.
Isaiah 14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because
thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of
evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
Isaiah 14:21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the
face of the world with cities.
Isaiah 14:22 And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts,
and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son,
saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and
pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
saith Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 14:24 Jehovah 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:
Isaiah 14:25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off
them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.
Isaiah 14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah 14:27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Isaiah 14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that
smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an
adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah 14:30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy
shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy
remnant shall be slain.
Isaiah 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, O
Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and
there is no straggler in his ranks.
Isaiah 14:32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the
nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted
of his people take refuge.
Isaiah 15
Isaiah 15:1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, [and] brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid
waste, [and] brought to nought.
Isaiah 15:2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high
places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all
their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
Isaiah 15:3 In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on
their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping
abundantly.
Isaiah 15:4 And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard
even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul
trembleth within him.
Isaiah 15:5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles [flee] unto
Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with
weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry
of destruction.
Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass
is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Isaiah 15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that
which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the
willows.
Isaiah 15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.
Isaiah 15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring
yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and
upon the remnant of the land.
Isaiah 16
Isaiah 16:1 Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to
the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 16:2 For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered
nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Isaiah 16:3 Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the
night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the
fugitive.
Isaiah 16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a
covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is
brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed
out of the land.
Isaiah 16:5 And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and
one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and
seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very
proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his
boastings are nought.
Isaiah 16:7 Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall
wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly
stricken.
Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of
Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice
branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered
into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over
the sea.
Isaiah 16:9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the
vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle]
shout is fallen.
Isaiah 16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful
noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the
[vintage] shout to cease.
Isaiah 16:11 Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and
mine inward parts for Kir-heres.
Isaiah 16:12 And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth
himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall
come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
Isaiah 16:13 This is the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab
in time past.
Isaiah 16:14 But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three
years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought
into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be
very small and of no account.
Isaiah 17
Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken
away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks,
which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isaiah 17:3 And the fortress 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 Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 17:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of
Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
Isaiah 17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the
standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when
one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Isaiah 17:6 Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of
an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough,
four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah,
the God of Israel.
Isaiah 17:7 In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their
eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17:8 And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their
hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have
made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Isaiah 17:9 In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken
places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken
from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
Isaiah 17:10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and
hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou
plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.
Isaiah 17:11 In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the
morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away
in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah 17:12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the
roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the
rushing of mighty waters!
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:
but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be
chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the
whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 17:14 At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning
they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of
them that rob us.
Isaiah 18
Isaiah 18:1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia;
Isaiah 18:2 that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a
nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning
onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the
rivers divide!
Isaiah 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the
earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when
the trumpet is blown, hear ye.
Isaiah 18:4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I
will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a
cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the
flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and]
cut down.
Isaiah 18:6 They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them.
Isaiah 18:7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of
hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible
from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth
down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of
Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah 19
Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a
swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst
of it.
Isaiah 19:2 And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians:
and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom.
Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I
will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols,
and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
wizards.
Isaiah 19:4 And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a
cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall
be wasted and become dry.
Isaiah 19:6 And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt
shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither
away.
Isaiah 19:7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and
all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and
be no more.
Isaiah 19:8 And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle
into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters
shall languish.
Isaiah 19:9 Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that
weave white cloth, shall be confounded.
Isaiah 19:10 And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all
they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.
Isaiah 19:11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of
the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Isaiah 19:12 Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee
now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed
concerning Egypt.
Isaiah 19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of
Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are
the corner-stone of her tribes.
Isaiah 19:14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the
midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Isaiah 19:15 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head
or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
Isaiah 19:16 In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and
they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of
Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.
Isaiah 19:17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt;
every one to whom mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because
of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth against it.
Isaiah 19:18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt
that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts;
one shall be called The city of destruction.
Isaiah 19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to
Jehovah.
Isaiah 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah
of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because
of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour, and a defender, and
he will deliver them.
Isaiah 19:21 And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the
Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship
with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and
shall perform it.
Isaiah 19:22 And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and
they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and
will heal them.
Isaiah 19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian
into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.
Isaiah 19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
Isaiah 19:25 for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them, saying,
Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah 20
Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon
the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took
it;
Isaiah 20:2 at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy
shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning
Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
Isaiah 20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of
Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,
and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of
Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 20:6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day,
Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be
delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
Isaiah 21
Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds
in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a
terrible land.
Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous
man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O
Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have
taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained
so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Isaiah 21:4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the
twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Isaiah 21:5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they
drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Isaiah 21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman:
let him declare what he seeth:
Isaiah 21:7 and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of
asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
Isaiah 21:8 And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon
the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole
nights;
Isaiah 21:9 and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in
pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the
graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.
Isaiah 21:10 O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that
which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
declared unto you.
Isaiah 21:11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Isaiah 21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the
night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
Isaiah 21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 21:14 Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the
inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their
bread.
Isaiah 21:15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn
sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Isaiah 21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
Isaiah 21:17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty
men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of
Israel, hath spoken it.
Isaiah 22
Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,
that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Isaiah 22:2 O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a
joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they
dead in battle.
Isaiah 22:3 All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the
archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled
afar off.
Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep
bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of
my people.
Isaiah 22:5 For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and
of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision;
a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
Isaiah 22:6 And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men [and]
horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Isaiah 22:7 And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of
chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
Isaiah 22:8 And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst
look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
Isaiah 22:9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they
were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
Isaiah 22:10 and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake
down the houses to fortify the wall;
Isaiah 22:11 ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the
water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this,
neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.
Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to
weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
Isaiah 22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing
sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-
morrow we shall die.
Isaiah 22:14 And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears,
Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the
Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 22:15 Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto
this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say],
Isaiah 22:16 What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that
thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a
sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!
Isaiah 22:17 Behold, Jehovah, like a [strong] man, will hurl thee
away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.
Isaiah 22:18 He will surely wind thee round and round, [and toss
thee] like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there
shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's house.
Isaiah 22:19 And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy
station shalt thou be pulled down.
Isaiah 22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
Isaiah 22:21 and I will cloth 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.
Isaiah 22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his
shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut,
and none shall open.
Isaiah 22:23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he
shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
Isaiah 22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his
father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from
the cups even to all the flagons.
Isaiah 22:25 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that
was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and
fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for Jehovah hath
spoken it.
Isaiah 23
Isaiah 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
Kittim it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the
merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Isaiah 23:3 And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of
the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.
Isaiah 23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the
stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth,
neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
Isaiah 23:5 When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely
pained at the report of Tyre.
Isaiah 23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the
coast.
Isaiah 23:7 Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient
days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?
Isaiah 23:8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of
crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
honorable of the earth?
Isaiah 23:9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all
glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
Isaiah 23:10 Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of
Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
Isaiah 23:11 He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath
shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning
Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.
Isaiah 23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even
there shalt thou have no rest.
Isaiah 23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not;
the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set
up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a
ruin.
Isaiah 23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid
waste.
Isaiah 23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the
end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.
Isaiah 23:16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
remembered.
Isaiah 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,
that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall
play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of
the earth.
Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to
Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise
shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and
for durable clothing.
Isaiah 24
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as
with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her
mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so
with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of
interest to him.
Isaiah 24:3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste;
for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world
languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do
languish.
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken
the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they
that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the
earth are burned, and few men left.
Isaiah 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merry-hearted do sigh.
Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that
rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Isaiah 24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall
be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah 24:10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up,
that no man may come in.
Isaiah 24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all
joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isaiah 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
destruction.
Isaiah 24:13 For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the
peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the
vintage is done.
Isaiah 24:14 These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the
majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea.
Isaiah 24:15 Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the east, even the name
of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
Isaiah 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard
songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away,
woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the
treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
Isaiah 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O
inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the
noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of
the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on
high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Isaiah 24:19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the
earth is shaken violently.
Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall
sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall
be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah 24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will
punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth
upon the earth.
Isaiah 24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many
days shall they be visited.
Isaiah 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun
ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
Isaiah 25
Isaiah 25:1 O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will
praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] counsels
of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
Isaiah 25:2 For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a
ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah 25:3 Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of
terrible nations shall fear thee.
Isaiah 25:4 For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold
to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the
heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 25:5 As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise
of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the
terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah 25:6 And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all
peoples 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.
Isaiah 25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the
covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all
nations.
Isaiah 25:8 He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord
Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of
his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath
spoken it.
Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Isaiah 25:10 For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and
Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden
down in the water of the dung-hill.
Isaiah 25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof,
as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim; but
[Jehovah] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.
Isaiah 25:12 And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought
down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 26
Isaiah 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah:
we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and
bulwarks.
Isaiah 26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which
keepeth faith may enter in.
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]
stayed [on thee]; because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jehovah, [even]
Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26:5 For he hath brought 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.
Isaiah 26:6 The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor,
and the steps of the needy.
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright
dost direct the path of the just.
Isaiah 26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we
waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial [name], is the
desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with
my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn
righteousness.
Isaiah 26:10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and
will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
Isaiah 26:11 Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they
shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall
devour thine adversaries.
Isaiah 26:12 Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast
also wrought all our works for us.
Isaiah 26:13 O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had
dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy
name.
Isaiah 26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased,
they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them,
and made all remembrance of them to perish.
Isaiah 26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast
increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the
borders of the land.
Isaiah 26:16 Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured
out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.
Isaiah 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time
of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have
been before thee, O Jehovah.
Isaiah 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we
have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world
fallen.
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake
and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and
shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the
indignation be overpast.
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth 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.
Isaiah 27
Isaiah 27:1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong
sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the
crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
Isaiah 27:2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
Isaiah 27:3 I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment:
lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Isaiah 27:4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were
against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them
together.
Isaiah 27:5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may
make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me.
Isaiah 27:6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall
blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 27:7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them?
or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by
them?
Isaiah 27:8 In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost
content with them; he hath removed [them] with his rough blast in the
day of the east wind.
Isaiah 27:9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven,
and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the
stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that]
the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted
and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there
shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a
people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not
have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show
them no favor.
Isaiah 27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will
beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River unto the brook of
Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great
trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish
in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of
Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28
Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim,
and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head
of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a
tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters
overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isaiah 28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be
trodden under foot:
Isaiah 28:4 and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on
the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the
summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah 28:5 In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of
glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;
Isaiah 28:6 and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and
strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
Isaiah 28:7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong
drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are
swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in
vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that
there is] no place [clean].
Isaiah 28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make
to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts?
Isaiah 28:10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
Isaiah 28:11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another
tongue will he speak to this people;
Isaiah 28:12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him
that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isaiah 28:13 Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that
rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with
death, and with Sheol 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:
Isaiah 28:16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone]
of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.
Isaiah 28:17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the
plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and
your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isaiah 28:19 As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for
morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it
shall be nought but terror to understand the message.
Isaiah 28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap
himself in it.
Isaiah 28:21 For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will 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.
Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be
made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
Isaiah 28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my
speech.
Isaiah 28:24 Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he
[continually] open and harrow his ground?
Isaiah 28:25 When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast
abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in
rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the
border thereof?
Isaiah 28:26 For his God doth instruct him aright, [and] doth teach
him.
Isaiah 28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp [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.
Isaiah 28:28 Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always
threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it,
he doth not grind it.
Isaiah 28:29 This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is
wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Isaiah 29
Isaiah 29:1 Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye
year to year; let the feasts come round:
Isaiah 29:2 then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and
lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.
Isaiah 29:3 And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works
against thee.
Isaiah 29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of
the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice
shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy
speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah 29:5 But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it
shall be in an instant suddenly.
Isaiah 29:6 She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and
the flame of a devouring fire.
Isaiah 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against
Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that
distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
Isaiah 29:8 And it shall be as when a 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.
Isaiah 29:9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind:
they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
drink.
Isaiah 29:10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the
seers, hath he covered.
Isaiah 29:11 And all vision 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:
Isaiah 29:12 and the book is delivered to him that is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.
Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh
[unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but
have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a
commandment of men which hath been taught [them];
Isaiah 29:14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous
work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and
the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of
their prudent men shall be hid.
Isaiah 29:15 Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from
Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth
us? and who knoweth us?
Isaiah 29:16 Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be
esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it,
He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He
hath no understanding?
Isaiah 29:17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a
forest?
Isaiah 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of
darkness.
Isaiah 29:19 The meek also shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and
the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer
ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
Isaiah 29:21 that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a
snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a
thing of nought.
Isaiah 29:22 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
neither shall his face now wax pale.
Isaiah 29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands,
in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yea, they shall
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of
Israel.
Isaiah 29:24 They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding,
and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
Isaiah 30
Isaiah 30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin,
Isaiah 30:2 that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at
my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and
to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,
and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 30:4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are
come to Hanes.
Isaiah 30:5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that
cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and
also a reproach.
Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land
of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of
camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
Isaiah 30:7 For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore
have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it
in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
Isaiah 30:9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that
will not hear the law of Jehovah;
Isaiah 30:10 that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits,
Isaiah 30:11 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause
the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isaiah 30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely
thereon;
Isaiah 30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly
in an instant.
Isaiah 30:14 And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found
among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the
hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
Isaiah 30:15 For thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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:
Isaiah 30:16 but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore
shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they
that pursue you be swift.
Isaiah 30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the
threat of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a
mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be
gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have
mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they
that wait for him.
Isaiah 30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou
shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice
of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee.
Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity
and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden
anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;
Isaiah 30:21 and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,
This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and
when ye turn to the left.
Isaiah 30:22 And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images
of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast
them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Isaiah 30:23 And he will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou
shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it
shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large
pastures;
Isaiah 30:24 the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the
ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with
the shovel and with the fork.
Isaiah 30:25 And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon
every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great
slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of
the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of
seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of his people,
and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning
with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
Isaiah 30:28 and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth
even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction:
and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
Isaiah 30:29 Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come
unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
Isaiah 30:30 And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard,
and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of
[his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and
tempest, and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:31 For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be
dismayed; with his rod will he smite [him].
Isaiah 30:32 And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah
shall lay upon him, shall be with [the sound of] tabrets and harps; and
in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.
Isaiah 30:33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is
made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire
and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone,
doth kindle it.
Isaiah 31
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely 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 Jehovah!
Isaiah 31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call
back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and
against the help of them that work iniquity.
Isaiah 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall
fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Isaiah 31:4 For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the
young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be
called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor
abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come
down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.
Isaiah 31:5 As birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect
Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and
preserve [it].
Isaiah 31:6 Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O
children of Israel.
Isaiah 31:7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols
of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made
unto you for a sin.
Isaiah 31:8 And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and
the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the
sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.
Isaiah 31:9 And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his
princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose fire is
in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32
Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in justice.
Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and
a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the
shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Isaiah 32:4 And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah 32:5 The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said
to be bountiful.
Isaiah 32:6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work
iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to
make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the
thirsty to fail.
Isaiah 32:7 And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the
needy speaketh right.
Isaiah 32:8 But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble things
shall he continue.
Isaiah 32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, [and] hear my voice;
ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
Isaiah 32:10 For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth]
upon your loins.
Isaiah 32:12 They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah 32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isaiah 32:14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall
be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a
joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed
as a forest.
Isaiah 32:16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and
righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.
Isaiah 32:18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation,
and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
Isaiah 32:19 But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the
city shall be utterly laid low.
Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are yet that sow beside all waters, that send
forth the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isaiah 33
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed;
and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee!
When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed; and when
thou hast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal
treacherously with thee.
Isaiah 33:2 O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee:
be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble.
Isaiah 33:3 At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the
lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.
Isaiah 33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar
gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.
Isaiah 33:5 Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled
Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 33:6 And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of
salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy
treasure.
Isaiah 33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors
of peace weep bitterly.
Isaiah 33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the
enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth not man.
Isaiah 33:9 The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is
confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan
and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
Isaiah 33:10 Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up
myself; now will I be exalted.
Isaiah 33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:
your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
Isaiah 33:12 And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as
thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that
are near, acknowledge my might.
Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the
godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who
among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isaiah 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he
that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from
taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and
shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:
Isaiah 33:16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the
munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be
sure.
Isaiah 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
behold a land that reacheth afar.
Isaiah 33:18 Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that
counted, where is he that weighed [the tribute]? where is he that
counted the towers?
Isaiah 33:19 Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep
speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou
canst not understand.
Isaiah 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes
shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be
removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall
any of the cords thereof be broken.
Isaiah 33:21 But there Jehovah will be with us in majesty, a place of
broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Isaiah 33:22 For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver,
Jehovah is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah 33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the
foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of
a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
Isaiah 33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people
that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 34
Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples:
let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things
that come forth from it.
Isaiah 34:2 For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and
wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
delivered them to the slaughter.
Isaiah 34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their
dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with
their blood.
Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall
fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf]
from the fig-tree.
Isaiah 34:5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it
shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.
Isaiah 34:6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 34:7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood,
and their dust made fat with fatness.
Isaiah 34:8 For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of
recompense for the cause of Zion.
Isaiah 34:9 And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and
the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke
thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie
waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Isaiah 34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and
the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it
the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Isaiah 34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but
none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and
thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches.
Isaiah 34:14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the
wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-
monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
Isaiah 34:15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and
hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be
gathered, every one with her mate.
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of
these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it
hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.
Isaiah 34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from
generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Isaiah 35
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy
and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah,
the excellency of our God.
Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble
knees.
Isaiah 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the
recompense of God; he will come and save you.
Isaiah 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears
of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah 35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of
the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert.
Isaiah 35:7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the
thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where
they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Isaiah 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is
shall be for [the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not
err [therein].
Isaiah 35:9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up
thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk
[there]:
Isaiah 35:10 and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.
Isaiah 36
Isaiah 36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the
fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
Isaiah 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Isaiah 36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the
son of Asaph, the recorder.
Isaiah 36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest?
Isaiah 36:5 I say, [thy] counsel and strength for the war are but vain
words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against
me?
Isaiah 36:6 Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed,
even upon 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 on him.
Isaiah 36:7 But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is
not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar?
Isaiah 36:8 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges 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.
Isaiah 36:9 How then canst 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?
Isaiah 36:10 And am I now come up without Jehovah against this
land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it.
Isaiah 36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian
language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews'
language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy
master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to
the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink
their own water with you?
Isaiah 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria.
Isaiah 36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for
he will not be able to deliver you:
Isaiah 36:15 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying,
Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make your peace with me, 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;
Isaiah 36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah
will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are
the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my
hand?
Isaiah 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that
have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
Isaiah 36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a
word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Isaiah 36:22 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words
of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 37
Isaiah 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 Jehovah.
Isaiah 37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
Isaiah 37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is
a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are
come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Isaiah 37:4 It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the
living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
Isaiah 37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isaiah 37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your
master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me.
Isaiah 37:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear
tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land.
Isaiah 37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
Isaiah 37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
He is come out to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isaiah 37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my
fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden that were in Telassar?
Isaiah 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
Isaiah 37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of
Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.
Isaiah 37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah, saying,
Isaiah 37:16 O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest
[above] the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 37:17 Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes,
O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath
sent to defy the living God.
Isaiah 37:18 Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the countries, and their land,
Isaiah 37:19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no
gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they
have destroyed them.
Isaiah 37:20 Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art
Jehovah, even thou only.
Isaiah 37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Isaiah 37:22 this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning
him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee
to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high?
[even] against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37:24 By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said,
With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the
mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the
tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter
into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
Isaiah 37:25 I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my
feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
Isaiah 37:26 Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and
formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it
should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Isaiah 37:27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they
were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of
grain] before it is grown up.
Isaiah 37:28 But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy raging against me.
Isaiah 37:29 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine
arrogancy 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.
Isaiah 37:30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this
year that which groweth of itself, 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 fruit thereof.
Isaiah 37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out
of mount Zion they that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts
will perform this.
Isaiah 37:33 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound
against it.
Isaiah 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 37:35 For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake,
and for my servant David's sake.
Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the
camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand;
and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead
bodies.
Isaiah 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house
of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And
Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
Isaiah 38
Isaiah 38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Isaiah 38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed
unto Jehovah,
Isaiah 38:3 and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, 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.
Isaiah 38:4 Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying,
Isaiah 38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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.
Isaiah 38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the
king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.
Isaiah 38:7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that
Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
Isaiah 38:8 behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is
gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten
steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone
down.
Isaiah 38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had
been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
Isaiah 38:10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the
gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Isaiah 38:11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the
land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of
the world.
Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me
as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will
cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an
end of me.
Isaiah 38:13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he
breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end
of me.
Isaiah 38:14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan
as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am
oppressed, be thou my surety.
Isaiah 38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and
himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the
bitterness of my soul.
Isaiah 38:16 O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is
the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to
live.
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] 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.
Isaiah 38:18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate
thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38:20 Jehovah is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing
my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the
house of Jehovah.
Isaiah 38:21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and
lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Isaiah 38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go
up to the house of Jehovah?
Isaiah 39
Isaiah 39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king
of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that
he had been sick, and was recovered.
Isaiah 39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the
house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
Isaiah 39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and
said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they
unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country
unto me, even from Babylon.
Isaiah 39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And
Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
Isaiah 39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah
of hosts:
Isaiah 39:6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in thy
house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou
shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon.
Isaiah 39:8 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of
Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall
be peace and truth in my days.
Isaiah 40
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her,
that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that
she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 40:3 The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness
the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and
hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the
rough places a plain:
Isaiah 40:5 and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40:6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I
cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower
of the field.
Isaiah 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the
breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of
our God shall stand forever.
Isaiah 40:9 O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a
high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up
thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of
Judah, Behold, your God!
Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one,
and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his
recompense before him.
Isaiah 40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the
lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead
those that have their young.
Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his
counsellor hath taught him?
Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,
and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and
showed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the
isles as a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
Isaiah 40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are
accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will
ye compare unto him?
Isaiah 40:19 The image, a workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith
overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains.
Isaiah 40:20 He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblation
chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful
workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Isaiah 40:21 Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not
been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth above 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;
Isaiah 40:23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges
of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not
been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover
he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh
them away as stubble.
Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal
[to him]? saith the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created
these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by
name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in
power, not one is lacking.
Isaiah 40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My
way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice [due] to me is passed away
from my God?
Isaiah 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The
everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his
understanding.
Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no
might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah 40:31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 41
Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples
renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us
come near together to judgment.
Isaiah 41:2 Who hath raised up one from the east, whom he calleth
in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and
maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his sword,
as the driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah 41:3 He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by a way
that he had not gone with his feet.
Isaiah 41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations
from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he.
Isaiah 41:5 The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth
tremble; they draw near, and come.
Isaiah 41:6 They help every one his neighbor; and [every one] saith
to his brother, Be of good courage.
Isaiah 41:7 So the carpenter encourageth the goldsmith, [and] he that
smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the
soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that is should not
be moved.
Isaiah 41:8 But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend,
Isaiah 41:9 thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the
earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thou
art my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away;
Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I
am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will
uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:11 Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be
put to shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as
nothing, and shall perish.
Isaiah 41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even
them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as
nothing, and as a thing of nought.
Isaiah 41:13 For I, Jehovah thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying
unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will
help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing
instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat
them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Isaiah 41:16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them
away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in
Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and
their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God
of Israel, will not forsake them.
Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in
the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah 41:19 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the
myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine,
and the box-tree together:
Isaiah 41:20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the
Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Isaiah 41:21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your
strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41:22 Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall
happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may
consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to
come.
Isaiah 41:23 Declare 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.
Isaiah 41:24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought;
an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Isaiah 41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he is come;
from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall
come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Isaiah 41:26 Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may
know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right? yea, there is
none that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none
that heareth your words.
Isaiah 41:27 [I am the] first [that saith] unto Zion, Behold, behold
them; and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
Isaiah 41:28 And when I look, there is no man: even among them
there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
Isaiah 41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and]
nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 42
Isaiah 42:1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in
whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will
bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 42:2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be
heard in the street.
Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning
wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.
Isaiah 42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and
stretched them forth; he that spread abroad 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:
Isaiah 42:6 I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will
hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the
people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah 42:7 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
Isaiah 42:8 I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not
give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.
Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new
things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah 42:10 Sing unto Jehovah 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.
Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their
voice], the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela
sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Isaiah 42:12 Let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his
praise in the islands.
Isaiah 42:13 Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up
[his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he
will do mightily against his enemies.
Isaiah 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will
gasp and pant together.
Isaiah 42:15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not;
in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do,
and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to
shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye
are our gods.
Isaiah 42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger
that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace [with me], and blind as
Jehovah's servant?
Isaiah 42:20 Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears
are open, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 42:21 It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness' sake, to
magnify the law, and make it honorable.
Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; 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.
Isaiah 42:23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that
will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?
did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose
ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his
anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about,
yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Isaiah 43
Isaiah 43:1 But now thus saith Jehovah 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.
Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with
thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee.
Isaiah 43:3 For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy
stead.
Isaiah 43:4 Since thou hast been precious in my sight, [and]
honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy
stead, and peoples instead of thy life.
Isaiah 43:5 Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from
the east, and gather thee from the west;
Isaiah 43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep
not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of
the earth;
Isaiah 43:7 every one that is called by my name, and whom I have
created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.
Isaiah 43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf
that have ears.
Isaiah 43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the
peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show
us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be
justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, 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.
Isaiah 43:11 I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no
saviour.
Isaiah 43:12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed;
and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore ye are my
witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God.
Isaiah 43:13 Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that
can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
Isaiah 43:14 Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all
of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their
rejoicing.
Isaiah 43:15 I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel,
your King.
Isaiah 43:16 Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a
path in the mighty waters;
Isaiah 43:17 who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and
the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are
extinct, they are quenched as a wick):
Isaiah 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider
the things of old.
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth;
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and
rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:20 The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and
the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in
the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Isaiah 43:21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might
set forth my praise.
Isaiah 43:22 Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou
hast been weary of me, O Israel.
Isaiah 43:23 Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt-
offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not
burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense.
Isaiah 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money,
neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast
burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
iniquities.
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for
mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 43:26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou
forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified.
Isaiah 43:27 Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have
transgressed against me.
Isaiah 43:28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
Isaiah 44
Isaiah 44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I
have chosen:
Isaiah 44:2 Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and formed thee from
the womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob my servant; and
thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and
streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and
my blessing upon thine offspring:
Isaiah 44:4 and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by
the watercourses.
Isaiah 44:5 One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call
[himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his
hand unto Jehovah, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.
Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his
Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and
besides me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in
order for me, since I established the ancient people? and the things
that are coming, and that shall come to pass, let them declare.
Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have I not declared unto
thee of old, and showed it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God
besides me? yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.
Isaiah 44:9 They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity;
and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own
witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
Isaiah 44:10 Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is
profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the
workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.
Isaiah 44:12 The smith [maketh] an axe, and worketh in the coals,
and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm:
yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and
is faint.
Isaiah 44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out
with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with
the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to
the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
Isaiah 44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree
and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the
forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.
Isaiah 44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he taketh
thereof, and warmeth 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.
Isaiah 44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth
himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
Isaiah 44:17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his
graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth
unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Isaiah 44:18 They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath
shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot
understand.
Isaiah 44:19 And none calleth to mind, 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?
Isaiah 44:20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him
aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my
right hand?
Isaiah 44:21 Remember these things, 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.
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath done it; shout, ye
lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, O
forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and
will glorify himself in Israel.
Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed
thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that
stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth
(who is with me?);
Isaiah 44:25 that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh
diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their
knowledge foolish;
Isaiah 44:26 that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth
the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be
inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will
raise up the waste places thereof;
Isaiah 44:27 that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy
rivers;
Isaiah 44:28 That saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall
perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built;
and of the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Isaiah 45
Isaiah 45:1 Thus saith Jehovah 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 the doors before him, and the gates shall not
be shut:
Isaiah 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth;
I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of
iron;
Isaiah 45:3 and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that it is I, Jehovah,
who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.
Isaiah 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I
have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast
not known me.
Isaiah 45:5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is
no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;
Isaiah 45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from
the west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is
none else.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and
create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
Isaiah 45:8 Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour
down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth
salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I,
Jehovah, have created it.
Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd
among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah 45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest
thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?
Isaiah 45:11 Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his
Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons,
and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.
Isaiah 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even
my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I
commanded.
Isaiah 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make
straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles
go free, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 45:14 Thus saith Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the
merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come
over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall go 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.
Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of
Israel, the Saviour.
Isaiah 45:16 They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of
them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.
Isaiah 45:17 [But] Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded
world without end.
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God
that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not
a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is
none else.
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of
darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I,
Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye
that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the
wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 45:21 Declare ye, and bring [it] forth; yea, let them take
counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient time? who hath
declared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and there is no God else
besides me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides me.
Isaiah 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the
earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:23 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from
my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Isaiah 45:24 Only in Jehovah, it is said of me, is righteousness and
strength; even to him shall men come; and all they that were incensed
against him shall be put to shame.
Isaiah 45:25 In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
shall glory.
Isaiah 46
Isaiah 46:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon
the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are
made a load, a burden to the weary [beast].
Isaiah 46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not
deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Isaiah 46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant
of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth,
that have been carried from the womb;
Isaiah 46:4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I
carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will
deliver.
Isaiah 46:5 To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and
compare me, that we may be like?
Isaiah 46:6 Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in
the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall
down, yea, they worship.
Isaiah 46:7 They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in
its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one
may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again
to mind, O ye transgressors.
Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and
there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
Isaiah 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all my pleasure;
Isaiah 46:11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my
counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to
pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
Isaiah 46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from
righteousness:
Isaiah 46:13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and
my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for
Israel my glory.
Isaiah 47
Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil,
strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall
be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
Isaiah 47:4 Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel.
Isaiah 47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of
the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of
kingdoms.
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance,
and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon
the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Isaiah 47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou
didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the
latter end thereof.
Isaiah 47:8 Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures,
that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none
else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the
loss of children:
Isaiah 47:9 but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in
one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure
shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the
great abundance of thine enchantments.
Isaiah 47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said,
None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else
besides me.
Isaiah 47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not
know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee
suddenly, which thou knowest not.
Isaiah 47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the
multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth;
if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah 47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let
now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.
Isaiah 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn
them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Isaiah 47:15 Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast
labored: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall
wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.
Isaiah 48
Isaiah 48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the
name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who
swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of
Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
Isaiah 48:2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):
Isaiah 48:3 I have declared the former things from of old; yea, they
went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them,
and they came to pass.
Isaiah 48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Isaiah 48:5 therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before it
came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath
done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath
commanded them.
Isaiah 48:6 Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not
declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden
things, which thou hast not known.
Isaiah 48:7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before
this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I
knew them.
Isaiah 48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from
of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Isaiah 48:9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my
praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48:11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for
how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory will I not give to
another.
Isaiah 48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am
he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Isaiah 48:13 Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and
my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them,
they stand up together.
Isaiah 48:14 Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among them
hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah loveth shall perform
his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have
brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
Isaiah 48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning
I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and
now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.
Isaiah 48:17 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who
leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Isaiah 48:18 Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves
of the sea:
Isaiah 48:19 thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of
thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor
destroyed from before me.
Isaiah 48:20 Go ye forth from 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, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
Isaiah 48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the
deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he
clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.
Isaiah 49
Isaiah 49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from
far: Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
mother hath he made mention of my name:
Isaiah 49:2 and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the
shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished
shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:
Isaiah 49:3 and he said unto me, Thou art my servant; Israel, in
whom I will be glorified.
Isaiah 49:4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my
strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is
with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
Isaiah 49:5 And now saith Jehovah that formed me from the womb
to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be
gathered unto him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Jehovah, and my
God is become my strength);
Isaiah 49:6 yea, he saith, It is too light a 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.
Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith Jehovah, 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,
and they shall worship; because of Jehovah that is faithful, [even] the
Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith Jehovah, In an acceptable time have I
answered 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 raise up
the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages:
Isaiah 49:9 saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are
in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all
bare heights shall be their pasture.
Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat
nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them,
even by springs of water will he guide them.
Isaiah 49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
highways shall be exalted.
Isaiah 49:12 Lo, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the
north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Isaiah 49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth
into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people,
and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
Isaiah 49:14 But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord
hath forgotten me.
Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should
not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget,
yet will not I forget thee.
Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:17 Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that
made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
Isaiah 49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these
gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith
Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an
ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride.
Isaiah 49:19 For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy
land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for
the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah 49:20 The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine
ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah 49:21 Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me
these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary,
an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
Isaiah 49:22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my
hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they
shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried
upon their shoulders.
Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to
the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am
Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.
Isaiah 49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captives be delivered?
Isaiah 49:25 But thus saith Jehovah, 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.
Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own
flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet
wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and
thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 50
Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my
creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities
were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Isaiah 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I
called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke
I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink,
because there is no water, and die for thirst.
Isaiah 50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering.
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that
are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as they that are taught.
Isaiah 50:5 The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away backward.
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them
that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah 50:7 For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not
been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know
that I shall not be put to shame.
Isaiah 50:8 He is near that justifieth me; who will content with me?
let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to
me.
Isaiah 50:9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that
shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the
moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah 50:10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth
the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no
light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.
Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves
about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among
the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye
shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 51
Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the
hold of the pit whence ye were digged.
Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare
you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and
made him many.
Isaiah 51:3 For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all
her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found
therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51:4 Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O
my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my
justice for a light of the peoples.
Isaiah 51:5 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and
mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on
mine arm shall they trust.
Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth
shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in
like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness
shall not be abolished.
Isaiah 51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people
in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be
ye dismayed at their revilings.
Isaiah 51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the
worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah;
awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not
thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?
Isaiah 51:10 Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the
great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed
to pass over?
Isaiah 51:11 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.
Isaiah 51:12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that
thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall
be made as grass;
Isaiah 51:13 and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched
forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest
continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he
maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 51:14 The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall
not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
Isaiah 51:15 For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so
that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have
covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my
people.
Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk
at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the
bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
Isaiah 51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she
hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand
among all the sons that she hath brought up.
Isaiah 51:19 These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan
thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how
shall I comfort thee?
Isaiah 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah,
the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah 51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken,
but now with wine:
Isaiah 51:22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth
the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup
of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no
more drink it again:
Isaiah 51:23 and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee,
that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou
hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go
over.
Isaiah 52
Isaiah 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.
Isaiah 52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit [on thy throne], O
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:3 For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye
shall be redeemed without money.
Isaiah 52:4 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down
at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath
oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that
my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do
howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is
blasphemed.
Isaiah 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore
[they shall know] in that day that I am he that doth speak; behold, it is
I.
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good
tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth!
Isaiah 52:8 The voice of thy watchmen! they lift up the voice,
together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Jehovah
returneth to Zion.
Isaiah 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 52:10 Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all
the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of
our God.
Isaiah 52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no
unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye
that bear the vessels of Jehovah.
Isaiah 52:12 For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by
flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be
your rearward.
Isaiah 52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be
exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
Isaiah 52:14 Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so
marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
Isaiah 52:15 so shall he sprinkle many nations; 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 understand.
Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the
arm of Jehovah been revealed?
Isaiah 53:2 For he grew 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
see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah 53:3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face
he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows;
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon
him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every
one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.
Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened
not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep
that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Isaiah 53:8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as
for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off
out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to
whom the stroke [was due]?
Isaiah 53:9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a
rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased Jehovah 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 Jehovah
shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be
satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant
justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and
he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his
soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare
the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 54
Isaiah 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 Jehovah.
Isaiah 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth
the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and
strengthen thy stakes.
Isaiah 54:3 For thou shalt spread aboard on the right hand and on the
left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate
cities to be inhabited.
Isaiah 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget
the shame of thy youth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt
thou remember no more.
Isaiah 54:5 For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his
name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the
whole earth shall he be called.
Isaiah 54:6 For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and
grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy
God.
Isaiah 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
mercies will I gather thee.
Isaiah 54:8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a
moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on
thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:9 For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so
have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be
removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither
shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath
mercy on thee.
Isaiah 54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy
foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 54:12 And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates
of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.
Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and
great shall be the peace of thy children.
Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be
far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it
shall not come near thee.
Isaiah 54:15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of
thee.
Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of
coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their
righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 55
Isaiah 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.
Isaiah 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself
in fatness.
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul
shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the
sure mercies of David.
Isaiah 55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a
leader and commander to the peoples.
Isaiah 55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not;
and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of
Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified
thee.
Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon
him while he is near:
Isaiah 55:7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy
upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven,
and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring
forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Isaiah 55:11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isaiah 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with
peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into
singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to
Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 56
Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice, and do
righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed.
Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man
that holdeth it fast; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and
keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Isaiah 56:3 Neither let the foreigner, that hath joined himself to
Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surely separate me from his
people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah 56:4 For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my
covenant:
Isaiah 56:5 Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a
memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 56:6 Also the foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to
minister unto him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his
servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and
holdeth fast my covenant;
Isaiah 56:7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make
them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be
called a house of prayer for all peoples.
Isaiah 56:8 The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel,
saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides his own that are
gathered.
Isaiah 56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye
beasts in the forest.
Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without
knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming,
lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 56:11 Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough;
and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned
to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Isaiah 56:12 Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a
day] great beyond measure.
Isaiah 57
Isaiah 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].
Isaiah 57:2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one
that walketh in his uprightness.
Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
the adulterer and the harlot.
Isaiah 57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom
make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Isaiah 57:5 ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every
green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the
rocks?
Isaiah 57:6 Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is thy portion;
they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering,
thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things?
Isaiah 57:7 Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed;
thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Isaiah 57:8 And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy
memorial: for thou hast uncovered [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.
Isaiah 57:9 And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase
thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst
debase thyself even unto Sheol.
Isaiah 57:10 Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet
saidst thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find a quickening of thy
strength; therefore thou wast not faint.
Isaiah 57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that
thou liest, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have
not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not?
Isaiah 57:12 I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works,
they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 57:13 When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered
deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them
all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and
shall inherit my holy mountain.
Isaiah 57:14 And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the
way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with
him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of
the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have
made.
Isaiah 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and
smote him; I hid [my face] and was wroth; and he went on
backsliding in the way of his heart.
Isaiah 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him
also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him that is
far off and to him that is near, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him.
Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot
rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 58
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob
their sins.
Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as
a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their
God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near
unto God.
Isaiah 58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest
not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own]
pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Isaiah 58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite
with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your
voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to
afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to Jehovah?
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds
of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed
go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou
bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine
own flesh?
Isaiah 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy
healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go
before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall by thy rearward.
Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt
cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of
thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
Isaiah 58:10 and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy
the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine
obscurity be as the noonday;
Isaiah 58:11 and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like
a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste
places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and
thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths
to dwell in.
Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing
thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the
holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own]
words:
Isaiah 58:14 then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will
make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed
thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah
hath spoken it.
Isaiah 59
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isaiah 59:2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your
God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not
hear.
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth
wickedness.
Isaiah 59:4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth:
they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity.
Isaiah 59:5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out
into a viper.
Isaiah 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they
cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands.
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and
destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice
in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth
therein doth not know peace.
Isaiah 59:9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth
righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as
they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight;
among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we
look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from
us.
Isaiah 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and
our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as
for our iniquities, we know them:
Isaiah 59:13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away
from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah 59:14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness
standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness
cannot enter.
Isaiah 59:15 Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil
maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that
there was no justice.
Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that
there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation
unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
Isaiah 59:17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a
helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of
vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he
will repay recompense.
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing
stream, which the breath of Jehovah driveth.
Isaiah 59:20 And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that
turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 59:21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith
Jehovah: 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 Jehovah,
from henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah 60
Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of
Jehovah is risen upon thee.
Isaiah 60:2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee.
Isaiah 60:3 And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising.
Isaiah 60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather
themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far,
and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms.
Isaiah 60:5 Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall
thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be
turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.
Isaiah 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come;
they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises
of Jehovah.
Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto
thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall come
up with acceptance on mine altar; and I will glorify the house of my
glory.
Isaiah 60:8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to
their windows?
Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of
Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Isaiah 60:10 And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings
shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor
have I had mercy on thee.
Isaiah 60:11 Thy gates also shall be open continually; they shall not
be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the
nations, and their kings led captive.
Isaiah 60:12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee
shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isaiah 60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree,
the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my
sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Isaiah 60:14 And the sons 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 Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 60:15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no
man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a
joy of many generations.
Isaiah 60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations, and shalt
suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, am thy
Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring
silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make thy
officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation
nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah 60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be
unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Isaiah 60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the
days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit
the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified.
Isaiah 60:22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small
one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.
Isaiah 61
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because
Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he
hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening [of the prison] to them that are bound;
Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of
vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isaiah 61:3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto
them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up
the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations.
Isaiah 61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and
foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall
call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the
nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
Isaiah 61:7 Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; and instead
of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land
they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Isaiah 61:8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity;
and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an
everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah 61:9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and
their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Jehovah hath
blessed.
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, 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 a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with
her jewels.
Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord
Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all
the nations.
Isaiah 62
Isaiah 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as
brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.
Isaiah 62:2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth
of Jehovah shall name.
Isaiah 62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of
Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isaiah 62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy
land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-
bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land
shall be married.
Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons
marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall
thy God rejoice over thee.
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they
shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's
remembrancers, take ye no rest,
Isaiah 62:7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isaiah 62:8 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of
his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine
enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou
hast labored:
Isaiah 62:9 but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise
Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of
my sanctuary.
Isaiah 62:10 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
an ensign for the peoples.
Isaiah 62:11 Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the
earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Isaiah 62:12 And they shall call them The holy people, The
redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not
forsaken.
Isaiah 63
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the
greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to
save.
Isaiah 63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments
like him that treadeth in the winevat?
Isaiah 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples
there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and
trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my
garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
Isaiah 63:4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year
of my redeemed is come.
Isaiah 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I
wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm
brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me.
Isaiah 63:6 And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made
them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
Isaiah 63:7 I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah,
[and] the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah 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.
Isaiah 63:8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will
not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore
he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
Isaiah 63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his
people, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the
midst of them?
Isaiah 63:12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of
Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an
everlasting name?
Isaiah 63:13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the
wilderness, so that they stumbled not?
Isaiah 63:14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of
Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make
thyself a glorious name.
Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the
habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy
mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are
restrained toward me.
Isaiah 63:16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us
not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our
Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.
Isaiah 63:17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy
ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Isaiah 63:18 Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Isaiah 63:19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest
rule, as they that were not called by thy name.
Isaiah 64
Isaiah 64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou
wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy
presence,
Isaiah 64:2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire
causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Isaiah 64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for,
thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
Isaiah 64:4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the
ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for
him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh
righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou
wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and
shall we be saved?
Isaiah 64:6 For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our
righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth
up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us,
and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay,
and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Isaiah 64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember
iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy
people.
Isaiah 64:10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is
become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers
praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid
waste.
Isaiah 64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah?
wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah 65
Isaiah 65:1 I am inquired of by 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.
Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Isaiah 65:3 a people that provoke me to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
Isaiah 65:4 that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places;
that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their
vessels;
Isaiah 65:5 that 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.
Isaiah 65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom,
Isaiah 65:7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains,
and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their
work into their bosom.
Isaiah 65:8 Thus saith Jehovah, 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' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of
Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it,
and my servants shall dwell there.
Isaiah 65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of
Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have
sought me.
Isaiah 65:11 But ye that forsake Jehovah, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that fill up mingled
wine unto Destiny;
Isaiah 65:12 I will destine 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 ye did that which was evil in mine
eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.
Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 put to shame;
Isaiah 65:14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye
shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
Isaiah 65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my
chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his
servants by another name:
Isaiah 65:16 so 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.
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and
the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah 65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I
create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
joy.
Isaiah 65:19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people;
and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the
voice of crying.
Isaiah 65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an
old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred
years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah 65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my
people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isaiah 65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for
calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their
offspring with them.
Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion
shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 66
Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is
my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what
place shall be my rest?
Isaiah 66:2 For all these things hath my hand made, and [so] all these
things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to
him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my
word.
Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that
sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth
an oblation, [as he that offereth] swine's blood; he that burneth
frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:
Isaiah 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I
spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine
eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word:
Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake,
have said, Let Jehovah be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it
is they that shall be put to shame.
Isaiah 66:6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple,
a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies.
Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain
came, she was delivered of a man-child.
Isaiah 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such
things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought
forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her
children.
Isaiah 66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut [the womb]? saith
thy God.
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye
that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her;
Isaiah 66:11 that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory.
Isaiah 66:12 For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will extend peace to
her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing
stream: and ye shall suck [thereof]; ye shall be borne upon the side,
and shall be dandled upon the knees.
Isaiah 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort
you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 66:14 And ye shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and
your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of
Jehovah shall be known toward his servants; and he will have
indignation against his enemies.
Isaiah 66:15 For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his
chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with
fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isaiah 66:16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his
sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
Isaiah 66:17 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to
go] unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end
together, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 66:18 For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time]
cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall
come, and shall see my glory.
Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such
as 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 nations.
Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the
nations for an oblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and in chariots,
and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy
mountain Jerusalem, saith Jehovah, as the children of Israel bring
their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah.
Isaiah 66:21 And of them also will I take for priests [and] for
Levites, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and
your name remain.
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to
another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before me, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies
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.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 1
Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the
priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Jeremiah 1:2 to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of
Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
reign.
Jeremiah 1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son
of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive
in the fifth month.
Jeremiah 1:4 Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and
before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have
appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not
how to speak; for I am a child.
Jeremiah 1:7 But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for to
whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall
command thee thou shalt speak.
Jeremiah 1:8 Be not afraid because of them; for I am with thee to
deliver thee, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 1:9 Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my
mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in
thy mouth:
Jeremiah 1:10 see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over
the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to
overthrow, to build and to plant.
Jeremiah 1:11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
Jeremiah 1:12 Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast well seen: for
I watch over my word to perform it.
Jeremiah 1:13 And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second
time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling caldron; and
the face thereof is from the north.
Jeremiah 1:14 Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil
shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of
the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they shall set every
one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching
all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own
hands.
Jeremiah 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak
unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I
dismay thee before them.
Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city,
and an iron pillar, and brazen 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.
Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not
prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.
Jeremiah 2
Jeremiah 2:1 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of
thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a
land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 2:3 Israel [was] holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of
his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come
upon them, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 2:4 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all
the families of the house of Israel:
Jeremiah 2:5 thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your
fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked
after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah 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 none passed through, and where
no man dwelt?
Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit
thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my
land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that
handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do
not profit.
Jeremiah 2:9 Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah,
and with your children's children will I contend.
Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send
unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a
thing.
Jeremiah 2:11 Hath a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no
gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
profit.
Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils: they have
forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is
he become a prey?
Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled;
and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without
inhabitant.
Jeremiah 2:16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have
broken the crown of thy head.
Jeremiah 2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou
hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to
drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to
Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an
evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and
that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and
under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right
seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a
foreign vine unto me?
Jeremiah 2:22 For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee
much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 2:23 How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone
after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Jeremiah 2:24 a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the
wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they
that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find
her.
Jeremiah 2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat
from thirst: but thou saidst, It is in vain; no, for I have loved
strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the
house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their
priests, and their prophets;
Jeremiah 2:27 who say 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.
Jeremiah 2:28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let
them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for
according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 2:29 Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I
been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore
say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto
thee?
Jeremiah 2:32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 2:33 How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore
even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of
the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is
because of all these things.
Jeremiah 2:35 Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is
turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee,
because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of
Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:37 From thence also shalt thou go forth, with thy hands
upon thy head: for Jehovah hath rejected those in whom thou trustest,
and thou shalt not prosper with them.
Jeremiah 3
Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from
him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will
not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with
many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where
hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as
an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy
whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there
hath been no latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou
refusedst to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father,
thou art the guide of my youth?
Jeremiah 3:5 Will he retain [his anger] for ever? will he keep it to
the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast
had thy way.
Jeremiah 3:6 Moreover Jehovah said 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.
Jeremiah 3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, She will
return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah
saw it.
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding
Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill
of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she
also went and played the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her
whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery
with stones and with stocks.
Jeremiah 3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath
not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:11 And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath
showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 3:12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and
say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in
anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep
[anger] for ever.
Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to
the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my
voice, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:14 Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I
am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah 3:15 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart,
who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and
increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no
more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to
mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it;
neither shall it be made any more.
Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of
Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of
Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the
stubbornness of their evil heart.
Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the
house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the
north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Jeremiah 3:19 But I said, How I will put thee among the children,
and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the
nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn
away from following me.
Jeremiah 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,
saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:21 A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping
[and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have
perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Jeremiah 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your
backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah
our God.
Jeremiah 3:23 Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the
hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the
salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah 3:24 But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our
fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and
their daughters.
Jeremiah 3:25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion
cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our
fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed
the voice of Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 4
Jeremiah 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt
return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of
my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;
Jeremiah 4:2 and thou shalt swear, As Jehovah liveth, in truth, in
justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in
him, and in him shall they glory.
Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to
Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the
foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say,
Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble
yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
Jeremiah 4:6 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not;
for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jeremiah 4:7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of
nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy
land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for
the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
Jeremiah 4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah,
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.
Jeremiah 4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast
greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.
Jeremiah 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward
the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Jeremiah 4:12 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I
also utter judgments against them.
Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots
[shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe
unto us! for we are ruined.
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that
thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge
within thee?
Jeremiah 4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil
from the hills of Ephraim:
Jeremiah 4:16 make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish
against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give
out their voice against the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 4:17 As keepers of a field are they against her round about,
because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things
unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto
thy heart.
Jeremiah 4:19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very
heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because
thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of
war.
Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole
land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains
in a moment.
Jeremiah 4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound
of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they
are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to
do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and
the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved to and fro.
Jeremiah 4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds
of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness,
and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of
Jehovah, [and] before his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 4:27 For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a
desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above
be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not
repented, neither will I turn back from it.
Jeremiah 4:29 Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and
bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks:
every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.
Jeremiah 4:30 And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt
thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou
deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes
with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers despise
thee, they seek thy life.
Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the
anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands,
[saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
Jeremiah 5
Jeremiah 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 doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I
will pardon her.
Jeremiah 5:2 And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they
swear falsely.
Jeremiah 5:3 O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou
hast stricken them, but they were 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.
Jeremiah 5:4 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for
they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
Jeremiah 5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto
them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God.
But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a
wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against
their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces;
because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are
increased.
Jeremiah 5:7 How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me,
and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full,
they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the
harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 5:8 They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one
neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Jeremiah 5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a
full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah's.
Jeremiah 5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 5:12 They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he;
neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor
famine:
Jeremiah 5:13 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is
not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Jeremiah 5:14 Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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.
Jeremiah 5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house
of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a
nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what
they say.
Jeremiah 5:16 Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty
men.
Jeremiah 5:17 And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread,
[which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy
flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees;
they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with
the sword.
Jeremiah 5:18 But even in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make
a full end with you.
Jeremiah 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,
Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then
shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is
not yours.
Jeremiah 5:20 Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear
not:
Jeremiah 5:22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at
my presence, who 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.
Jeremiah 5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart; they are revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear
Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in
its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and
your sins have withholden good from you.
Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they
watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in
deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the
fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they
not judge.
Jeremiah 5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the
land:
Jeremiah 5:31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear
rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will
ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 6
Jeremiah 6:1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the
midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a
signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a
great destruction.
Jeremiah 6:2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion,
will I cut off.
Jeremiah 6:3 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.
Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at
noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the
evening are stretched out.
Jeremiah 6:5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
Jeremiah 6:6 For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down
trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be
visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 6:7 As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth
her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me
continually is sickness and wounds.
Jeremiah 6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be
alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not
inhabited.
Jeremiah 6:9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly
glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-
gatherer into the baskets.
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may
hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken:
behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they
have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am
weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, 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.
Jeremiah 6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, their
fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon
the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of
them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they
blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I
visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith Jehovah, 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].
Jeremiah 6:17 And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to
the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
Jeremiah 6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what is among them.
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this
people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense
from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-
offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay
stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons
together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall
perish.
Jeremiah 6:22 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from
the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the
uttermost parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 6:23 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and
have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon
horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O
daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax
feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in
travail.
Jeremiah 6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for
the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth,
and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon
us.
Jeremiah 6:27 I have made thee a trier [and] a fortress among my
people; that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all grievous revolters, going about with
slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of
the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked
away.
Jeremiah 6:30 Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath
rejected them.
Jeremiah 7
Jeremiah 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of Jehovah's house, and proclaim
there this word, and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah,
that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.
Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend
your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
place.
Jeremiah 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of
Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.
Jeremiah 7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his
neighbor;
Jeremiah 7:6 if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the
widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after
other gods to your own hurt:
Jeremiah 7:7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.
Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear
falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye
have not known,
Jeremiah 7:10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is
called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all
these abominations?
Jeremiah 7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a
den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh,
where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it
for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith
Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye
heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:
Jeremiah 7:14 therefore will I do unto the 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 did to Shiloh.
Jeremiah 7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out
all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will
not hear thee.
Jeremiah 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and
in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the
fire, and the women knead the 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.
Jeremiah 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; [do
they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine
anger and my wrath 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.
Jeremiah 7:21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add
your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded
them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah 7:23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken
unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people;
and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well
with you.
Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but
walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil
heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the
land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Jeremiah 7:26 yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their
ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah 7:27 And 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.
Jeremiah 7:28 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that
hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received
instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and
take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected
and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 7:30 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil
in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the
house which is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Topheth,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and
their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it
into my mind.
Jeremiah 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that
it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of
Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth,
till there be no place [to bury].
Jeremiah 7:33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for
the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none
shall frighten them away.
Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah,
and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for
the land shall become a waste.
Jeremiah 8
Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, saith Jehovah, 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;
Jeremiah 8:2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the
moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which
they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they
have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the
earth.
Jeremiah 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places
whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith
Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away,
and not return?
Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no
man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in
the battle.
Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed
times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the
time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is
with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought
falsely.
Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and
taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner
of wisdom is in them?
Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and
their fields to them that shall possess 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.
Jeremiah 8:11 And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they
blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 8:13 I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah: 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.
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us
enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah
our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink,
because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a
time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 8:16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the
sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for
they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the
city and those that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you,
which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 8:18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my
heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 8:19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not
her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their
graven images, and with foreign vanities?
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are
not saved.
Jeremiah 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I
mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician
there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
recovered?
Jeremiah 9
Jeremiah 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!
Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for
they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 9:3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for
falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for
they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye
not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every
neighbor will go about with slanders.
Jeremiah 9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will
not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they
weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:7 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will
melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the
daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one
speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he
layeth wait for him.
Jeremiah 9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah;
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and
wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because
they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men
hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the
beasts are fled, they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of
jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without
inhabitant.
Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and
[who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may
declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a
wilderness, so that none passeth through?
Jeremiah 9:13 And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my
law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither
walked therein,
Jeremiah 9:14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own
heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;
Jeremiah 9:15 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood,
and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword
after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah 9:17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for
the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful
women, that they may come:
Jeremiah 9:18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with
waters.
Jeremiah 9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are
we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the
land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Jeremiah 9:20 Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let
your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters
wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered
into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young
men from the streets.
Jeremiah 9:22 Speak, Thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men
shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
harvestman; and none shall gather [them].
Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith Jehovah, 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;
Jeremiah 9:24 but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath
understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth
lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things I delight, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:25 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:
Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of
Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut
off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
Jeremiah 10
Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you,
O house of Israel:
Jeremiah 10:2 thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are
dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one
cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman
with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it
with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jeremiah 10:5 They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak
not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid
of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
Jeremiah 10:6 There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art
great, and thy name is great in might.
Jeremiah 10:7 Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for
to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the
nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the
instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Jeremiah 10:9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought
from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of
the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they
are all the work of skilful men.
Jeremiah 10:10 But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God,
and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the
nations are not able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not
made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and
from under the heavens.
Jeremiah 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath
he stretched out the heavens:
Jeremiah 10:13 when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of
waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the
ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth
the wind out of his treasuries.
Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without
knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for
his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the
former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah
of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that
abidest in the siege.
Jeremiah 10:18 For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they
may feel [it].
Jeremiah 10:19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is
grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah 10:20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken:
my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to
spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Jeremiah 10:21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not
inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their
flocks are scattered.
Jeremiah 10:22 The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great
commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a
desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
Jeremiah 10:23 O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in
himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Jeremiah 10:24 O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee
not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.
Jeremiah 11
Jeremiah 11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah,
saying,
Jeremiah 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto
the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 11:3 and say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God
of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this
covenant,
Jeremiah 11:4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of 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;
Jeremiah 11:5 that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this
day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.
Jeremiah 11:6 And Jehovah 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.
Jeremiah 11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day
that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day,
rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but
walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I
brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do, but they did them not.
Jeremiah 11:9 And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found
among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone 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.
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring
evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall
cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.
Jeremiah 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto which they offer incense:
but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Jeremiah 11:13 For according to the number of thy cities are thy
gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of
Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to
burn incense unto Baal.
Jeremiah 11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift
up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that
they cry unto me because of their trouble.
Jeremiah 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she
hath wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed
from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
Jeremiah 11:16 Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair
with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire
upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Jeremiah 11:17 For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath
pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of
Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for
themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.
Jeremiah 11:18 And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew
it: then thou showedst me their doings.
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.
Jeremiah 11:20 But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously,
who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them;
for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah 11:21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of
Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the
name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;
Jeremiah 11:22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will
punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and
their daughters shall die by famine;
Jeremiah 11:23 and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will
bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jeremiah 12
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with
thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way
of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very
treacherously?
Jeremiah 12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root;
they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth,
and far from their heart.
Jeremiah 12:3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and
triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the
whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein,
the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall
not see our latter end.
Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have
wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though
in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of
the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father,
even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried
aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto
thee.
Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my
heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of
her enemies.
Jeremiah 12:8 My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest:
she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
Jeremiah 12:9 Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are
the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the
beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they
have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant
portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah 12:11 They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto
me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man
layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah 12:12 Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the
wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of
the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.
Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns;
they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be
ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 12:14 Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors,
that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will
pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked
them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring
them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently
learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah
liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall
they be built up in the midst of my people.
Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that
nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah 13:1 Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen
girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Jeremiah 13:2 So I bought a girdle according to the word of
Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.
Jeremiah 13:3 And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second
time, saying,
Jeremiah 13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon
thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of
the rock.
Jeremiah 13:5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah
commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that Jehovah
said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle from
thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
Jeremiah 13:7 Then I went to the 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.
Jeremiah 13:8 Then the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 13:9 Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner will I mar the
pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that
walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods
to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,
which is profitable for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so
have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the
whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a
people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they
would not hear.
Jeremiah 13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word:
Thus saith Jehovah, the 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?
Jeremiah 13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah,
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.
Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare,
nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
Jeremiah 13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Jehovah
hath spoken.
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to Jehovah 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.
Jeremiah 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in
secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down
with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother,
Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down,
even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none
to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly
carried away captive.
Jeremiah 13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from
the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Jeremiah 13:21 What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as
head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall
not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 13:22 And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these
things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.
Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that
passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 13:25 This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from
me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in
falsehood.
Jeremiah 13:26 Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy
face, and thy shame shall appear.
Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thine abominations, even thine
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the
hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made
clean; how long shall it yet be?
Jeremiah 14
Jeremiah 14:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah
concerning the drought.
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they
sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles send their little ones to the waters:
they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their
vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their
heads.
Jeremiah 14:4 Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no
rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover
their heads.
Jeremiah 14:5 Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh
[her young], because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6 And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they
pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
Jeremiah 14:7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for
thy name's sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have
sinned against thee.
Jeremiah 14:8 O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time
of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a
wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Jeremiah 14:9 Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a
mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of
us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
Jeremiah 14:10 Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have
they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore
Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins.
Jeremiah 14:11 And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people
for [their] good.
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when
they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them;
but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence.
Jeremiah 14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! 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.
Jeremiah 14:14 Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy
lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and
divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.
Jeremiah 14:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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.
Jeremiah 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast
out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword;
and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their
sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah 14:17 And 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 wound.
Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain
with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are
sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the
land, and have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul
loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for
us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14:20 We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and
the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
Jeremiah 14:21 Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake; do not
disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant
with us.
Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that
can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O
Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made
all these things.
Jeremiah 15
Jeremiah 15:1 Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and
Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this
people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah 15:2 And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee,
Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith
Jehovah: 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 captivity, to captivity.
Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith
Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the
heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
Jeremiah 15:4 And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among
all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of
Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 15:5 For who will have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or
who will bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to ask of thy welfare?
Jeremiah 15:6 Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone
backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and
destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 15:7 And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of
the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my
people; they returned not from their ways.
Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of
the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young
men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall
upon her suddenly.
Jeremiah 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hath given
up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath
been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I
deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a
man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not
lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] every one of them doth curse
me.
Jeremiah 15:11 Jehovah said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good;
verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the
time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Jeremiah 15:12 Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and
brass?
Jeremiah 15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a
spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
Jeremiah 15:14 And I will make [them] 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.
Jeremiah 15:15 O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit
me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy
words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am
called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry,
nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me
with indignation.
Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable,
which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a
deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then
will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou
take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they
shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.
Jeremiah 15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fortified
brazen 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 Jehovah.
Jeremiah 15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the
wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Jeremiah 16
Jeremiah 16:1 The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou
have sons or daughters, in this place.
Jeremiah 16:3 For thus saith Jehovah 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:
Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be
lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the
face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by
famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 16:5 For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of
mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have
taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even
lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Jeremiah 16:6 Both great and 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;
Jeremiah 16:7 neither shall men break [bread] 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.
Jeremiah 16:8 And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit
with them, to eat and to drink.
Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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.
Jeremiah 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this
people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath
Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our
iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah
our God?
Jeremiah 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers
have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods,
and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken
me, and have not kept my law;
Jeremiah 16:12 and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for,
behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so
that ye hearken not unto me:
Jeremiah 16:13 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into
the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and
there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no
favor.
Jeremiah 16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah,
that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah 16:15 but, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children
of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither
he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I
gave unto their fathers.
Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah,
and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many
hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from
every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Jeremiah 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not
hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.
Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their
sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of
their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their
abominations.
Jeremiah 16:19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from
the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought
but lies, [even] vanity and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah 16:20 Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are
no gods?
Jeremiah 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this
once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they
shall know that my name is Jehovah.
Jeremiah 17
Jeremiah 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 tablet of their heart,
and upon the horns of your altars;
Jeremiah 17:2 whilst their children remember their altars and their
Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
Jeremiah 17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance
and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin,
throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah 17:4 And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy
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.
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in
man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall
not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and
whose trust Jehovah is.
Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that
spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat
cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year
of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is
exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to
give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his
doings.
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath
not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of
his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Jeremiah 17:12 A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning,
is the place of our sanctuary.
Jeremiah 17:13 O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee
shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in
the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living
waters.
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me,
and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Jeremiah 17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of
Jehovah? let it come now.
Jeremiah 17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a
shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou
knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.
Jeremiah 17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the
day of evil.
Jeremiah 17:18 Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let
not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be
dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with
double destruction.
Jeremiah 17:19 Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and stand in the
gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come
in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 17:20 and say unto them, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye
kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
that enter in by these gates:
Jeremiah 17:21 Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed to yourselves, and
bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of
Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 17:22 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on
the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the sabbath
day, as I commanded your fathers.
Jeremiah 17:23 But they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear,
but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not
receive instruction.
Jeremiah 17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken
unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of
this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no
work therein;
Jeremiah 17:25 then shall there enter in by 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.
Jeremiah 17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and
from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of
Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from
the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-
offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving,
unto the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the
sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter 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.
Jeremiah 18
Jeremiah 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah,
saying,
Jeremiah 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I
will cause thee to hear my words.
Jeremiah 18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold,
he was making a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah 18:4 And when the vessel that he made of the clay was
marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as
seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5 Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand, O house of Israel.
Jeremiah 18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy
it;
Jeremiah 18:8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn
from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah 18:9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
Jeremiah 18:10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they
obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I
would benefit them.
Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame
evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now
every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
Jeremiah 18:12 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our
own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his
evil heart.
Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among
the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done
a very horrible thing.
Jeremiah 18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the
field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
Jeremiah 18:15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned
incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their
ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
Jeremiah 18:16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake
his head.
Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the
enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of
their calamity.
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices
against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let
us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his
words.
Jeremiah 18:19 Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and hearken to the
voice of them that contend with me.
Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have
digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak
good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives
become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death,
[and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou
shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to
take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Jeremiah 18:23 Yet, Jehovah, 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 thou with
them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah 19
Jeremiah 19:1 Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter's earthen
bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the
priests;
Jeremiah 19:2 and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the
words that I shall tell thee;
Jeremiah 19:3 and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of
Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the
God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which
whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
Jeremiah 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged
this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they
knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have
filled this place with the blood of innocents,
Jeremiah 19:5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their
sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded
not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah 19:6 therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that
this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son
of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
Jeremiah 19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and
Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword
before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and
their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens,
and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons
and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh
of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies,
and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
Jeremiah 19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the
men that go with thee,
Jeremiah 19:11 and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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
in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
Jeremiah 19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to
the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:
Jeremiah 19:13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth,
even 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.
Jeremiah 19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Jehovah
had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah's
house, and said to all the people:
Jeremiah 19:15 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil
that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck
stiff, that they may not hear my words.
Jeremiah 20
Jeremiah 20:1 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was
chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying
these things.
Jeremiah 20:2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put
him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was
in the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur
brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto
him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
Jeremiah 20:4 For thus saith Jehovah, 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 to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
Jeremiah 20:5 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all
the gains thereof, and all the precious things thereof, yea, all the
treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their
enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry
them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 20:6 And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house
shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there
thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy
friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.
Jeremiah 20:7 O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was
persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a
laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.
Jeremiah 20:8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and
destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto
me, and a derision, all the day.
Jeremiah 20:9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor
speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing,
and I cannot [contain].
Jeremiah 20:10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on
every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my
familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be
persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our
revenge on him.
Jeremiah 20:11 But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] a
terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not
prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not
dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be
forgotten.
Jeremiah 20:12 But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous,
that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them;
for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah 20:13 Sing unto Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath
delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.
Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the
day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father,
saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah
overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning,
and shouting at noontime;
Jeremiah 20:17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my
mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Jeremiah 20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor
and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 21
Jeremiah 21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah,
when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
Jeremiah 21:2 Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us:
peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us.
Jeremiah 21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to
Zedekiah:
Jeremiah 21:4 Thus saith Jehovah, the 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 that
besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst
of this city.
Jeremiah 21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an
outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation.
Jeremiah 21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man
and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah
king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even 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.
Jeremiah 21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith
Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of
death.
Jeremiah 21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and
by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and
passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his
life shall be unto him for a prey.
Jeremiah 21:10 For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and
not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Jeremiah 21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear
ye the word of Jehovah:
Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, Execute
justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand
of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 21:13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley,
[and] of the rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; you that say, Who shall
come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Jeremiah 21:14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall
devour all that is round about her.
Jeremiah 22
Jeremiah 22:1 Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king
of Judah, and speak there this word,
Jeremiah 22:2 And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah,
that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy
people that enter in by these gates.
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and
righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the
fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in
by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David,
riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Jeremiah 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by
myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.
Jeremiah 22:6 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the
king 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.
Jeremiah 22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one
with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast
them into the fire.
Jeremiah 22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they
shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done
thus unto this great city?
Jeremiah 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the
covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and
served them.
Jeremiah 22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but
weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor
see his native country.
Jeremiah 22:11 For thus saith Jehovah touching Shallum the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and]
who went forth out of this place: He shall not return thither any more.
Jeremiah 22:12 But in the place whither they have led him captive,
there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
Jeremiah 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his
neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;
Jeremiah 22:14 that saith, I will build me a wide house and spacious
chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar,
and painted with vermilion.
Jeremiah 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in
cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and
righteousness? then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it
was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 22:17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy
covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression,
and for violence, to do it.
Jeremiah 22:18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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!
Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn
and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in
Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Jeremiah 22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I
will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou
obeyedst not my voice.
Jeremiah 22:22 The wind shall feed all thy shepherds, and thy lovers
shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
confounded for all thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the
cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon
thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jeremiah 22:24 As I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet
would I pluck thee thence;
Jeremiah 22:25 and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek
thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare
thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye
die.
Jeremiah 22:27 But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to
return, thither shall they not return.
Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a
vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and
his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?
Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a
man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his
seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
Jeremiah 23
Jeremiah 23:1 Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the
sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel,
against the shepherds 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 Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all
the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again
to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed
them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any
be lacking, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise
unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal
wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall
dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called: Jehovah
our righteousness.
Jeremiah 23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that
they shall no more say, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah 23:8 but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led
the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
the countries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their
own land.
Jeremiah 23:9 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is
broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man
whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his
holy words.
Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of
swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried
up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;
Jeremiah 23:11 for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my
house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery
places 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
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria;
they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Jeremiah 23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a
horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they
strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his
wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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
ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the
words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity;
they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:17 They say continually unto them that despise me,
Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that
walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall
come upon you.
Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, that
he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my word,
and heard it?
Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is
gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the
wicked.
Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have
executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the
latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.
Jeremiah 23:21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not
unto them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they
caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their
evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God
afar off?
Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall
not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets have said, that
prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jeremiah 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets
that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Jeremiah 23:27 that think to cause my people to forget my name by
their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their
fathers forgat my name for Baal.
Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream;
and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is
the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith
Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
Jeremiah 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah,
that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying
dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err
by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest,
shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou
say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the
people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that
man and his house.
Jeremiah 23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and
every one to his brother, What hath Jehovah answered? and, What
hath Jehovah spoken?
Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no
more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for ye have
perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God.
Jeremiah 23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath
Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?
Jeremiah 23:38 But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah; therefore thus
saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and
I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of
Jehovah;
Jeremiah 23:39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will
cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers,
away from my presence:
Jeremiah 23:40 and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you,
and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 24
Jeremiah 24:1 Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs
set before the temple of Jehovah, 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 craftsmen and
smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are
first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be
eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:3 Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou,
Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad,
very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
Jeremiah 24:4 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 24:5 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these
good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent
out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
Jeremiah 24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I
will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull
them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am
Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for
they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are
so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up 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,
Jeremiah 24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro
among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I
gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah 25
Jeremiah 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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon,)
Jeremiah 25:2 which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people
of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
Jeremiah 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon,
king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the
word of Jehovah hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you,
rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Jeremiah 25:4 And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)
Jeremiah 25:5 saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah
hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for
evermore;
Jeremiah 25:6 and go not after other gods to serve them, and to
worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your
hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jeremiah 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah;
that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your
own hurt.
Jeremiah 25:8 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye
have not heard my words,
Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the
north, saith Jehovah, and [I will send] unto 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 I will utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth
and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice
of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an
astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.
Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,
saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I
will make it desolate for ever.
Jeremiah 25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which
I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall make
bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them
according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me:
take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the
nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jeremiah 25:16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be
mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 25:17 Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all
the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:
Jeremiah 25:18 [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the
kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an
astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Jeremiah 25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
princes, and all his people;
Jeremiah 25:20 and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the
land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and
Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
Jeremiah 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
Jeremiah 25:22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon,
and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
Jeremiah 25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the
corners [of their hair] cut off;
Jeremiah 25:24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;
Jeremiah 25:25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of the Medes;
Jeremiah 25:26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face
of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Jeremiah 25:27 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and
fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among
you.
Jeremiah 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy
hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: Ye shall surely drink.
Jeremiah 25:29 For, lo, I begin to work evil at 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 Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these
words, and say unto them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter
his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his
fold; he will give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all
the inhabitants of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for
Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will enter into
judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the
sword, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 25:32 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go
forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up
from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:33 And the slain of Jehovah 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 face of the ground.
Jeremiah 25:34 Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes],
ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your
dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.
Jeremiah 25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
principal of the flock to escape.
Jeremiah 25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing
of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture.
Jeremiah 25:37 And the peaceable folds are brought to silence
because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 25:38 He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is
become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing
[sword], and because of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 26
Jeremiah 26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,
Jeremiah 26:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah's
house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship
in Jehovah's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto
them; diminish not a word.
Jeremiah 26:3 It may 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.
Jeremiah 26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If
ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before
you,
Jeremiah 26:5 to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets,
whom I send unto you, even rising up early and sending them, but ye
have not hearkened;
Jeremiah 26:6 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make
this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jeremiah 26:7 And the priests and the prophets and all the people
heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 26:8 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end
of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all
the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid
hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Jeremiah 26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah,
saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate,
without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah
in the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 26:10 And when the princes of Judah heard these things,
they came up from the king's house unto the house of Jehovah; and
they sat in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's [house].
Jeremiah 26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the
princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for
he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Jeremiah 26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all
the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house
and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Jeremiah 26:13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings,
and obey the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent
him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Jeremiah 26:14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with
me as is good and right in your eyes.
Jeremiah 26:15 Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death,
ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and
upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto
you to speak all these words in your ears.
Jeremiah 26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the
priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he
hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and
spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as
the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to
death? did he not fear Jehovah, and entreat the favor of Jehovah, and
Jehovah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against
them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
Jeremiah 26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the
name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and
he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all
the words of Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 26:21 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-
men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him
to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went
into Egypt:
Jeremiah 26:22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt,
[namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into
Egypt;
Jeremiah 26:23 and they fetched forth Uriah 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.
Jeremiah 26:24 But 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.
Jeremiah 27
Jeremiah 27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah,
saying,
Jeremiah 27:2 Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars,
and put them upon thy neck;
Jeremiah 27:3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of
Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of
Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers that
come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
Jeremiah 27:4 and give them a charge unto their masters, saying,
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto
your masters:
Jeremiah 27:5 I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are
upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched
arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me.
Jeremiah 27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of
the field also have I given him to serve him.
Jeremiah 27:7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and
his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many
nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.
Jeremiah 27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the
kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king
of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith Jehovah, with the sword,
and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed
them by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:9 But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor
to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to
your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the
king of Babylon:
Jeremiah 27:10 for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far
from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
Jeremiah 27:11 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let
remain in their own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and
dwell therein.
Jeremiah 27:12 And I spake 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.
Jeremiah 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken
concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah 27:14 And 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.
Jeremiah 27:15 For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they
prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye
may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Jeremiah 27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your
prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of
Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon;
for they prophesy a lie unto you.
Jeremiah 27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon,
and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?
Jeremiah 27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah
be with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts,
that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the
house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
Jeremiah 27:19 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the
pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
Jeremiah 27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,
when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and
Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 27:21 yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the
house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall
they be, until the day that I visit them, saith Jehovah; then will I bring
them up, and restore them to this place.
Jeremiah 28
Jeremiah 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, in the fifth
month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of
Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the
priests and of all the people, saying,
Jeremiah 28:2 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place
all the vessels of Jehovah's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
Jeremiah 28:4 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went to
Babylon, saith Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of
Babylon.
Jeremiah 28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet
Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the
people that stood in the house of Jehovah,
Jeremiah 28:6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah do
so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring
again the vessels of Jehovah's house, and all them of the captivity,
from Babylon unto this place.
Jeremiah 28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in
thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:
Jeremiah 28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before
thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great
kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Jeremiah 28:9 The prophet that prophesieth of peace, when the word
of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known,
that Jehovah hath truly sent him.
Jeremiah 28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the
prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah 28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the
people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the
neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
Jeremiah 28:12 Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after
that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the
prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 28:13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah:
Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead
bars of iron.
Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I
have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they
may served Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve
him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Jeremiah 28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the
prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou
makest this people to trust in a lie.
Jeremiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will send
thee away from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die,
because thou hast spoken rebellion against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the
seventh month.
Jeremiah 29
Jeremiah 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah
the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the
captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people,
whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon,
Jeremiah 29:2 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother,
and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,)
Jeremiah 29:3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and
Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent
unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) saying,
Jeremiah 29:4 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto
all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from
Jerusalem unto Babylon:
Jeremiah 29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant
gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Jeremiah 29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and
take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that
they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not
diminished.
Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused
you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it; for in
the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Jeremiah 29:8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let
not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners,
deceive you; neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be
dreamed.
Jeremiah 29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I
have not sent them, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are
accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in
your latter end.
Jeremiah 29:12 And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray
unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall
search for me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith Jehovah, and I will
turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations,
and from all the places wither I have driven you, saith Jehovah; and I
will bring you again unto the place whence I caused you to be carried
away captive.
Jeremiah 29:15 Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up
prophets in Babylon;
Jeremiah 29:16 thus saith Jehovah concerning the king that sitteth
upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that dwell in
this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
Jeremiah 29:17 thus saith Jehovah 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 bad.
Jeremiah 29:18 And I will pursue after them with the sword, with
the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed
to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration,
and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations whither I have driven them;
Jeremiah 29:19 because they have not hearkened to my words, saith
Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising
up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah, all ye of the
captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jeremiah 29:21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the
son of Maaseiah, who 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;
Jeremiah 29:22 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the
captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like
Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the
fire;
Jeremiah 29:23 because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken
words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he
that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 29:24 And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt
speak, saying,
Jeremiah 29:25 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the
people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah,
the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Jeremiah 29:26 Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of
Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of
Jehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet,
that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in shackles.
Jeremiah 29:27 Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah
of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,
Jeremiah 29:28 forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon,
saying, [The captivity] is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them;
and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
Jeremiah 29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears
of Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah 29:30 Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah,
saying,
Jeremiah 29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that
Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath
caused you to trust in a lie;
Jeremiah 29:32 therefore thus saith Jehovah, 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 unto my people, saith Jehovah, because he hath spoken rebellion
against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 30
Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah,
saying,
Jeremiah 30:2 Thus speaketh Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying,
Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Jeremiah 30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will turn
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and
I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it.
Jeremiah 30:4 And these are the words that Jehovah spake
concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
Jeremiah 30:5 For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with
child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a
woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 30:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of
hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy
bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;
Jeremiah 30:9 but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David
their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
Jeremiah 30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith
Jehovah; 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 quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I
will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee,
but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in
measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
Jeremiah 30:12 For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and
thy wound grievous.
Jeremiah 30:13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest
be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
Jeremiah 30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee
not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the
chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity,
because thy sins were increased.
Jeremiah 30:15 Why criest thou for thy hurt? thy pain is incurable:
for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I
have done these things unto thee.
Jeremiah 30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be
devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into
captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey
upon thee will I give for a prey.
Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal
thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an
outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Jeremiah 30:18 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn again the
captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-
places; and the city shall be builded upon its own hill, and the palace
shall be inhabited after its own manner.
Jeremiah 30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the
voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they
shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jeremiah 30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that
oppress them.
Jeremiah 30:21 And their prince shall be of themselves, and their
ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to
draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is he that hath had
boldness to approach unto me? saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is
gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the
wicked.
Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he
have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in
the latter days ye shall understand it.
Jeremiah 31
Jeremiah 31:1 At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all
the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:2 Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the
sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to
cause him to rest.
Jeremiah 31:3 Jehovah appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I
have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:4 Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O
virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and
shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Jeremiah 31:5 Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains
of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit thereof].
Jeremiah 31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the
hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto
Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 31:7 For thus saith Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob,
and shout for the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say,
O Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and
gather them from the uttermost parts 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 they return hither.
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping; and with
supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of
waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a
father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare
it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather
him, and keep him, as shepherd doth his flock.
Jeremiah 31:11 For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed
him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Jeremiah 31:12 And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
and shall flow unto the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain, and to the
new wine, and to the oil, and to 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.
Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the
young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into
joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jeremiah 31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she
refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
Jeremiah 31:16 Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from
weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded,
saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Jeremiah 31:17 And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah;
and [thy] children shall come again to their own border.
Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself
[thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf
unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for
thou art Jehovah my God.
Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after
that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea,
even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah 31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as
often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon
him, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set
thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest:
turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou
backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the
earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
Jeremiah 31:23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet
again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities
thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity: Jehovah bless thee,
O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.
Jeremiah 31:24 And Judah and all the cities thereof shall dwell
therein together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with flocks.
Jeremiah 31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every
sorrowful soul have I replenished.
Jeremiah 31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was
sweet unto me.
Jeremiah 31:27 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,
and with the seed of beast.
Jeremiah 31:28 And it shall come to pass that, like as I have
watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow
and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to
plant, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jeremiah 31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every
man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah:
Jeremiah 31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a
husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in
their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people:
Jeremiah 31:34 and they shall teach no more every man his
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they
shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I
remember no more.
Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light
by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by
night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah
of hosts is his name:
Jeremiah 31:36 If these ordinances depart from before me, saith
Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
before me for ever.
Jeremiah 31:37 Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then
will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,
saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 31:38 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city
shall be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of
the corner.
Jeremiah 31:39 And the measuring line shall go out further straight
onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.
Jeremiah 31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the
ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto the corner of the
horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah; it shall not be
plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
Jeremiah 32
Jeremiah 32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the
tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year
of Nebuchadrezzar.
Jeremiah 32:2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was
besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the
court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jeremiah 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying,
Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
take it;
Jeremiah 32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of
the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth,
and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
Jeremiah 32:5 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there
shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fight with the
Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
Jeremiah 32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of Jehovah came unto
me, saying,
Jeremiah 32:7 Behold, Hanamel 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.
Jeremiah 32:8 So Hanamel mine uncle's son came to me in the court
of the guard according to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy
my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land 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
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 32:9 And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of
Hanamel mine uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver.
Jeremiah 32:10 And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called
witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jeremiah 32:11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which
was sealed, [according to] the law and custom, and that which was
open:
Jeremiah 32:12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch
the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel
mine uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that
subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the
court of the guard.
Jeremiah 32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
Jeremiah 32:14 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Take
these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed
which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may
continue many days.
Jeremiah 32:15 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this
land.
Jeremiah 32:16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase
unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah, saying,
Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the
heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched
arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,
Jeremiah 32:18 who showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their
children after them; the great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts is his
name;
Jeremiah 32:19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose 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:
Jeremiah 32:20 who didst set signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt, even unto this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and
madest thee a name, as at this day;
Jeremiah 32:21 and didst bring forth thy people Israel out of the land
of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and
with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
Jeremiah 32:22 and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to
their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Jeremiah 32:23 and they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed
not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of
all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all
this evil to come upon them.
Jeremiah 32:24 Behold, the mounds, 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.
Jeremiah 32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy
thee the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 32:26 Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah,
saying,
Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there
anything too hard for me?
Jeremiah 32:28 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: 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:
Jeremiah 32:29 and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall
come and set this city on fire, 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.
Jeremiah 32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah
have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for
the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work
of their hands, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 32:31 For this city hath been to me a provocation of mine
anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even unto this
day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Jeremiah 32:32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of
the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger,
they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and
the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the
face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet
they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
Jeremiah 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house which
is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in
the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I
commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should
do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah 32:36 And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the hand
of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence:
Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries,
whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and in
great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I
will cause them to dwell safely:
Jeremiah 32:38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jeremiah 32:39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that
they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children
after them:
Jeremiah 32:40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them,
that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I
will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Jeremiah 32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I
will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with
my whole soul.
Jeremiah 32:42 For thus saith Jehovah: 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.
Jeremiah 32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye
say, It is desolate, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of
the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the
deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and
in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the
cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 33
Jeremiah 33:1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah
the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard,
saying,
Jeremiah 33:2 Thus saith Jehovah that doeth it, Jehovah that formeth
it to establish it; Jehovah is his name:
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show
thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 33:4 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning
the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of
Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the
mounds and against the sword;
Jeremiah 33:5 while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to
fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine
anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my
face from this city:
Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure
them; and I will reveal unto them abundance of peace and truth.
Jeremiah 33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the
captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity,
whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they
have transgressed against me.
Jeremiah 33:9 And [this city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a
praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall
hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for
all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.
Jeremiah 33:10 Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in
this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, 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,
Jeremiah 33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that
say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his
lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; [and of them] that bring
[sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will
cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 33:12 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be
in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in
all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to
lie down.
Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the
lowland, 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 again pass under the hands of him that numbereth them, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 33:14 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of
Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch
of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice
and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem
shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] whereby she shall be called:
Jehovah our righteousness.
Jeremiah 33:17 For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a
man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jeremiah 33:18 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man
before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to
do sacrifice continually.
Jeremiah 33:19 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah,
saying,
Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of
the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day
and night in their season;
Jeremiah 33:21 then may also my covenant be broken with David
my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and
with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jeremiah 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither
the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my
servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Jeremiah 33:23 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken,
saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast
them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no
more a nation before them.
Jeremiah 33:25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night
[stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and
earth;
Jeremiah 33:26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of
David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over
the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity
to return, and will have mercy on them.
Jeremiah 34
Jeremiah 34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the
peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities
thereof, saying:
Jeremiah 34:2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Go, and speak
to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
burn it with fire:
Jeremiah 34:3 and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt
surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall
behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee
mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
Jeremiah 34:4 Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of
Judah: thus saith Jehovah concerning thee, Thou shalt not die by the
sword;
Jeremiah 34:5 thou shalt die in peace; and with the burnings of thy
fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they make a
burning for thee; and they shall lament thee, [saying], Ah Lord! for I
have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto
Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
Jeremiah 34:7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against
Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities
of Judah [as] fortified cities.
Jeremiah 34:8 The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah,
after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people
that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
Jeremiah 34:9 that every man should let his man-servant, and every
man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that
none should make bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.
Jeremiah 34:10 And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that
had entered into the covenant, that every one should let his man-
servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should
make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
Jeremiah 34:11 but afterwards 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.
Jeremiah 34:12 Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah
from Jehovah, saying,
Jeremiah 34:13 Thus saith Jehovah, 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 bondage, saying,
Jeremiah 34:14 At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man
his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath
served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your
fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Jeremiah 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done that which is
right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor;
and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called
by my name:
Jeremiah 34:16 but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused
every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let
go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into
subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: ye have not hearkened
unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man
to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah,
to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you
to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jeremiah 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which
they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed
between the parts thereof;
Jeremiah 34:19 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem,
the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that
passed between the parts of the calf;
Jeremiah 34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies
shall be for food unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of
the earth.
Jeremiah 34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I
give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that
seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, that
are gone away from you.
Jeremiah 34:22 Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, 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 inhabitant.
Jeremiah 35
Jeremiah 35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in
the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 35:2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto
them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the
chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Jeremiah 35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites;
Jeremiah 35:4 and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the
chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the 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 threshold.
Jeremiah 35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the
Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said unto them, Drink
ye wine.
Jeremiah 35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the
son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever:
Jeremiah 35:7 neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that
ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn.
Jeremiah 35:8 And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of
Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our
days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
Jeremiah 35:9 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Jeremiah 35:10 but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and
done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jeremiah 35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to
Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the
army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 35:12 Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah,
saying,
Jeremiah 35:13 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go,
and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye
not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and unto this
day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I
have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not
hearkened unto me.
Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now
every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not
after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I
have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your
ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Jeremiah 35:16 Forasmuch as 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;
Jeremiah 35:17 therefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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.
Jeremiah 35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites,
Thus saith Jehovah 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 commanded you;
Jeremiah 35:19 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand
before me for ever.
Jeremiah 36
Jeremiah 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 Jehovah, saying,
Jeremiah 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the
words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah,
and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the
days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Jeremiah 36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil
which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man
from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Jeremiah 36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and
Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah,
which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Jeremiah 36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut
up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:
Jeremiah 36:6 therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou
hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the
people in Jehovah's house upon the fast-day; and also thou shalt read
them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Jeremiah 36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before
Jehovah, and will return every one from his evil way; for great is the
anger and the wrath that Jehovah hath pronounced against this
people.
Jeremiah 36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all
that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
words of Jehovah in Jehovah's house.
Jeremiah 36:9 Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in
Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto
Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.
Jeremiah 36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah
in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of
Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of
Jehovah's house, in the ears of all the people.
Jeremiah 36:11 And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of Jehovah,
Jeremiah 36:12 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], 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.
Jeremiah 36:13 Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that
he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Jeremiah 36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch,
saying, Take in thy 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.
Jeremiah 36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it
in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
Jeremiah 36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the
words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all these words.
Jeremiah 36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How
didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jeremiah 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all
these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the
book.
Jeremiah 36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee,
thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.
Jeremiah 36:20 And they went in to the king into the court; but they
had laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they
told all the words in the ears of the king.
Jeremiah 36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took
it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the
ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the
king.
Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the
ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.
Jeremiah 36:23 And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or
four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the
fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire
that was in the brazier.
Jeremiah 36:24 And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,
neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Jeremiah 36:25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had
made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he
would not hear them.
Jeremiah 36:26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son,
and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid
them.
Jeremiah 36:27 Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after
that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote
at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the
former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of
Judah hath burned.
Jeremiah 36:29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt
say, Thus saith Jehovah: 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?
Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning 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.
Jeremiah 36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants
for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that
I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.
Jeremiah 36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to
Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them
many like words.
Jeremiah 37
Jeremiah 37:1 And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king,
instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Jeremiah 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the
land, did hearken unto the words of Jehovah, which he spake by the
prophet Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us.
Jeremiah 37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the
people; for they had not put him into prison.
Jeremiah 37:5 And Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt;
and when the Chaldeans that were besieging Jerusalem heard tidings
of them, they brake up from Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 37:6 Then came the word of Jehovah unto the prophet
Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 37:7 Thus saith Jehovah, 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.
Jeremiah 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight
against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
Jeremiah 37:9 Thus saith Jehovah, Deceive not yourselves, saying,
The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
Jeremiah 37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded
men among them, yea would they rise up every man in his tent, and
burn this city with fire.
Jeremiah 37:11 And it came to pass that, when the army of the
Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
Jeremiah 37:12 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into
the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the
people.
Jeremiah 37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain
of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah,
the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet,
saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away
to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jeremiah 37:15 And 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.
Jeremiah 37:16 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house,
and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jeremiah 37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and
the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word
from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, Thou shalt
be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah,
Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against
this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Jeremiah 37:19 Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto
you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor
against this land?
Jeremiah 37:20 And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let
my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou cause
me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they
committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him
daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the
city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Jeremiah 38
Jeremiah 38:1 And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the
son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son
of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spake unto all the
people, saying,
Jeremiah 38:2 Thus saith Jehovah, He that abideth 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, and his life shall be unto him
for a prey, and he shall live.
Jeremiah 38:3 Thus saith Jehovah, This city shall surely be given
into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
Jeremiah 38:4 Then the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we
pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as 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.
Jeremiah 38:5 And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your
hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
Jeremiah 38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the
dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the
guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon
there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Jeremiah 38:7 Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch,
who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the
dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,)
Jeremiah 38:8 Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and
spake to the king, saying,
Jeremiah 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that
they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the
dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the
famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the
Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up
Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Jeremiah 38:11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went
into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence rags
and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon
to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 38:12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah,
Put now these rags and worn-out garments under thine armholes
under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
Jeremiah 38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took
him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the
guard.
Jeremiah 38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the
prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah:
and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing
from me.
Jeremiah 38:15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it
unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee
counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.
Jeremiah 38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah,
saying, As Jehovah 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.
Jeremiah 38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt 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 thy house.
Jeremiah 38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's
princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,
and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their
hand.
Jeremiah 38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they
deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
Jeremiah 38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee.
Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of Jehovah, in that which I speak unto
thee: so it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.
Jeremiah 38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that
Jehovah hath showed me:
Jeremiah 38:22 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 familiar friends have set thee on, and
have prevailed over thee: [now that] thy feet are sunk in the mire,
they are turned away back.
Jeremiah 38:23 And 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.
Jeremiah 38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man
know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
Jeremiah 38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee,
and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now
what thou hast said unto the king; hide it not from us, and we will not
put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Jeremiah 38:26 then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
Jonathan's house, to die there.
Jeremiah 38:27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked
him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had
commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was
not perceived.
Jeremiah 38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the
day that Jerusalem was taken.
Jeremiah 39
Jeremiah 39:1 And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (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 besieged it;
Jeremiah 39:2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,
the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)
Jeremiah 39:3 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in,
and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,
Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of
the princes of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 39:4 And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of
Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth
out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the
gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Jeremiah 39:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had
taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
Jeremiah 39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah
in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles
of Judah.
Jeremiah 39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him
in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the
houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of
Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried
away captive into Babylon the residue of the people that remained in
the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and the residue of the
people that remained.
Jeremiah 39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the
poor of the people, that had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave
them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jeremiah 39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge
concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah 39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no
harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
Jeremiah 39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and
Nebushazban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the
chief officers of the king of Babylon;
Jeremiah 39:14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
guard, 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.
Jeremiah 39:15 Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah,
while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah 39:16 Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah 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 before thee in that day.
Jeremiah 39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and
thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art
afraid.
Jeremiah 39:18 For I will surely save 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 Jehovah.
Jeremiah 40
Jeremiah 40:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah,
after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from
Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the
captives of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive unto
Babylon.
Jeremiah 40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said
unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;
Jeremiah 40:3 and Jehovah hath brought it, and done according as
he spake: because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not
obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Jeremiah 40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the
chains which are upon thy 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 right unto thee to
go, thither go.
Jeremiah 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then,
[said he], 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 right
unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a
present, and let him go.
Jeremiah 40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the
land.
Jeremiah 40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces that 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
poorest of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to
Babylon;
Jeremiah 40:8 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit],
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 the Maacathite, they and their
men.
Jeremiah 40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it
shall be well with you.
Jeremiah 40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand
before the Chaldeans that shall 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.
Jeremiah 40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and
among the children of Ammon, 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;
Jeremiah 40:12 then 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.
Jeremiah 40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to
Mizpah,
Jeremiah 40:14 and said unto him, Dost thou know that Baalis the
king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah to take thy life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed
them not.
Jeremiah 40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah
in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore
should he take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto thee
should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
Jeremiah 40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan
the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest
falsely of Ishmael.
Jeremiah 41
Jeremiah 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 [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him,
came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did
eat bread together in Mizpah.
Jeremiah 41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten
men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the land.
Jeremiah 41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [to
wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found
there, the men of war.
Jeremiah 41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain
Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Jeremiah 41:5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and
from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and
their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and
frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from
Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to
pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam.
Jeremiah 41:7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the
city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them]
into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
Jeremiah 41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto
Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat,
and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them
not among their brethren.
Jeremiah 41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael cast all the dead bodies
of the men whom he had slain, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was
that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel,)
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
Jeremiah 41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of
the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the
people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over
to the children of Ammon.
Jeremiah 41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
Jeremiah 41:12 then they took all the men, and went to fight with
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that
are in Gibeon.
Jeremiah 41:13 Now it came to pass that, when all the people that
were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
Jeremiah 41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away
captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went unto
Johanan the son of Kareah.
Jeremiah 41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from
Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
Jeremiah 41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the
people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [to
wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the
eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:
Jeremiah 41:17 and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham,
which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Jeremiah 41:18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of
them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the
land.
Jeremiah 42
Jeremiah 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,
Jeremiah 42:2 and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray thee,
our supplication be presented before thee, and pray for us unto
Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few
of many, as thine eyes do behold us:
Jeremiah 42:3 that Jehovah thy God may show us the way wherein
we should walk, and the thing that we should do.
Jeremiah 42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have
heard you; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God according to
your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing Jehovah
shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back
from you.
Jeremiah 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and
faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the word
wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us.
Jeremiah 42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will
obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send thee; that it
may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of
Jehovah came unto Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest,
Jeremiah 42:9 and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before
him:
Jeremiah 42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build
you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you
up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
Jeremiah 42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye
are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah: for I am with you to
save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
Jeremiah 42:12 And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy
upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
Jeremiah 42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that
ye obey not the voice of Jehovah your God,
Jeremiah 42:14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt,
where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor
have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
Jeremiah 42:15 now therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, O
remnant of Judah: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, If
ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
Jeremiah 42:16 then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye
fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine,
whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and
there ye shall die.
Jeremiah 42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to
go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or
escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah 42:18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath 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.
Jeremiah 42:19 Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of
Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto
you this day.
Jeremiah 42:20 For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls;
for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto
Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall
say, so declare unto us, and we will do it:
Jeremiah 42:21 and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have
not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he
hath sent me unto you.
Jeremiah 42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither
ye desire to go to sojourn there.
Jeremiah 43
Jeremiah 43:1 And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an
end of speaking unto all the people all the words of Jehovah their
God, wherewith Jehovah their God had sent him to them, even all
these words,
Jeremiah 43:2 then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou
speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall
not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
Jeremiah 43:3 but Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against
us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us
to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.
Jeremiah 43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of Jehovah, to
dwell in the land of Judah.
Jeremiah 43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all
the nations whither they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of
Judah;
Jeremiah 43:6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the
king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
Jeremiah 43:7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed
not the voice of Jehovah: and they came unto Tahpanhes.
Jeremiah 43:8 Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes, saying,
Jeremiah 43:9 Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in
mortar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in
Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
Jeremiah 43:10 and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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.
Jeremiah 43:11 And he shall come, and shall smite the land of
Egypt; such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as are
for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
Jeremiah 43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of
Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: 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.
Jeremiah 43:13 He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that
is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he
burn with fire.
Jeremiah 44
Jeremiah 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the
Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at
Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
Jeremiah 44:2 Thus saith Jehovah 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,
Jeremiah 44:3 because of their wickedness which they have
committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense,
[and] to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor
your fathers.
Jeremiah 44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable
thing that I hate.
Jeremiah 44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
Jeremiah 44:6 Wherefore my wrath 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 it is this day.
Jeremiah 44:7 Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts,
the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against your
own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling,
out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
Jeremiah 44:8 in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of
your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,
whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye
may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and
the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their
wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives
which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither
have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set
before you and before your fathers.
Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off
all Judah.
Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set
their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall
all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall 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.
Jeremiah 44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of
Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence;
Jeremiah 44:14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to
return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to
dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
Jeremiah 44:15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great
assembly, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee.
Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is
gone forth out of our 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.
Jeremiah 44:18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of
heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all
things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jeremiah 44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of
heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her
cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without
our husbands?
Jeremiah 44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men,
and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that
answer, saying,
Jeremiah 44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and
your princes, and the people of the land, did not Jehovah remember
them, and came it not into his mind?
Jeremiah 44:22 so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the
evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have
committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Jeremiah 44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye
have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of
Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as it is this day.
Jeremiah 44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to
all the women, Hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah that are in the
land of Egypt:
Jeremiah 44:25 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
with your hands have fulfilled it, 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: establish then your vows,
and perform your vows.
Jeremiah 44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah
that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great
name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the
Lord Jehovah liveth.
Jeremiah 44:27 Behold, I 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.
Jeremiah 44:28 And they that escape the sword shall return out of
the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the
remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Jeremiah 44:29 And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah,
that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words
shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jeremiah 44:30 Thus saith Jehovah, 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, who was his enemy, and
sought his life.
Jeremiah 45
Jeremiah 45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these word in a book at the
mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 45:2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto thee, O
Baruch:
Jeremiah 45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath
added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no
rest.
Jeremiah 45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah:
Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I
have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
Jeremiah 45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them
not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy
life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Jeremiah 46
Jeremiah 46:1 The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the
prophet concerning the nations.
Jeremiah 46:2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco 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.
Jeremiah 46:3 Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to
battle.
Jeremiah 46:4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and
stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of
mail.
Jeremiah 46:5 Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are
turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled
apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man
escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and
fallen.
Jeremiah 46:7 Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters
toss themselves like the rivers?
Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss
themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the
earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.
Jeremiah 46:9 Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the
mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the
Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.
Jeremiah 46:10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts,
a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and
the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their
blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north
country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter
of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing
for thee.
Jeremiah 46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth
is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the
mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
Jeremiah 46:13 The word that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the
prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and
smite the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and
publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and
prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.
Jeremiah 46:15 Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood
not, because Jehovah did drive them.
Jeremiah 46:16 He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one 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.
Jeremiah 46:17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a
noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.
Jeremiah 46:18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of
hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the
sea, so shall he come.
Jeremiah 46:19 O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish
thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation,
and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 46:20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of
the north is come, it is come.
Jeremiah 46:21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like
calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away
together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come
upon them, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 46:22 The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they
shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers
of wood.
Jeremiah 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah,
though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts,
and are innumerable.
Jeremiah 46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she
shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah 46:25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I
will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and
her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him:
Jeremiah 46:26 and I will deliver them into the hand of those that
seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be
inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 46:27 But fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, 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
quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Jeremiah 46:28 Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah;
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 I will
correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
Jeremiah 47
Jeremiah 47:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the
prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
Jeremiah 47:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the
north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow
the land and all that is therein, the city and them that dwell therein;
and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong
ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the
fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Jeremiah 47:4 because of the day that cometh to destroy all the
Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that
remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the
isle of Caphtor.
Jeremiah 47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to
nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jeremiah 47:6 O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou
be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still.
Jeremiah 47:7 How canst thou be quiet, seeing Jehovah hath given
thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there
hath he appointed it.
Jeremiah 48
Jeremiah 48:1 Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to
shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
Jeremiah 48:2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have
devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a
nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword
shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah 48:3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and
great destruction!
Jeremiah 48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry
to be heard.
Jeremiah 48:5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping
shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the
distress of the cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness.
Jeremiah 48:7 For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy
treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into
captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah 48:8 And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no
city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be
destroyed; as Jehovah hath spoken.
Jeremiah 48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her
away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell
therein.
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah
negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from
blood.
Jeremiah 48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath
settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remaineth in
him, and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah 48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah,
that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him
off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Jeremiah 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the
house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
Jeremiah 48:14 How say ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men
for the war?
Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his
cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,
saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his
affliction hasteth fast.
Jeremiah 48:17 All ye that are round about him, bemoan him, and
all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the
beautiful rod!
Jeremiah 48:18 O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, come down
from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up
against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.
Jeremiah 48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch:
ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What hath been done?
Jeremiah 48:20 Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail
and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
Jeremiah 48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon
Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,
Jeremiah 48:22 and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-
diblathaim,
Jeremiah 48:23 and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and
upon Beth-meon,
Jeremiah 48:24 and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all
the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Jeremiah 48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,
saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:26 Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself
against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also
shall be in derision.
Jeremiah 48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he
found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou
waggest the head.
Jeremiah 48:28 O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell
in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest over the mouth
of the abyss.
Jeremiah 48:29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is
very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the
haughtiness of his heart.
Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith Jehovah, that it is nought; his
boastings have wrought nothing.
Jeremiah 48:31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out
for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn.
Jeremiah 48:32 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for
thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they
reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon
thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.
Jeremiah 48:33 And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful
field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease
from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting
shall be no shouting.
Jeremiah 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even
unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto
Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall
become desolate.
Jeremiah 48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith
Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth
incense to his gods.
Jeremiah 48:36 Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like pipes,
and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore
the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.
Jeremiah 48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped:
upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Jeremiah 48:38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets
thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like
a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:39 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how
hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a
derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
Jeremiah 48:40 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an
eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and
the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart
of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O
inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I
will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation,
saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:45 They that fled stand without strength under the
shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a
flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath devoured the corner of
Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jeremiah 48:46 Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is
undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into
captivity.
Jeremiah 48:47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the
latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah 49
Jeremiah 49:1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath
Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad,
and his people well in the cities thereof?
Jeremiah 49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that
I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the
children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her
daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them
that did possess him, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye
daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and
fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests
and his princes together.
Jeremiah 49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing
valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying],
Who shall come unto me?
Jeremiah 49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, from all that are round about thee; and ye shall be
driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather
together the fugitives.
Jeremiah 49:6 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the
children of Ammon, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:7 Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no
more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their
wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah 49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants
of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time
that I shall visit him.
Jeremiah 49:9 If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave
some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till
they had enough?
Jeremiah 49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his
secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is
destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not.
Jeremiah 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them
alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jeremiah 49:12 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they to whom it
pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he
that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished,
but thou shalt surely drink.
Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that
Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a
curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Jeremiah 49:14 I have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves
together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
Jeremiah 49:15 For, behold, I have made thee small among the
nations, and despised among men.
Jeremiah 49:16 As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath
deceived thee, 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 Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:17 And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one
that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues
thereof.
Jeremiah 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and
the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there,
neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride
of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make
them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over
it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is
the shepherd that will stand before me?
Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he
hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away,
[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their
habitation desolate over them.
Jeremiah 49:21 The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is
a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.
Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and
spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men
of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 49:23 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;
for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow
on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to
flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have
taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 49:25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my
joy?
Jeremiah 49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith
Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and
it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Jeremiah 49:28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise
ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
Jeremiah 49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they
shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,
and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!
Jeremiah 49:30 Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye
inhabitants of Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a
purpose against you.
Jeremiah 49:31 Arise, get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that
dwelleth without care, saith Jehovah; that have neither gates nor bars,
that dwell alone.
Jeremiah 49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude
of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that have
the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from
every side of them, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation for ever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.
Jeremiah 49:34 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the
prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah
king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 49:35 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the
bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
Jeremiah 49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the
four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds;
and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not
come.
Jeremiah 49:37 And 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 Jehovah; and I will send the
sword after them, till I have consumed them;
Jeremiah 49:38 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy
from thence king and princes, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will
bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50
Jeremiah 50:1 The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon,
concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up
a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put
to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her
idols are dismayed.
Jeremiah 50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against
her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein:
they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.
Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the
children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together;
they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God.
Jeremiah 50:5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces
thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an
everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:6 My people have 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 resting-place.
Jeremiah 50:7 All that found them have devoured them; and their
adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against
Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of
their fathers.
Jeremiah 50:8 Flee 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.
Jeremiah 50:9 For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against
Babylon a company 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 an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain.
Jeremiah 50:10 And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her
shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:11 Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that
plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth
out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;
Jeremiah 50:12 your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that
bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of
the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be
inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by
Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 50:14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about,
all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath
sinned against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath submitted
herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is
the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath
done, do unto her.
Jeremiah 50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that
handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee
every one to his own land.
Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him
away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Jeremiah 50:18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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.
Jeremiah 50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he
shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon
the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, 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 leave as a remnant.
Jeremiah 50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against
it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after
them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded
thee.
Jeremiah 50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great
destruction.
Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder
and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken,
O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught,
because thou hast striven against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:25 Jehovah hath opened his armory, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts,
hath a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her
store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing
of her be left.
Jeremiah 50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their
visitation.
Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the
land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our
God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all them
that bend the bow; encamp against her 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 Jehovah,
against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets,
and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will
visit thee.
Jeremiah 50:32 And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none
shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall
devour all that are round about him.
Jeremiah 50:33 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel
and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all that took
them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
Jeremiah 50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his
name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to
the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and
upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her
wise men.
Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become
fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her;
and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and
they shall be robbed.
Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be
dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over
idols.
Jeremiah 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the
wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it
shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation.
Jeremiah 50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and
the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell
there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Jeremiah 50:41 Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great
nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of
the earth.
Jeremiah 50:42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and
have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon
horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O
daughter of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them,
and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, [and]
pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from
the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will
suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will
I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a
time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?
Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he
hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away,
[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their
habitation desolate over them.
Jeremiah 50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth
trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Jeremiah 51
Jeremiah 51:1 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against
Babylon, and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying
wind.
Jeremiah 51:2 And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall
winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble
they shall be against her round about.
Jeremiah 51:3 Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his
bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and
spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
Jeremiah 51:4 And they shall fall down slain in the land of the
Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of
Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy
One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man
his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah's
vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand,
that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad.
Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for
her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not
healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for
her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah 51:10 Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come,
and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 51:11 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields:
Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because
his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of
Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make
the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for
Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning
the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.
Jeremiah 51:14 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.
Jeremiah 51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath
he stretched out the heavens:
Jeremiah 51:16 when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of
waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the
ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth
the wind out of his treasuries.
Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without
knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his
molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the
former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance:
Jehovah of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 51:20 Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and
with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I
destroy kingdoms;
Jeremiah 51:21 and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his
rider;
Jeremiah 51:22 and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and
him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and
woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the
youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the
virgin;
Jeremiah 51:23 and with thee will I break in pieces 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 governors and
deputies.
Jeremiah 51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in
your sight, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain,
saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my
hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make
thee a burnt mountain.
Jeremiah 51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,
nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet
among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together
against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a
marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-
worm.
Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the
Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the
land of their dominion.
Jeremiah 51:29 And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the
purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of
Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,
they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are
become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are
broken.
Jeremiah 51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one
messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is
taken on every quarter:
Jeremiah 51:32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have
burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Jeremiah 51:33 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it
is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for
her.
Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured
me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath,
like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my
delicacies; he hath cast me out.
Jeremiah 51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon
Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the
inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead
thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and
make her fountain dry.
Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place
for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall
growl as lions' whelps.
Jeremiah 51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I
will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he-goats.
Jeremiah 51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole
earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered
with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Jeremiah 51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a
desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man
pass thereby.
Jeremiah 51:44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed
up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of
Babylon shall fall.
Jeremiah 51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and save
yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:46 And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye for the
tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidings shall come one year,
and after that in another year [shall come] tidings, and violence in the
land, ruler against ruler.
Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute
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.
Jeremiah 51:48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is
therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come
unto her from the north, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so
at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
Jeremiah 51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not
still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your
mind.
Jeremiah 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard
reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come
into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.
Jeremiah 51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah,
that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all
her land the wounded shall groan.
Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Jeremiah 51:55 For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth
out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the
noise of their voice is uttered:
Jeremiah 51:56 for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon
Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in
pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise
men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they
shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
name is Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:58 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of
Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be
burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the
nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
Jeremiah 51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded
Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with
Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.
Jeremiah 51:60 And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that
should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written
concerning Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to
Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,
Jeremiah 51:62 and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning
this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor
beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jeremiah 51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of
reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the
midst of the Euphrates:
Jeremiah 51:64 and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and
shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and
they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 52
Jeremiah 52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah 52:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Jeremiah 52:3 For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass
in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and
encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Jeremiah 52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 52:6 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.
Jeremiah 52:7 Then a breach was made in the city, 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 against the city round about;) and they went toward
the Arabah.
Jeremiah 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was
scattered from him.
Jeremiah 52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the
king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave
judgment upon him.
Jeremiah 52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Jeremiah 52:11 And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of
Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put
him in prison till the day of his death.
Jeremiah 52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the
month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king
of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood
before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 52:13 and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's
house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house,
burned he with fire.
Jeremiah 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with
the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
Jeremiah 52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried
away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the
people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to
the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the
poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Jeremiah 52:17 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of
Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of
Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass
of them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:18 The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
Jeremiah 52:19 And the cups, and the firepans, and the basins, and
the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls-that
which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-
the captain of the guard took away.
Jeremiah 52:20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen
bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for
the house of Jehovah-the brass of all these vessels was without
weight.
Jeremiah 52:21 And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and
the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
Jeremiah 52:22 And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of
the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon
the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had
like unto these, and pomegranates.
Jeremiah 52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the
sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round
about.
Jeremiah 52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
threshold:
Jeremiah 52:25 and out of the city he took an officer that was set
over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king's face,
that were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain 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.
Jeremiah 52:26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took
them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah 52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them
to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away
captive out of his land.
Jeremiah 52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried
away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and
twenty;
Jeremiah 52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried
away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons;
Jeremiah 52:30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar
Nebuzaradan 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.
Jeremiah 52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of
the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the
five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of
Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
Jeremiah 52:32 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above
the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
Jeremiah 52:33 and changed his prison garments. And [Jehoiachin]
did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life:
Jeremiah 52:34 and for his allowance, there was a continual
allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion
until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Lamentations
Lamentations 1
Lamentations 1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of
people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!
Lamentations 1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on
her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All
her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her
enemies.
Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction,
and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she
findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come
to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do
sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies
prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her
transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the
adversary.
Lamentations 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is
departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And
they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her
affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from
the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her
desolations.
Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is
become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her,
because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth
backward.
Lamentations 1:9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered
not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath
no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath
magnified himself.
Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all
her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into
her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they
should not enter into thine assembly.
Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have
given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O
Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.
Lamentations 1:12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold,
and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought
upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his
fierce anger.
Lamentations 1:13 From on high 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.
Lamentations 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his
hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he
hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their
hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
Lamentations 1:15 The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men
in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to
crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the
virgin daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye
runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh
my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy
hath prevailed.
Lamentations 1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to
comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they
that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is
among them as an unclean thing.
Lamentations 1:18 Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against
his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my
sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me:
My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they
sought them food to refresh their souls.
Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart
is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously
rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lamentations 1:21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to
comfort me; All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are
glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast
proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
Lamentations 1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; And
do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions:
For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Lamentations 2
Lamentations 2:1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the
earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in
the day of his anger.
Lamentations 2:2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of
Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the
strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to
the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Lamentations 2:3 He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of
Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy:
And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth
round about.
Lamentations 2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood
with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were
pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured
out his wrath like fire.
Lamentations 2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath
swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath
destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of
Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle,
as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:
Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in
Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and
the priest.
Lamentations 2:7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred
his sanctuary; He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls
of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in
the day of a solemn assembly.
Lamentations 2:8 Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the
daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not
withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart
and wall to lament; they languish together.
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath
destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among
the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision
from Jehovah.
Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the
ground, they 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.
Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is
troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the
destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children
and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and
wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations 2:13 What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken
to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I
may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great
like the sea: who can heal thee?
Lamentations 2:14 Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish
visions; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back
thy captivity, But have seen for thee false oracles and causes of
banishment.
Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They
hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this
the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the
whole earth?
Lamentations 2:16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide
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.
Lamentations 2:17 Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he
hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath
thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to
rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations 2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the
daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give
thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the
watches; Pour out thy 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 at the head of every street.
Lamentations 2:20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast
done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are
dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the
sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 2:21 The youth and the old man 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 slaughtered,
[and] not pitied.
Lamentations 2:22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn
assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped
or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled
and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations 3
Lamentations 3:1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod
of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in
darkness, and not in light.
Lamentations 3:3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and
again all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath
broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me
with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those
that have been long dead.
Lamentations 3:7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth;
he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out
my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he
hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in
secret places.
Lamentations 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in
pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for
the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter
into my reins.
Lamentations 3:14 I am become a derision to all my people, and
their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated
me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones;
he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from
peace; I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations 3:18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine
expectation from Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the
wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is
bowed down within me.
Lamentations 3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are
not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3:23 They are new every morning; great is thy
faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore
will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to
the soul that seeketh him.
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly
wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his
youth.
Lamentations 3:28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he
hath laid it upon him.
Lamentations 3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there
may be hope.
Lamentations 3:30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him;
let him be filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
Lamentations 3:32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
Lamentations 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the
children of men.
Lamentations 3:34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face
of the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord
approveth not.
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when
the Lord commandeth it not?
Lamentations 3:38 Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there
not evil and good?
Lamentations 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man
for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to
Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God
in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou
hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3:43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us;
thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that
no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in
the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide
against us.
Lamentations 3:47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation
and destruction.
Lamentations 3:48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without
any intermission,
Lamentations 3:50 Till Jehovah look down, and behold from
heaven.
Lamentations 3:51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the
daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that
are mine enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and
have cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the
lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my
breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon
thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
Lamentations 3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou
my cause.
Lamentations 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their
devices against me.
Lamentations 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and
all their devices against me,
Lamentations 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and
their device against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising
up; I am their song.
Lamentations 3:64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O
Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse
unto them.
Lamentations 3:66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy
them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
Lamentations 4
Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most
pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the
head of every street.
Lamentations 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine
gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the
hands of the potter!
Lamentations 4:3 Even the jackals 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.
Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the
roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no
man breaketh it unto them.
Lamentations 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the
streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is
greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment,
and no hands were laid upon her.
Lamentations 4:7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were
whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their
polishing was as of sapphire.
Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not
known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered,
it is become like a stick.
Lamentations 4:9 They that are slain with the sword are better than
they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through,
for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their
own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter
of my people.
Lamentations 4:11 Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath
poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which
hath devoured the foundations thereof.
Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth believed not, neither all
the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would
enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 4:13 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and]
the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the
midst of her.
Lamentations 4:14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are
polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
Lamentations 4:15 Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean!
depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men
said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].
Lamentations 4:16 The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he
will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the
priests, they favored not the elders.
Lamentations 4:17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain
help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not
save.
Lamentations 4:18 They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our
streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Lamentations 4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the
heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in
the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of
Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow
we shall live among the nations.
Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that
dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also;
thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Lamentations 4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is
accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away
into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he
will uncover thy sins.
Lamentations 5
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:
Behold, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our
houses unto aliens.
Lamentations 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as
widows.
Lamentations 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood
is sold unto us.
Lamentations 5:5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary,
and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to
the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have
borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us
out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because
of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the
burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in
the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces
of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5:13 The young men bare the mill; And the children
stumbled under the wood.
Lamentations 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young
men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is
turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us!
for we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our
eyes are dim;
Lamentations 5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The
foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations 5:19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is
from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And]
forsake us so long time?
Lamentations 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall
be turned; Renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very
wroth against us.
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 1
Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
[month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives
by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions
of God.
Ezekiel 1:2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year
of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
Ezekiel 1:3 the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the
priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.
Ezekiel 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of
the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness
round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal,
out of the midst of the fire.
Ezekiel 1:5 And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four
living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness
of a man.
Ezekiel 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had
four wings.
Ezekiel 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished
brass.
Ezekiel 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on
their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:
Ezekiel 1:9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not
when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a
man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they
four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face
of an eagle.
Ezekiel 1:11 And their faces and their wings were separate above;
two [wings] of every one were joined one to another, and two
covered their bodies.
Ezekiel 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the
spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of
torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and
the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Ezekiel 1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of a flash of lightning.
Ezekiel 1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel
upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces
thereof.
Ezekiel 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like
unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and
their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
Ezekiel 1:17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they
turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they
four had their rims full of eyes round about.
Ezekiel 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went
beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Ezekiel 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither
was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for
the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood,
these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in
the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:22 And over the head of the living creature there was the
likeness of a firmament, like the terrible crystal to look upon,
stretched forth over their heads above.
Ezekiel 1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the
one toward the other: every one had two which covered on this side,
and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
Ezekiel 1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings
like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise
of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down
their wings.
Ezekiel 1:25 And there was a voice above the firmament that was
over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was
the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and
upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a
man upon it above.
Ezekiel 1:27 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance
of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and
upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as
it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about
him.
Ezekiel 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the
day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This
was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when
I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel 2
Ezekiel 2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet,
and I will speak with thee.
Ezekiel 2:2 And the Spirit entered into me when he spake unto me,
and set me upon my feet; and I heard him that spake unto me.
Ezekiel 2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the
children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled
against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even
unto this very day.
Ezekiel 2:4 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent
thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there
hath been a prophet among them.
Ezekiel 2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be
afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou
dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be
dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 2:7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel 2:8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not
thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat
that which I give thee.
Ezekiel 2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto
me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
Ezekiel 2:10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within
and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and
mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 3
Ezekiel 3:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which thou
findest; eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
Ezekiel 3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat,
and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and
it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Ezekiel 3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the
house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
Ezekiel 3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and
of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 3:6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard
language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent
thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.
Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for
they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard
forehead and of a stiff heart.
Ezekiel 3:8 Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces,
and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy
forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though
they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words
that I shall speak unto thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thine
ears.
Ezekiel 3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the
children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah; whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear.
Ezekiel 3:12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the
voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Jehovah
from his place.
Ezekiel 3:13 And [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living
creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels
beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.
Ezekiel 3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I
went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah
was strong upon me.
Ezekiel 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that
dwelt by the river Chebar, and to where they dwelt; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.
Ezekiel 3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me.
Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and
thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from
his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but
thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:20 Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he
shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall
not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
Ezekiel 3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the
righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he
took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:22 And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he
said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with
thee.
Ezekiel 3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold,
the glory of Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Ezekiel 3:24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my
feet; and he spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within
thy house.
Ezekiel 3:25 But thou, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon
thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among
them:
Ezekiel 3:26 and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy
mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover;
for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and
thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that
heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they
are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 4
Ezekiel 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:
Ezekiel 4:2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and
cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant
battering rams against it round about.
Ezekiel 4:3 And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall
of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it
shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a
sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 Moreover lie thou 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.
Ezekiel 4:5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto
thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt
thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:6 And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou
shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
Ezekiel 4:7 And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against
it.
Ezekiel 4:8 And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not
turn thee from one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the
days of thy siege.
Ezekiel 4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans,
and lentils, and millet, and spelt, 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, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt
thou eat thereof.
Ezekiel 4:10 And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight,
twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ezekiel 4:11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of
a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezekiel 4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt
bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
Ezekiel 4:13 And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel
eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.
Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! 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 of beasts; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth.
Ezekiel 4:15 Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's
dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.
Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will
break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by
weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure,
and in dismay:
Ezekiel 4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed
one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Ezekiel 5
Ezekiel 5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; [as] a
barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass
upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh,
and divide the hair.
Ezekiel 5:2 A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a
third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part
thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind
them in thy skirts.
Ezekiel 5:4 And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the
midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire
come forth into all the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have
set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing
wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than
the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine
ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are
turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have
not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, neither
have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about
you;
Ezekiel 5:8 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I,
am against thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in
the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 5:9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and
whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine
abominations.
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments
on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the
winds.
Ezekiel 5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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, and I also will have no pity.
Ezekiel 5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and
with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third
part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and a third part I will
scatter unto all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will
cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and
they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have
accomplished my wrath upon them.
Ezekiel 5:14 Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach
among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that
pass by.
Ezekiel 5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I
shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in
wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)
Ezekiel 5:16 when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine,
that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;
Ezekiel 5:17 and I will 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, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 6
Ezekiel 6:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel,
and prophesy unto them,
Ezekiel 6:3 and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to
the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will
bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 6:4 And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-
images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before
your idols.
Ezekiel 6:5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel
before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your
altars.
Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwelling-places 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 sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be
abolished.
Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some that
escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered
through the countries.
Ezekiel 6:9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among
the nations whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been
broken with their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with
they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe
themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have
committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel 6:10 And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said
in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
Ezekiel 6:11 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Smite with thy hand, and
stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil
abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that
is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged
shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them.
Ezekiel 6:13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain
men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every
high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree,
and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor
to all their idols.
Ezekiel 6:14 And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make
the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah,
throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7
Ezekiel 7:1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 7:2 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto
the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of
the land.
Ezekiel 7:3 Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger
upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring
upon thee all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have
pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations
shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil;
behold, it cometh.
Ezekiel 7:6 An end is come, the end is come; it awaketh against thee;
behold, it cometh.
Ezekiel 7:7 Thy doom is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land:
the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful
shouting, upon the mountains.
Ezekiel 7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and
accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to
thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I
will bring upon thee according to thy ways; and thine abominations
shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do
smite.
Ezekiel 7:10 Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone
forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of
them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth:
neither shall there be eminency among them.
Ezekiel 7:12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the
buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole
multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen
himself in the iniquity of his life.
Ezekiel 7:14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready;
but none goeth to the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude
thereof.
Ezekiel 7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine
within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword: and he that is in
the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel 7:16 But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be
on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning,
every one in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water.
Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and
horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and
baldness upon all their heads.
Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not
satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty;
but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable
things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean
thing.
Ezekiel 7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a
prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane
it.
Ezekiel 7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall
profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane
it.
Ezekiel 7:23 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes,
and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 7:24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and
they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the
strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezekiel 7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and
there shall be none.
Ezekiel 7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be
upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Ezekiel 7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed
with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their
deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 8
Ezekiel 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 my house, and the
elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell
there upon me.
Ezekiel 8:2 Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of
fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from
his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were
glowing metal.
Ezekiel 8:3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a
lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and
heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the
door of the gate of the inner [court] that looketh toward the north;
where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to
jealousy.
Ezekiel 8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
Ezekiel 8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now
the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the
north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar this image of
jealousy in the entry.
Ezekiel 8:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they
do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit
here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt again
see yet other great abominations.
Ezekiel 8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I
looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
Ezekiel 8:8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall:
and when I had digged in the wall, behold, a door.
Ezekiel 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked
abominations that they do here.
Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of
creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house
of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Ezekiel 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders
of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the
son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor
of the cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel 8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what
the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his
chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah
hath forsaken the land.
Ezekiel 8:13 He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other
great abominations which they do.
Ezekiel 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Jehovah's
house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat the women
weeping for Tammuz.
Ezekiel 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of
man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's
house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the
porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs
toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and
they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of
man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land
with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo,
they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; 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.
Ezekiel 9
Ezekiel 9:1 Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying,
Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man
with his destroying weapon in his hand.
Ezekiel 9:2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper
gate, which lieth toward the north, every man with his slaughter
weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in
linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood
beside the brazen altar.
Ezekiel 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called
to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.
Ezekiel 9:4 And Jehovah 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 over all the abominations
that are done in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through
the city after him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye
pity;
Ezekiel 9:6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin,
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
old men that were before the house.
Ezekiel 9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the
courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in
the city.
Ezekiel 9:8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was
left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah!
wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy
wrath upon Jerusalem?
Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel
and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Jehovah hath
forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not.
Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither
will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.
Ezekiel 9:11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the
inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou
hast commanded me.
Ezekiel 10
Ezekiel 10:1 Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was
over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a
sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Ezekiel 10:2 And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said,
Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill
both thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and
scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Ezekiel 10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house,
when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel 10:4 And the glory of Jehovah mounted 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 Jehovah's
glory.
Ezekiel 10:5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard
even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he
speaketh.
Ezekiel 10:6 And it came to pass, when he commanded the man
clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels,
from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a
wheel.
Ezekiel 10:7 And the cherub stretched forth his hand from between
the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took
[thereof], and put it into the hands of him that was clothed in linen,
who took it and went out.
Ezekiel 10:8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's
hand under their wings.
Ezekiel 10:9 And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the
cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside
another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like unto a
beryl stone.
Ezekiel 10:10 And as for their appearance, they four had one
likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:11 When they went, they went in their four directions:
they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked
they followed it; they turned not as they went.
Ezekiel 10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their
hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
[even] the wheels that they four had.
Ezekiel 10:13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the
whirling [wheels].
Ezekiel 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the
face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the
third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 10:15 And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living
creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Ezekiel 10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside
them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from
the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside them.
Ezekiel 10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted
up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature
was in them.
Ezekiel 10:18 And the glory of Jehovah went forth from over the
threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
Ezekiel 10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted
up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels
beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Jehovah's
house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel 10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of
Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
Ezekiel 10:21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings;
and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Ezekiel 10:22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the
faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and
themselves; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 11
Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto
the east gate of Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward: and behold,
at the door of the gate five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of
them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah,
princes of the people.
Ezekiel 11:2 And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men
that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;
Ezekiel 11:3 that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this
[city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Ezekiel 11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of
man.
Ezekiel 11:5 And the Spirit of Jehovah fell upon me, and he said
unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of
Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
Ezekiel 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have
filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Ezekiel 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain
whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city]
is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel 11:8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword
upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 11:9 And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and
deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments
among you.
Ezekiel 11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the
border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 11:11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye
be the flesh in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of
Israel;
Ezekiel 11:12 and ye shall know that I am Jehovah: for ye have not
walked in my statutes, neither have ye executed mine ordinances, but
have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about
you.
Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah
the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried
with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full
end of the remnant of Israel?
Ezekiel 11:14 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men
of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] unto
whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from
Jehovah; unto us is this land given for a possession.
Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Whereas I
have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have
scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary
for a little while in the countries where they are come.
Ezekiel 11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will
gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries
where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away
all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from
thence.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new
spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and
will give them a heart of flesh;
Ezekiel 11:20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be
their God.
Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of
their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way
upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 11:22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the
wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over
them above.
Ezekiel 11:23 And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of
the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the
city.
Ezekiel 11:24 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the
vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So
the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Ezekiel 11:25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things
that Jehovah had showed me.
Ezekiel 12
Ezekiel 12:1 The word of Jehovah also came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious
house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and
hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 12:3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for
removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove
from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 12:4 And thou shalt bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight,
as stuff for removing; and thou shalt go forth thyself at even in their
sight, as when men go forth into exile.
Ezekiel 12:5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out
thereby.
Ezekiel 12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and
carry it forth in the dark; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not
the land: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my
stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I digged through
the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bare it upon
my shoulder in their sight.
Ezekiel 12:8 And in the morning came the word of Jehovah unto me,
saying,
Ezekiel 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious
house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
Ezekiel 12:10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This
burden [concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
Israel among whom they are.
Ezekiel 12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be
done unto them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
Ezekiel 12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his
shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the
wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not
see the land with his eyes.
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be
taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the
Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Ezekiel 12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round
about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the
sword after them.
Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall
disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the
countries.
Ezekiel 12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword,
from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all
their abominations among the nations whither they come; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 12:17 Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy
water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Ezekiel 12:19 and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land
of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their
water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all
that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste,
and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 12:21 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:22 Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the
land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision
faileth?
Ezekiel 12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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
fulfilment of every vision.
Ezekiel 12:24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor
flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:25 For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I
shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in
your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will
perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 12:26 Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say,
The vision that he seeth is for many day to come, and he prophesieth
of times that are far off.
Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word
which I shall speak shall be performed, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13
Ezekiel 13:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own
heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah:
Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish
prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste
places.
Ezekiel 13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the
wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say,
Jehovah saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made
men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Ezekiel 13:7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken
a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not
spoken?
Ezekiel 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have
spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false
visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council 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 Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people,
saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a
wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar]:
Ezekiel 13:11 say unto them that daub it with untempered [mortar],
that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great
hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Ezekiel 13:12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto
you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
Ezekiel 13:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even rend
it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Ezekiel 13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed
with untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that
the foundation thereof shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye
shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and
upon them that have daubed it with untempered [mortar]; and I will
say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel 13:16 [to wit], the prophets of Israel that prophesy
concerning Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her, and there
is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the
daughters of thy people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and
prophesy thou against them,
Ezekiel 13:18 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the
women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the
head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the
souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Ezekiel 13:19 And ye have profaned 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 hearken unto lies.
Ezekiel 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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 I will let the
souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.
Ezekiel 13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people
out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be
hunted; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the
righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of
the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be
saved alive:
Ezekiel 13:23 Therefore ye shall no more see false visions, nor
divine divinations: and I will deliver my people out of your hand; and
ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 14
Ezekiel 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and
sat before me.
Ezekiel 14:2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their
heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh
his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him
therein according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezekiel 14:5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and
turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers
that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his
idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of
me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel 14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make
him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off
from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I,
Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand
upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Ezekiel 14:10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the
prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh [unto him];
Ezekiel 14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from
me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions;
but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 14:12 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by
committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break
the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off
from it man and beast;
Ezekiel 14:14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were
in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 14:15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they
ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through
because of the beasts;
Ezekiel 14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they
only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
Ezekiel 14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword,
go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;
Ezekiel 14:18 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but
they only should be delivered themselves.
Ezekiel 14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out
my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;
Ezekiel 14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter;
they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more
when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and
the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it
man and beast!
Ezekiel 14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall
be carried 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.
Ezekiel 14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way
and their doings; and ye shall know that I have not done without
cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 15
Ezekiel 15:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 15:2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree,
the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel 15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will
men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Ezekiel 15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath
devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it
profitable for any work?
Ezekiel 15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work:
how much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall
it yet be meet for any work!
Ezekiel 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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.
Ezekiel 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth
from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I
am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.
Ezekiel 15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have
committed a trespass, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16
Ezekiel 16:1 Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
Ezekiel 16:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem:
Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite
was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy
navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee;
thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Ezekiel 16:5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee,
to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open
field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel 16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in
thy blood, I said unto thee, [Though thou art] in thy blood, live; yea, I
said unto thee, [Though thou art] in thy blood, live.
Ezekiel 16:7 I caused thee to multiply as that which groweth in the
field, and thou didst increase and wax great, and thou attainedst to
excellent ornament; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was
grown; yet thou wast naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,
behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over
thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest
mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee
with sealskin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and covered
thee with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets
upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine
ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
Ezekiel 16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy
raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat
fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and
thou didst prosper unto royal estate.
Ezekiel 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy
beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon
thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the
harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on
every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel 16:16 And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for
thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot
upon them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
Ezekiel 16:17 Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of
my silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of
men, and didst play the harlot with them;
Ezekiel 16:18 and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and
coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil,
and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them
for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters,
whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto
them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel 16:21 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them
up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them?
Ezekiel 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou
hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked
and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe,
woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)
Ezekiel 16:24 that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast
made thee a lofty place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:25 Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every
way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy
feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.
Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the
Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy
whoredom, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over
thee, and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee
unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines,
that are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Ezekiel 16:28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians,
because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with
them, and yet thou wast not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the
land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing
thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;
Ezekiel 16:31 in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of
every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not
been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.
Ezekiel 16:32 A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers
instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts
to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on
every side for thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 16:34 And thou art different from [other] women in thy
whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and
whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore
thou art different.
Ezekiel 16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness
was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy
whoredoms with thy lovers; and because of all the idols of thy
abominations, and for the blood of thy children, that thou didst give
unto them;
Ezekiel 16:37 therefore behold, 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 against
thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that
they may see all thy nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock
and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of
wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall
throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and
they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they
shall leave thee naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and
they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their
swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 And they shall burn thy 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 shalt also give no hire
any more.
Ezekiel 16:42 So will I cause my wrath toward thee to rest, and my
jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no
more angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, but hast raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold,
I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and
thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this]
proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Ezekiel 16:45 Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her
husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who
loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite,
and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, that dwelleth at thy
left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth
at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Ezekiel 16:47 Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after
their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou
wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister
hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy
daughters.
Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom:
pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her
daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination
before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
Ezekiel 16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but
thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Ezekiel 16:52 Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou
hast given judgment for thy sisters; through thy sins that thou hast
committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that
thou: yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou
hast justified thy sisters.
Ezekiel 16:53 And I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them;
Ezekiel 16:54 that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort
unto them.
Ezekiel 16:55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return
to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to
their former estate; and thou and thy daughters shall return to your
former estate.
Ezekiel 16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth
in the day of thy pride,
Ezekiel 16:57 before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of
the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about
her, the daughters of the Philistines, that do despite unto thee round
about.
Ezekiel 16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations,
saith Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with
thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the
covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee
in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant.
Ezekiel 16:61 Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed,
when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder [sisters] and thy
younger; and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy
covenant.
Ezekiel 16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou
shalt know that I am Jehovah;
Ezekiel 16:63 that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and
never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have
forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 17
Ezekiel 17:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto
the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 17:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle
with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers
colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Ezekiel 17:4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof,
and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
Ezekiel 17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-
tree.
Ezekiel 17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low
stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof
were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and
shot forth sprigs.
Ezekiel 17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and
many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him,
and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its
plantation, that he might water it.
Ezekiel 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it
might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might
be a goodly vine.
Ezekiel 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper?
shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that
it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not
by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots
thereof.
Ezekiel 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it
not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in
the beds where it grew.
Ezekiel 17:11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what
these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to
Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and
brought them to him to Babylon:
Ezekiel 17:13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant
with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the
mighty of the land;
Ezekiel 17:14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift
itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
Ezekiel 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his
ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much
people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall
he break the covenant, and yet escape?
Ezekiel 17:16 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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.
Ezekiel 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build
forts, to cut off many persons.
Ezekiel 17:18 For he hath despised the oath by breaking the
covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet hath done all
these things; he shall not escape.
Ezekiel 17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live,
surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath
broken, I will even bring it upon his own head.
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be
taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter
into judgment with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed
against me.
Ezekiel 17:21 And all his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and
ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 17:22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the
lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost
of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and
lofty mountain:
Ezekiel 17:23 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it;
and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:
and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the
branches thereof shall they dwell.
Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I,
Jehovah, 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,
Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.
Ezekiel 18
Ezekiel 18:1 The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,
Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the
land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge?
Ezekiel 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have
[occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so
also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and
right,
Ezekiel 18:6 and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath
lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath
defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her
impurity,
Ezekiel 18:7 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the
debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread
to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:8 he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath
taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
executed true justice between man and man,
Ezekiel 18:9 hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept mine
ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood,
and that doeth any one of these things,
Ezekiel 18:11 and that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath
eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
Ezekiel 18:12 hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by
robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezekiel 18:13 hath given forth upon interest, 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.
Ezekiel 18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's
sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;
Ezekiel 18:15 that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath
lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled
his neighbor's wife,
Ezekiel 18:16 neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to
pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:17 that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath
not received interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances,
hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his
father, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed
his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold,
he shall die in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:19 Yet say ye, Wherefore 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.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the
wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked 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.
Ezekiel 18:22 None of his transgressions that he hath committed
shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he hath
done he shall live.
Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith
the Lord Jehovah; and not rather that he should return from his way,
and live?
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the
abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his
righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his
trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in
them shall he die.
Ezekiel 18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear
now, O house of Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways
unequal?
Ezekiel 18:26 When the righteous man turneth away from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his
iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his
wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful
and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall
not die.
Ezekiel 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is
not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your
ways unequal?
Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every
one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and
turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be
your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein
ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for
why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,
saith the Lord Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.
Ezekiel 19
Ezekiel 19:1 Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel,
Ezekiel 19:2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched
among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her
whelps.
Ezekiel 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a
young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit;
and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope
was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young
lion.
Ezekiel 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became
a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities;
and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the
noise of his roaring.
Ezekiel 19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their
pit.
Ezekiel 19:9 And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought
him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that
his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by
the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
waters.
Ezekiel 19:11 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that
bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and
they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
Ezekiel 19:12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were
broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 19:13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and
thirsty land.
Ezekiel 19:14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath
devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to
rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel 20
Ezekiel 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 Jehovah, and sat before me.
Ezekiel 20:2 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Is it to inquire of me that ye
are come? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of
by you.
Ezekiel 20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge
them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;
Ezekiel 20:5 and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the
day when I chose Israel, and sware unto the seed of the house of
Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when
I sware unto them, saying, I am Jehovah your God;
Ezekiel 20:6 in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of
the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
Ezekiel 20:7 And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken
unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their
eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would
pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them
in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in
whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth
out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:10 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
and brought them into the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine
ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that
sanctifieth them.
Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the
wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine
ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my
sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my
wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them
out.
Ezekiel 20:15 Moreover also I sware 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;
Ezekiel 20:16 because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not
in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after
their idols.
Ezekiel 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed
them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk
ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances,
nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:19 I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep
mine ordinances, and do them;
Ezekiel 20:20 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign
between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.
Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against me; they walked not
in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a
man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said
I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger
against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations,
in whose sight I brought them forth.
Ezekiel 20:23 Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I
would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the
countries;
Ezekiel 20:24 because they had not executed mine ordinances, but
had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their
eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Ezekiel 20:25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good,
and ordinances wherein they should not live;
Ezekiel 20:26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they
caused to pass through [the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I
might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel,
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover
have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a
trespass against me.
Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I
sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every
thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their
sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
Ezekiel 20:29 Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place
whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Ezekiel 20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your
fathers? and play ye the harlot after their abominations?
Ezekiel 20:31 and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons
to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols
unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?
As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you;
Ezekiel 20:32 and that which cometh into your mind shall not be at
all, in that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the
countries, to serve wood and stone.
Ezekiel 20:33 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty
hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I
be king over you:
Ezekiel 20:34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will
gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a
mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured
out;
Ezekiel 20:35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples,
and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezekiel 20:36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in
the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with
you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will
bring you into the bond of the covenant;
Ezekiel 20:38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and
them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the
land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of
Israel: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye
will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane
with your gifts, and with your idols.
Ezekiel 20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the
height of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of
Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and
there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your
oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 20:41 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you
out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the
nations.
Ezekiel 20:42 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall
bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I sware to
give unto your fathers.
Ezekiel 20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your
doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe
yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have
committed.
Ezekiel 20:44 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have
dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 20:45 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop
[thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the
field in the South;
Ezekiel 20:47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of
Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 burnt thereby.
Ezekiel 20:48 And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it;
it shall not be quenched.
Ezekiel 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he
not a speaker of parables?
Ezekiel 21
Ezekiel 21:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop
[thy word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of
Israel;
Ezekiel 21:3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah:
Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its
sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel 21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous
and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
against all flesh from the south to the north:
Ezekiel 21:5 and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn
forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
Ezekiel 21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of
thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.
Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore
sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for 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 it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 21:8 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah:
Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
Ezekiel 21:10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is
furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the
rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.
Ezekiel 21:11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled:
the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand
of the slayer.
Ezekiel 21:12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it
is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword
with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel 21:13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that
contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy
hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword
of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly
wounded, which entereth into their chambers.
Ezekiel 21:15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is
made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
Ezekiel 21:16 Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in
array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Ezekiel 21:17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause
my wrath to rest: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 21:18 The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,
Ezekiel 21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the
sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth
out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the
way to the city.
Ezekiel 21:20 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to
Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the
fortified.
Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the
way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the
arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
Ezekiel 21:22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to
set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the
voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up
mounds, to build forts.
Ezekiel 21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
sight, who have sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to
remembrance, that they may be taken.
Ezekiel 21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye
have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your
transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do
appear; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken
with the hand.
Ezekiel 21:25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince
of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
Ezekiel 21:26 thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and
take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which
is low, and abase that which is high.
Ezekiel 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be
no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
Ezekiel 21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith
the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning
their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the
slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as
lightning;
Ezekiel 21:29 while they see for thee false visions, while they divine
lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are
deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the
end.
Ezekiel 21:30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where
thou wast created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.
Ezekiel 21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will
blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into
the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel 21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in
the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I,
Jehovah, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 22
Ezekiel 22:1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:2 And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge
the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:3 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city
that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and
that maketh idols against herself to defile her!
Ezekiel 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed,
and art defiled 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 nations, and a
mocking to all the countries.
Ezekiel 22:5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee,
shall mock thee, thou infamous one [and] full of tumult.
Ezekiel 22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his
power, have been in thee to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the
midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in
thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned
my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in
thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they
have committed lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:10 In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness;
in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.
Ezekiel 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his
neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law;
and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast
taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy
neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:13 Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy
dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath
been in the midst of thee.
Ezekiel 22:14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in
the days that I shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and
will do it.
Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse
thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of
thee.
Ezekiel 22:16 And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of
the nations; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:17 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto
me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the
furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are
all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst
of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and
tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so
will I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you
there, and melt you.
Ezekiel 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the
fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah,
have poured out my wrath upon you.
Ezekiel 22:23 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not
cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Ezekiel 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst
thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured
souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her
widows many in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have
profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the
holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern
between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves
ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may
get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have daubed for them with
untempered [mortar], seeing false visions, and divining lies unto
them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not
spoken.
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and
exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and
have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build
up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it; but I found none.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon
them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own
way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 23
Ezekiel 23:1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of
one mother:
Ezekiel 23:3 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the
harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was
handled the bosom of their virginity.
Ezekiel 23:4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and
Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and
daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem
Oholibah.
Ezekiel 23:5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and
she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
Ezekiel 23:6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of
them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the
choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted,
with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel 23:8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of]
Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom
of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.
Ezekiel 23:9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
Ezekiel 23:10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons
and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became
a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.
Ezekiel 23:11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more
corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were
more than the whoredoms of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers,
[her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon
horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one
way.
Ezekiel 23:14 And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men
portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with
vermilion,
Ezekiel 23:15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing
turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the
likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
Ezekiel 23:16 And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them,
and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love,
and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with
them, and her soul was alienated from them.
Ezekiel 23:18 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her
nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was
alienated from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the
days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of
Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20 And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as
the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy
youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts
of thy youth.
Ezekiel 23:22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is
alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side:
Ezekiel 23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and
Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young
men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all
of them riding upon horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 And they shall come against thee with weapons,
chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set
themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round
about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall
judge thee according to their judgments.
Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall
deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears;
and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and
thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
Ezekiel 23:26 They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away
thy fair jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and
thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt
not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Ezekiel 23:28 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver
thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them
from whom thy soul is alienated;
Ezekiel 23:29 and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take
away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the
nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness
and thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:30 These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast
played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with
their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore
will I give her cup into thy hand.
Ezekiel 23:32 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy
sister's cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn
and had in derision; it containeth much.
Ezekiel 23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy
sister Samaria.
Ezekiel 23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt
gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken
it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou
hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou
also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:36 Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou
judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their
abominations.
Ezekiel 23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their
hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they
have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through
[the fire] unto them to be devoured.
Ezekiel 23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have
defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
sabbaths.
Ezekiel 23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols,
then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo,
thus have they done in the midst of my house.
Ezekiel 23:40 And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from
far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom
thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with
ornaments,
Ezekiel 23:41 and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before
it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.
Ezekiel 23:42 And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with
her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from
the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them
[twain], and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will
they play the harlot with her, and she [with them].
Ezekiel 23:44 And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot:
so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
Ezekiel 23:45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the
judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed
blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Ezekiel 23:46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a
company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and
robbed.
Ezekiel 23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and
despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their
daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Ezekiel 23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land,
that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Ezekiel 23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,
and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am
the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 24
Ezekiel 24:1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
[day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 24:2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of
this selfsame day: the king of Babylon drew close unto Jerusalem this
selfsame day.
Ezekiel 24:3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Set on the caldron, set it on,
and also pour water into it:
Ezekiel 24:4 gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece,
the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Ezekiel 24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood]
for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yea, let the bones
thereof be boiled in the midst of it.
Ezekiel 24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the
bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not
gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
Ezekiel 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the
bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
Ezekiel 24:8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I
have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
Ezekiel 24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the
bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Ezekiel 24:10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the
flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
Ezekiel 24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be
hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may
be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
Ezekiel 24:12 She hath wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust
goeth not forth out of her; her rust [goeth not forth] by fire.
Ezekiel 24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed
thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy
filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
Ezekiel 24:14 I, Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
Ezekiel 24:15 Also the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire
of thine eyes with a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep,
neither shall thy tears run down.
Ezekiel 24:17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead;
bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and
cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Ezekiel 24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even
my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Ezekiel 24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us
what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Ezekiel 24:20 Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah came
unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your
power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and
your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by
the sword.
Ezekiel 24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your
lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Ezekiel 24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your
shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine
away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
Ezekiel 24:24 Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all
that he hath done shall ye do: when this cometh, then shall ye know
that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 24:25 And 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 heart, their sons and their
daughters,
Ezekiel 24:26 that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee,
to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
Ezekiel 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is
escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: so shalt thou be
a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 25
Ezekiel 25:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 25:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon,
and prophesy against them:
Ezekiel 25:3 and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of
the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thou saidst,
Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the
land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of
Judah, when they went into captivity:
Ezekiel 25:4 therefore, behold, I will deliver thee to the children of
the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in
thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and
they shall drink thy milk.
Ezekiel 25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the
children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know
that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 25:6 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast
clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all
the despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;
Ezekiel 25:7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon
thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut
thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the
countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 25:8 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Moab and
Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations;
Ezekiel 25:9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the
country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
Ezekiel 25:10 unto the children of the east, [to go] against the
children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the
children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
Ezekiel 25:11 and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 25:12 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath
dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath
greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
Ezekiel 25:13 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out
my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I
will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by
the sword.
Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand
of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to mine
anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 25:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines
have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul
to destroy with perpetual enmity;
Ezekiel 25:16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will
stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Ezekiel 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with
wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I
shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ezekiel 26
Ezekiel 26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
[day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the gate of the peoples; she
is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
Ezekiel 26:3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am
against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against
thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.
Ezekiel 26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break
down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a
bare rock.
Ezekiel 26:5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the
midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she
shall become a spoil to the nations.
Ezekiel 26:6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain
with the sword: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 26:7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring
upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the
north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a
company, and much people.
Ezekiel 26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field;
and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against
thee, and raise up the buckler against thee.
Ezekiel 26:9 And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls,
and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel 26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust
shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy
gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
Ezekiel 26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all
thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of
thy strength shall go down to the ground.
Ezekiel 26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a
prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and
destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy
timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.
Ezekiel 26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and
the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Ezekiel 26:14 And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place
for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah
have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 26:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles
shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the
slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
Ezekiel 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from
their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit
upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished
at thee.
Ezekiel 26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and
say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring
men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there!
Ezekiel 26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea,
the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.
Ezekiel 26:19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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 the great waters shall cover thee;
Ezekiel 26:20 then will I bring thee down with them that descend
into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in
the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I
will set glory in the land of the living:
Ezekiel 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt no more have
any being; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found
again, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 27
Ezekiel 27:1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 27:2 And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Ezekiel 27:3 and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of
the sea, that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus
saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in
beauty.
Ezekiel 27:4 Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders
have perfected thy beauty.
Ezekiel 27:5 They have made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir;
they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.
Ezekiel 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; they
have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of
Kittim.
Ezekiel 27:7 Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy
sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the
isles of Elishah was thine awning.
Ezekiel 27:8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers:
thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.
Ezekiel 27:9 The old men 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 deal in thy merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:10 Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of
war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness.
Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy
walls round about, and valorous men were in thy towers; they hanged
their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy
beauty.
Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude
of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for
thy wares.
Ezekiel 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers;
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy
merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares
with horses and war-horses and mules.
Ezekiel 27:15 The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles
were the mart of thy hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of
ivory and ebony.
Ezekiel 27:16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of
thy handiworks: they traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and
broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
Ezekiel 27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers:
they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and
honey, and oil, and balm.
Ezekiel 27:18 Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy
handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the
wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Ezekiel 27:19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:20 Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the
merchants of thy hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were
they thy merchants.
Ezekiel 27:22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy
traffickers; they traded for thy wares with the chief of all spices, and
with all precious stones, and gold.
Ezekiel 27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba,
Asshur [and] Chilmad, were thy traffickers.
Ezekiel 27:24 These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in
wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel,
bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy
merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in
the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the
east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 27:27 Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy
mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy
merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy
company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the
seas in the day of thy ruin.
Ezekiel 27:28 At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall
shake.
Ezekiel 27:29 And all that handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the
pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand
upon the land,
Ezekiel 27:30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and
shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall
wallow themselves in the ashes:
Ezekiel 27:31 and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird
them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul
with bitter mourning.
Ezekiel 27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation
for thee, and lament over thee, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like
her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
Ezekiel 27:33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou
filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:34 In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the
depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in
the midst of thee.
Ezekiel 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee,
and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their
countenance.
Ezekiel 27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art
become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.
Ezekiel 28
Ezekiel 28:1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Because thy 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
man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of
God;-
Ezekiel 28:3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret
that is hidden from thee;
Ezekiel 28:4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast
gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
Ezekiel 28:5 by thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou
increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;-
Ezekiel 28:6 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou
hast set thy heart as the heart of God,
Ezekiel 28:7 therefore, behold, 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.
Ezekiel 28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die
the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am
God? but thou art man, and not God, in the hand of him that
woundeth thee.
Ezekiel 28:10 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the
hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 28:11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of
Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up
the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius, the 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 in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.
Ezekiel 28:14 Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set
thee, [so that] thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
Ezekiel 28:16 By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel 28:17 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou
hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast
thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may
behold thee.
Ezekiel 28:18 By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the
unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries;
therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee; it hath
devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the
sight of all them that behold thee.
Ezekiel 28:19 All they that know thee among the peoples shall be
astonished at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore
have any being.
Ezekiel 28:20 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 28:21 Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy
against it,
Ezekiel 28:22 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and
they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
Ezekiel 28:23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword
upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the
house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them,
that did despite unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 28:25 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have
gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are
scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations,
then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant
Jacob.
Ezekiel 28:26 And they shall dwell securely therein; yea, they shall
build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I
have executed judgments upon all those that do them despite round
about them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God.
Ezekiel 29
Ezekiel 29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth
[day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 29:2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;
Ezekiel 29:3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I
am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in
the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I
have made it for myself.
Ezekiel 29:4 And 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, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick
unto thy scales.
Ezekiel 29:5 And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and
all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt
not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to
the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.
Ezekiel 29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am
Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst
break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon
thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Ezekiel 29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will
bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast.
Ezekiel 29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste;
and they shall know that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said, The
river is mine, and I have made it;
Ezekiel 29:10 therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy
rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and
desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto the border of
Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast
shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Ezekiel 29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the
midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the
cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will
scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.
Ezekiel 29:13 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty
years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were
scattered;
Ezekiel 29:14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will
cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Ezekiel 29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it
any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them,
that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Ezekiel 29:16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of
Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after
them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 29:17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in
the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah
came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused
his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made
bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his
army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will
give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey;
and it shall be the wages for his army.
Ezekiel 29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense
for which he served, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 29:21 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth unto the
house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the
midst of them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 30
Ezekiel 30:1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 30:2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Wail ye, Alas for the day!
Ezekiel 30:3 For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it
shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Ezekiel 30:4 And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish 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.
Ezekiel 30:5 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people,
and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with
them by the sword.
Ezekiel 30:6 Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall
fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 30:7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries
that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that
are wasted.
Ezekiel 30:8 And they shall know at I am Jehovah, when I have set a
fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
Ezekiel 30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in
ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be
anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it cometh.
Ezekiel 30:10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also make the
multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon.
Ezekiel 30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their
swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Ezekiel 30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land
into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all
that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 30:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the
idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there
shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear
in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in
Zoan, and will execute judgments upon No.
Ezekiel 30:15 And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
Ezekiel 30:16 And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great
anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have]
adversaries in the day-time.
Ezekiel 30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by
the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
Ezekiel 30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself,
when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her
power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall go into captivity.
Ezekiel 30:19 Thus will I execute judgments upon Egypt; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
[month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah
came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of
Egypt; and, lo, it hath not been bound up, to apply [healing]
medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the
sword.
Ezekiel 30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong
[arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
out of his hand.
Ezekiel 30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations,
and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel 30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon,
and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh,
and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly
wounded man.
Ezekiel 30:25 And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon;
and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I
am Jehovah, 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.
Ezekiel 30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations,
and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I
am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 31
Ezekiel 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 Jehovah
came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 31:2 Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair
branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top
was among the thick boughs.
Ezekiel 31:4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the
rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its
channels unto all the trees of the field.
Ezekiel 31:5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of
the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became
long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
Ezekiel 31:6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its
boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring
forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.
Ezekiel 31:7 Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its
branches; for its root was by many waters.
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the
fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its
branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its
beauty.
Ezekiel 31:9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all
the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
Ezekiel 31:10 Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou
art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Ezekiel 31:11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one
of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out
for his wickedness.
Ezekiel 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him
off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his
branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses
of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his
shadow, and have left him.
Ezekiel 31:13 Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell,
and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;
Ezekiel 31:14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick
boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] 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.
Ezekiel 31:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went
down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the rivers 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.
Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall,
when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit;
and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that
drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 31:17 They also went down into Sheol with him unto them
that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, [that] dwelt
under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
Ezekiel 31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness
among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the
trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the
midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword.
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32
Ezekiel 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 Jehovah came
unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the
nations: yet art thou as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break
forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and
fouledst their rivers.
Ezekiel 32:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net
upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee
up in my net.
Ezekiel 32:4 And I will leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee
forth upon the open field, and will cause all the birds of the heavens
to settle upon thee, and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth
with thee.
Ezekiel 32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the
valleys with thy height.
Ezekiel 32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou
swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full
of thee.
Ezekiel 32:7 And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the
heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a
cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
Ezekiel 32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over
thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:9 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which
thou hast not known.
Ezekiel 32:10 Yea, I will make many peoples 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.
Ezekiel 32:11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king
of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Ezekiel 32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude
to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to
nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be
destroyed.
Ezekiel 32:13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside
many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more,
nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Ezekiel 32:14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their
rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and
waste, a land destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite
all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament;
the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and
over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth
[day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast
them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto
the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Ezekiel 32:19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou
laid with the uncircumcised.
Ezekiel 32:20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by
the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her
multitudes.
Ezekiel 32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of
the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they
lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:22 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are
round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
Ezekiel 32:23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit,
and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by
the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her
grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down
uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their
terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them
that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with
all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the
land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go
down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.
Ezekiel 32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their
graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of
the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of
war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities
are upon their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the
land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:28 But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:29 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in
their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword: they shall
lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all
the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which
they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie
uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their
shame with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over
all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and
he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are
slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 33
Ezekiel 33:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say
unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the
land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
Ezekiel 33:3 if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he
blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ezekiel 33:4 then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and
taketh not warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
shall be upon his own head.
Ezekiel 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not
warning; his blood shall be upon him; whereas if he had taken
warning, he would have delivered his soul.
Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not
the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and 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.
Ezekiel 33:7 So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto
the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give
them warning from me.
Ezekiel 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt
surely die, and 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 thy hand.
Ezekiel 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn
from it, and he turn not from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but
thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:10 And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel:
Thus ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us,
and we pine away in them; how then can we live?
Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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?
Ezekiel 33:12 And 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; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he
shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness;
neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that
he sinneth.
Ezekiel 33:13 When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if
he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his
righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath
committed, therein shall he die.
Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely
die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Ezekiel 33:15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which
he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 33:16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be
remembered against him: he hath done that which is lawful and right;
he shall surely live.
Ezekiel 33:17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the
Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Ezekiel 33:19 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness,
and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Ezekiel 33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house
of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Ezekiel 33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our
captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that
one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city
is smitten.
Ezekiel 33:22 Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the
evening, before he that was escaped came; and he had opened my
mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was
opened, and I was no more dumb.
Ezekiel 33:23 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in 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.
Ezekiel 33:25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols,
and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel 33:26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and
ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel 33:27 Thus shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: As I live, surely they that are in the waste places 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 are in the strongholds and in the caves
shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel 33:28 And I will make the land a desolation and an
astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the
mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
Ezekiel 33:29 Then shall they know that I am Jehovah, when I have
made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their
abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel 33:30 And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people
talk of 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 Jehovah.
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and
they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do
them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart
goeth after their gain.
Ezekiel 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of
one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for
they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Ezekiel 33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (behold, it cometh,)
then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
Ezekiel 34
Ezekiel 34:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed
themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill
the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.
Ezekiel 34:4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye
healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was
broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away,
neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with
rigor have ye ruled over them.
Ezekiel 34:5 And they were scattered, because there was no
shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and
were scattered.
Ezekiel 34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and
upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face
of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek [after them].
Ezekiel 34:7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezekiel 34:8 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as
my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts
of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds
search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my sheep;
Ezekiel 34:9 therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezekiel 34:10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the
shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them
to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth,
that they may not be food for them.
Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself,
even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
Ezekiel 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he
is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my
sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Ezekiel 34:13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather
them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and
I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses,
and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Ezekiel 34:14 I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the
mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they
lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the
mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will
cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back
that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken,
and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I
will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
Ezekiel 34:17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the
he-goats.
Ezekiel 34:18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the
good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of
your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul
the residue with your feet?
Ezekiel 34:19 And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have
trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with
your feet.
Ezekiel 34:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them:
Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Ezekiel 34:21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and
push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them
abroad;
Ezekiel 34:22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more
be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall
feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall
be their shepherd.
Ezekiel 34:24 And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant
David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and
will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel 34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my
hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its
season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Ezekiel 34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land;
and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars
of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that
made bondmen of them.
Ezekiel 34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations,
neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell
securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezekiel 34:29 And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither
bear the shame of the nations any more.
Ezekiel 34:30 And they shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am
with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 34:31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men,
and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 35
Ezekiel 35:1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 35:2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and
prophesy against it,
Ezekiel 35:3 and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I
am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against
thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.
Ezekiel 35:4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate;
and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast
given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time
of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
Ezekiel 35:6 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will
prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast
not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.
Ezekiel 35:7 Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a
desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him
that returneth.
Ezekiel 35:8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills
and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are
slain with the sword.
Ezekiel 35:9 I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities
shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 35:10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these
two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah
was there:
Ezekiel 35:11 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do
according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast
showed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known
among them, when I shall judge thee.
Ezekiel 35:12 And thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, have heard all
thy revilings which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel,
saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
Ezekiel 35:13 And ye have magnified yourselves against me with
your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard
it.
Ezekiel 35:14 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth
rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
Ezekiel 35:15 As thou didst rejoice over 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 Edom, even all of it; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36
Ezekiel 36:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of
Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36:2 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath
said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in
possession;
Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and
swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto
the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers,
and the evil report of the people;
Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to
the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes
and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and
derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;
Ezekiel 36:5 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire
of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and
against all Edom, that have appointed my land unto themselves for a
possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast
it out for a prey.
Ezekiel 36:6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and
say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the
valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in my
jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the shame of the
nations:
Ezekiel 36:7 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn,
[saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear
their shame.
Ezekiel 36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at
hand to come.
Ezekiel 36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and
ye shall be tilled and sown;
Ezekiel 36:10 and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of
Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste
places shall be builded;
Ezekiel 36:11 and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited
after your former estate, and will do better [unto you] than at your
beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36:12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my
people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their
inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of
children.
Ezekiel 36:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because they say unto
you, Thou [land] art a devourer of men, and hast been a bereaver of
thy nation;
Ezekiel 36:14 therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither
bereave thy nation any more, saith the Lord Jehovah;
Ezekiel 36:15 neither will I let thee hear any more the shame of the
nations, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more,
neither shalt thou cause thy nation to stumble any more, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36:16 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way
before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
Ezekiel 36:18 Wherefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the
blood which they had poured out upon the land, and because they had
defiled it with their idols;
Ezekiel 36:19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were
dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them.
Ezekiel 36:20 And when they came unto the nations, whither they
went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These
are the people of Jehovah, and are gone forth out of his land.
Ezekiel 36:21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of
Israel had profaned among the nations, whither they went.
Ezekiel 36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: I do not [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for
my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither
ye went.
Ezekiel 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been
profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of
them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord
Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather
you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezekiel 36:25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall
be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I
cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will
I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to
walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
Ezekiel 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 36:29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I
will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon
you.
Ezekiel 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the field, that ye may receive no more the reproach of
famine among the nations.
Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your
doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Ezekiel 36:32 Nor for your sake do I [this], saith the Lord Jehovah,
be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O
house of Israel.
Ezekiel 36:33 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse
you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited,
and the waste places shall be builded.
Ezekiel 36:34 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas
it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
Ezekiel 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is
become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and
ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
Ezekiel 36:36 Then the nations that are left round about you shall
know that I, Jehovah, have builded the ruined places, and planted that
which was desolate: I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and I will do it.
Ezekiel 36:37 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: For this, moreover, will I
be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase
them with men like a flock.
Ezekiel 36:38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in
her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
men; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 37
Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me
out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the
valley; and it was full of bones.
Ezekiel 37:2 And he caused me to pass by them round about: and,
behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were
very dry.
Ezekiel 37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?
And I answered, O Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.
Ezekiel 37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and
say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 37:5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I
will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
Ezekiel 37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye
shall live; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the
bones came together, bone to its bone.
Ezekiel 37:8 And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and
flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath
in them.
Ezekiel 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind,
prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain, that they may live.
Ezekiel 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath
came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
exceeding great army.
Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the
whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and
our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
Ezekiel 37:12 Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to
come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into
the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have
opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O
my people.
Ezekiel 37:14 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I
will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah,
have spoken it and performed it, saith Jehovah.
Ezekiel 37:15 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 37:16 And 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:
Ezekiel 37:17 and join them for thee one to another into one stick,
that they may become one in thy hand.
Ezekiel 37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto
thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?
Ezekiel 37:19 say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I
will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the
tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, [even]
with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be
one in my hand.
Ezekiel 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy
hand before their eyes.
Ezekiel 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations,
whither they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring
them into their own land:
Ezekiel 37:22 and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the
mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they
shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two
kingdoms any more at all;
Ezekiel 37:23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with
their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places,
wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my
people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 37:24 And my servant David shall be king over them; and
they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine
ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
Ezekiel 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto
Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell
therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for
ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
Ezekiel 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them;
it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them,
and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for
evermore.
Ezekiel 37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel 37:28 And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah that
sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for
evermore.
Ezekiel 38
Ezekiel 38:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 38:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of
Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy
against him,
Ezekiel 38:3 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am
against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
Ezekiel 38:4 and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws,
and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen,
all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and
shield, all of them handling swords;
Ezekiel 38:5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield
and helmet;
Ezekiel 38:6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in
the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many
peoples with thee.
Ezekiel 38:7 Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy
companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto
them.
Ezekiel 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years
thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword,
that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel,
which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the
peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
Ezekiel 38:9 And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm,
thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy hordes,
and many peoples with thee.
Ezekiel 38:10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in
that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise
an evil device:
Ezekiel 38:11 and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell securely, all of
them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
Ezekiel 38:12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand
against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the
people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and
goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.
Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to
take the spoil? hast thou assembled thy company to take the prey? to
carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take
great spoil?
Ezekiel 38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In that day when my people Israel
dwelleth securely, shalt thou not know it?
Ezekiel 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the
uttermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of
them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army;
Ezekiel 38:16 and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a
cloud to cover the land: it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I
will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when
I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Ezekiel 38:17 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I
spake in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, that
prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring thee
against them?
Ezekiel 38:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, that my wrath
shall come up into my nostrils.
Ezekiel 38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I
spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of
Israel;
Ezekiel 38:20 so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the
heavens, 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.
Ezekiel 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him unto all my
mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be
against his brother.
Ezekiel 38:22 And with pestilence and with blood will I enter into
judgment with him; and I will rain upon him, and upon his hordes,
and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower,
and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Ezekiel 38:23 And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I
will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39
Ezekiel 39:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,
prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
Ezekiel 39:2 and I will turn thee about, and will lead thee on, and
will cause thee to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I
will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel;
Ezekiel 39:3 and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will
cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Ezekiel 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and
all thy hordes, and the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee unto
the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be
devoured.
Ezekiel 39:5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell
securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39:7 And my holy name will I make known in the midst of
my people Israel; neither will I suffer my holy name to be profaned
any more: and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, the Holy
One in Israel.
Ezekiel 39:8 Behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord
Jehovah; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Ezekiel 39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields
and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and
the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
Ezekiel 39:10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither
cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the
weapons; and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and rob
those that robbed them, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give
unto Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass
through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them that pass
through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they
shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
Ezekiel 39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying
them, that they may cleanse the land.
Ezekiel 39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it
shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39:14 And they shall set apart men of continual employment,
that shall pass through the land, and, with them that pass through,
those that bury them that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse
it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
Ezekiel 39:15 And they that pass through the land shall pass through;
and 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.
Ezekiel 39:16 And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus
shall they cleanse the land.
Ezekiel 39:17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah:
Speak unto the birds of every sort, 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.
Ezekiel 39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the
blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Ezekiel 39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till
ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
Ezekiel 39:20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39:21 And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the
nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that
I have laid upon them.
Ezekiel 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Jehovah
their God, from that day and forward.
Ezekiel 39:23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel
went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against
me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of
their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
Ezekiel 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them.
Ezekiel 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Now will I
bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole
house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
Ezekiel 39:26 And they shall bear their shame, and all their
trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they shall
dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;
Ezekiel 39:27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and
gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them
in the sight of many nations.
Ezekiel 39:28 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, in
that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have
gathered them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them any
more there;
Ezekiel 39:29 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I
have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 40
Ezekiel 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 Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither.
Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of
Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, whereon was as
it were the frame of a city on the south.
Ezekiel 40:3 And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a
man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line
of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
Ezekiel 40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with
thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I
shall show thee; for, to the intent that I may show them unto thee, art
thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 40:5 And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round
about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a
cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the
building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezekiel 40:6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the
east, and went up the steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of
the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
Ezekiel 40:7 And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed
broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the
threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was
one reed.
Ezekiel 40:8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the
house, one reed.
Ezekiel 40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits;
and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was
toward the house.
Ezekiel 40:10 And the lodges 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.
Ezekiel 40:11 And he measured the breadth of the opening of the
gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
Ezekiel 40:12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side],
and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this
side, and six cubits on that side.
Ezekiel 40:13 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one
lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits;
door against door.
Ezekiel 40:14 He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court
[reached] unto the posts, round about the gate.
Ezekiel 40:15 And [from] the forefront of the gate at the entrance
unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 40:16 And there were closed windows to the lodges, 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.
Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and, lo, there
were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about:
thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
Ezekiel 40:18 And the pavement was by the side of the gates,
answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
Ezekiel 40:19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of
the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred
cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.
Ezekiel 40:20 And the gate of the outer court whose prospect is
toward the north, he measured the length thereof and the breadth
thereof.
Ezekiel 40:21 And the lodges 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.
Ezekiel 40:22 And the windows thereof, and the arches thereof, and
the palm-trees thereof, were after the measure of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps;
and the arches thereof were before them.
Ezekiel 40:23 And there was a gate to the inner court over against
the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured
from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 40:24 And he led 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.
Ezekiel 40:25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof
round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.
Ezekiel 40:26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the
arches thereof were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this
side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
Ezekiel 40:27 And there was a gate to the inner court toward the
south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred
cubits.
Ezekiel 40:28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south
gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel 40:29 and the lodges 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.
Ezekiel 40:30 And there were arches round about, five and twenty
cubits long, and five cubits broad.
Ezekiel 40:31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court;
and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof: and the ascent to it had
eight steps.
Ezekiel 40:32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the
east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel 40:33 and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
arches thereof, 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.
Ezekiel 40:34 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court;
and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel 40:35 And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured
[it] according to these measures;
Ezekiel 40:36 the lodges thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches
thereof: and there were windows therein round about; the length was
fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
Ezekiel 40:37 And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and
palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side:
and the ascent to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel 40:38 And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts
at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.
Ezekiel 40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this
side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering
and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.
Ezekiel 40:40 And on the [one] side without, as one goeth up to the
entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other
side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
Ezekiel 40:41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that
side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew [the
sacrifices].
Ezekiel 40:42 And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of
hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and
one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments wherewith they
slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.
Ezekiel 40:43 And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened
within round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the oblation.
Ezekiel 40:44 And without the inner gate were chambers for 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.
Ezekiel 40:45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is
toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the
house;
Ezekiel 40:46 and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is
for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the
sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to
Jehovah to minister unto him.
Ezekiel 40:47 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and
a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the
house.
Ezekiel 40:48 Then 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.
Ezekiel 40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the
breadth eleven cubits; even 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.
Ezekiel 41
Ezekiel 41:1 And 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.
Ezekiel 41:2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the
sides of the entrance 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.
Ezekiel 41:3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the
entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of
the entrance, seven cubits.
Ezekiel 41:4 And 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.
Ezekiel 41:5 Then 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.
Ezekiel 41:6 And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over
another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which
belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they
might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.
Ezekiel 41:7 And the side-chambers were broader as they
encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of
the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore
the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up
[from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].
Ezekiel 41:8 I saw also that the house had a raised basement round
about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six
great cubits.
Ezekiel 41:9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-
chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left
was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
Ezekiel 41:10 And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty
cubits round about the house on every side.
Ezekiel 41:11 And the doors of the side-chambers were toward [the
place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door
toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five
cubits round about.
Ezekiel 41:12 And the building that was before the separate place at
the side 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.
Ezekiel 41:13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and
the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred
cubits long;
Ezekiel 41:14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the
separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 41:15 And he measured the length of the building before the
separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof
on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner
temple, and the porches of the court;
Ezekiel 41:16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the
galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold,
ceiled with wood round about, and [from] the ground up to the
windows, (now the windows were covered),
Ezekiel 41:17 to [the space] above the door, even unto the inner
house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and
without, by measure.
Ezekiel 41:18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a
palm-tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two
faces;
Ezekiel 41:19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-
tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-
tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house round
about:
Ezekiel 41:20 from the ground unto above the door were cherubim
and palm-trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
Ezekiel 41:21 As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as
for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [thereof] was as the
appearance [of the temple].
Ezekiel 41:22 The altar was of wood, 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 Jehovah.
Ezekiel 41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Ezekiel 41:24 And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning
leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
Ezekiel 41:25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the
temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls;
and there was a threshold of wood upon the face of the porch without.
Ezekiel 41:26 And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the
one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were
the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
Ezekiel 42
Ezekiel 42:1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way
toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over
against the separate place, and which was over against the building
toward the north.
Ezekiel 42:2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north
door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42:3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the
inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the
outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
Ezekiel 42:4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits'
breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the
north.
Ezekiel 42:5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries
took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost,
in the building.
Ezekiel 42:6 For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars
as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened
more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Ezekiel 42:7 And the wall that was without by the side of the
chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length
thereof was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer
court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred
cubits.
Ezekiel 42:9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the
east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
Ezekiel 42:10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the
east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were
chambers.
Ezekiel 42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance of
[the way of] the chambers which were toward the north; according to
their length so was their breadth: and all their egresses were both
according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
Ezekiel 42:12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were
toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way
directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
Ezekiel 42:13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the
south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the
holy chambers, where the priests that are near unto Jehovah shall eat
the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and
the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for
the place is holy.
Ezekiel 42:14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of
the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their
garments wherein they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put
on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertaineth to the
people.
Ezekiel 42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner
house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east, and measured it round about.
Ezekiel 42:16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed
five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel 42:17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel 42:18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 42:20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round
about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make
a separation between that which was holy and that which was
common.
Ezekiel 43
Ezekiel 43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that
looketh toward the east.
Ezekiel 43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from
the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters;
and the earth shined with his glory.
Ezekiel 43:3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision
which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to
destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the
river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
Ezekiel 43:4 And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the
way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Ezekiel 43:5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the
inner court; and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
Ezekiel 43:6 And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and
a man stood by me.
Ezekiel 43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] 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 the house of Israel
shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by
their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high
places;
Ezekiel 43:8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and
their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the wall
between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their
abominations which they have committed: wherefore I have
consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead
bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of
them for ever.
Ezekiel 43:10 Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of
Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them
measure the pattern.
Ezekiel 43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done,
make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion
thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances 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.
Ezekiel 43:12 This is the law of the house: upon the top of the
mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy.
Behold, this is the law of the house.
Ezekiel 43:13 And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the
cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and
the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round
about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
Ezekiel 43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower
ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the
lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a
cubit.
Ezekiel 43:15 And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the
altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
Ezekiel 43:16 And the altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by
twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
Ezekiel 43:17 And the ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by
fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall
be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit round about;
and the steps thereof shall look toward the east.
Ezekiel 43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: 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.
Ezekiel 43:19 Thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of the
seed of Zadok, who are near unto me, to minister unto me, saith the
Lord Jehovah, a young bullock for a sin-offering.
Ezekiel 43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on
the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the
border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse it and make atonement for
it.
Ezekiel 43:21 Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin-offering,
and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, without the
sanctuary.
Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a he-goat
without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as
they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Ezekiel 43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt
offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock
without blemish.
Ezekiel 43:24 And thou shalt bring them near before Jehovah, and
the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for
a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.
Ezekiel 43:25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a
sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of
the flock, without blemish.
Ezekiel 43:26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar
and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Ezekiel 43:27 And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be
that upon the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your
burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will
accept you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 44
Ezekiel 44:1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate
of the sanctuary, which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
Ezekiel 44:2 And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it
shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Jehovah,
the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.
Ezekiel 44:3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat
bread before Jehovah; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the
gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
Ezekiel 44:4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before
the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the
house of Jehovah: and I fell upon my face.
Ezekiel 44:5 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and all
the laws thereof; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every
egress of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 44:6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house
of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: O ye house of Israel, let it
suffice you of all your abominations,
Ezekiel 44:7 in that ye have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in
heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it,
even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and
they have broken my covenant, [to add] unto all your abominations.
Ezekiel 44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but
ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Ezekiel 44:9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into
my sanctuary, of any foreigners that are among the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 44:10 But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel
went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear
their iniquity.
Ezekiel 44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having
oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they
shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they
shall stand before them to minister unto them.
Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols,
and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel;
therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord
Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel 44:13 And they shall not come near unto me, to execute the
office of priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
unto the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame,
and their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel 44:14 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done
therein.
Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept
the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray
from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me; and they
shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the
Lord Jehovah:
Ezekiel 44:16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come
near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
Ezekiel 44:17 And it shall be 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, while they minister in the gates of the
inner court, and within.
Ezekiel 44:18 They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall
have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves
with [anything that causeth] sweat.
Ezekiel 44:19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into
the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments
wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they
shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with
their garments.
Ezekiel 44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their
locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
Ezekiel 44:21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they
enter into the inner court.
Ezekiel 44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor
her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the
house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between
the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the
unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel 44:24 And in a controversy they shall stand to judge;
according to mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep
my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall
hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 44:25 And they shall go in to 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.
Ezekiel 44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him
seven days.
Ezekiel 44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, into
the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-
offering, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 44:28 And they shall have an inheritance: I am their
inheritance; and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their
possession.
Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering,
and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be
theirs.
Ezekiel 44:30 And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and
every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the
priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to
cause a blessing to rest on thy house.
Ezekiel 44:31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself,
or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
Ezekiel 45
Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto Jehovah, a holy portion of
the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand
[reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all
the border thereof round about.
Ezekiel 45:2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in
length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty
cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.
Ezekiel 45:3 And of this measure shalt thou measure a length of five
and twenty thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be
the sanctuary, which is most holy.
Ezekiel 45:4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests,
the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto
Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for
the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 45:5 And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth, shall be unto the Levites, the ministers of the
house, for a possession unto themselves, [for] twenty chambers.
Ezekiel 45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, side by side with
the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of
Israel.
Ezekiel 45:7 And [whatsoever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one
side and on the other side of the holy oblation and of the possession
of the city, in front of the holy oblation and in front of the possession
of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward;
and in length answerable unto one of the portions, from the west
border unto the east border.
Ezekiel 45:8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel:
and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give
the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Ezekiel 45:9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O
princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and
righteousness; take away your exactions from my people, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a
just bath.
Ezekiel 45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that
the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the
tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Ezekiel 45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
Ezekiel 45:13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of
an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of
an ephah from a homer of barley;
Ezekiel 45:14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth
part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for
ten baths are a homer;)
Ezekiel 45:15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from
the well-watered pastures of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for a
burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for them,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 45:16 All the people of the land shall give unto this oblation
for the prince in Israel.
Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give the burnt-
offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the
feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the
appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-
offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-
offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 45:18 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the first [month], in
the first [day] of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without
blemish; and thou shalt cleanse the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-
offering, and put it upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the
four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of
the inner court.
Ezekiel 45:20 And so thou shalt do on the seventh [day] of the month
for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye make
atonement for the house.
Ezekiel 45:21 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month,
ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread
shall be eaten.
Ezekiel 45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself
and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.
Ezekiel 45:23 And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering.
Ezekiel 45:24 And he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 45:25 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the
month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to
the sin-offering, according to the burnt-offering, and according to the
meal-offering, and according to the oil.
Ezekiel 46
Ezekiel 46:1 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court
that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on
the sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it
shall be opened.
Ezekiel 46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of
the 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.
Ezekiel 46:3 And the people of the land shall worship at the door of
that gate before Jehovah on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
Ezekiel 46:4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto
Jehovah shall be on the sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a
ram without blemish;
Ezekiel 46:5 and the meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and
the meal-offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil
to an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:6 And on 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:
Ezekiel 46:7 and he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the
bullock, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he
is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the
way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
Ezekiel 46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before
Jehovah in the appointed feasts, he that entereth by the way of the
north gate to worship shall go forth 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 straight before him.
Ezekiel 46:10 And the prince, when they go in, shall go in in the
midst of them; and when they go forth, they shall go forth [together].
Ezekiel 46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-
offering shall be an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and
for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:12 And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering,
a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto
Jehovah, one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east;
and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he
doth on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going
forth one shall shut the gate.
Ezekiel 46:13 And thou shalt prepare a lamb a year old without
blemish for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah daily: morning by morning
shalt thou prepare it.
Ezekiel 46:14 And thou shalt prepare a meal-offering with it morning
by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of
oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering unto Jehovah
continually by a perpetual ordinance.
Ezekiel 46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal-
offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt-
offering.
Ezekiel 46:16 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift
unto any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it
is their possession by inheritance.
Ezekiel 46:17 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his
servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the
prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
Ezekiel 46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give
inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people be
not scattered every man from his possession.
Ezekiel 46:19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at
the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which
looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the hinder
part westward.
Ezekiel 46:20 And he said unto me, This is the place where the
priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, [and]
where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them not
forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
Ezekiel 46:21 Then he brought me forth into the outer 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.
Ezekiel 46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts
inclosed, forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners
were of one measure.
Ezekiel 46:23 And there was a wall round about in them, round
about the four, and boiling-places were made under the walls round
about.
Ezekiel 46:24 Then said he unto me, These are the boiling-houses,
where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
Ezekiel 47
Ezekiel 47:1 And he brought me back 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 was toward the east;) and the
waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on
the south of the altar.
Ezekiel 47:2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate
northward, and led me round by the way without unto the outer gate,
by the way of [the gate] that looketh toward the east; and, behold,
there ran out waters on the right side.
Ezekiel 47:3 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his
hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass
through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
Ezekiel 47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass
through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured
a thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that
were to the loins.
Ezekiel 47:5 Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river
that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to
swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
Ezekiel 47:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]?
Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
Ezekiel 47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the
river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
Ezekiel 47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue forth toward
the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall
go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made
to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.
Ezekiel 47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every living creature
which swarmeth, in every place whither the rivers come, shall live;
and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are
come thither, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and
everything shall live whithersoever the river cometh.
Ezekiel 47:10 And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it:
from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading
of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many.
Ezekiel 47:11 But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof,
shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Ezekiel 47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side
and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not
whither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new
fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the
sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof
for healing.
Ezekiel 47:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This shall be the border,
whereby ye shall divide the land for inheritance according to the
twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.
Ezekiel 47:14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I
sware to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for
inheritance.
Ezekiel 47:15 And this shall be the border of the land: On the north
side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of
Zedad;
Ezekiel 47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the
border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which
is by the border of Hauran.
Ezekiel 47:17 And the border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at
the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of
Hamath. This is the north side.
Ezekiel 47:18 And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and
Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north]
border unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.
Ezekiel 47:19 And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as
far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], unto
the great sea. This is the south side southward.
Ezekiel 47:20 And the west side shall be the great sea, from the
[south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is
the west side.
Ezekiel 47:21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the
tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 47:22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot
for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn among
you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you
as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have
inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 47:23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the
stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the
Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 48
Ezekiel 48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north
end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-
enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they
shall have their sides east [and] west,) Dan, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the
west side, Asher, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even
unto the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto
the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto
the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even
unto the west side, Reuben, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto
the west side, Judah, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the
west side, shall be the oblation which ye shall offer, five and twenty
thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from
the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the
midst of it.
Ezekiel 48:9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be
five and twenty thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in
breadth.
Ezekiel 48:10 And for these, even for the priests, shall be the 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 Jehovah shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 48:11 [It shall be] for the priests that are sanctified of the
sons of Zadok, that have kept my charge, that went not astray when
the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezekiel 48:12 And it shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation
of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
Ezekiel 48:13 And answerable unto 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.
Ezekiel 48:14 And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor
shall the first-fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy unto
Jehovah.
Ezekiel 48:15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in
front of the five and twenty thousand, shall be for common use, for
the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the
midst thereof.
Ezekiel 48:16 And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side
four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and
five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred,
and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
Ezekiel 48:17 And the city shall have suburbs: 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.
Ezekiel 48:18 And the residue in the length, answerable unto the
holy oblation, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand
westward; and it shall be answerable unto the holy oblation; and the
increase thereof shall be for food unto them that labor in the city.
Ezekiel 48:19 And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of
Israel, shall till it.
Ezekiel 48:20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by
five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation four-
square, with the possession of the city.
Ezekiel 48:21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side
and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city;
in front of the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the
east border, and westward in front of the five and twenty thousand
toward the west border, answerable unto the portions, it shall be for
the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall
be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from
the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it
shall be for the prince.
Ezekiel 48:23 And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side unto
the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side
unto the west side, Simeon, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto
the west side, Issachar, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto
the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto
the west side, Gad, one [portion].
Ezekiel 48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward,
the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-
kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], unto the great sea.
Ezekiel 48:29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the
tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 48:30 And these are the egresses of the city: On the north
side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;
Ezekiel 48:31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the
gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
Ezekiel 48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred
[reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of
Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
Ezekiel 48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred
[reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate
of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
Ezekiel 48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred
[reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher,
one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
Ezekiel 48:35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about: and
the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.
Daniel
Daniel 1
Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah
came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged
it.
Daniel 1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand,
with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into
the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels
into the treasure-house of his god.
Daniel 1:3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his
eunuchs, that he should bring in [certain] of the children of Israel,
even of the seed royal and of the nobles;
Daniel 1:4 youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and
skilful in all wisdom, and endued with knowledge, and understanding
science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; and that
he should teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Daniel 1:5 And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the
king's dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should
be nourished three years; that at the end thereof they should stand
before the king.
Daniel 1:6 Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Daniel 1:7 And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them:
unto Daniel he gave [the name of] Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah,
[of] Shadrach; and to Mishael, [of] Meshach; and to Azariah, [of]
Abed-nego.
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile
himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank:
therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not
defile himself.
Daniel 1:9 Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion
in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
Daniel 1:10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear
my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink: for
why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths that are
of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.
Daniel 1:11 Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the
eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
Daniel 1:12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them
give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel 1:13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee,
and the countenance of the youths that eat of the king's dainties; and
as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
Daniel 1:14 So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved
them ten days.
Daniel 1:15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared
fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of
the king's dainties.
Daniel 1:16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine
that they should drink, and gave them pulse.
Daniel 1:17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge
and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in
all visions and dreams.
Daniel 1:18 And at the end of the days which the king had appointed
for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in
before Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 1:19 And the king communed with them; and among them all
was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
therefore stood they before the king.
Daniel 1:20 And in every matter of wisdom and understanding,
concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times
better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm.
Daniel 1:21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king
Cyrus.
Daniel 2
Daniel 2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar,
Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his
sleep went from him.
Daniel 2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the
enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his
dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
Daniel 2:3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream,
and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Daniel 2:4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian
language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we
will show the interpretation.
Daniel 2:5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is
gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the
interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall
be made a dunghill.
Daniel 2:6 But if ye show the dream and the interpretation thereof,
ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore
show me the dream and the interpretation thereof.
Daniel 2:7 They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell
his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
Daniel 2:8 The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye
would gain time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
Daniel 2:9 But if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but
one law 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 show me the interpretation
thereof.
Daniel 2:10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said,
There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter,
forasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler, hath asked such a thing of any
magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
Daniel 2:11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is
no other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose
dwelling is not with flesh.
Daniel 2:12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and
commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:13 So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be
slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
Daniel 2:14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence
to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to slay
the wise men of Babylon;
Daniel 2:15 he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain,
Wherefore is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made
the thing known to Daniel.
Daniel 2:16 And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he
would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the
interpretation.
Daniel 2:17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing
known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
Daniel 2:18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven
concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should nor
perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of
the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel 2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God
for ever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.
Daniel 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth
kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and
knowledge to them that have understanding;
Daniel 2:22 he revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what
is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
Daniel 2:23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers,
who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast now made known
unto me what we desired of thee; for thou hast made known unto us
the king's matter.
Daniel 2:24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king
had appointed 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 show unto the king the interpretation.
Daniel 2:25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste,
and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the children of the
captivity of Judah, that will make known unto the king the
interpretation.
Daniel 2:26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which
I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
Daniel 2:27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret
which the king hath demanded can neither wise men, enchanters,
magicians, nor soothsayers, show unto the king;
Daniel 2:28 but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and
he hath made 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:
Daniel 2:29 as for thee, O king, thy thoughts came [into thy mind]
upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that
revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.
Daniel 2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any
wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the
interpretation may be made known to the king, and that thou mayest
know the thoughts of thy heart.
Daniel 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This
image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood
before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible.
Daniel 2:32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast
and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
Daniel 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands,
which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and
brake them in pieces.
Daniel 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the
gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the
summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no
place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became
a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation
thereof before the king.
Daniel 2:37 Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of
heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the
glory;
Daniel 2:38 and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of
the field and the birds of the heavens hath he given into thy hand, and
hath made thee to rule over them all: thou art the head of gold.
Daniel 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to
thee; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over
all the earth.
Daniel 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron,
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as
iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
Daniel 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of
potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there
shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the
iron mixed with miry clay.
Daniel 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of
clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Daniel 2:43 And whereas thou sawest the 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 doth not mingle with clay.
Daniel 2:44 And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven
set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the
sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in
pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Daniel 2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that a 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.
Daniel 2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and
worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an
oblation and sweet odors unto him.
Daniel 2:47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth your
God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of
secrets, seeing thou hast been able to reveal this secret.
Daniel 2:48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many
great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon,
and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:49 And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province
of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the king.
Daniel 3
Daniel 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.
Daniel 3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the
satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the
counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come
to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had
set up.
Daniel 3:3 Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the
judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers
of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the
image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood
before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Daniel 3:4 Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O
peoples, nations, and languages,
Daniel 3:5 that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute,
harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down
and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set
up;
Daniel 3:6 and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the
same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of
music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and
worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set
up.
Daniel 3:8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and
brought accusation against the Jews.
Daniel 3:9 They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O
king, live for ever.
Daniel 3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that
shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the
golden image;
Daniel 3:11 and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, shall be
cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast appointed 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.
Daniel 3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded
to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought
these men before the king.
Daniel 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said unto them, Is it of
purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my
god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Daniel 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound
of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all
kinds of music, 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?
Daniel 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said
to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in
this matter.
Daniel 3:17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us
from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand,
O king.
Daniel 3:18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will
not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set
up.
Daniel 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of
his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego:
[therefore] he spake, and commanded that they should heat the
furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Daniel 3:20 And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his
army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast them
into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:21 Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics,
and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the
midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent,
and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men
that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
Daniel 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose
up in haste: he spake and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast
three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said
unto the king, True, O king.
Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking
in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the
fourth is like a son of the gods.
Daniel 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the
burning fiery furnace: he 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 out of
the midst of the fire.
Daniel 3:27 And the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the
king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the
fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was the hair of their head
singed, neither were their hosen changed, nor had the smell of fire
passed on them.
Daniel 3:28 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 have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor
worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and
language, which speak anything 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 is able to
deliver after this sort.
Daniel 3:30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego in the province of Babylon.
Daniel 4
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all the peoples, nations,
and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto
you.
Daniel 4:2 It hath seemed good unto me to show the signs and
wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.
Daniel 4:3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders!
his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from
generation to generation.
Daniel 4:4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and
flourishing in my palace.
Daniel 4:5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts
upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Daniel 4:6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of
Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the
interpretation of the dream.
Daniel 4:7 Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but
they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
Daniel 4:8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was
Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the
spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying],
Daniel 4:9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know
that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee,
tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the
interpretation thereof.
Daniel 4:10 Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw,
and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height thereof
was great.
Daniel 4:11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof
reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
Daniel 4:12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much,
and in it was food for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it,
and the birds of the heavens dwelt in the branches thereof, and all
flesh was fed from it.
Daniel 4:13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and,
behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.
Daniel 4:14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and
cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the
beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
Daniel 4:15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its 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:
Daniel 4:16 let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's
heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
Daniel 4:17 The sentence 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 lowest of men.
Daniel 4:18 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and
thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, 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.
Daniel 4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was
stricken dumb for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king
answered and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the
interpretation, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord,
the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to
thine adversaries.
Daniel 4:20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong,
whose height reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to all the
earth;
Daniel 4:21 whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and
in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and
upon whose branches the birds of the heavens had their habitation:
Daniel 4:22 it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for
thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion
to the end of the earth.
Daniel 4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one
coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and
destroy it; nevertheless 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;
Daniel 4:24 this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of
the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
Daniel 4:25 that thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling
shall be with the beasts of the field, and thou shalt be made to eat
grass as oxen, and shalt be wet 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.
Daniel 4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the
roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou
shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
Daniel 4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto
thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by
showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy
tranquillity.
Daniel 4:28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 4:29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal
palace of Babylon.
Daniel 4:30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon,
which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my
power and for the glory of my majesty?
Daniel 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a
voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is
spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee:
Daniel 4:32 and thou shalt be driven from men; and they dwelling
shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made 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.
Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon
Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as
oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was
grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].
Daniel 4:34 And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up
mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me,
and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him that
liveth for ever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his
kingdom from generation to generation.
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or
say unto him, What doest thou?
Daniel 4:36 At the same time mine understanding returned unto me;
and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned
unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was
established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added unto
me.
Daniel 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the
King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and
those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel 5
Daniel 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of
his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring
the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had
taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his
lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therefrom.
Daniel 5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out
of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the
king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
Daniel 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of
silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:5 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand,
and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of
the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Daniel 5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his
thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his
knees smote one against another.
Daniel 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spake and said to the wise
men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the
interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain
of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:8 Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not
read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
Daniel 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his
countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
Daniel 5:10 [Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and
his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spake and said, O
king, live forever; let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy
countenance be changed.
Daniel 5:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of
the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding
and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the
king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, [I say], thy father, made
him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Daniel 5:12 forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark
sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel,
whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he
will show the interpretation.
Daniel 5:13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king
spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, who art of the
children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought
out of Judah?
Daniel 5:14 I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee,
and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in
thee.
Daniel 5:15 And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been
brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make
known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not show
the interpretation of the thing.
Daniel 5:16 But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give
interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if thou canst read the
writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt
be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and
shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy
gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will
read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the
interpretation.
Daniel 5:18 O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar
thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
Daniel 5:19 and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the
peoples, 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 raised up, and whom he would he put down.
Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was
hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly
throne, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel 5:21 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart
was made like the beasts', and his dwelling was with the wild asses;
he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew
of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the
kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will.
Daniel 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy
heart, though thou knewest all this,
Daniel 5:23 but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and
they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and
thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from 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.
Daniel 5:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and
this writing was inscribed.
Daniel 5:25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE,
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Daniel 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath
numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.
Daniel 5:28 PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes
and Persians.
Daniel 5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel
with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made
proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the
kingdom.
Daniel 5:30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Daniel 5:31 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about
threescore and two years old.
Daniel 6
Daniel 6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and
twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
Daniel 6:2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one;
that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king
should have no damage.
Daniel 6:3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents
and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king
thought to set him over the whole realm.
Daniel 6:4 Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find
occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find
no occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there
any error or fault found in him.
Daniel 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion
against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law
of his God.
Daniel 6:6 Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to
the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the
satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to
establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, 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.
Daniel 6:8 Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing,
that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and
Persians, which altereth not.
Daniel 6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the
interdict.
Daniel 6:10 And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he
went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber
toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day,
and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Daniel 6:11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel
making petition and supplication before his God.
Daniel 6:12 Then they came near, and spake before the king
concerning the king's interdict: Hast thou not signed an interdict, that
every man that shall make petition unto any god or man within thirty
days, save unto 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.
Daniel 6:13 Then answered they and said before the king, That
Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not
thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his
petition three times a day.
Daniel 6:14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore
displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored
till the going down of the sun to rescue him.
Daniel 6:15 Then these men assembled together unto the king, and
said unto the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and
Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establisheth may
be changed.
Daniel 6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and
cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spake and said unto
Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
Daniel 6:17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the
den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of
his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night
fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and
his sleep fled from him.
Daniel 6:19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went
in haste unto the den of lions.
Daniel 6:20 And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried
with a lamentable voice; 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?
Daniel 6:21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
Daniel 6:22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions'
mouths, and 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.
Daniel 6:23 Then was the king exceeding glad, 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
had trusted in his God.
Daniel 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men
that 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, before they came to the
bottom of the den.
Daniel 6:25 Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations,
and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto
you.
Daniel 6:26 I make a decree, that in all the 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.
Daniel 6:27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and
wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the
power of the lions.
Daniel 6:28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in
the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel 7
Daniel 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.
Daniel 7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and,
behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.
Daniel 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one
from another.
Daniel 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld
till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the
earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man's heart
was given to it.
Daniel 7:5 And, behold, another beast, a second, like to a bear; and it
was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between
its teeth: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Daniel 7:6 After this I beheld, and, lo, another, like a leopard, which
had upon its back four wings of a bird; the beast had also four heads;
and dominion was given to it.
Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth
beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great
iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue
with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it;
and it had ten horns.
Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among
them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns
were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like
the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that was ancient
of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his
head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels
thereof burning fire.
Daniel 7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times
ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books
were opened.
Daniel 7:11 I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great
words which the horn spake; I beheld even till the beast was slain,
and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
Daniel 7:12 And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was
taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with
the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to
the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Daniel 7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a
kingdom, that all the peoples, 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.
Daniel 7:15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of
my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
Daniel 7:16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked
him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know
the interpretation of the things.
Daniel 7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that
shall arise out of the earth.
Daniel 7:18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
Daniel 7:19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth
beast, which was diverse from all of them, exceeding terrible, whose
teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, brake in
pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
Daniel 7:20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and
the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, even that
horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake great things, whose look
was more stout than its fellows.
Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints,
and prevailed against them;
Daniel 7:22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given
to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints
possessed the kingdom.
Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom
upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall
devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in
pieces.
Daniel 7:24 And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten
kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse
from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to
change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and half a time.
Daniel 7:26 But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away
his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of
the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of
the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Daniel 7:28 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my
thoughts much troubled me, and my countenance was changed in me:
but I kept the matter in my heart.
Daniel 8
Daniel 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.
Daniel 8:2 And I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I
was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I
saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
Daniel 8:3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns
were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up
last.
Daniel 8:4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and
southward; and no beasts could stand before him, neither was there
any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his
will, and magnified himself.
Daniel 8:5 And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from
the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground:
and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Daniel 8:6 And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I
saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his
power.
Daniel 8:7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was
moved with anger 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 trampled upon him; and there was
none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Daniel 8:8 And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and
when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there
came up four notable [horns] toward the four winds of heaven.
Daniel 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which
waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and
toward the glorious [land].
Daniel 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and
some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and
trampled upon them.
Daniel 8:11 Yea, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host;
and it took away from him the continual [burnt-offering], and the
place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Daniel 8:12 And the host was given over [to it] together with the
continual [burnt-offering] through transgression; and it cast down
truth to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered.
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one
said unto that certain one who spake, How long shall be the vision
[concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the transgression that
maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden
under foot?
Daniel 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three
hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed.
Daniel 8:15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the
vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before
me as the appearance of a man.
Daniel 8:16 And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] the
Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand
the vision.
Daniel 8:17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was
affrighted, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O
son of man; for the vision belongeth to the time of the end.
Daniel 8:18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep
with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me
upright.
Daniel 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall
be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongeth to the
appointed time of the end.
Daniel 8:20 The ram which thou sawest, that had the two horns, they
are the kings of Media and Persia.
Daniel 8:21 And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the
great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Daniel 8:22 And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof
four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not
with his power.
Daniel 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the
transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and
understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Daniel 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own
power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do
[his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy
people.
Daniel 8:25 And through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in
his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their]
security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the
prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel 8:26 And the vision of the evenings and mornings which hath
been told is true: but shut thou up the vision; for it belongeth to many
days [to come].
Daniel 8:27 And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I
rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but
none understood it.
Daniel 9
Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the
seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the
Chaldeans,
Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the
books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to
Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of
Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer
and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made
confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who
keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and
keep his commandments,
Daniel 9:5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done
wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts
and from thine ordinances;
Daniel 9:6 neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets,
that spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and
to all the people of the land.
Daniel 9:7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us
confusion of face, 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.
Daniel 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to
our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for
we have rebelled against him;
Daniel 9:10 neither have we obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to
walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning
aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse
been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of
Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
Daniel 9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake
against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us
a great evil; for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath
been done upon Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come
upon us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God, that
we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.
Daniel 9:14 Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and
brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works
which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Daniel 9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people
forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten
thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
Daniel 9:16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine
anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, 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 round about us.
Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hearken unto the prayer of
thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon
thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
Daniel 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes,
and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name:
for we do not present our supplications before thee for our
righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake.
Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do;
defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy
people are called by thy name.
Daniel 9:20 And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing
my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my
supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my
God;
Daniel 9:21 yea, while I was speaking in prayer, 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.
Daniel 9:22 And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said, O
Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee wisdom and understanding.
Daniel 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment
went forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art greatly beloved:
therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon
thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the
most holy.
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed
one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks:
it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9:26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the
anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: 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 even unto the end shall be
war; desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one
week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and
the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations [shall
come] one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that
determined, shall [wrath] be poured out upon the desolate.
Daniel 10
Daniel 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, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and
had understanding of the vision.
Daniel 10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole
weeks.
Daniel 10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into
my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks
were fulfilled.
Daniel 10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I
was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
Daniel 10:5 I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man
clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:
Daniel 10:6 his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the
appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms
and his feet like unto burnished brass, and the voice of his words like
the voice of a multitude.
Daniel 10:7 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men that
were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them,
and they fled to hide themselves.
Daniel 10:8 So 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.
Daniel 10:9 Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the
voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face,
with my face toward the ground.
Daniel 10:10 And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon
my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
Daniel 10:11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, thou 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.
Daniel 10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the
first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble
thyself before thy God, thy words were heard: and I am come for thy
words' sake.
Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
one and twenty days; but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came
to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Daniel 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall
befall thy people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for [many]
days:
Daniel 10:15 and when he had spoken unto me according to these
words, I set my face toward the ground, and was dumb.
Daniel 10:16 And, behold, one in the likeness 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 reason of the vision my
sorrows are turned upon me, and I retain no strength.
Daniel 10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this
my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me,
neither was there breath left in me.
Daniel 10:18 Then there touched me again one like the appearance of
a man, and he strengthened me.
Daniel 10:19 And he said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be
unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he spake unto me, I
was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast
strengthened me.
Daniel 10:20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto
thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and
when I go forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come.
Daniel 10:21 But I will tell thee that which is inscribed in the writing
of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me against these, but
Michael your prince.
Daniel 11
Daniel 11:1 And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I
stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
Daniel 11:2 And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall
stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer
than they all: and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he
shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.
Daniel 11:3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with
great dominion, and do according to his will.
Daniel 11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be
broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not
to his posterity, nor according to his dominion wherewith he ruled;
for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.
Daniel 11:5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and [one] of
his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his
dominion shall be a great dominion.
Daniel 11:6 And at the end of years they shall join themselves
together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the
king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the
strength of her 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 those times.
Daniel 11:7 But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in
his place, who shall come unto the army, and shall enter into the
fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall
prevail.
Daniel 11:8 And also their gods, with their molten images, [and]
with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive
into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north.
Daniel 11:9 And he shall come into the realm of the king of the
south, but he shall return into his own land.
Daniel 11:10 And his sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude
of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through;
and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.
Daniel 11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with anger,
and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the
north; and he shall set forth a great multitude, and the multitude shall
be given into his hand.
Daniel 11:12 And the multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall
be exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not
prevail.
Daniel 11:13 And the king of the north shall return, and shall set
forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the
end of the times, [even of] years, with a great army and with much
substance.
Daniel 11:14 And in those times there shall many stand up against
the king of the south: also the children of the violent among thy
people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall
fall.
Daniel 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a
mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall
not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any
strength to stand.
Daniel 11:16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to
his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in
the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.
Daniel 11:17 And he shall set his face to come with the strength of
his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall
perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to
corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.
Daniel 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall
take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him to
cease; yea, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn upon him.
Daniel 11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his
own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
Daniel 11:20 Then shall stand up in his place one that shall cause an
exactor to pass through the glory of the kingdom; but within few days
he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
Daniel 11:21 And in his place shall stand up a contemptible person,
to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall
come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Daniel 11:22 And the overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed
from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the
covenant.
Daniel 11:23 And after the league made with him he shall work
deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a
small people.
Daniel 11:24 In time of security shall he come 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 prey, and
spoil, and substance: yea, he shall devise his devices against the
strongholds, even for a time.
Daniel 11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against
the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south
shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he
shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.
Daniel 11:26 Yea, they that eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and
his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.
Daniel 11:27 And as for both these kings, their 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.
Daniel 11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great substance;
and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall do [his
pleasure], and return to his own land.
Daniel 11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the
south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former.
Daniel 11:30 For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore
he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the
holy covenant, and shall do [his pleasure]: he shall even return, and
have regard unto them that forsake the holy covenant.
Daniel 11:31 And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall
profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the
continual [burnt-offering], and they shall set up the abomination that
maketh desolate.
Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he
pervert by flatteries; but the people that know their God shall be
strong, and do [exploits].
Daniel 11:33 And they that are wise among the people shall instruct
many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and
by spoil, [many] days.
Daniel 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a
little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.
Daniel 11:35 And some of them that are wise shall fall, to refine
them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the
end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall
exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
marvellous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper till
the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall
be done.
Daniel 11:37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the
desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself
above all.
Daniel 11:38 But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses;
and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and
silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Daniel 11:39 And he shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the
help of a foreign god: whosoever acknowledgeth [him] he will
increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and
shall divide the land for a price.
Daniel 11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south
contend with 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 through.
Daniel 11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many
[countries] shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his
hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Daniel 11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries;
and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
Daniel 11:43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and
of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans
and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Daniel 11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall
trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and
utterly to sweep away many.
Daniel 11:45 And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the
sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and
none shall help him.
Daniel 12
Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince
who 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.
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
Daniel 12:3 And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of
the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars
for ever and ever.
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the
book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 12:5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there stood other
two, the one on the brink of the river on this side, and the other on the
brink of the river on that side.
Daniel 12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above
the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these
wonders?
Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above 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 a half; and when they have made an end of
breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall
be finished.
Daniel 12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my
lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are shut
up and sealed till the time of the end.
Daniel 12:10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves
white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of
the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the continual [burnt-offering]
shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
there shall be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand
three hundred and five and thirty days.
Daniel 12:13 But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest,
and shalt stand in thy lot, at the end of the days.
Hosea
Hosea 1
Hosea 1:1 The word of Jehovah 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.
Hosea 1:2 When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said
unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of
whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, [departing]
from Jehovah.
Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and
she conceived, and bare him a son.
Hosea 1:4 And Jehovah 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 the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
Hosea 1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the
bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And
[Jehovah] said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no
more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise
pardon them.
Hosea 1:7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will
save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor
by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Hosea 1:8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived,
and bare a son.
Hosea 1:9 And [Jehovah] said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are
not my people, and I will not be your [God].
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the
sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall
come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are
not my people, it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the
living God.
Hosea 1:11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall
be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and
shall go up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 2
Hosea 2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
Hosea 2:2 Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my
wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms
from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea 2:3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was
born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and
slay her with thirst.
Hosea 2:4 Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are
children of whoredom;
Hosea 2:5 for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived
them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers,
that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil
and my drink.
Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
Hosea 2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not
overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then
shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it
better with me than now.
Hosea 2:8 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the
new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which
they used for Baal.
Hosea 2:9 Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof,
and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool
and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Hosea 2:10 And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her
new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Hosea 2:12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof
she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I
will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto
which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings
and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith
Jehovah.
Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Hosea 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the
valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there,
as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of
the land of Egypt.
Hosea 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt
call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.
Hosea 2:17 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her
mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
Hosea 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the
beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the
creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword
and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hosea 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will
betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Hosea 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou
shalt know Jehovah.
Hosea 2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, saith
Jehovah, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth;
Hosea 2:22 and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine,
and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.
Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have
mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them
that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say,
[Thou art] my God.
Hosea 3
Hosea 3:1 And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman
beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the
children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of
raisins.
Hosea 3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a
homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Hosea 3:3 and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days;
thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife: so
will I also be toward thee.
Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without
king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar,
and without ephod or teraphim:
Hosea 3:5 afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek
Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear
unto Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.
Hosea 4
Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for
Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because
there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and
killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and
blood toucheth blood.
Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that
dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the
birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken
away.
Hosea 4:4 Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy
people are as they that strive with the priest.
Hosea 4:5 And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also
shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because
thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be
no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also
will forget thy children.
Hosea 4:7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will
change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4:8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on
their iniquity.
Hosea 4:9 And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish
them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.
Hosea 4:10 And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play
the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking
heed to Jehovah.
Hosea 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the
understanding.
Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff
declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to
err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their
God.
Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn
incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because
the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot,
and your brides commit adultery.
Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the
harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for [the men]
themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the
prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be
overthrown.
Hosea 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah
offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven,
nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.
Hosea 4:16 For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a
stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large
place.
Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
Hosea 4:18 Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot
continually; her rulers dearly love shame.
Hosea 4:19 The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they
shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.
Hosea 5
Hosea 5:1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel,
and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the
judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon
Tabor.
Hosea 5:2 And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I
am a rebuker of them all.
Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O
Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
Hosea 5:4 Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God;
for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not
Jehovah.
Hosea 5:5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore
Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall
stumble with them.
Hosea 5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek
Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from
them.
Hosea 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they
have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them
with their fields.
Hosea 5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah:
sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O Benjamin.
Hosea 5:9 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke:
among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely
be.
Hosea 5:10 The princes of Judah are like them that remove the
landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment;
because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
Hosea 5:12 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house
of Judah as rottenness.
Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his
wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he
is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Hosea 5:14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion
to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry
off, and there shall be none to deliver.
Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge
their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me
earnestly.
Hosea 6
Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn,
and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will
raise us up, and we shall live before him.
Hosea 6:3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his
going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the
rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall
I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the
dew that goeth early away.
Hosea 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain
them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as] the light
that goeth forth.
Hosea 6:6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the
knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Hosea 6:7 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there
have they dealt treacherously against me.
Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained
with blood.
Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company
of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have
committed lewdness.
Hosea 6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there
whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee,
when I bring back the captivity of my people.
Hosea 7
Hosea 7:1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim
uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit
falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth
without.
Hosea 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all
their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they
are before my face.
Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the
princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the
baker; he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough,
until it be leavened.
Hosea 7:5 On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick
with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
Hosea 7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while
they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it
burneth as a flaming fire.
Hosea 7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all
their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
Hosea 7:8 Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim
is a cake not turned.
Hosea 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it]
not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it]
not.
Hosea 7:10 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they
have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all
this.
Hosea 7:11 And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding:
they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Hosea 7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I
will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise
them, as their congregation hath heard.
Hosea 7:13 Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me;
destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I
would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but
they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and
new wine; they rebel against me.
Hosea 7:15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do
they devise mischief against me.
Hosea 7:16 They return, but not to [him that is] on 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.
Hosea 8
Hosea 8:1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he cometh]
against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my
covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Hosea 8:2 They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.
Hosea 8:3 Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall
pursue him.
Hosea 8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made
princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they
made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Hosea 8:5 He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled
against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
Hosea 8:6 For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is
no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it
yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as
a vessel wherein none delighteth.
Hosea 8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by
himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Hosea 8:10 Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I
gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden
of the king of princes.
Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars
have been unto him for sinning.
Hosea 8:12 I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but
they are counted as a strange thing.
Hosea 8:13 As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice
flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he
remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to
Egypt.
Hosea 8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces;
and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon
his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
Hosea 9
Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou
hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast loved hire
upon every grain-floor.
Hosea 9:2 The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them,
and the new wine shall fail her.
Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall
return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
Hosea 9:4 They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Jehovah, 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 shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of
Jehovah.
Hosea 9:5 What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the
day of the feast of Jehovah?
Hosea 9:6 For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt
shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things
of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense
are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath
the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the
enmity is great.
Hosea 9:8 Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God: as for the
prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, [and] enmity in the house
of his God.
Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your
fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came
to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing,
and became abominable like that which they loved.
Hosea 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird:
there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
Hosea 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave
them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I
depart from them!
Hosea 9:13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant
place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Hosea 9:14 Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them:
because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my
house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.
Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear
no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit
of their womb.
Hosea 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not
hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 10
Hosea 10:1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit:
according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars;
according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly
pillars.
Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he
will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.
Hosea 10:3 Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear
not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?
Hosea 10:4 They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making
covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the
furrows of the field.
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the
calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and
the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because
it is departed from it.
Hosea 10:6 It also shall be carried unto Assyria for a present to king
Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of
his own counsel.
Hosea 10:7 [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the
water.
Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be
destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and
they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Hosea 10:9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there
they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not
overtake them in Gibeah.
Hosea 10:10 When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the
peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their
two transgressions.
Hosea 10:11 And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to
tread out [the grain]; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will
set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.
Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to
kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah,
till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea 10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity;
ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the
multitude of thy mighty men.
Hosea 10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all
thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in
the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
Hosea 10:15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great
wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.
Hosea 11
Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my
son out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:2 The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went
from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to
graven images.
Hosea 11:3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms;
but they knew not that I healed them.
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and
I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid
food before them.
Hosea 11:5 They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the
Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me].
Hosea 11:6 And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall
consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own
counsels.
Hosea 11:7 And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though
they call them to [him that is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].
Hosea 11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I cast
thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set
thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are
kindled together.
Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not
return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One
in the midst of thee; and I will not come in wrath.
Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion;
for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.
Hosea 11:11 They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and
as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in
their houses, saith Jehovah.
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the
house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is
faithful with the Holy One.
Hosea 12
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east
wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a
covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Hosea 12:2 Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will
punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he
recompense him.
Hosea 12:3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his
manhood he had power with God:
Hosea 12:4 yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept,
and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there
he spake with us,
Hosea 12:5 even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial
[name].
Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and
justice, and wait for thy God continually.
Hosea 12:7 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand:
he loveth to oppress.
Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have
found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity
that were sin.
Hosea 12:9 But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will
yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn
feast.
Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have
multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used
similitudes.
Hosea 12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal
they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of
the field.
Hosea 12:12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served
for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
Hosea 12:13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of
Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
Hosea 12:14 Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore
shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord
return unto him.
Hosea 13
Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted
himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them
molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own
understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of
them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the
dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the
whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the
chimney.
Hosea 13:4 Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; and
thou shalt know no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour.
Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great
drought.
Hosea 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were
filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.
Hosea 13:7 Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I
watch by the way;
Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps,
and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like
a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
Hosea 13:9 It is thy destruction, O Israel, that [thou art] against me,
against thy help.
Hosea 13:10 Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy
cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and
princes?
Hosea 13:11 I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken
him away in my wrath.
Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up
in store.
Hosea 13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon
him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place
of the breaking forth of children.
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will
redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol,
where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind
shall come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness;
and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he
shall make spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels.
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall bear her guilt; 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.
Hosea 14
Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto
him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will
we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.
Hosea 14:3 Assyria 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.
Hosea 14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for
mine anger is turned away from him.
Hosea 14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the
lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea 14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the
olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Hosea 14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall
revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall
be as the wine of Lebanon.
Hosea 14:8 Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with
idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-
tree; from me is thy fruit found.
Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right,
and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
Joel
Joel 1
Joel 1:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Joel 1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Joel 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their
children, and their children another generation.
Joel 1:4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten;
and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and
that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Joel 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of
wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a
lioness.
Joel 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath
made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made
white.
Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband
of her youth.
Joel 1:9 The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the
house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is
destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Joel 1:11 Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers,
for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is
perished.
Joel 1:12 The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away from the sons
of men.
Joel 1:13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests;
wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye
ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are
withholden from the house of your God.
Joel 1:14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men
[and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your
God, and cry unto Jehovah.
Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as
destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel 1:16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:17 The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid
desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
Joel 1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made
desolate.
Joel 1:19 O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of
the field.
Joel 1:20 Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water
brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the
wilderness.
Joel 2
Joel 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
Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joel 2:2 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and
a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more
after them, even to the years of many generations.
Joel 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind
them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.
Joel 2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and
as horsemen, so do they run.
Joel 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do
they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
Joel 2:6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are
waxed pale.
Joel 2:7 They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of
war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their
ranks.
Joel 2:8 Neither doth one thrust another; they march every one in his
path; and they burst through the weapons, and break not off [their
course].
Joel 2:9 They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb
up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joel 2:10 The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the
sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
Joel 2:11 And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his
camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the
day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Joel 2:12 Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your
heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joel 2:13 and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto
Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joel 2:14 Who knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and
leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-
offering unto Jehovah your God?
Joel 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly;
Joel 2:16 gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old
men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the
bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her
closet.
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the
porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah,
and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule
over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is
their God?
Joel 2:18 Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his
people.
Joel 2:19 And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I
will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied
therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the
nations;
Joel 2:20 but I will remove far off from you the northern [army], and
will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its forepart into the
eastern sea, and its hinder part into the western sea; and its stench
shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up, because it hath done
great things.
Joel 2:21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for Jehovah hath
done great things.
Joel 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the
wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the
vine do yield their strength.
Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah
your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he
causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter
rain, in the first [month].
Joel 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
overflow with new wine and oil.
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm,
my great army which I sent among you.
Joel 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise
the name of Jehovah your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you;
and my people shall never be put to shame.
Joel 2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that
I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else; and my people shall
never be put to shame.
Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions:
Joel 2:29 and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those
days will I pour out my Spirit.
Joel 2:30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the
name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, and
among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.
Joel 3
Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Joel 3:2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there
for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered
among the nations: and they have parted my land,
Joel 3:3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a
harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Joel 3:4 Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the
regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense
upon your own head.
Joel 3:5 Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and
have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
Joel 3:6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of
Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far
from their border;
Joel 3:7 behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have
sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;
Joel 3:8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of
the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to
a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
Joel 3:9 Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the
mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
Joel 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks
into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Joel 3:11 Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather
yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O
Jehovah.
Joel 3:12 Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round
about.
Joel 3:13 Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye;
for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is
great.
Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day
of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw
their shining.
Joel 3:16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah
will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of
Israel.
Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in
Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall
no strangers pass through her any more.
Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains
shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and
all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall
come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of
Shittim.
Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because
they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel 3:20 But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from
generation to generation.
Joel 3:21 And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for
Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.
Amos
Amos 1
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen 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.
Amos 1:2 And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his
voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn,
and the top of Carmel shall wither.
Amos 1:3 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus,
yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos 1:4 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall
devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Amos 1:5 And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
inhabitant from the valley 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 Jehovah.
Amos 1:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea,
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom:
Amos 1:7 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall
devour the palaces thereof.
Amos 1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him
that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand
against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith
the Lord Jehovah.
Amos 1:9 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea,
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
delivered up the whole people to Edom, and remembered not the
brotherly covenant:
Amos 1:10 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall
devour the palaces thereof.
Amos 1:11 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom,
yea, 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:
Amos 1:12 but I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the
palaces of Bozrah.
Amos 1:13 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the
children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with
child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
Amos 1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall
devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a
tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
Amos 1:15 and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes
together, saith Jehovah.
Amos 2
Amos 2:1 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea,
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he
burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Amos 2:2 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;
Amos 2:3 and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
Amos 2:4 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea,
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and
their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk:
Amos 2:5 but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem.
Amos 2:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea,
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes-
Amos 2:7 they 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 go
unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
Amos 2:8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon
clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the
wine of such as have been fined.
Amos 2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height
was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I
destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Amos 2:10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led
you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Amos 2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your
young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?
saith Jehovah.
Amos 2:12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded
the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos 2:13 Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presseth
that is full of sheaves.
Amos 2:14 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall
not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
Amos 2:15 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is
swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he that rideth the
horse deliver himself;
Amos 2:16 and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee
away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
Amos 3
Amos 3:1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O
children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth:
therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
Amos 3:3 Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
Amos 3:4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a
young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
Amos 3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is
[set] for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken
nothing at all?
Amos 3:6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be
afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal
his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Amos 3:8 The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah
hath spoken; who can but prophesy?
Amos 3:9 Publish ye 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 what great tumults are therein, and what
oppressions in the midst thereof.
Amos 3:10 For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store
up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos 3:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary
[there shall be], even round about the land; and he shall bring down
thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.
Amos 3:12 Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd rescueth out of the
mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children
of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and
on the silken cushions of a bed.
Amos 3:13 Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the
Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.
Amos 3:14 For 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.
Amos 3:15 And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-
house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall
have an end, saith Jehovah.
Amos 4
Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain
of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto
their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 4:2 The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the
days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks,
and your residue with fish-hooks.
Amos 4:3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight
before her; and ye shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, saith Jehovah.
Amos 4:4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your
tithes every three days;
Amos 4:5 and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is
leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this
pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Amos 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned
unto me, saith Jehovah.
Amos 4:7 And I also 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.
Amos 4:8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink
water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
Jehovah.
Amos 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude
of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-
trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith Jehovah.
Amos 4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried
away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come
up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
Jehovah.
Amos 4:11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out
of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Amos 4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; [and] because
I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos 4:13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the
wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the
morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the Earth-
jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
Amos 5
Amos 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over
you, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
Amos 5:3 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a
thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a
hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.
Amos 5:4 For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye
me, and ye shall live;
Amos 5:5 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.
Amos 5:6 Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire
in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it
in Beth-el.
Amos 5:7 Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down
righteousness to the earth,
Amos 5:8 [seek him] that maketh the Pleiades 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 (Jehovah is his name);
Amos 5:9 that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that
destruction cometh upon the fortress.
Amos 5:10 They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor
him that speaketh uprightly.
Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and
take exactions from him 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 the wine thereof.
Amos 5:12 For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and
how mighty are your sins-ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and
that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].
Amos 5:13 Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a
time; for it is an evil time.
Amos 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah,
the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in
the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious
unto the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord:
Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the
streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning,
and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
Amos 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass
through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.
Amos 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore
would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or
went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit
him.
Amos 5:20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light?
even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in
your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22 Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-
offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-
offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will
not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 5:24 But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a
mighty stream.
Amos 5:25 Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos 5:26 Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the
shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
Amos 6
Amos 6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are
secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the
nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Amos 6:2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to
Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they
better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your
border?
Amos 6:3 -ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of
violence to come near;
Amos 6:4 that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon
their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of
the midst of the stall;
Amos 6:5 that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for
themselves instruments of music, like David;
Amos 6:6 that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the
chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amos 6:7 Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go
captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass
away.
Amos 6:8 The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah,
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.
Amos 6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one
house, that they shall die.
Amos 6:10 And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that
burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say
unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any
with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for
we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.
Amos 6:11 For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house
shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Amos 6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow [there]
with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of
righteousness into wormwood;
Amos 6:13 ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not
taken to us horns by our own strength?
Amos 6:14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house
of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you
from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.
Amos 7
Amos 7:1 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he
formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter
growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Amos 7:2 And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating
the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech
thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amos 7:3 Jehovah repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith
Jehovah.
Amos 7:4 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord
Jehovah called to content by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and
would have eaten up the land.
Amos 7:5 Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how
shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amos 7:6 Jehovah repented concerning this: this also shall not be,
saith the Lord Jehovah.
Amos 7:7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a
wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
Amos 7:8 And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I
said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-
line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them
any more;
Amos 7:9 and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the
sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the
house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Amos 7:10 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.
Amos 7:11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.
Amos 7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thou
away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
Amos 7:13 but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the
king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.
Amos 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no
prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a
dresser of sycomore-trees:
Amos 7:15 and Jehovah took me from following the flock, and
Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Amos 7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of Jehovah: Thou
sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not [thy word] against
the house of Isaac;
Amos 7:17 therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a 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 thyself shalt die in a land
that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his
land.
Amos 8
Amos 8:1 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket
of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket
of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon
my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day,
saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place
shall they cast them forth with silence.
Amos 8:4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and
cause the poor of the land to fail,
Amos 8:5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell
grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the
ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances
of deceit;
Amos 8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a
pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos 8:7 Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I
will never forget any of their works.
Amos 8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn
that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it
shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord
Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will
darken the earth in the clear day.
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your
songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and
baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an
only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the
north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of
Jehovah, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint
for thirst.
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy
god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall
fall, and never rise up again.
Amos 9
Amos 9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite
the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces
on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the
sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one
of them escape.
Amos 9:2 Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take
them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them
down.
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I
will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from
my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent,
and it shall bite them.
Amos 9:4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies,
thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will
set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
Amos 9:5 For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, [is] he that toucheth the
land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall
rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of
Egypt;
Amos 9:6 [it is] he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and
hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of
the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is
his name.
Amos 9:7 Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O
children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of
the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians
from Kir?
Amos 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful
kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that
I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.
Amos 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel
among all the nations, like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not
the least kernel fall upon the earth.
Amos 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who
say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is
fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins,
and I will build it as in the days of old;
Amos 9:12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the
nations that are called by my name, saith Jehovah that doeth this.
Amos 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, 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.
Amos 9:14 And I will bring back the captivity of my people 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.
Amos 9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith
Jehovah thy God.
Obadiah
Obadiah 1
Obadiah 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah
concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle.
Obadiah 1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the nations:
thou art greatly despised.
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O 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?
Obadiah 1:4 Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though
thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence,
saith Jehovah.
Obadiah 1:5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art
thou cut off!), would they not steal [only] till they had enough? if
grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning
grapes?
Obadiah 1:6 How are [the things of] Esau searched! how are his
hidden treasures sought out!
Obadiah 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on
thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee
have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy
bread lay a snare under thee: there is no understanding in him.
Obadiah 1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise
men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
Obadiah 1:9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to
the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by
slaughter.
Obadiah 1:10 For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame
shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Obadiah 1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the
day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered
into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of
them.
Obadiah 1:12 But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day
of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of
their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1:13 Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their
calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their
calamity, neither lay ye [hands] on their substance in the day of their
calamity.
Obadiah 1:14 And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of
his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day
of distress.
Obadiah 1:15 For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as
thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return
upon thine own head.
Obadiah 1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall
all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow
down, and shall be as though they had not been.
Obadiah 1:17 But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape,
and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their
possessions.
Obadiah 1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house
of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall
burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any
remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.
Obadiah 1:19 And they of the South shall possess the mount of
Esau, and they of the lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess
the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall
possess] Gilead.
Obadiah 1:20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel,
that are [among] the Canaanites, [shall possess] even unto Zarephath;
and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad, shall possess the
cities of the South.
Obadiah 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge
the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.
Jonah
Jonah 1:1 Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying,
Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for
their wickedness is come up before me.
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence
of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and 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 Jehovah.
Jonah 1:4 But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there
was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was like to be
broken.
Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto
his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the
sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the
innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What
meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God
will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah 1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us
cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So
they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Jonah 1:8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose
cause this evil is upon us; what is thine occupation? and whence
comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
Jonah 1:9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear
Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.
Jonah 1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto
him, What is this that thou hast done? For the men knew that he was
fleeing from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.
Jonah 1:11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee,
that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more
tempestuous.
Jonah 1:12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth
into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my
sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah 1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the
land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous
against them.
Jonah 1:14 Wherefore they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We
beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this
man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Jehovah,
hast done as it pleased thee.
Jonah 1:15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea;
and the sea ceased from its raging.
Jonah 1:16 Then the men feared Jehovah exceedingly; and they
offered a sacrifice unto Jehovah, and made vows.
Jonah 1:17 And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah;
and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 2
Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's
belly.
Jonah 2:2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto
Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I,
[And] thou heardest my voice.
Jonah 2:3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the
seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy
billows passed over me.
Jonah 2:4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will
look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah 2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The
deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth
with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my
life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Jonah 2:7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah;
And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.
Jonah 2:8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of
thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of
Jehovah.
Jonah 2:10 And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out
Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah 3
Jonah 3:1 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second
time, saying,
Jonah 3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it
the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah 3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the
word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three
days' journey.
Jonah 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and
he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah 3:5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they
proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them
even to the least of them.
Jonah 3:6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose
from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah 3:7 And he made proclamation and published through
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither
man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor
drink water;
Jonah 3:8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and
beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every
one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jonah 3:9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and
turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jonah 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their
evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do
unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah 4
Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O
Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?
Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a
gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in
lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah 4:5 Then 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 shade, till
he might see what would become of the city.
Jonah 4:6 And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come
up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him
from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the
gourd.
Jonah 4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next
day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God
prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah,
that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said,
It is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for
the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Jonah 4:10 And Jehovah said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd,
for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came
up in a night, and perished in a night:
Jonah 4:11 and should not I have regard for 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?
Micah
Micah 1
Micah 1:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite
in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he
saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Micah 1:2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you: hearken, O earth, and all that
therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord
from his holy temple.
Micah 1:3 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and
will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Micah 1:4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the
valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured
down a steep place.
Micah 1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins
of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not
Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not
Jerusalem?
Micah 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, [and]
as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones
thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations thereof.
Micah 1:7 And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and
all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay
desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto
the hire of a harlot shall they return.
Micah 1:8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and
naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like
the ostriches.
Micah 1:9 For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto
Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Micah 1:10 Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah
have I rolled myself in the dust.
Micah 1:11 Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and
shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of
Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof.
Micah 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good,
because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Micah 1:13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of
Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the
transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Micah 1:14 Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-
gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of
Israel.
Micah 1:15 I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him
that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto
Adullam.
Micah 1:16 Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of
thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into
captivity from thee.
Micah 2
Micah 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.
Micah 2:2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and
take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man
and his heritage.
Micah 2:3 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family
do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks,
neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
Micah 2:4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and
lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined:
he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from
me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
Micah 2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by
lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
Micah 2:6 Prophesy ye not, [thus] they prophesy. They shall not
prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
Micah 2:7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah
straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him
that walketh uprightly?
Micah 2:8 But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the
robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely [as men]
averse from war.
Micah 2:9 The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant
houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
Micah 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place;
because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous
destruction.
Micah 2:11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, [saying],
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even
be the prophet of this people.
Micah 2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely
gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of
Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great
noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.
Micah 2:13 The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken
forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their
king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.
Micah 3
Micah 3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers
of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?
Micah 3:2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off
their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin
from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for
the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer
them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as
they have wrought evil in their doings.
Micah 3:5 Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my
people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso
putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
Micah 3:6 Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no
vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the
sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over
them.
Micah 3:7 And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners
confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer
of God.
Micah 3:8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah,
and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Micah 3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and
rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
Micah 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with
iniquity.
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests
thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet
they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us?
no evil shall come upon us.
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as
the high places of a forest.
Micah 4
Micah 4:1 But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the
mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall
flow unto it.
Micah 4:2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us
go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from
Jerusalem;
Micah 4:3 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide
concerning strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his
fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah
of hosts hath spoken it.
Micah 4:5 For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god;
and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.
Micah 4:6 In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble that which is
lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I
have afflicted;
Micah 4:7 and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that
which was cast far off a strong nation: and Jehovah will reign over
them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever.
Micah 4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of
Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the former dominion shall come,
the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
Micah 4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in
thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as
of a woman in travail?
Micah 4:10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city,
and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there
shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand
of thine enemies.
Micah 4:11 And now many nations are assembled against thee, that
say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.
Micah 4:12 But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither
understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves
to the threshing-floor.
Micah 4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thy
horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in
pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto Jehovah, and
their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Micah 5
Micah 5:1 Now shalt thou 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.
Micah 5:2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be
among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto
me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old,
from everlasting.
Micah 5:3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she
who travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue of his brethren
shall return unto the children of Israel.
Micah 5:4 And he shall stand, and shall feed [his flock] in the
strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God:
and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the
earth.
Micah 5:5 And this [man] shall be [our] 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.
Micah 5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver
us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he
treadeth within our border.
Micah 5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many
peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarry
not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
Micah 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in
the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as
a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through,
treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
Micah 5:9 Let thy hand be lifted up above thine adversaries, and let
all thine enemies be cut off.
Micah 5:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that
I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy
chariots:
Micah 5:11 and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw
down all thy strongholds.
Micah 5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou
shalt have no [more] soothsayers:
Micah 5:13 and I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of
the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy
hands;
Micah 5:14 and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of
thee; and I will destroy thy cities.
Micah 5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon
the nations which hearkened not.
Micah 6
Micah 6:1 Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou
before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
Micah 6:2 Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye
enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy
with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein
have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Micah 6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab
devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; [remember]
from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of
Jehovah.
Micah 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself
before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings,
with calves a year old?
Micah 6:7 will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with
ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my
transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 6:8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth
Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to
walk humbly with thy God?
Micah 6:9 The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and [the man
of] wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath
appointed it.
Micah 6:10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the
wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 6:11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of
deceitful weights?
Micah 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the
inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in
their mouth.
Micah 6:13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous
wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
Micah 6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation
shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not
save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.
Micah 6:15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not
drink the wine.
Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the
house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the
reproach of my people.
Micah 7
Micah 7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the
summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no
cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig.
Micah 7:2 The godly 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.
Micah 7:3 Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently;
the prince asketh, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great
man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it
together.
Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is [worse]
than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is
come; now shall be their perplexity.
Micah 7:5 Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a
friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Micah 7:6 For the son dishonoreth 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.
Micah 7:7 But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the
God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, 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.
Micah 7:10 Then mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her
who said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall see
[my desire] upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of
the streets.
Micah 7:11 A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree
be far removed.
Micah 7:12 In that day shall they come unto thee from Assyria and
the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to
sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.
Micah 7:13 Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell
therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Micah 7:14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage,
which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them
feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah 7:15 As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of
Egypt will I show unto them marvellous things.
Micah 7:16 The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
Micah 7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling
things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places;
they shall come with fear unto Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid
because of thee.
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and
passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he
retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in
lovingkindness.
Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread
our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the
depths of the sea.
Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the
lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers
from the days of old.
Nahum
Nahum 1
Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of
Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum 1:2 Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah
avengeth and is full of wrath; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
Nahum 1:3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by
no means clear [the guilty]: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind
and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Nahum 1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all
the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of
Lebanon languisheth.
Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the
earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell
therein.
Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can
abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Nahum 1:7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and
he knoweth them that take refuge in him.
Nahum 1:8 But with an over-running flood he will make a full end
of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
Nahum 1:9 What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full
end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Nahum 1:10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their
drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Nahum 1:11 There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil
against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.
Nahum 1:12 Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be in full strength,
and likewise many, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass
away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
Nahum 1:13 And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will
burst thy bonds in sunder.
Nahum 1:14 And Jehovah hath given 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.
Nahum 1:15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! Keep thy feasts, O
Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall no more pass
through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Nahum 2
Nahum 2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep
the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power
mightily.
Nahum 2:2 For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the
excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and
destroyed their vine-branches.
Nahum 2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant
men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his
preparation, and the cypress [spears] are brandished.
Nahum 2:4 The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in
the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like
the lightnings.
Nahum 2:5 He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march;
they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
Nahum 2:6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is
dissolved.
Nahum 2:7 And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away;
and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon
their breasts.
Nahum 2:8 But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water:
yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry]; but none looketh back.
Nahum 2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for
there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart
melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and
the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Nahum 2:11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of
the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's
whelp, and none made them afraid?
Nahum 2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and
strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his
dens with ravin.
Nahum 2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah 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.
Nahum 3
Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine;
the prey departeth not.
Nahum 3:2 The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of
wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Nahum 3:3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the
glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses,
and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;-
Nahum 3:4 because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-
favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations
through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Nahum 3:5 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I
will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy
nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
Nahum 3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make
thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon
thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will
bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Nahum 3:8 Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the
rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the
sea, [and] her wall was of the sea?
Nahum 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite;
Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her
young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the
streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great
men were bound in chains.
Nahum 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also
shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Nahum 3:12 All thy fortresses shall be [like] fig-trees with the first-
ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the
gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath
devoured thy bars.
Nahum 3:14 Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses;
go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
Nahum 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as
the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.
Nahum 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
Nahum 3:17 Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the
swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day,
but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known
where they are.
Nahum 3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles
are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is
none to gather them.
Nahum 3:19 There is no assuaging of thy hurt: thy wound is
grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee;
for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Habakkuk
Habakkuk 1
Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Habakkuk 1:2 O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not
hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
Habakkuk 1:3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon
perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is
strife, and contention riseth up.
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never
go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore
justice goeth forth perverted.
Habakkuk 1:5 Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder
marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will
not believe though it be told you.
Habakkuk 1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty
nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess
dwelling-places that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 1:7 They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and
their dignity proceed from themselves.
Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are
more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press
proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle
that hasteth to devour.
Habakkuk 1:9 They come all of them for violence; the set of their
faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
Habakkuk 1:10 Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision
unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and
taketh it.
Habakkuk 1:11 Then shall he sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass
over, and be guilty, [even] he whose might is his god.
Habakkuk 1:12 Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God,
my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him
for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.
Habakkuk 1:13 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and
that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon
them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked
swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;
Habakkuk 1:14 and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the
creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk 1:15 He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth
them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth
and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth
incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food
plenteous.
Habakkuk 1:17 Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to
slay the nations continually?
Habakkuk 2
Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the
tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and
what I shall answer concerning my complaint.
Habakkuk 2:2 And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it
hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come, it will not delay.
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him;
but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Habakkuk 2:5 Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man,
that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is
as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations,
and heapeth unto him all peoples.
Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and
a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth
that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!
Habakkuk 2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee,
and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?
Habakkuk 2:8 Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the
remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood,
and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell
therein.
Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house,
that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the
hand of evil!
Habakkuk 2:10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting
off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam
out of the timber shall answer it.
Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
establisheth a city by iniquity!
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples
labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of
the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
Habakkuk 2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to
thee] that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou
mayest look on their nakedness!
Habakkuk 2:16 Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou
also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah's right hand
shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.
Habakkuk 2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee,
and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of
men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to
all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image, that the maker
thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that
he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Habakkuk 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the
dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold
and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Habakkuk 2:20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth
keep silence before him.
Habakkuk 3
Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.
Habakkuk 3:2 O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am
afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the
midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, And the Holy One from
mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth
was full of his praise.
Habakkuk 3:4 And [his] brightness was as the light; He had rays
[coming forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
Habakkuk 3:5 Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went
forth at his feet.
Habakkuk 3:6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and
drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered;
The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.
Habakkuk 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of
the land of Midian did tremble.
Habakkuk 3:8 Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was thine
anger against the rivers, Or thy wrath against the sea, That thou didst
ride upon thy horses, Upon thy chariots of salvation?
Habakkuk 3:9 Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes
were a [sure] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The
tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up
its hands on high.
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At
the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering
spear.
Habakkuk 3:12 Thou didst march though the land in indignation;
Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
Habakkuk 3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,
For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundest the head out of
the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation even unto
the neck. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:14 Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of
his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing
was as to devour the poor secretly.
Habakkuk 3:15 Thou didst tread the sea with thy horses, The heap
of mighty waters.
Habakkuk 3:16 I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at
the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my
place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the
coming up of the people that invadeth us.
Habakkuk 3:17 For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither
shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the
fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold,
And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of
my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:19 Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength; And he maketh
my feet like hinds' [feet], And will make me to walk upon my high
places.
Zephaniah
Zephaniah 1
Zephaniah 1:1 The word of Jehovah which came unto Zephaniah the
son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of
Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zephaniah 1:2 I will utterly consume all things from off the face of
the ground, saith Jehovah.
Zephaniah 1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the
birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the
stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the
face of the ground, saith Jehovah.
Zephaniah 1:4 And I will stretch out my 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 Chemarim with the priests;
Zephaniah 1:5 and them that worship the host of heaven upon the
housetops; and them that worship, that swear to Jehovah and swear
by Malcam;
Zephaniah 1:6 and them that are turned back from following
Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after
him.
Zephaniah 1:7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Jehovah;
for the day of Jehovah is at hand: for Jehovah hath prepared a
sacrifice, he hath consecrated his guests.
Zephaniah 1:8 And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah's
sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all
such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
Zephaniah 1:9 And in that day I will punish all those that leap over
the threshold, that fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah 1:10 And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the
noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second
quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
Zephaniah 1:11 Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people
of Canaan are undone; all they that were laden with silver are cut off.
Zephaniah 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will
search Jerusalem with lamps; and I will punish the men that are
settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good,
neither will he do evil.
Zephaniah 1:13 And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their
houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine
thereof.
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and
hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty
man crieth there bitterly.
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zephaniah 1:16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified
cities, and against the high battlements.
Zephaniah 1:17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall
walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Jehovah; and
their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to
deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall
be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea,
a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah 2
Zephaniah 2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O
nation that hath no shame;
Zephaniah 2:2 before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as
the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before
the day of Jehovah's anger come upon you.
Zephaniah 2:3 Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have
kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye
will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.
Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a
desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall
be rooted up.
Zephaniah 2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation
of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan,
the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no
inhabitant.
Zephaniah 2:6 And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for
shepherds and folds for flocks.
Zephaniah 2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of
Judah; they shall feed [their flocks] thereupon; in the houses of
Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for Jehovah their God
will visit them, and bring back their captivity.
Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings
of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my
people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon
as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual
desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and
the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
Zephaniah 2:10 This shall they have for their pride, because they
have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of
Jehovah of hosts.
Zephaniah 2:11 Jehovah 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 nations.
Zephaniah 2:12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Zephaniah 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry
like the wilderness.
Zephaniah 2:14 And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the
beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge
in the capitals thereof; [their] voice shall sing in the windows;
desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar-
work.
Zephaniah 2:15 This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that
said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides 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.
Zephaniah 3
Zephaniah 3:1 Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the
oppressing city!
Zephaniah 3:2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not
correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her
judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her
priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the
law.
Zephaniah 3:5 Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not
do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth
not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Zephaniah 3:6 I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate;
I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities
are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
Zephaniah 3:7 I said, Only fear thou me; receive correction; so her
dwelling shall not be cut off, [according to] all that I have appointed
concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, 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.
Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the peoples of a pure language,
that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with
one consent.
Zephaniah 3:10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants,
even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
Zephaniah 3:11 In that day shalt thou not be put to shame for all thy
doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me; for then I will take
away out of the midst of thee thy proudly exulting ones, and thou
shalt no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
Zephaniah 3:12 But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and
poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of Jehovah.
Zephaniah 3:13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor
speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth;
for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Zephaniah 3:14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad
and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 3:15 Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath
cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even Jehovah, is in the midst
of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more.
Zephaniah 3:16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou
not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.
Zephaniah 3:17 Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty
one who will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in
his love; he will joy over thee with singing.
Zephaniah 3:18 I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn
assembly, who were of thee; [to whom] the burden upon her was a
reproach.
Zephaniah 3:19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all them that
afflict thee; and I will save that which is lame, and gather that which
was driven away; and I will make them a praise and a name, whose
shame hath been in all the earth.
Zephaniah 3:20 At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will
I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise among all the
peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your
eyes, saith Jehovah.
Haggai
Haggai 1
Haggai 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month,
in the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai
the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
Haggai 1:2 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say,
It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Jehovah's house to be
built.
Haggai 1:3 Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet,
saying,
Haggai 1:4 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled
houses, while this house lieth waste?
Haggai 1:5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your
ways.
Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye
have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe
you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages
[to put it] into a bag with holes.
Haggai 1:7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the
house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith
Jehovah.
Haggai 1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when
ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah of hosts.
Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his
own house.
Haggai 1:10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew,
and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the
mountains, and upon the grain, 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 labor of the hands.
Haggai 1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the
son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people,
obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the
prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people did fear
before Jehovah.
Haggai 1:13 Then spake Haggai Jehovah's messenger in Jehovah's
message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.
Haggai 1:14 And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son
of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the
people; and they came and did work on the house of Jehovah of
hosts, their God,
Haggai 1:15 in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth
[month], in the second year of Darius the king.
Haggai 2
Haggai 2:1 In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of
the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 2:2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor
of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to
the remnant of the people, saying,
Haggai 2:3 Who is left among you that saw this house in its former
glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?
Haggai 2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah; and be
strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all
ye people of the land, saith Jehovah, and work: for I am with you,
saith Jehovah of hosts,
Haggai 2:5 [according to] the word that I covenanted with you when
ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abode among you: fear ye not.
Haggai 2:6 For thus saith Jehovah 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;
Haggai 2:7 and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all
nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah
of hosts.
Haggai 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of
hosts.
Haggai 2:9 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the
former, saith Jehovah of hosts; and in this place will I give peace,
saith Jehovah of hosts.
Haggai 2:10 In the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month], in
the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the
prophet, saying,
Haggai 2:11 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests
concerning the law, saying,
Haggai 2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and
with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food,
shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Haggai 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by reason of a
dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests
answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Haggai 2:14 Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and
so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; and so is every work of
their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
Haggai 2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and
backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of
Jehovah.
Haggai 2:16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of
twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the winevat
to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.
Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail
in all the work of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith
Jehovah.
Haggai 2:18 Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from
the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the
foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.
Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-
tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth;
from this day will I bless [you].
Haggai 2:20 And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto
Haggai in the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying,
Haggai 2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will
shake the heavens and the earth;
Haggai 2:22 and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will
destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; 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.
Haggai 2:23 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, will I take thee, O
Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith Jehovah, and will
make thee as a signet; for I have chosen thee, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Zechariah
Zechariah 1
Zechariah 1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius,
came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the
son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
Zechariah 1:2 Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers.
Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto
you, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Zechariah 1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former
prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now
from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.
Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do
they live for ever?
Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded
my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and
they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us,
according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt
with us.
Zechariah 1:7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius,
came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the
son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
Zechariah 1:8 I saw in the 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 there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.
Zechariah 1:9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel
that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these are.
Zechariah 1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees
answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk
to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah 1:11 And they answered the angel of Jehovah 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.
Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O
Jehovah 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?
Zechariah 1:13 And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me
with good words, [even] comfortable words.
Zechariah 1:14 So the angel that talked with me said unto me, Cry
thou, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem
and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zechariah 1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the nations that
are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward
the affliction.
Zechariah 1:16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah
of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.
Zechariah 1:17 Cry yet again, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts:
My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity; and Jehovah shall yet
comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 1:18 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, four
horns.
Zechariah 1:19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What
are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have
scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zechariah 1:20 And Jehovah showed me four smiths.
Zechariah 1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake,
saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did
lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the
horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of
Judah to scatter it.
Zechariah 2
Zechariah 2:1 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a
man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 2:2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto
me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and
what is the length thereof.
Zechariah 2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth,
and another angel went out to meet him,
Zechariah 2:4 and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man,
saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by
reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.
Zechariah 2:5 For I, saith Jehovah, will be unto her a wall of fire
round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
Zechariah 2:6 Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith Jehovah;
for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, saith
Jehovah.
Zechariah 2:7 Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter
of Babylon.
Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he
sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth
you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 2:9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they
shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that
Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.
Zechariah 2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come,
and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.
Zechariah 2:11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah
in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of
thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me unto
thee.
Zechariah 2:12 And Jehovah shall inherit Judah as his portion in the
holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 2:13 Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah; for he is waked
up out of his holy habitation.
Zechariah 3
Zechariah 3:1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing
before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to
be his adversary.
Zechariah 3:2 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O
Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Zechariah 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and
was standing before the angel.
Zechariah 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood
before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from off him. And unto
him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee,
and I will clothe thee with rich apparel.
Zechariah 3:5 And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head.
So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with
garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by.
Zechariah 3:6 And the angel of Jehovah protested unto Joshua,
saying,
Zechariah 3:7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my
ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou also shalt judge my
house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee a place of
access among these that stand by.
Zechariah 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy
fellows that sit before thee; for they are men that are a sign: for,
behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.
Zechariah 3:9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua;
upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving
thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that
land in one day.
Zechariah 3:10 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall ye invite
every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig-tree.
Zechariah 4
Zechariah 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and
waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
Zechariah 4:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I
have seen, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon
the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to
each of the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;
Zechariah 4:3 and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of
the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Zechariah 4:4 And I answered and spake to the angel that talked
with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said
unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is
the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Zechariah 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel
[thou shalt become] a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone
with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.
Zechariah 4:8 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Zechariah 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of
this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that
Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.
Zechariah 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for
these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of
Zerubbabel; [these are] the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro
through the whole earth.
Zechariah 4:11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these
two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left
side thereof?
Zechariah 4:12 And I answered the second time, and said unto him,
What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden
spouts, that empty the golden [oil] out of themselves?
Zechariah 4:13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not
what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
Zechariah 4:14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that
stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Zechariah 5
Zechariah 5:1 Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and,
behold, a flying roll.
Zechariah 5:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I
answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and
the breadth thereof ten cubits.
Zechariah 5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth
forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall
be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth
shall be cut off on the other side according to it.
Zechariah 5:4 I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah 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 abide in the midst of his
house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones
thereof.
Zechariah 5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and
said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth
forth.
Zechariah 5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah
that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the
land
Zechariah 5:7 (and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and
this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.
Zechariah 5:8 And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her
down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon
the mouth thereof.
Zechariah 5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold,
there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now
they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah
between earth and heaven.
Zechariah 5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither
do these bear the ephah?
Zechariah 5:11 And he said unto me, To build her a house in the
land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her
own place.
Zechariah 6
Zechariah 6:1 And again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold,
there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the
mountains were mountains of brass.
Zechariah 6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second
chariot black horses;
Zechariah 6:3 and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth
chariot grizzled strong horses.
Zechariah 6:4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked
with me, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah 6:5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are
the four winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the
Lord of all the earth.
Zechariah 6:6 [The chariot] wherein are the black horses goeth forth
toward the north country; and the white went forth after them; and the
grizzled went forth toward the south country.
Zechariah 6:7 And the strong 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.
Zechariah 6:8 Then cried he to me, and spake unto me, saying,
Behold, they that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit
in the north country.
Zechariah 6:9 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Zechariah 6:10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of
Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come thou the same day, and go into the
house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, whither they are come from
Babylon;
Zechariah 6:11 yea, take [of them] silver and gold, and make
crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak,
the high priest;
Zechariah 6:12 and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah
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
Jehovah;
Zechariah 6:13 even he shall build the temple of Jehovah; 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.
Zechariah 6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah,
and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in
the temple of Jehovah.
Zechariah 6:15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the
temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent
me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey
the voice of Jehovah your God.
Zechariah 7
Zechariah 7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius,
that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth [day] of
the ninth month, even in Chislev.
Zechariah 7:2 Now [they of] Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-
melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,
Zechariah 7:3 [and] to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah
of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth
month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Zechariah 7:4 Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me,
saying,
Zechariah 7:5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the
priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the
seventh [month], even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me,
even to me?
Zechariah 7:6 And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for
yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:7 [Should ye] not [hear] the words which Jehovah cried
by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and
the lowland were inhabited?
Zechariah 7:8 And the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah,
saying,
Zechariah 7:9 Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute
true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his
brother;
Zechariah 7:10 and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the
sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his
brother in your heart.
Zechariah 7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the
shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Zechariah 7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest
they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had
sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great
wrath from Jehovah of hosts.
Zechariah 7:13 And it is come to pass that, as he cried, and they
would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of
hosts;
Zechariah 7:14 but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all
the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate
after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid
the pleasant land desolate.
Zechariah 8
Zechariah 8:1 And the word of Jehovah of hosts came [to me],
saying,
Zechariah 8:2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion
with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
Zechariah 8:3 Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The
city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy
mountain.
Zechariah 8:4 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men
and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his
staff in his hand for very age.
Zechariah 8:5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and
girls playing in the streets thereof.
Zechariah 8:6 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be marvellous in the
eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be
marvellous in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts.
Zechariah 8:7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my
people from the east country, and from the west country;
Zechariah 8:8 and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the
midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God, in truth and in righteousness.
Zechariah 8:9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong,
ye that hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets
that were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of
hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Zechariah 8:10 For before those 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 adversary: for I set all men every one against
his neighbor.
Zechariah 8:11 But now I will not be unto the remnant of this people
as in the former days, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Zechariah 8:12 For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall
give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens
shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to
inherit all these things.
Zechariah 8:13 And it shall come to pass that, as ye were a curse
among the nations, 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.
Zechariah 8:14 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I thought to do
evil unto you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith Jehovah
of hosts, and I repented not;
Zechariah 8:15 so again have I thought in these days to do good
unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every
man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and
peace in your gates;
Zechariah 8:17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against
his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I
hate, saith Jehovah.
Zechariah 8:18 And the word of Jehovah of hosts came unto me,
saying,
Zechariah 8:19 Thus saith Jehovah 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 truth and peace.
Zechariah 8:20 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: [It shall] yet [come to
pass], that there shall come peoples, and the inhabitants of many
cities;
Zechariah 8:21 and the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another,
saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah, and to seek
Jehovah of hosts: I will go also.
Zechariah 8:22 Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to
seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of
Jehovah.
Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days [it shall
come to pass], that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of
the nations, they 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.
Zechariah 9
Zechariah 9:1 The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of
Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] its resting-place (for the eye of
man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah);
Zechariah 9:2 and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and
Sidon, because they are very wise.
Zechariah 9:3 And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped
up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Zechariah 9:4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will
smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Zechariah 9:5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be
sore pained; and Ekron, for her expectation shall be put to shame; and
the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Zechariah 9:6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off
the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 9:7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and
his abominations from between his teeth; and he also shall be a
remnant for our God; and he shall be as a chieftain in Judah, and
Ekron as a Jebusite.
Zechariah 9:8 And I will encamp about my house against the army,
that none pass through or return; and no oppressor shall pass through
them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.
Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just,
and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt
the foal of an ass.
Zechariah 9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the
horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he
shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from
sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 9:11 As for thee also, because of the blood of thy
covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no
water.
Zechariah 9:12 Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope:
even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.
Zechariah 9:13 For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow
with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O
Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.
Zechariah 9:14 And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow
shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the
trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
Zechariah 9:15 Jehovah of hosts will defend them; and they shall
devour, and shall tread down the sling-stones; and they shall drink,
and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls,
like the corners of the altar.
Zechariah 9:16 And Jehovah their God will save them in that day as
the flock of his people; for [they shall be as] the stones of a crown,
lifted on high over his land.
Zechariah 9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his
beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the
virgins.
Zechariah 10
Zechariah 10:1 Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain,
[even of] Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them
showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Zechariah 10:2 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the
diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they
comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are
afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
Zechariah 10:3 Mine anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I
will punish the he-goats; for Jehovah of hosts hath visited his flock,
the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly horse in the
battle.
Zechariah 10:4 From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from
him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
Zechariah 10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, treading down
[their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall
fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders on horses shall be
confounded.
Zechariah 10:6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will
save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have
mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off:
for I am Jehovah their God, and I will hear them.
Zechariah 10:7 And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty man,
and their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall
see it, and rejoice; their heart shall be glad in Jehovah.
Zechariah 10:8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have
redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased.
Zechariah 10:9 And I will sow them among the peoples; and they
shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their
children, and shall return.
Zechariah 10:10 I will bring them again also out of the land of
Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the
land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.
Zechariah 10:11 And he will pass through the sea of affliction, and
will smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry
up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of
Egypt shall depart.
Zechariah 10:12 And I will strengthen them in Jehovah; and they
shall walk up and down in his name, saith Jehovah.
Zechariah 11
Zechariah 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour
thy cedars.
Zechariah 11:2 Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the
goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong
forest is come down.
Zechariah 11:3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their
glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride
of the Jordan is laid waste.
Zechariah 11:4 Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of
slaughter;
Zechariah 11:5 whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves
not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am
rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
Zechariah 11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,
saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his
neighbor'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.
Zechariah 11:7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the 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.
Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for
my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Zechariah 11:9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let
it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them
that are left eat every one the flesh of another.
Zechariah 11:10 And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that
I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
Zechariah 11:11 And it was broken in that day; and thus the poor of
the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the word of
Jehovah.
Zechariah 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my
hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty [pieces]
of silver.
Zechariah 11:13 And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter,
the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty
[pieces] of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of
Jehovah.
Zechariah 11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands,
that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Zechariah 11:15 And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet
again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
Zechariah 11:16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who
will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are
scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound;
but he will eat the flesh of the fat [sheep], and will tear their hoofs in
pieces.
Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the worthless 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.
Zechariah 12
Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning
Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and
layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man
within him:
Zechariah 12:2 behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto
all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be in the
siege against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples; all that
burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations
of the earth shall be gathered together against it.
Zechariah 12:4 In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse
with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes
upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples
with blindness.
Zechariah 12:5 And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts
their God.
Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a
pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and
they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and
on the left; and [they of] Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in their own
place, even in Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:7 Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, that
the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.
Zechariah 12:8 In that day shall Jehovah 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
Jehovah before them.
Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek
to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication;
and they shall look unto 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 first-born.
Zechariah 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddon.
Zechariah 12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the
family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family
of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12:13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their
wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12:14 all the families that remain, every family apart, and
their wives apart.
Zechariah 13
Zechariah 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.
Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah
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.
Zechariah 13:3 And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet
prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto
him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of
Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him
through when he prophesieth.
Zechariah 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he
prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
Zechariah 13:5 but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the
ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.
Zechariah 13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds
between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was
wounded in the house of my friends.
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against
the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the
little ones.
Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith
Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall
be left therein.
Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part into 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, Jehovah is my God.
Zechariah 14
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil
shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the
women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and
the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14:3 Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those
nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of
Olives shall be cleft 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.
Zechariah 14:5 And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for
the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel; yea, ye shall flee,
like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king
of Judah; and Jehovah my God shall come, and all the holy ones with
thee.
Zechariah 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall
not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:
Zechariah 14:7 but it shall be one day which is known unto Jehovah;
not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time
there shall be light.
Zechariah 14:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, that living
waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern
sea, and half of them toward the western sea: in summer and in
winter shall it be.
Zechariah 14:9 And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth: in that
day shall Jehovah be one, and his name one.
Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be made like the Arabah, from
Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and
shall dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the
first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel unto
the king's wine-presses.
Zechariah 14:11 And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no
more curse; but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.
Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah
will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their
flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their
eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great
tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold
every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up
against the hand of his neighbor.
Zechariah 14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the
wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold,
and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
Zechariah 14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the
mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in
those camps, as that plague.
Zechariah 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left
of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to
year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:17 And it shall be, that whoso of [all] the families of
the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah
of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.
Zechariah 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come
not, neither [shall it be] upon them; there shall be the plague
wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the
punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the
horses, HOLY UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah's house
shall be like the bowls before the altar.
Zechariah 14:21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be
holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and
take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more
a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi
Malachi 1
Malachi 1:1 The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein
hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith Jehovah: yet I
loved Jacob;
Malachi 1:3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation,
and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will
return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They
shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The
border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath
indignation for ever.
Malachi 1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah be
magnified beyond the border of Israel.
Malachi 1:6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if
then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where
is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise
my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say,
Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah
is contemptible.
Malachi 1:8 And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil!
and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now unto
thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy
person? saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 1:9 And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he
may be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he
accept any of your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 1:10 Oh that there were one among you that would shut the
doors, that ye might not kindle [fire on] mine altar in vain! I have no
pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an
offering at your hand.
Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going
down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and
in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure
offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, saith
Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 1:12 But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah
is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
Malachi 1:13 Ye say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye
have snuffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts; and ye have brought that
which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye
bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? saith Jehovah.
Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a
male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing;
for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible
among the Gentiles.
Malachi 2
Malachi 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
Malachi 2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to
give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the
curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed
them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi 2:3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung
upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken
away with it.
Malachi 2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment
unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave
them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of
my name.
Malachi 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness
was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and
uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they
should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah
of hosts.
Malachi 2:8 But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused
many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi,
saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base
before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but
have had respect of persons in the law.
Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created
us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother,
profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the
holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter
of a foreign god.
Malachi 2:12 Jehovah will cut off, to the man that doeth this, him
that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and
him that offereth an offering unto Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 2:13 And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah
with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he
regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good
will at your hand.
Malachi 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been
witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou
hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of
thy covenant.
Malachi 2:15 And did he not make one, although he had the residue
of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore
take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the
wife of his youth.
Malachi 2:16 For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah
of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not
treacherously.
Malachi 2:17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say,
Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth
evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or
where is the God of justice?
Malachi 3
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the
way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to
his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire,
behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 3:2 But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall
stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like
fuller's soap:
Malachi 3:3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he
will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and
they shall offer unto Jehovah offerings in righteousness.
Malachi 3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a
swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and
against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling
in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 3:6 For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of
Jacob, are not consumed.
Malachi 3:7 From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from
mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will
return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we
return?
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say,
Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:9 Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this
whole nation.
Malachi 3:10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there
may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah
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].
Malachi 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he
shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast
its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 3:12 And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a
delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah.
Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is
it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully
before Jehovah of hosts?
Malachi 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another;
and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was
written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought
upon his name.
Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, [even]
mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as
a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
him not.
Malachi 4
Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and
all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the
day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of
righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth,
and gambol as calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be
ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith
Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and
ordinances.
Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
great and terrible day of Jehovah come.
Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse.
Matthew
Matthew 1
Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of
David, the son of Abraham.
Matthew 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob
begat Judah and his brethren;
Matthew 1:3 and Judah begat Perez and Zerah of Tamar; and Perez
begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Ram;
Matthew 1:4 and Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat
Nahshon; and Nahshon begat Salmon;
Matthew 1:5 and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab; and Boaz begat
Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
Matthew 1:6 and Jesse begat David the king. And David begat
Solomon of her [that had been the wife] of Uriah;
Matthew 1:7 and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat
Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa;
Matthew 1:8 and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat
Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah;
Matthew 1:9 and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and
Ahaz begat Hezekiah;
Matthew 1:10 and Hezekiah begat Manasseh; and Manasseh begat
Amon; and Amon begat Josiah;
Matthew 1:11 and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren, at the
time of the carrying away to Babylon.
Matthew 1:12 And after the carrying away to Babylon, Jechoniah
begat Shealtiel; and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel;
Matthew 1:13 and Zerubbabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat
Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
Matthew 1:14 and Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and
Achim begat Eliud;
Matthew 1:15 and Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan;
and Matthan begat Jacob;
Matthew 1:16 and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham unto David are
fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to
Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to
Babylon unto the Christ fourteen generations.
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When
his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came
together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and
not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her
away privily.
Matthew 1:20 But when he thought on these things, behold, an 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 Spirit.
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his
name JESUS; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 1:22 Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
Matthew 1:23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring
forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being
interpreted, God with us.
Matthew 1:24 And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel
of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife;
Matthew 1:25 and knew her not till she had brought forth a son: and
he called his name JESUS.
Matthew 2
Matthew 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in
the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to
Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew 2:2 Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we saw
his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Matthew 2:3 And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled,
and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 2:4 And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes
of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.
Matthew 2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for
thus it is written through the prophet,
Matthew 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, Art in no wise
least among the princes of Judah: For out of thee shall come forth a
governor, Who shall be shepherd of my people Israel.
Matthew 2:7 Then Herod privily called the Wise-men, and learned
of them exactly what time the star appeared.
Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and
search out exactly concerning the young child; and when ye have
found [him,] bring me word, that I also may come and worship him.
Matthew 2:9 And they, having heard the king, went their way; and
lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came
and stood over where the young child was.
Matthew 2:10 And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with
exceeding great joy.
Matthew 2:11 And they came into the house and saw the young
child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshipped him;
and opening their treasures they offered unto him gifts, gold and
frankincense and myrrh.
Matthew 2:12 And being warned [of God] in a dream that they
should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country
another way.
Matthew 2:13 Now when they were departed, behold, an 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 tell thee: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Matthew 2:14 And he arose and took the young child and his mother
by night, and departed into Egypt;
Matthew 2:15 and was there until the death of Herod: that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet,
saying, Out of Egypt did I call my son.
Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the
Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male
children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from
two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly
learned of the Wise-men.
Matthew 2:17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through
Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Matthew 2:18 A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be
comforted, because they are not.
Matthew 2:19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the
Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
Matthew 2:20 Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go
into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child's
life.
Matthew 2:21 And he arose and took the young child and his
mother, and came into the land of Israel.
Matthew 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over
Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither;
and being warned [of God] in a dream, he withdrew into the parts of
Galilee,
Matthew 2:23 and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, that he
should be called a Nazarene.
Matthew 3
Matthew 3:1 And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching
in the wilderness of Judaea, saying,
Matthew 3:2 Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the
prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye
ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.
Matthew 3:4 Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and
a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild
honey.
Matthew 3:5 Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and
all the region round about the Jordan;
Matthew 3:6 and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan,
confessing their sins.
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers,
who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
Matthew 3:9 and think not to say within yourselves, We have
Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these
stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew 3:10 And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees:
every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
and cast into the fire.
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you in 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 in the Holy Spirit and [in] fire:
Matthew 3:12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly
cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the
garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Matthew 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto
John, to be baptized of him.
Matthew 3:14 But John would have hindered him, saying, I have
need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Matthew 3:15 But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it] now:
for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth
him.
Matthew 3:16 And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway
from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he
saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him;
Matthew 3:17 and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Matthew 4
Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil.
Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he
afterward hungered.
Matthew 4:3 And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the
Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God.
Matthew 4:5 Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set
him on the pinnacle of the temple,
Matthew 4:6 and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast
thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge
concerning thee: and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest
haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew 4:7 Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not
make trial of the Lord thy God.
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high
mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the
glory of them;
Matthew 4:9 and he said unto him, All these things will I give thee,
if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Matthew 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for
it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt
thou serve.
Matthew 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came
and ministered unto him.
Matthew 4:12 Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he
withdrew into Galilee;
Matthew 4:13 and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in
Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and
Naphtali:
Matthew 4:14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through
Isaiah the prophet, saying,
Matthew 4:15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward
the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
Matthew 4:16 The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And
to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light
spring up.
Matthew 4:17 From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say,
Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 4:18 And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two
brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting
a net into the sea; for they were fishers.
Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will
make you fishers of men.
Matthew 4:20 And they straightway left the nets, and followed him.
Matthew 4:21 And going on from thence he saw two other brethren,
James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with
Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
Matthew 4:22 And they straightway left the boat and their father,
and followed him.
Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all
manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people.
Matthew 4:24 And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and
they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases
and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and
he healed them.
Matthew 4:25 And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee
and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and [from] beyond the
Jordan.
Matthew 5
Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the
mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him:
Matthew 5:2 and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be
comforted.
Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called
sons of God.
Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they that have been persecuted for
righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye when [men] shall reproach you, and
persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my
sake.
Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your
reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were
before you.
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its
savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing,
but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill
cannot be hid.
Matthew 5:15 Neither do [men] light a lamp, and put it under the
bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house.
Matthew 5:16 Even so let your light shine before men; that they may
see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I came to destroy the law or the
prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass
away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law,
till all things be accomplished.
Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall
be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you, that except your righteousness
shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall
in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time,
Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the
judgment:
Matthew 5:22 but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with
his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall
say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and
whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.
Matthew 5:23 If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and
there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee,
Matthew 5:24 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way,
first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art
with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the
judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into
prison.
Matthew 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come
out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.
Matthew 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit
adultery:
Matthew 5:28 but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a
woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in
his heart.
Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it
out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it
off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
members should perish, and not thy whole body go into hell.
Matthew 5:31 It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife,
let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Matthew 5:32 but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away
his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an
adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away
committeth adultery.
Matthew 5:33 Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old
time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord
thine oaths:
Matthew 5:34 but I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by the
heaven, for it is the throne of God;
Matthew 5:35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor
by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst
not make one hair white or black.
Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and
whatsoever is more than these is of the evil [one].
Matthew 5:38 Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and
a tooth for a tooth:
Matthew 5:39 but I say unto you, resist not him that is evil: but
whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5:40 And if any man would go to law with thee, and take
away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
Matthew 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, go
with him two.
Matthew 5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would
borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor, and hate thine enemy:
Matthew 5:44 but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for
them that persecute you;
Matthew 5:45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven:
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth
rain on the just and the unjust.
Matthew 5:46 For if ye love them that love you, what reward have
ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew 5:47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more
[than others?] do not even the Gentiles the same?
Matthew 5:48 Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father
is perfect.
Matthew 6
Matthew 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before
men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father
who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:2 When therefore thou doest alms, sound not 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
received their reward.
Matthew 6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know
what thy right hand doeth:
Matthew 6:4 that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who
seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Matthew 6:5 And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for
they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of
the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They
have received their reward.
Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner
chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in
secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Matthew 6:7 And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles
do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew 6:8 Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art
in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven,
so on earth.
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven
our debtors.
Matthew 6:13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from
the evil [one.]
Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a
sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen
of men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their
reward.
Matthew 6:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and
wash thy face;
Matthew 6:18 that thou be not seen of men to fast, but of thy Father
who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall
recompense thee.
Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth,
where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and
steal:
Matthew 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break
through nor steal:
Matthew 6:21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Matthew 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye
be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full
of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how
great is the darkness!
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than
the raiment?
Matthew 6:26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they?
Matthew 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit
unto the measure of his life?
Matthew 6:28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither
do they spin:
Matthew 6:29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.
Matthew 6:30 But if God doth 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?
Matthew 6:31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat?
or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Matthew 6:32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the
morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.
Matthew 7
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.
Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matthew 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the
mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?
Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own
eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye.
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast
your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their
feet, and turn and rend you.
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Matthew 7:8 for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask
him for a loaf, will give him a stone;
Matthew 7:10 or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent?
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in
heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew 7:12 All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men
should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law
and the prophets.
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they
that enter in thereby.
Matthew 7:14 For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that
leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Matthew 7:16 By their fruits ye shall know them. Do [men] gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but
the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Matthew 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 7:20 Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we
not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by
thy name do many mighty works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 7:24 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine,
and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his
house upon the rock:
Matthew 7:25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the
winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was
founded upon the rock.
Matthew 7:26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and
doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his
house upon the sand:
Matthew 7:27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the
winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the
fall thereof.
Matthew 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these
words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching:
Matthew 7:29 for he taught them as [one] having authority, and not
as their scribes.
Matthew 8
Matthew 8:1 And when he was come down from the mountain, great
multitudes followed him.
Matthew 8:2 And behold, there came to him a leper and worshipped
him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Matthew 8:3 And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him,
saying, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway his leprosy was
cleansed.
Matthew 8:4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go,
show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded,
for a testimony unto them.
Matthew 8:5 And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came
unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Matthew 8:6 and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of
the palsy, grievously tormented.
Matthew 8:7 And he saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
Matthew 8:8 And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not
worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof; but only say the
word, and my servant shall be healed.
Matthew 8:9 For I also am a man under authority, having under
myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to
another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he
doeth it.
Matthew 8:10 And 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.
Matthew 8:11 And I say unto you, that many shall come from the
east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:
Matthew 8:12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the
outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; as
thou hast believed, [so] be it done unto thee. And the servant was
healed in that hour.
Matthew 8:14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw
his wife's mother lying sick of a fever.
Matthew 8:15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and
she arose, and ministered unto him.
Matthew 8:16 And when even was come, they brought unto him
many possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with a word,
and healed all that were sick:
Matthew 8:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through
Isaiah the prophet, saying: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
diseases.
Matthew 8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he
gave commandments to depart unto the other side.
Matthew 8:19 And there came a scribe, and said unto him, Teacher,
I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and
the birds of the heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not
where to lay his head.
Matthew 8:21 And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord,
suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matthew 8:22 But Jesus saith unto him, Follow me; and leave the
dead to bury their own dead.
Matthew 8:23 And when he was entered into a boat, his disciples
followed him.
Matthew 8:24 And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea,
insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was
asleep.
Matthew 8:25 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Save,
Lord; we perish.
Matthew 8:26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of
little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and
there was a great calm.
Matthew 8:27 And the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man
is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?
Matthew 8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the
country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with demons,
coming forth out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man could
pass by that way.
Matthew 8:29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to
do with thee, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us
before the time?
Matthew 8:30 Now there was afar off from them a herd of many
swine feeding.
Matthew 8:31 And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us
out, send us away into the herd of swine.
Matthew 8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and
went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the
steep into the sea, and perished in the waters.
Matthew 8:33 And they that fed them fled, and went away into the
city, and told everything, and what was befallen to them that were
possessed with demons.
Matthew 8:34 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus: and
when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would depart from
their borders.
Matthew 9
Matthew 9:1 And he entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came
into his own city.
Matthew 9:2 And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the
palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of
the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven.
Matthew 9:3 And behold, certain of the scribes said within
themselves, This man blasphemeth.
Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore
think ye evil in your hearts?
Matthew 9:5 For which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven; or to
say, Arise, and walk?
Matthew 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath
authority on earth to forgive sins (then saith he to the sick of the
palsy), Arise, and take up thy bed, and go up unto thy house.
Matthew 9:7 And he arose, and departed to his house.
Matthew 9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they were afraid, and
glorified God, who had given such authority unto men.
Matthew 9:9 And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man,
called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: and he saith unto him,
Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Matthew 9:10 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat in the house,
behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with Jesus
and his disciples.
Matthew 9:11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his
disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?
Matthew 9:12 But when he heard it, he said, They that are whole
have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.
Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what [this] meaneth, I desire
mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners.
Matthew 9:14 Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why
do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the
bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the
days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them,
and then will they fast.
Matthew 9:16 And no man putteth a piece of undressed cloth upon
an old garment; for that which should fill it up taketh from the
garment, and a worse rent is made.
Matthew 9:17 Neither do [men] put new wine into old wine-skins:
else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but
they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.
Matthew 9:18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there
came a ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now
dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Matthew 9:19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his
disciples.
Matthew 9:20 And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood
twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his
garment:
Matthew 9:21 for she said within herself, If I do but touch his
garment, I shall be made whole.
Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, Daughter, be of
good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was
made whole from that hour.
Matthew 9:23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw
the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult,
Matthew 9:24 he said, Give place: for the damsel is not dead, but
sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
Matthew 9:25 But when the crowd was put forth, he entered in, and
took her by the hand; and the damsel arose.
Matthew 9:26 And the fame hereof went forth into all that land.
Matthew 9:27 And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men
followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou son of
David.
Matthew 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men
came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to
do this? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Matthew 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your
faith be it done unto you.
Matthew 9:30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly
charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
Matthew 9:31 But they went forth, and spread abroad his fame in all
that land.
Matthew 9:32 And as they went forth, behold, there was brought to
him a dumb man possessed with a demon.
Matthew 9:33 And when the demon was cast out, the dumb man
spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in
Israel.
Matthew 9:34 But the Pharisees said, By the prince of the demons
casteth he out demons.
Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages,
teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of
sickness.
Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as
sheep not having a shepherd.
Matthew 9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is
plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Matthew 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send
forth laborers into his harvest.
Matthew 10
Matthew 10:1 And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave
them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all
manner of disease and all manner of sickness.
Matthew 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The
first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the
[son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Matthew 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the
publican; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
Matthew 10:4 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who also
betrayed him.
Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them,
saying, Go not into [any] way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any
city of the Samaritans:
Matthew 10:6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven
is at hand.
Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast
out demons: freely ye received, freely give.
Matthew 10:9 Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
Matthew 10:10 no wallet for [your] journey, neither two coats, nor
shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
Matthew 10:11 And into whatsoever city or village ye shall enter,
search out who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go forth.
Matthew 10:12 And as ye enter into the house, salute it.
Matthew 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come
upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Matthew 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your
words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust
of your feet.
Matthew 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for
the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for
that city.
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to
councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you;
Matthew 10:18 yea and before governors and kings shall ye be
brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
Matthew 10:19 But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or
what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye
shall speak.
Matthew 10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your
Father that speaketh in you.
Matthew 10:21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the
father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause
them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:
but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into
the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the
cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew 10:24 A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant
above his lord.
Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher,
and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house
Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!
Matthew 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered,
that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light;
and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.
Matthew 10:28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are
not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one
of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:
Matthew 10:30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew 10:31 Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many
sparrows.
Matthew 10:32 Every one therefore who shall confess me before
men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I
also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I
came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I came 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:
Matthew 10:36 and a man's foes [shall be] they of his own
household.
Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not
worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me.
Matthew 10:38 And he that doth not take his cross and follow after
me, is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that
loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew 10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that
receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Matthew 10:41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet
shall receive a prophet's reward: and he that receiveth a righteous
man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's
reward.
Matthew 10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these
little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I
say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Matthew 11
Matthew 11:1 And it came to pass when Jesus had finished
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and
preach in their cities.
Matthew 11:2 Now when John heard in the prison the works of the
Christ, he sent by his disciples
Matthew 11:3 and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look
we for another?
Matthew 11:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and tell
John the things which ye hear and see:
Matthew 11:5 the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and
the poor have good tidings preached to them.
Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion
of stumbling in me.
Matthew 11:7 And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto
the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness
to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?
Matthew 11:8 But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft
[raiment]? Behold, they that wear soft [raiment] are in king's houses.
Matthew 11:9 But wherefore went ye out? to see a prophet? Yea, I
say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
Matthew 11:10 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my
messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.
Matthew 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of
women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he
that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the
kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by
force.
Matthew 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until
John.
Matthew 11:14 And if ye are willing to receive [it,] this is Elijah,
that is to come.
Matthew 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 11:16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like
unto children sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows
Matthew 11:17 and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance;
we wailed, and ye did not mourn.
Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they
say, He hath a demon.
Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they
say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans
and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.
Matthew 11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of
his mighty works were done, because they repented not.
Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida!
for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were
done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and
ashes.
Matthew 11:22 But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.
Matthew 11:23 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto
heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had
been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have
remained until this day.
Matthew 11:24 But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for
the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Matthew 11:25 At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee,
O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things
from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:
Matthew 11:26 yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.
Matthew 11:27 All things have been delivered unto me of my
Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth
any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son
willeth to reveal [him.]
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 12
Matthew 12:1 At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through
the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears
and to eat.
Matthew 12:2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him,
Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the
sabbath.
Matthew 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David
did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;
Matthew 12:4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the
showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them
that were with him, but only for the priests?
Matthew 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day
the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
Matthew 12:6 But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is
here.
Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire
mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew 12:8 For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.
Matthew 12:9 And he departed thence, and went into their
synagogue:
Matthew 12:10 and behold, a man having a withered hand. And they
asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? that they
might accuse him.
Matthew 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be of
you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath
day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Matthew 12:12 How much then is a man of more value than a sheep!
Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And
he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, as the other.
Matthew 12:14 But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against
him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew 12:15 And Jesus perceiving [it] withdrew from thence: and
many followed him; and he healed them all,
Matthew 12:16 and charged them that they should not make him
known:
Matthew 12:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through
Isaiah the prophet, saying,
Matthew 12:18 Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; My
beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit upon
him, And he shall declare judgment to the Gentiles.
Matthew 12:19 He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; Neither shall any
one hear his voice in the streets.
Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax
shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Matthew 12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles hope.
Matthew 12:22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a
demon, blind and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the dumb
man spake and saw.
Matthew 12:23 And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Can
this be the son of David?
Matthew 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man
doth not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.
Matthew 12:25 And knowing their thoughts he said unto them,
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and
every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
Matthew 12:26 and if Satan casteth out Satan, he is divided against
himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?
Matthew 12:27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do
your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Matthew 12:28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then is
the kingdom of God come upon you.
Matthew 12:29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong
[man,] and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong [man]? and
then he will spoil his house.
Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me, and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth.
Matthew 12:31 Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall
not be forgiven.
Matthew 12:32 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son
of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against
the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor
in that which is to come.
Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or
make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by
its fruit.
Matthew 12:34 Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak
good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.
Matthew 12:35 The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth
good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth
evil things.
Matthew 12:36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy
words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered
him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be
given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:
Matthew 12:40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment
with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the
preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment
with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the
ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a
greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the
man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it
not.
Matthew 12:44 Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I
came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and
garnished.
Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other
spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and
the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall
it be also unto this evil generation.
Matthew 12:46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold,
his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.
Matthew 12:47 And one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy
brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee.
Matthew 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him,
Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Matthew 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand towards his
disciples, and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren!
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is
in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 13
Matthew 13:1 On that day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by
the sea side.
Matthew 13:2 And there were gathered unto him great multitudes, so
that he entered into a boat, and sat; and all the multitude stood on the
beach.
Matthew 13:3 And he spake to them many things in parables,
saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;
Matthew 13:4 and as he sowed, some [seeds] fell by the way side,
and the birds came and devoured them:
Matthew 13:5 and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had
not much earth: and straightway they sprang up, because they had no
deepness of earth:
Matthew 13:6 and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and
because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew 13:7 And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew
up and choked them:
Matthew 13:8 and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded
fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew 13:9 He that hath ears, let him hear.
Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why
speakest thou unto them in parables?
Matthew 13:11 And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is
given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it
is not given.
Matthew 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he
shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be
taken away even that which he hath.
Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because
seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand.
Matthew 13:14 And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah,
which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise
understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears
are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they
should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And
understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal
them.
Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your
ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17 For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and
righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them
not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.
Matthew 13:18 Hear then ye the parable of the sower.
Matthew 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and
understandeth it not, [then] cometh the evil [one], and snatcheth away
that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by
the way side.
Matthew 13:20 And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is
he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it;
Matthew 13:21 yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a
while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the
word, straightway he stumbleth.
Matthew 13:22 And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he
that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness
of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Matthew 13:23 And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is
he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth
fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew 13:24 Another parable set he before them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his
field:
Matthew 13:25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed
tares also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth
fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Matthew 13:27 And the servants of the householder came and said
unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then
hath it tares?
Matthew 13:28 And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather
them up?
Matthew 13:29 But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the
tares, ye root up the wheat with them.
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the
time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares,
and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my
barn.
Matthew 13:31 Another parable set he before them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took, and sowed in his field:
Matthew 13:32 which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is
grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the
birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom
of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the
multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
Matthew 13:35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through
the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter
things hidden from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 13:36 Then he left the multitudes, and went into the house:
and his disciples came unto him, saying, Explain unto us the parable
of the tares of the field.
Matthew 13:37 And he answered and said, He that soweth the good
seed is the Son of man;
Matthew 13:38 and the field is the world; and the good seed, these
are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil
[one];
Matthew 13:39 and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the
harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Matthew 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned
with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world.
Matthew 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and
them that do iniquity,
Matthew 13:42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there
shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear.
Matthew 13:44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden
in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and
selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Matthew 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that
is a merchant seeking goodly pearls:
Matthew 13:46 and having found one pearl of great price, he went
and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Matthew 13:47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that
was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Matthew 13:48 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the
beach; and they sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but the
bad they cast away.
Matthew 13:49 So shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall
come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous,
Matthew 13:50 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there
shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:51 Have ye understood all these things? They say unto
him, Yea.
Matthew 13:52 And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who
hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a
man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure
things new and old.
Matthew 13:53 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these
parables, he departed thence.
Matthew 13:54 And coming 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?
Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother
called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and
Judas?
Matthew 13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence
then hath this man all these things?
Matthew 13:57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto
them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in
his own house.
Matthew 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.
Matthew 14
Matthew 14:1 At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report
concerning Jesus,
Matthew 14:2 and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he
is risen from the dead; and therefore do these powers work in him.
Matthew 14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and
put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
Matthew 14:4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to
have her.
Matthew 14:5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared
the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew 14:6 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of
Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.
Matthew 14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her
whatsoever she should ask.
Matthew 14:8 And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give
me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.
Matthew 14:9 And the king was grieved; but for the sake of his
oaths, and of them that sat at meat with him, he commanded it to be
given;
Matthew 14:10 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
Matthew 14:11 And his head was brought on a platter, and given to
the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
Matthew 14:12 And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and
buried him; and they went and told Jesus.
Matthew 14:13 Now when Jesus heard [it], he withdrew from thence
in a boat, to a desert place apart: and when the multitudes heard
[thereof,] they followed him on foot from the cities.
Matthew 14:14 And he came forth, and saw a great multitude, and
he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
Matthew 14:15 And when even was come, the disciples came to
him, saying, The place is desert, and the time is already past; send the
multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy
themselves food.
Matthew 14:16 But Jesus said unto them, They have no need to go
away; give ye them to eat.
Matthew 14:17 And they say unto him, We have here but five
loaves, and two fishes.
Matthew 14:18 And he said, Bring them hither to me.
Matthew 14:19 And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on
the grass; and he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking
up to heaven, he blessed, and brake and gave the loaves to the
disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
Matthew 14:20 And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up
that which remained over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.
Matthew 14:21 And they that did eat were about five thousand men,
besides women and children.
Matthew 14:22 And straightway he constrained the disciples to enter
into the boat, and to go before him unto the other side, till he should
send the multitudes away.
Matthew 14:23 And after he had sent the multitudes away, he went
up into the mountain apart to pray: and when even was come, he was
there alone.
Matthew 14:24 But the boat was now in the midst of the sea,
distressed by the waves; for the wind was contrary.
Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto
them, walking upon the sea.
Matthew 14:26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea,
they were troubled, saying, It is a ghost; and they cried out for fear.
Matthew 14:27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying Be of
good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew 14:28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou,
bid me come unto the upon the waters.
Matthew 14:29 And he said, Come. And Peter went down from the
boat, and walked upon the waters to come to Jesus.
Matthew 14:30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and
beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.
Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and
took hold of him, and saith unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore
didst thou doubt?
Matthew 14:32 And when they were gone up into the boat, the wind
ceased.
Matthew 14:33 And they that were in the boat worshipped him,
saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
Matthew 14:34 And when they had crossed over, they came to the
land, unto Gennesaret.
Matthew 14:35 And when the men of that place knew him, they sent
into all that region round about, and brought unto him all that were
sick,
Matthew 14:36 and they besought him that they might only touch
the border of his garment: and as many as touched were made whole.
Matthew 15
Matthew 15:1 Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees
and scribes, saying,
Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the
elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew 15:3 And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also
transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
Matthew 15:4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and,
He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.
Matthew 15:5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his
mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is
given [to God];
Matthew 15:6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void
the word of God because of your tradition.
Matthew 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you,
saying,
Matthew 15:8 This people honoreth me with their lips; But their
heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their]
doctrines the precepts of men.
Matthew 15:10 And he called to him the multitude, and said unto
them, Hear, and understand:
Matthew 15:11 Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the
man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the
man.
Matthew 15:12 Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest
thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?
Matthew 15:13 But he answered and said, Every plant which my
heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the
blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
Matthew 15:15 And Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto
us the parable.
Matthew 15:16 And he said, Are ye also even yet without
understanding?
Matthew 15:17 Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the
mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Matthew 15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come
forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
Matthew 15:20 these are the things which defile the man; but to eat
with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
Matthew 15:21 And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the
parts of Tyre and Sidon.
Matthew 15:22 And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from
those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou
son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.
Matthew 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples
came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after
us.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the
lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:25 But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord,
help me.
Matthew 15:26 And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the
children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
Matthew 15:27 But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman,
great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her
daughter was healed from that hour.
Matthew 15:29 And Jesus departed thence, and came nigh unto the
sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
Matthew 15:30 And there came unto him great multitudes, having
with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they
cast them down at this feet; and he healed them:
Matthew 15:31 insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they
saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and lame walking, and
the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Matthew 15:32 And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I
have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me
now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them
away fasting, lest haply they faint on the way.
Matthew 15:33 And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we
have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?
Matthew 15:34 And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have
ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.
Matthew 15:35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the
ground;
Matthew 15:36 and he took the seven loaves and the fishes; and he
gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to
the multitudes.
Matthew 15:37 And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up
that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.
Matthew 15:38 And they that did eat were four thousand men,
besides women and children.
Matthew 15:39 And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into
the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.
Matthew 16
Matthew 16:1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying
him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Matthew 16:2 But he answered and said unto them, When it is
evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather: for the heaven is red.
Matthew 16:3 And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to-day:
for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face
of the heaven; but ye cannot [discern] the signs of the times.
Matthew 16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign;
and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he
left them, and departed.
Matthew 16:5 And the disciples came to the other side and forgot to
take bread.
Matthew 16:6 And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of
the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 16:7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We
took no bread.
Matthew 16:8 And Jesus perceiving it said, O ye of little faith, why
reason ye among yourselves, because ye have no bread?
Matthew 16:9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five
loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Matthew 16:10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and
how many baskets ye took up?
Matthew 16:11 How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to
you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.
Matthew 16:12 Then understood they that he bade them not beware
of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.
Matthew 16:13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son
of man is?
Matthew 16:14 And they said, Some [say] John the Baptist; some,
Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
Matthew 16:15 He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am?
Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art
thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto
thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 16:18 And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and
upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall
not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:19 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.
Matthew 16:20 Then charged he the disciples that they should tell no
man that he was the Christ.
Matthew 16:21 From that time began Jesus to show unto his
disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of
the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third
day be raised up.
Matthew 16:22 And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him,
saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee.
Matthew 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind
me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not
the things of God, but the things of men.
Matthew 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
follow me.
Matthew 16:25 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and
whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew 16:26 For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the
whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in
exchange for his life?
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his
Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man
according to his deeds.
Matthew 16:28 Verily I say unto you, there are some of them that
stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the Son of
man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew 17
Matthew 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and
James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high
mountain apart:
Matthew 17:2 and he was transfigured before them; and his face did
shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light.
Matthew 17:3 And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and
Elijah talking with him.
Matthew 17:4 And Peter answered, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is
good for us to be here: if thou wilt, I will make here three
tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
Matthew 17:5 While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Matthew 17:6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their
face, and were sore afraid.
Matthew 17:7 And Jesus came and touched them and said, Arise,
and be not afraid.
Matthew 17:8 And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, save Jesus
only.
Matthew 17:9 And as they were coming down from the mountain,
Jesus commanded them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the
Son of man be risen from the dead.
Matthew 17:10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say
the scribes that Elijah must first come?
Matthew 17:11 And he answered and said, Elijah indeed cometh,
and shall restore all things:
Matthew 17:12 but I say into you, that Elijah is come already, and
they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they would. Even so
shall the Son of man also suffer of them.
Matthew 17:13 Then understood the disciples that he spake unto
them of John the Baptist.
Matthew 17:14 And when they were come to the multitude, there
came to him a man, kneeling to him, saying,
Matthew 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is epileptic, and
suffereth grievously; for oft-times he falleth into the fire, and off-
times into the water.
Matthew 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could
not cure him.
Matthew 17:17 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and
perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I
bear with you? bring him hither to me.
Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked him; and the demon went out of
him: and the boy was cured from that hour.
Matthew 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said,
Why could not we cast it out?
Matthew 17:20 And he saith unto them, Because of your little faith:
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.
Matthew 17:21 [But this kind goeth not out save by prayer and
fasting.]
Matthew 17:22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto
them, The Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men;
Matthew 17:23 and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be
raised up. And they were exceeding sorry.
Matthew 17:24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that
received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Doth not your
teacher pay the half-shekel?
Matthew 17:25 He saith, Yea. And when he came into the house,
Jesus spake first to him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings
of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? from their
sons, or from strangers?
Matthew 17:26 And when he said, From strangers, Jesus said unto
him, Therefore the sons are free.
Matthew 17:27 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go thou to the
sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and
when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a shekel: that take,
and give unto them for me and thee.
Matthew 18
Matthew 18:1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying,
Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Matthew 18:2 And he called to him a little child, and set him in the
midst of them,
Matthew 18:3 and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and
become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom
of heaven.
Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this
little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my
name receiveth me:
Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that
believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great
millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be
sunk in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of occasions of
stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to
that man through whom the occasion cometh!
Matthew 18:8 And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble,
cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life
maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast
into the eternal fire.
Matthew 18:9 And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out,
and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life with one
eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.
Matthew 18:10 See 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 who is in heaven.
Matthew 18:11 [For the Son of man came to save that which was
lost.]
Matthew 18:12 How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and
one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and
go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?
Matthew 18:13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he
rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not
gone astray.
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in
heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Matthew 18:15 And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his
fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained
thy brother.
Matthew 18:16 But if he hear [thee] not, take with thee one or two
more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be
established.
Matthew 18:17 And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church:
and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the
Gentile and the publican.
Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, what things soever ye shall
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye
shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree
on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for
them of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:21 Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall
my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times?
Matthew 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven
times; but, Until seventy times seven.
Matthew 18:23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a
certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants.
Matthew 18:24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought
unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.
Matthew 18:25 But forasmuch as he had not [wherewith] to pay, his
lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all
that he had, and payment to be made.
Matthew 18:26 The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Matthew 18:27 And the lord of that servant, being moved with
compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
Matthew 18:28 But that servant went out, and found one of his
fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred shillings: and he laid hold
on him, and took [him] by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest.
Matthew 18:29 So his fellow-servant fell down and besought him,
saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee.
Matthew 18:30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison,
till he should pay that which was due.
Matthew 18:31 So when his fellow-servants saw what was done,
they were exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that
was done.
Matthew 18:32 Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him,
Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou
besoughtest me:
Matthew 18:33 shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy
fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?
Matthew 18:34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the
tormentors, till he should pay all that was due.
Matthew 18:35 So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye
forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
Matthew 19
Matthew 19:1 And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these
words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea
beyond the Jordan;
Matthew 19:2 and great multitudes followed him; and he healed
them there.
Matthew 19:3 And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and
saying, Is it lawful [for a man] to put away his wife for every cause?
Matthew 19:4 And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he
who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19:5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become
one flesh?
Matthew 19:6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What
therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:7 They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to
give a bill of divorcement, and to put [her] away?
Matthew 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart
suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath
not been so.
Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his
wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth
adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth
adultery.
Matthew 19:10 The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is
so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.
Matthew 19:11 But he said unto them, Not all men can receive this
saying, but they to whom it is given.
Matthew 19:12 For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their
mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by
men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the
kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive
it.
Matthew 19:13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that
he should lay his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked
them.
Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer the little children, and forbid
them not, to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of
heaven.
Matthew 19:15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
Matthew 19:16 And behold, one came to him and said, Teacher,
what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why askest thou me
concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou
wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.
Matthew 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Matthew 19:19 Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself.
Matthew 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have
I observed: what lack I yet?
Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go,
sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Matthew 19:22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went
away sorrowful; for he was one that had great possessions.
Matthew 19:23 And Jesus said unto his disciples, Verily I say unto
you, It is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 19:24 And again I say unto you, 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.
Matthew 19:25 And when the disciples heard it, they were
astonished exceedingly, saying, Who then can be saved?
Matthew 19:26 And Jesus looking upon [them] said to them, With
men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Matthew 19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Lo, we have
left all, and followed thee; what then shall we have?
Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that
ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man
shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake,
shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.
Matthew 19:30 But many shall be last [that are] first; and first [that
are] last.
Matthew 20
Matthew 20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was
a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers
into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:2 And when he had agreed with the laborers for a
shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others
standing in the marketplace idle;
Matthew 20:4 and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and
whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Matthew 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,
and did likewise.
Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh [hour] he went out, and found
others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the
day idle?
Matthew 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He
saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.
Matthew 20:8 And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard
saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire,
beginning from the last unto the first.
Matthew 20:9 And when they came that [were hired] about the
eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling.
Matthew 20:10 And when the first came, they supposed that they
would receive more; and they likewise received every man a shilling.
Matthew 20:11 And when they received it, they murmured against
the householder,
Matthew 20:12 saying, These last have spent [but] one hour, and
thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the
day and the scorching heat.
Matthew 20:13 But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I
do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a shilling?
Matthew 20:14 Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my
will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine
own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last.
Matthew 20:17 And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the
twelve disciples apart, and on the way he said unto them,
Matthew 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man
shall be delivered unto the chief priests and scribes; and they shall
condemn him to death,
Matthew 20:19 and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock, and
to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he shall be raised up.
Matthew 20:20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee
with her sons, worshipping [him], and asking a certain thing of him.
Matthew 20:21 And he said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith
unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right
hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom.
Matthew 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye
ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say
unto him, We are able.
Matthew 20:23 He saith unto them, My cup indeed ye shall drink:
but to sit on my right hand, and on [my] left hand, is not mine to give;
but [it is for them] for whom it hath been prepared of my Father.
Matthew 20:24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with
indignation concerning the two brethren.
Matthew 20:25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know
that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones
exercise authority over them.
Matthew 20:26 Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would
become great among you shall be your minister;
Matthew 20:27 and whosoever would be first among you shall be
your servant:
Matthew 20:28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 20:29 And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude
followed him.
Matthew 20:30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the way side,
when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, Lord,
have mercy on us, thou son of David.
Matthew 20:31 And the multitude rebuked them, that they should
hold their peace: but they cried out the more, saying, Lord, have
mercy on us, thou son of David.
Matthew 20:32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said,
What will ye that I should do unto you?
Matthew 20:33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be
opened.
Matthew 20:34 And Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched
their eyes; and straightway they received their sight, and followed
him.
Matthew 21
Matthew 21:1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and came
unto Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two
disciples,
Matthew 21:2 saying unto them, Go into the village that is over
against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with
her: loose [them], and bring [them] unto me.
Matthew 21:3 And if any one say aught unto you, ye shall say, The
Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
Matthew 21:4 Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
Matthew 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the
foal of an ass.
Matthew 21:6 And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus
appointed them,
Matthew 21:7 and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them
their garments; and he sat thereon.
Matthew 21:8 And the most part of the multitude spread their
garments in the way; and others cut branches from the trees, and
spread them in the way.
Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before him, 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.
Matthew 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city
was stirred, saying, Who is this?
Matthew 21:11 And the multitudes said, This is the prophet, Jesus,
from Nazareth of Galilee.
Matthew 21:12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast
out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the
tables of he money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the
doves;
Matthew 21:13 and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall
be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.
Matthew 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the
temple; and he healed them.
Matthew 21:15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the
wonderful things that he did, and the children that were crying in the
temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were moved
with indignation,
Matthew 21:16 and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are
saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: did ye never read, Out of the
mouth of babes and sucklings thou has perfected praise?
Matthew 21:17 And he left them, and went forth out of the city to
Bethany, and lodged there.
Matthew 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he
hungered.
Matthew 21:19 And seeing a fig tree by the way side, he came to it,
and found nothing thereon, but leaves only; and he saith unto it, Let
there be no fruit from thee henceforward for ever. And immediately
the fig tree withered away.
Matthew 21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled,
saying, How did the fig tree immediately wither away?
Matthew 21:21 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say
unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do what is
done to the fig tree, but even if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be
thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer,
believing, ye shall receive.
Matthew 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief
priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was
teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and
who gave thee this authority?
Matthew 21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will
ask you one question, which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by
what authority I do these things.
Matthew 21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or
from men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall
say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why then did ye not believe
him?
Matthew 21:26 But if we shall say, From men; we fear the
multitude; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matthew 21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We know not.
He also said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these
things.
Matthew 21:28 But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he
came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.
Matthew 21:29 And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward
he repented himself, and went.
Matthew 21:30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And
he answered and said, I [go], sir: and went not.
Matthew 21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They
say, 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.
Matthew 21:32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness,
and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed
him: and ye, when ye saw it, did not even repent yourselves
afterward, that ye might believe him.
Matthew 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a man that was a
householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and
digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to
husbandmen, and went into another country.
Matthew 21:34 And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent
his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits.
Matthew 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one,
and killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and
they did unto them in like manner.
Matthew 21:37 But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying,
They will reverence my son.
Matthew 21:38 But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said
among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his
inheritance.
Matthew 21:39 And they took him, and cast him forth out of the
vineyard, and killed him.
Matthew 21:40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come,
what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Matthew 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those
miserable men, and will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen,
who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the
scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made
the head of the corner; This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous
in our eyes?
Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall
be taken away from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth
the fruits thereof.
Matthew 21:44 And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to
pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
Matthew 21:45 And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard
his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Matthew 21:46 And when they sought to lay hold on him, they
feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.
Matthew 22
Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto
them, saying,
Matthew 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king,
who made a marriage feast for his son,
Matthew 22:3 and sent forth his servants to call them that were
bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come.
Matthew 22:4 Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them
that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner; my oxen and
my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage
feast.
Matthew 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to
his own farm, another to his merchandise;
Matthew 22:6 and the rest laid hold on his servants, and treated them
shamefully, and killed them.
Matthew 22:7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and
destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Matthew 22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready,
but they that were bidden were not worthy.
Matthew 22:9 Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and
as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
Matthew 22:10 And those servants went out into the highways, and
gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and
the wedding was filled with guests.
Matthew 22:11 But when the king came in to behold the guests, he
saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:
Matthew 22:12 and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in
hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.
Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand
and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the
weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few chosen.
Matthew 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they
might ensnare him in [his] talk.
Matthew 22:16 And they send to him their disciples, with the
Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest
the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest
not the person of men.
Matthew 22:17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to
give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
Matthew 22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why
make ye trial of me, ye hypocrites?
Matthew 22:19 Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto
him a denarius.
Matthew 22:20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and
superscription?
Matthew 22:21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto
them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and
unto God the things that are God's.
Matthew 22:22 And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left
him, and went away.
Matthew 22:23 On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that
say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him,
Matthew 22:24 saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no
children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his
brother.
Matthew 22:25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first
married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his
brother;
Matthew 22:26 in like manner the second also, and the third, unto
the seventh.
Matthew 22:27 And after them all, the woman died.
Matthew 22:28 In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be
of the seven? for they all had her.
Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err,
not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are
given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.
Matthew 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye
not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob? God is not [the God] of the dead, but of the living.
Matthew 22:33 And when the multitudes heard it, they were
astonished at his teaching.
Matthew 22:34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put
the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
Matthew 22:35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question,
trying him:
Matthew 22:36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the
law?
Matthew 22:37 And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew 22:38 This is the great and first commandment.
Matthew 22:39 And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself.
Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments the whole law
hangeth, and the prophets.
Matthew 22:41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them a question,
Matthew 22:42 saying, What think ye of the Christ? whose son is
he? They say unto him, [The son] of David.
Matthew 22:43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in the
Spirit call him Lord, saying,
Matthew 22:44 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand, Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?
Matthew 22:45 If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?
Matthew 22:46 And no one was able to answer him a word, neither
durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Matthew 23
Matthew 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his
disciples,
Matthew 23:2 saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses
seat:
Matthew 23:3 all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, [these]
do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do
not.
Matthew 23:4 Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be
borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not
move them with their finger.
Matthew 23:5 But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they
make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders [of their
garments],
Matthew 23:6 and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats
in the synagogues,
Matthew 23:7 and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be
called of men, Rabbi.
Matthew 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher,
and all ye are brethren.
Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father on the earth: for one is
your Father, [even] he who is in heaven.
Matthew 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master,
[even] the Christ.
Matthew 23:11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your
servant.
Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled;
and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not
in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter[.]
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye devour widows' houses, even while for a pretence ye make long
prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.
Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is
become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever
shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by
the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Matthew 23:17 Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or
the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
Matthew 23:18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is
nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a
debtor.
Matthew 23:19 Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar
that sanctifieth the gift?
Matthew 23:20 He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by
it, and by all things thereon.
Matthew 23:21 And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it,
and by him that dwelleth therein.
Matthew 23:22 And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the
throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the
weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these
ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Matthew 23:24 Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow
the camel!
Matthew 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they
are full from extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the
cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
Matthew 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful,
but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto
men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the
righteous,
Matthew 23:30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we
should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets.
Matthew 23:31 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons
of them that slew the prophets.
Matthew 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye
escape the judgment of hell?
Matthew 23:34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and
wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and
some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute
from city to city:
Matthew 23:35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed
on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of
Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary
and the altar.
Matthew 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come
upon this generation.
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets,
and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not!
Matthew 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth,
till ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Matthew 24
Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going
on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings
of the temple.
Matthew 24:2 But he answered and 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.
Matthew 24:3 And as he sat on 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?
Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed
that no man lead you astray.
Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the
Christ; and shall lead many astray.
Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that
ye be not troubled: for [these things] must needs come to pass; but
the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in
divers places.
Matthew 24:8 But all these things are the beginning of travail.
Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and
shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's
sake.
Matthew 24:10 And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up
one another, and shall hate one another.
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead
many astray.
Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of
the many shall wax cold.
Matthew 24:13 But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be
saved.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in
the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall
the end come.
Matthew 24:15 When therefore ye see the abomination of
desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing
in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),
Matthew 24:16 then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the
mountains:
Matthew 24:17 let him that is on the housetop not go down to take
out things that are in his house:
Matthew 24:18 and let him that is in the field not return back to take
his cloak.
Matthew 24:19 But woe unto them that are with child and to them
that give suck in those days!
Matthew 24:20 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter,
neither on a sabbath:
Matthew 24:21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not
been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.
Matthew 24:22 And except those days had been shortened, no flesh
would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be
shortened.
Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the
Christ, or, Here; believe [it] not.
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if
possible, even the elect.
Matthew 24:25 Behold, I have told you beforehand.
Matthew 24:26 If therefore they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in
the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the inner chambers;
believe [it] not.
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and
is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
Matthew 24:28 Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be
gathered together.
Matthew 24:29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days
the sun shall 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:
Matthew 24:30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in
heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory.
Matthew 24:31 And he shall send forth 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.
Matthew 24:32 Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her
branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know
that the summer is nigh;
Matthew 24:33 even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know
ye that he is nigh, [even] at the doors.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, till all these things be accomplished.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words
shall not pass away.
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even
the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.
Matthew 24:37 And as [were] the days of Noah, so shall be the
coming of the Son of man.
Matthew 24:38 For as in those days which were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered into the ark,
Matthew 24:39 and they knew not until the flood came, and took
them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
Matthew 24:40 Then shall two man be in the field; one is taken, and
one is left:
Matthew 24:41 two women [shall be] grinding at the mill; one is
taken, and one is left.
Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your
Lord cometh.
Matthew 24:43 But know this, that if the master of the house had
known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye
think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 24:45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his
lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due
season?
Matthew 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he
cometh shall find so doing.
Matthew 24:47 Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all
that he hath.
Matthew 24:48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord
tarrieth;
Matthew 24:49 and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall
eat and drink with the drunken;
Matthew 24:50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he
expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not,
Matthew 24:51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion
with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of
teeth.
Matthew 25
Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten
virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew 25:2 And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
Matthew 25:3 For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no
oil with them:
Matthew 25:4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Matthew 25:5 Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered
and slept.
Matthew 25:6 But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the
bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.
Matthew 25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your
oil; for our lamps are going out.
Matthew 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there
will not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and
buy for yourselves.
Matthew 25:10 And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom
came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage
feast: and the door was shut.
Matthew 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord,
Lord, open to us.
Matthew 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I
know you not.
Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the
hour.
Matthew 25:14 For [it is] as [when] a man, going into another
country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Matthew 25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to
another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on
his journey.
Matthew 25:16 Straightway he that received the five talents went
and traded with them, and made other five talents.
Matthew 25:17 In like manner he also that [received] the two gained
other two.
Matthew 25:18 But he that received the one went away and digged
in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
Matthew 25:19 Now after a long time the lord of those servants
cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them.
Matthew 25:20 And he that received the five talents came and
brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five
talents: lo, I have gained other five talents.
Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over
many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Matthew 25:22 And he also that [received] the two talents came and
said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I have gained
other two talents.
Matthew 25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over
many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Matthew 25:24 And he also that had received the one talent came
and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where
thou didst not sow, and gathering where thou didst not scatter;
Matthew 25:25 and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in
the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.
Matthew 25:26 But 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 did not scatter;
Matthew 25:27 thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own
with interest.
Matthew 25:28 Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give
it unto him that hath the ten talents.
Matthew 25:29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he
shall have abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he
hath shall be taken away.
Matthew 25:30 And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the
outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:31 But when the Son of man shall come in his glory,
and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his
glory:
Matthew 25:32 and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and
he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth
the sheep from the goats;
Matthew 25:33 and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left.
Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand,
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world:
Matthew 25:35 for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was
thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
Matthew 25:36 naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited
me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matthew 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord,
when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee
drink?
Matthew 25:38 And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in?
or naked, and clothed thee?
Matthew 25:39 And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came
unto thee?
Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily
I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren,
[even] these least, ye did it unto me.
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for
the devil and his angels:
Matthew 25:42 for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I
was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;
Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and
ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw
we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matthew 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not
unto me.
Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but
the righteous into eternal life.
Matthew 26
Matthew 26:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these
words, he said unto his disciples,
Matthew 26:2 Ye know that after two days the passover cometh, and
the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.
Matthew 26:3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the
elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called
Caiaphas;
Matthew 26:4 and they took counsel together that they might take
Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Matthew 26:5 But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise
among people.
Matthew 26:6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of
Simon the leper,
Matthew 26:7 there came unto him a woman having an alabaster
cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his
head, as he sat at meat.
Matthew 26:8 But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation,
saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Matthew 26:9 For this [ointment] might have been sold for much,
and given to the poor.
Matthew 26:10 But Jesus perceiving it said unto them, Why trouble
ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
Matthew 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye
have not always.
Matthew 26:12 For in that she poured this ointment upon my body,
she did it to prepare me for burial.
Matthew 26:13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall
be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman hath
done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Matthew 26:14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas
Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Matthew 26:15 and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will
deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of
silver.
Matthew 26:16 And from that time he sought opportunity to deliver
him [unto them.]
Matthew 26:17 Now on the first [day] of unleavened bread the
disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready
for thee to eat the passover?
Matthew 26:18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say
unto him, The Teacher saith, My time is at hand; I keep the passover
at thy house with my disciples.
Matthew 26:19 And the disciples did as Jesus appointed them; and
they made ready the passover.
Matthew 26:20 Now when even was come, he was sitting at meat
with the twelve disciples;
Matthew 26:21 and as they were eating, he said, Verily I say unto
you, that one of you shall betray me.
Matthew 26:22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to
say unto him every one, Is it I, Lord?
Matthew 26:23 And he answered and said, He that dipped his hand
with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him:
but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed!
good were it for that man if he had not been born.
Matthew 26:25 And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, Is
it I, Rabbi? He saith unto him, Thou hast said.
Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
blessed, and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat;
this is my body.
Matthew 26:27 And he took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave to
them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
Matthew 26:28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured
out for many unto remission of sins.
Matthew 26:29 But I say unto you, I shall not drink henceforth of
this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in
my Father's kingdom.
Matthew 26:30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out unto
the mount of Olives.
Matthew 26:31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended
in me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the
sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Matthew 26:32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into
Galilee.
Matthew 26:33 But Peter answered and said unto him, If all shall be
offended in thee, I will never be offended.
Matthew 26:34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that this
night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Matthew 26:35 Peter saith unto him, Even if I must die with thee,
[yet] will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Matthew 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called
Gethsemane, and saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I go
yonder and pray.
Matthew 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of
Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
Matthew 26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding
sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
Matthew 26:39 And he went forward a little, and fell on his face,
and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass
away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Matthew 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them
sleeping, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one
hour?
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:42 Again a second time he went away, and prayed,
saying, My Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will
be done.
Matthew 26:43 And he came again and found them sleeping, for
their eyes were heavy.
Matthew 26:44 And he left them again, and went away, and prayed a
third time, saying again the same words.
Matthew 26:45 Then cometh he to the 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.
Matthew 26:46 Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that
betrayeth me.
Matthew 26:47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve,
came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from
the chief priest and elders of the people.
Matthew 26:48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he: take him.
Matthew 26:49 And straightway he came to Jesus, and said, Hail,
Rabbi; and kissed him.
Matthew 26:50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, [do] that for which
thou art come. Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took
him.
Matthew 26:51 And behold, one of them that were with Jesus
stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and smote the servant of
the high priest, and struck off his ear.
Matthew 26:52 Then saith Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword
into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the
sword.
Matthew 26:53 Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father,
and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:54 How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus
it must be?
Matthew 26:55 In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye
come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I
sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.
Matthew 26:56 But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the
prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
Matthew 26:57 And they that had taken Jesus led him away to [the
house of] Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders
were gathered together.
Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed him afar off, unto the court of the
high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought
false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
Matthew 26:60 and they found it not, though many false witnesses
came. But afterward came two,
Matthew 26:61 and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the
temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Matthew 26:62 And the high priest stood up, and said unto him,
Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
Matthew 26:63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said
unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether
thou art the Christ, the Son of God.
Matthew 26:64 Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I
say unto you, Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the
right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest rent his garments, saying, He
hath spoken blasphemy: what further need have we of witnesses?
behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy:
Matthew 26:66 what think ye? They answered and said, He is
worthy of death.
Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and
some smote him with the palms of their hands,
Matthew 26:68 saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ: who is he that
struck thee?
Matthew 26:69 Now Peter was sitting without in the court: and a
maid came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus the
Galilaean.
Matthew 26:70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not
what thou sayest.
Matthew 26:71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another
[maid] saw him, and saith unto them that were there, This man also
was with Jesus of Nazareth.
Matthew 26:72 And again he denied with an oath, I know not the
man.
Matthew 26:73 And after a little while they that stood by came and
said to Peter, Of a truth thou also art [one] of them; for thy speech
maketh thee known.
Matthew 26:74 Then began he to curse and to swear, I know not the
man. And straightway the cock crew.
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had
said, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went
out, and wept bitterly.
Matthew 27
Matthew 27:1 Now when morning was come, all the chief priests
and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to
death:
Matthew 27:2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered
him up to Pilate the governor.
Matthew 27:3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he
was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces
of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Matthew 27:4 saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent
blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to it].
Matthew 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the
sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
Matthew 27:6 And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and
said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price
of blood.
Matthew 27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the
potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Matthew 27:8 Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood,
unto this day.
Matthew 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through
Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of
silver, the price of him that was priced, whom [certain] of the
children of Israel did price;
Matthew 27:10 and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord
appointed me.
Matthew 27:11 Now 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.
Matthew 27:12 And when he was accused by the chief priests and
elders, he answered nothing.
Matthew 27:13 Then saith Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how
many things they witness against thee?
Matthew 27:14 And he gave him no answer, not even to one word:
insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
Matthew 27:15 Now at the feast the governor was wont to release
unto the multitude one prisoner, whom they would.
Matthew 27:16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called
Barabbas.
Matthew 27:17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate
said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or
Jesus who is called Christ?
Matthew 27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up.
Matthew 27:19 And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his
wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that
righteous man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream
because of him.
Matthew 27:20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the
multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Matthew 27:21 But the governor answered and said unto them,
Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said,
Barabbas.
Matthew 27:22 Pilate saith unto them, What then shall I do unto
Jesus who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.
Matthew 27:23 And he said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they
cried out exceedingly, saying, Let him be crucified.
Matthew 27:24 So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but
rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands
before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this
righteous man; see ye [to it].
Matthew 27:25 And all the people answered and said, His blood [be]
on us, and on our children.
Matthew 27:26 Then released he unto them Barabbas; but Jesus he
scourged and delivered to be crucified.
Matthew 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the
Praetorium, and gathered unto him the whole band.
Matthew 27:28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Matthew 27:29 And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon
his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before
him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew 27:30 And they spat upon him, and took the reed and
smote him on the head.
Matthew 27:31 And when they had mocked him, they took off from
him the robe, and put on him his garments, and led him away to
crucify him.
Matthew 27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene,
Simon by name: him they compelled to go [with them], that he might
bear his cross.
Matthew 27:33 And they were come unto a place called Golgotha,
that is to say, The place of a skull,
Matthew 27:34 they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and
when he had tasted it, he would not drink.
Matthew 27:35 And when they had crucified him, they parted his
garments among them, casting lots;
Matthew 27:36 and they sat and watched him there.
Matthew 27:37 And they set up over his head his accusation written,
THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Matthew 27:38 Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one
on the right hand and one on the left.
Matthew 27:39 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their
heads,
Matthew 27:40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and
buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God,
come down from the cross.
Matthew 27:41 In like manner also the chief priests mocking [him],
with the scribes and elders, said,
Matthew 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. He is the
King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will
believe on him.
Matthew 27:43 He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he
desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Matthew 27:44 And the robbers also that were crucified with him
cast upon him the same reproach.
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all
the land until the ninth hour.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew 27:47 And some of them stood there, when they heard it,
said, This man calleth Elijah.
Matthew 27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge,
and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Matthew 27:49 And the rest said, Let be; let us see whether Elijah
cometh to save him.
Matthew 27:50 And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded
up his spirit.
Matthew 27:51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two
from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks
were rent;
Matthew 27:52 and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the
saints that had fallen asleep were raised;
Matthew 27:53 and coming forth out of the tombs after his
resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared unto many.
Matthew 27:54 Now the centurion, and they that were with him
watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that
were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of
God.
Matthew 27:55 And many women were there beholding from afar,
who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
Matthew 27:56 among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
Matthew 27:57 And when even was come, there came a rich man
from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus'
disciple:
Matthew 27:58 this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of
Jesus. Then Pilate commanded it to be given up.
Matthew 27:59 And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth,
Matthew 27:60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn
out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb,
and departed.
Matthew 27:61 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary,
sitting over against the sepulchre.
Matthew 27:62 Now on the morrow, which is [the day] after the
Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered
together unto Pilate,
Matthew 27:63 saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said
while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.
Matthew 27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure
until the third day, lest haply his disciples come and steal him away,
and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: and the last error
will be worse than the first.
Matthew 27:65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a guard: go, make it
[as] sure as ye can.
Matthew 27:66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing
the stone, the guard being with them.
Matthew 28
Matthew 28:1 Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn
toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Matthew 28:2 And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an
angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away
the stone, and sat upon it.
Matthew 28:3 His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment
white as snow:
Matthew 28:4 and for fear of him the watchers did quake, and
became as dead men.
Matthew 28:5 And the angel answered and said unto the women,
Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who hath been crucified.
Matthew 28:6 He is not here; for he is risen, even as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay.
Matthew 28:7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples, He is risen from
the dead; and lo, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see
him: lo, I have told you.
Matthew 28:8 And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear
and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
Matthew 28:9 And behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And
they came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.
Matthew 28:10 Then saith Jesus unto them, Fear not: go tell my
brethren that they depart into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Matthew 28:11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the
guard came into the city, and told unto the chief priests all the things
that were come to pass.
Matthew 28:12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and
had taken counsel, they gave much money unto the soldiers,
Matthew 28:13 saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and
stole him away while we slept.
Matthew 28:14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will
persuade him, and rid you of care.
Matthew 28:15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught:
and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, [and continueth]
until this day.
Matthew 28:16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the
mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Matthew 28:17 And when they saw him, they worshipped [him]; but
some doubted.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came to them and spake unto them,
saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit:
Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of
the world.
Mark
Mark 1
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God.
Mark 1:2 Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send
my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.
Mark 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready
the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;
Mark 1:4 John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached
the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.
Mark 1:5 And there went out unto him all the country of Judaea, and
all they of Jerusalem; And they were baptized of him in the river
Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mark 1:6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and [had] a
leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
Mark 1:7 And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is
mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop
down and unloose.
Mark 1:8 I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in the
Holy Spirit.
Mark 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from
Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan.
Mark 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the
heavens rent asunder, and the Spirit as a dove descending upon him:
Mark 1:11 And a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art my
beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.
Mark 1:12 And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the
wilderness.
Mark 1:13 And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted of
Satan; And he was with the wild beasts; And the angels ministered
unto him.
Mark 1:14 Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into
Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,
Mark 1:15 and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God
is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel.
Mark 1:16 And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon
and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they
were fishers.
Mark 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will
make you to become fishers of men.
Mark 1:18 And straightway they left the nets, and followed him.
Mark 1:19 And going on a little further, he saw James the [son] of
Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending the
nets.
Mark 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father
Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark 1:21 And they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the
sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
Mark 1:22 And they were astonished at his teaching: For he taught
them as having authority, and not as the scribes.
Mark 1:23 And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with
an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
Mark 1:24 saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou
Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the
Holy One of God.
Mark 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and
come out of him.
Mark 1:26 And the unclean spirit, tearing him and crying with a loud
voice, came out of him.
Mark 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned
among themselves, saying, What is this? a new teaching! with
authority he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey
him.
Mark 1:28 And the report of him went out straightway everywhere
into all the region of Galilee round about.
Mark 1:29 And straightway, when they were come out of the
synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with
James and John.
Mark 1:30 Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever; and
straightway they tell him of her:
Mark 1:31 and he came and took her by the hand, and raised her up;
and the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
Mark 1:32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him
all that were sick, and them that were possessed with demons.
Mark 1:33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.
Mark 1:34 And he healed many that were sick with divers diseases,
and cast out many demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak,
because they knew him.
Mark 1:35 And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up
and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed.
Mark 1:36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after
him;
Mark 1:37 and they found him, and say unto him, All are seeking
thee.
Mark 1:38 And he saith unto them, Let us go elsewhere into the next
towns, that I may preach there also; for to this end came I forth.
Mark 1:39 And he went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee,
preaching and casting out demons.
Mark 1:40 And there cometh to him a leper, beseeching him, and
kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean.
Mark 1:41 And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his
hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou made
clean.
Mark 1:42 And straightway the leprosy departed from him, and he
was made clean.
Mark 1:43 And he strictly charged him, and straightway sent him
out,
Mark 1:44 and saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but
go show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things
which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Mark 1:45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to
spread abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly
enter into a city, but was without in desert places: and they came to
him from every quarter.
Mark 2
Mark 2:1 And when he entered again into Capernaum after some
days, it was noised that he was in the house.
Mark 2:2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no
longer room [for them], no, not even about the door: and he spake the
word unto them.
Mark 2:3 And they come, bringing unto him a man sick of the palsy,
borne of four.
Mark 2:4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the
crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had
broken it up, they let down the bed whereon the sick of the palsy lay.
Mark 2:5 And Jesus seeing their faith saith unto the sick of the palsy,
Son, thy sins are forgiven.
Mark 2:6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and
reasoning in their hearts,
Mark 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can
forgive sins but one, [even] God?
Mark 2:8 And straightway Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so
reasoned within themselves, saith unto them, Why reason ye these
things in your hearts?
Mark 2:9 Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are
forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
Mark 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority
on earth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy),
Mark 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy
house.
Mark 2:12 And he arose, and straightway 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.
Mark 2:13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the
multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
Mark 2:14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus
sitting at the place of toll, and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he
arose and followed him.
Mark 2:15 And it came to pass, that he was sitting at meat in his
house, and many publicans and sinners sat down with Jesus and his
disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
Mark 2:16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he
was eating with the sinners and publicans, said unto his disciples,
[How is it] that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mark 2:17 And when Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that
are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I came
not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Mark 2:18 And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting: and
they come and say unto him, Why do John's disciples and the
disciples of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Mark 2:19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the
bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as
they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
Mark 2:20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be
taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.
Mark 2:21 No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old
garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from
the old, and a worse rent is made.
Mark 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old wineskins; else the
wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but
[they put] new wine into fresh wine-skins.
Mark 2:23 And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day
through the grainfields; and his disciples began, as they went, to
pluck the ears.
Mark 2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on
the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Mark 2:25 And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David
did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with
him?
Mark 2:26 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was
high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save
for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?
Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the sabbath:
Mark 2:28 so that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.
Mark 3
Mark 3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a
man there who had his hand withered.
Mark 3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the
sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
Mark 3:3 And he saith unto the man that had his hand withered,
Stand forth.
Mark 3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful on the sabbath day to
do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to kill? But they held their
peace.
Mark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger,
being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man,
Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was
restored.
Mark 3:6 And the Pharisees went out, and straightway with the
Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.
Mark 3:7 And Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea: and a
great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judaea,
Mark 3:8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and beyond the
Jordan, and about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what
great things he did, came unto him.
Mark 3:9 And he spake to his disciples, that a little boat should wait
on him because of the crowd, lest they should throng him:
Mark 3:10 for he had healed many; insomuch that as many as had
plagues pressed upon him that they might touch him.
Mark 3:11 And the unclean spirits, whensoever they beheld him, fell
down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
Mark 3:12 And he charged them much that they should not make
him known.
Mark 3:13 And he goeth up into the mountain, and calleth unto him
whom he himself would; and they went unto him.
Mark 3:14 And he appointed twelve, that they might be with him,
and that he might send them forth to preach,
Mark 3:15 and to have authority to cast out demons:
Mark 3:16 and Simon he surnamed Peter;
Mark 3:17 and James the [son] of Zebedee, and John the brother of
James; and them he surnamed Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:
Mark 3:18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew,
and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and
Simon the Cananaean,
Mark 3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. And he
cometh into a house.
Mark 3:20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they
could not so much as eat bread.
Mark 3:21 And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold
on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Mark 3:22 And the scribes that came down from Jerusalem said, He
hath Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons casteth he out the
demons.
Mark 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in
parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mark 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom
cannot stand.
Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house will
not be able to stand.
Mark 3:26 And if Satan hath rise up against himself, and is divided,
he cannot stand, but hath an end.
Mark 3:27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong [man],
and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong [man]; and then he
will spoil his house.
Mark 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All their sins shall be forgiven unto
the sons of men, and their blasphemies wherewith soever they shall
blaspheme:
Mark 3:29 but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit
hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin:
Mark 3:30 because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Mark 3:31 And there come his mother and his brethren; and,
standing without, they sent unto him, calling him.
Mark 3:32 And a multitude was sitting about him; and they say unto
him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
Mark 3:33 And he answereth them, and saith, Who is my mother and
my brethren?
Mark 3:34 And looking round on them that sat round about him, he
saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren!
Mark 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my
brother, and sister, and mother.
Mark 4
Mark 4:1 And again he began to teach by the sea side. And there is
gathered unto him a very great multitude, so that he entered into a
boat, and sat in the sea; and all the multitude were by the sea on the
land.
Mark 4:2 And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto
them in his teaching,
Mark 4:3 Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:
Mark 4:4 and it came to pass, as he sowed, some [seed] fell by the
way side, and the birds came and devoured it.
Mark 4:5 And other fell on the rocky [ground], where it had not
much earth; and straightway it sprang up, because it had no deepness
of earth:
Mark 4:6 and when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because
it had no root, it withered away.
Mark 4:7 And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up,
and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Mark 4:8 And others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit,
growing up and increasing; and brought forth, thirtyfold, and
sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.
Mark 4:9 And he said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with
the twelve asked of him the parables.
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of
the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are
done in parables:
Mark 4:12 that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing
they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again,
and it should be forgiven them.
Mark 4:13 And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and
how shall ye know all the parables?
Mark 4:14 The sower soweth the word.
Mark 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is
sown; and when they have heard, straightway cometh Satan, and
taketh away the word which hath been sown in them.
Mark 4:16 And these in like manner are they that are sown upon the
rocky [places], who, when they have heard the word, straightway
receive it with joy;
Mark 4:17 and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a
while; then, when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the
word, straightway they stumble.
Mark 4:18 And others are they that are sown among the thorns; these
are they that have heard the word,
Mark 4:19 and the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it
becometh unfruitful.
Mark 4:20 And those are they that were sown upon the good ground;
such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and
sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.
Mark 4:21 And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put
under the bushel, or under the bed, [and] not to be put on the stand?
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, save that it should be
manifested; neither was [anything] made secret, but that it should
come to light.
Mark 4:23 If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with
what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you; and more shall
be given unto you.
Mark 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath
not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Mark 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man
should cast seed upon the earth;
Mark 4:27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed
should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.
Mark 4:28 The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the
ear, then the full grain in the ear.
Mark 4:29 But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the
sickle, because the harvest is come.
Mark 4:30 And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or
in what parable shall we set it forth?
Mark 4:31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown
upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the
earth,
Mark 4:32 yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater
than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of
the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.
Mark 4:33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto
them, as they were able to hear it;
Mark 4:34 and without a parable spake he not unto them: but
privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.
Mark 4:35 And on that day, when even was come, he saith unto
them, Let us go over unto the other side.
Mark 4:36 And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, even
as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.
Mark 4:37 And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves
beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling.
Mark 4:38 And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion:
and they awake him, and say unto him, Teacher, carest thou not that
we perish?
Mark 4:39 And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the
sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mark 4:40 And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful? have ye not
yet faith?
Mark 4:41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another,
Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Mark 5
Mark 5:1 And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country
of the Gerasenes.
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there
met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Mark 5:3 who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any
more bind him, no, not with a chain;
Mark 5:4 because that he had been often bound with fetters and
chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters
broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.
Mark 5:5 And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the
mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
Mark 5:6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped
him;
Mark 5:7 and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to
do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by
God, torment me not.
Mark 5:8 For he said unto him, Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out
of the man.
Mark 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto
him, My name is Legion; for we are many.
Mark 5:10 And he besought him much that he would not send them
away out of the country.
Mark 5:11 Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of
swine feeding.
Mark 5:12 And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine,
that we may enter into them.
Mark 5:13 And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came
out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep
into the sea, [in number] about two thousand; and they were drowned
in the sea.
Mark 5:14 And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in
the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass.
Mark 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and behold him that was
possessed with demons sitting, clothed and in his right mind, [even]
him that had the legion: and they were afraid.
Mark 5:16 And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell him
that was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine.
Mark 5:17 And they began to beseech him to depart from their
borders.
Mark 5:18 And as he was entering into the boat, he that had been
possessed with demons besought him that he might be with him.
Mark 5:19 And he suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go to thy
house unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath
done for thee, and [how] he had mercy on thee.
Mark 5:20 And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis
how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men marvelled.
Mark 5:21 And when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat unto
the other side, a great multitude was gathered unto him; and he was
by the sea.
Mark 5:22 And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue,
Jairus by name; and seeing him, he falleth at his feet,
Mark 5:23 and beseecheth him much, saying, My little daughter is at
the point of death: [I pray thee], that thou come and lay thy hands on
her, that she may be made whole, and live.
Mark 5:24 And he went with him; and a great multitude followed
him, and they thronged him.
Mark 5:25 And a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years,
Mark 5:26 and had suffered many things of many physicians, and
had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew
worse,
Mark 5:27 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came in the
crowd behind, and touched his garment.
Mark 5:28 For she said, If I touch but his garments, I shall be made
whole.
Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up;
and she felt in her body that she was healed of her plague.
Mark 5:30 And straightway Jesus, perceiving in himself that the
power [proceeding] from him had gone forth, turned him about in the
crowd, and said, Who touched my garments?
Mark 5:31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude
thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
Mark 5:32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this
thing.
Mark 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what had
been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the
truth.
Mark 5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee
whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Mark 5:35 While he yet spake, they come from the ruler of the
synagogue's [house] saying, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou
the Teacher any further?
Mark 5:36 But Jesus, not heeding the word spoken, saith unto the
ruler of the synagogue, Fear not, only believe.
Mark 5:37 And he suffered no man to follow with him, save Peter,
and James, and John the brother of James.
Mark 5:38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the
synagogue; and he beholdeth a tumult, and [many] weeping and
wailing greatly.
Mark 5:39 And when he was entered in, he saith unto them, Why
make ye a tumult, and weep? the child is not dead, but sleepeth.
Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them
all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that
were with him, and goeth in where the child was.
Mark 5:41 And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her,
Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee,
Arise.
Mark 5:42 And straightway the damsel rose up, and walked; for she
was twelve years old. And they were amazed straightway with a great
amazement.
Mark 5:43 And he charged them much that no man should know
this: and he commanded that [something] should be given her to eat.
Mark 6
Mark 6:1 And he went out from thence; and he cometh into his own
country; and his disciples follow him.
Mark 6:2 And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the
synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, Whence
hath this man these things? and, What is the wisdom that is given
unto this man, and [what mean] such mighty works wrought by his
hands?
Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of
James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here
with us? And they were offended in him.
Mark 6:4 And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor,
save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own
house.
Mark 6:5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid
his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
Mark 6:6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went
round about the villages teaching.
Mark 6:7 And he calleth unto him the twelve, and began to send
them forth by two and two; and he gave them authority over the
unclean spirits;
Mark 6:8 and he charged them that they should take nothing for
[their] journey, save a staff only; no bread, no wallet, now money in
their purse;
Mark 6:9 but [to go] shod with sandals: and, [said he], put not on
two coats.
Mark 6:10 And he said unto them, Wheresoever ye enter into a
house, there abide till ye depart thence.
Mark 6:11 And whatsoever place shall not receive you, and they
hear you not, as ye go forth thence, shake off the dust that is under
your feet for a testimony unto them.
Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that [men] should
repent.
Mark 6:13 And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil
many that were sick, and healed them.
Mark 6:14 And king Herod heard [thereof]; for his name had
become known: and he said, John the Baptizer is risen from the dead,
and therefore do these powers work in him.
Mark 6:15 But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, [It is] a
prophet, [even] as one of the prophets.
Mark 6:16 But Herod, when he heard [thereof], said, John, whom I
beheaded, he is risen.
Mark 6:17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon
John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother
Philip's wife; for he had married her.
Mark 6:18 For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have
thy brother's wife.
Mark 6:19 And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill
him; and she could not;
Mark 6:20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous
and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was
much perplexed; and he heard him gladly.
Mark 6:21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his
birthday made a supper to his lords, and the high captains, and the
chief men of Galilee;
Mark 6:22 and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and
danced, she pleased Herod and them that sat at meat with him; and
the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I
will give it thee.
Mark 6:23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me,
I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
Mark 6:24 And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I
ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptizer.
Mark 6:25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king,
and asked, saying, I will that thou forthwith give me on a platter the
head of John the Baptist.
Mark 6:26 And the king was exceeding sorry; but for the sake of his
oaths, and of them that sat at meat, he would not reject her.
Mark 6:27 And straightway the king sent forth a soldier of his guard,
and commanded to bring his head: and he went and beheaded him in
the prison,
Mark 6:28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the
damsel; and the damsel gave it to her mother.
Mark 6:29 And when his disciples heard [thereof], they came and
took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
Mark 6:30 And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus;
and they told him all things, whatsoever they had done, and
whatsoever they had taught.
Mark 6:31 And he saith 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.
Mark 6:32 And they went away in the boat to a desert place apart.
Mark 6:33 And [the people] saw them going, and many knew
[them], and they ran together there on foot from all the cities, and
outwent them.
Mark 6:34 And he came forth and saw a great multitude, and he had
compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a
shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
Mark 6:35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came
unto him, and said, The place is desert, and the day is now far spent;
Mark 6:36 send them away, that they may go into the country and
villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.
Mark 6:37 But he answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat.
And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings'
worth of bread, and give them to eat?
Mark 6:38 And he saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go
[and] see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
Mark 6:39 And he commanded them that all should sit down by
companies upon the green grass.
Mark 6:40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
Mark 6:41 And he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves; and he gave
to the disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he
among them all.
Mark 6:42 And they all ate, and were filled.
Mark 6:43 And they took up broken pieces, twelve basketfuls, and
also of the fishes.
Mark 6:44 And they that ate the loaves were five thousand men.
Mark 6:45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to enter into
the boat, and to go before [him] unto the other side to Bethsaida,
while he himself sendeth the multitude away.
Mark 6:46 And after he had taken leave of them, he departed into the
mountain to pray.
Mark 6:47 And when even was come, the boat was in the midst of
the sea, and he alone on the land.
Mark 6:48 And seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was
contrary unto them, about the fourth watch of the night he cometh
unto them, walking on the sea; and he would have passed by them:
Mark 6:49 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea,
supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;
Mark 6:50 for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he
straightway spake with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer:
it is I; be not afraid.
Mark 6:51 And he went up unto them into the boat; and the wind
ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves;
Mark 6:52 for they understood not concerning the loaves, but their
heart was hardened.
Mark 6:53 And when they had crossed over, they came to the land
unto Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.
Mark 6:54 And when they were come out of the boat, straightway
[the people] knew him,
Mark 6:55 and ran round about that whole region, and began to carry
about on their beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
Mark 6:56 And wheresoever he entered, into villages, or into cities,
or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, 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.
Mark 7
Mark 7:1 And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees,
and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
Mark 7:2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with
defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
Mark 7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their
hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
Mark 7:4 and [when they come] from the market-place, except they
bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are,
which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and
brasen vessels.)
Mark 7:5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not
thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their
bread with defiled hands?
Mark 7:6 And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you
hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their]
doctrines the precepts of men.
Mark 7:8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the
tradition of men.
Mark 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the
commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He
that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
Mark 7:11 but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother,
That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban,
that is to say, Given [to God];
Mark 7:12 ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his
mother;
Mark 7:13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye
have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
Mark 7:14 And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto
them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
Mark 7:15 there is nothing from without the man, that going into
him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are
those that defile the man.
Mark 7:16 [If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.]
Mark 7:17 And when he was entered into the house from the
multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
Mark 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding
also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the
man, [it] cannot defile him;
Mark 7:19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and
goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
Mark 7:20 And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that
defileth the man.
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts
proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
Mark 7:22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
Mark 7:23 all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the
man.
Mark 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went away into the
borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would
have no man know it; and he could not be hid.
Mark 7:25 But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an
unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
Mark 7:26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race.
And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her
daughter.
Mark 7:27 And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it
is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
Mark 7:28 But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the
dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Mark 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the
demon is gone out of thy daughter.
Mark 7:30 And she went away unto her house, and found the child
laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.
Mark 7:31 And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and
came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the
borders of Decapolis.
Mark 7:32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an
impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon
him.
Mark 7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and
put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;
Mark 7:34 and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him,
Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Mark 7:35 And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue
was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mark 7:36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but
the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they
published it.
Mark 7:37 And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He
hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the
dumb to speak.
Mark 8
Mark 8:1 In those days, when there was again a great multitude, and
they had nothing to eat, he called unto him his disciples, and saith
unto them,
Mark 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat:
Mark 8:3 and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will
faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.
Mark 8:4 And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able
to fill these men with bread here in a desert place?
Mark 8:5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they
said, Seven.
Mark 8:6 And he commandeth the multitude to sit down on the
ground: and he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he
brake, and gave to his disciples, to set before them; and they set them
before the multitude.
Mark 8:7 And they had a few small fishes: and having blessed them,
he commanded to set these also before them.
Mark 8:8 And they ate, and were filled: and they took up, of broken
pieces that remained over, seven baskets.
Mark 8:9 And they were about four thousand: and he sent them
away.
Mark 8:10 And straightway he entered into the boat with his
disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with
him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him.
Mark 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth
this generation seek a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign
be given unto this generation.
Mark 8:13 And he left them, and again entering into [the boat]
departed to the other side.
Mark 8:14 And they forgot to take bread; and they had not in the
boat with them more than one loaf.
Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
Mark 8:16 And they reasoned one with another, saying, We have no
bread.
Mark 8:17 And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, Why reason ye,
because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither
understand? have ye your heart hardened?
Mark 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?
and do ye not remember?
Mark 8:19 When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up? They say unto
him, Twelve.
Mark 8:20 And when the seven among the four thousand, how many
basketfuls of broken pieces took ye up? And they say unto him,
Seven.
Mark 8:21 And he said unto them, Do ye not yet understand?
Mark 8:22 And they come unto Bethsaida. And they bring to him a
blind man, and beseech him to touch him.
Mark 8:23 And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and
brought him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes, and
laid his hands upon him, he asked him, Seest thou aught?
Mark 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold
[them] as trees, walking.
Mark 8:25 Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he
looked stedfastly, and was restored, and saw all things clearly.
Mark 8:26 And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even
enter into the village.
Mark 8:27 And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, into the villages
of Caesarea Philippi: and on the way he asked his disciples, saying
unto them, Who do men say that I am?
Mark 8:28 And they told him, saying, John the Baptist; and others,
Elijah; but others, One of the prophets.
Mark 8:29 And he asked them, But who say ye that I am? Peter
answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
Mark 8:30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must
suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and the chief
priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 8:32 And he spake the saying openly. And Peter took him, and
began to rebuke him.
Mark 8:33 But he turning about, and seeing his disciples, rebuked
Peter, and saith, Get thee behind me, Satan; for thou mindest not the
things of God, but the things of men.
Mark 8:34 And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples,
and said unto them, If any man would come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 8:35 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save
it.
Mark 8:36 For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world,
and forfeit his life?
Mark 8:37 For what should a man give in exchange for his life?
Mark 8:38 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words
in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also shall be
ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the
holy angels.
Mark 9
Mark 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There are
some here of them that stand [by], who shall in no wise taste of death,
till they see the kingdom of God come with power.
Mark 9:2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James,
and John, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart by
themselves: and he was transfigured before them;
Mark 9:3 and his garments became glistering, exceeding white, so as
no fuller on earth can whiten them.
Mark 9:4 And there appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they
were talking with Jesus.
Mark 9:5 And Peter answereth and saith to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good
for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and
one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
Mark 9:6 For he knew not what to answer; for they became sore
afraid.
Mark 9:7 And there came a cloud overshadowing them: and there
came a voice out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son: hear ye him.
Mark 9:8 And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any
more, save Jesus only with themselves.
Mark 9:9 And as they were coming down from the mountain, he
charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen,
save when the Son of man should have risen again from the dead.
Mark 9:10 And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves
what the rising again from the dead should mean.
Mark 9:11 And they asked him, saying, [How is it] that the scribes
say that Elijah must first come?
Mark 9:12 And he said unto them, Elijah indeed cometh first, and
restoreth all things: and how is it written of the Son of man, that he
should suffer many things and be set at nought?
Mark 9:13 But I say unto you, that Elijah is come, and they have
also done unto him whatsoever they would, even as it is written of
him.
Mark 9:14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great
multitude about them, and scribes questioning with them.
Mark 9:15 And straightway all the multitude, when they saw him,
were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.
Mark 9:16 And he asked them, What question ye with them?
Mark 9:17 And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I
brought unto thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit;
Mark 9:18 and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down: and
he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to
thy disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able.
Mark 9:19 And he answereth them and saith, O faithless generation,
how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring
him unto me.
Mark 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him,
straightway the spirit tare him grievously; and he fell on the ground,
and wallowed foaming.
Mark 9:21 And he asked his father, How long time is it since this
hath come unto him? And he said, From a child.
Mark 9:22 And oft-times it hath cast him both into the fire and into
the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do anything, have
compassion on us, and help us.
Mark 9:23 And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are
possible to him that believeth.
Mark 9:24 Straightway the father of the child cried out, and said, I
believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Mark 9:25 And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running
together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb
and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more
into him.
Mark 9:26 And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out:
and [the boy] became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said,
He is dead.
Mark 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and
he arose.
Mark 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples
asked him privately, [How is it] that we could not cast it out?
Mark 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come out by
nothing, save by prayer.
Mark 9:30 And they went forth from thence, and passed through
Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
Mark 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son
of man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall kill him;
and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise again.
Mark 9:32 But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to
ask him.
Mark 9:33 And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the
house he asked them, What were ye reasoning on the way?
Mark 9:34 But they held their peace: for they had disputed one with
another on the way, who [was] the greatest.
Mark 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto
them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of
all.
Mark 9:36 And he took a little child, and set him in the midst of
them: and taking him in his arms, he said unto them,
Mark 9:37 Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my
name, receiveth me: and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me,
but him that sent me.
Mark 9:38 John said unto him, Teacher, we saw one casting out
demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followed not
us.
Mark 9:39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man who
shall do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil
of me.
Mark 9:40 For he that is not against us is for us.
Mark 9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink,
because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose
his reward.
Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that
believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone
were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Mark 9:43 And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is
good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two
hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Mark 9:44 [where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.]
Mark 9:45 And if thy foot cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good
for thee to enter into life halt, rather than having thy two feet to be
cast into hell.
Mark 9:46 [where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.]
Mark 9:47 And if thine eye cause thee to stumble, cast it out: it is
good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather
than having two eyes to be cast into hell;
Mark 9:48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire.
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its saltness,
wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace
one with another.
Mark 10
Mark 10:1 And he arose from thence and cometh into the borders of
Judaea and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto
him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Mark 10:2 And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it
lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? trying him.
Mark 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses
command you?
Mark 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of
divorcement, and to put her away.
Mark 10:5 But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he
wrote you this commandment.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female
made he them.
Mark 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,
and shall cleave to his wife;
Mark 10:8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no
more two, but one flesh.
Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder.
Mark 10:10 And in the house the disciples asked him again of this
matter.
Mark 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his
wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:
Mark 10:12 and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry
another, she committeth adultery.
Mark 10:13 And they were bringing unto him little children, that he
should touch them: and the disciples rebuked them.
Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation,
and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid
them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.
Mark 10:15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the
kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.
Mark 10:16 And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying
his hands upon them.
Mark 10:17 And as he was going forth into the way, there ran one to
him, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I
do that I may inherit eternal life?
Mark 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
none is good save one, [even] God.
Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not
commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not
defraud, Honor thy father and mother.
Mark 10:20 And he said unto him, Teacher, all these things have I
observed from my youth.
Mark 10:21 And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said unto
him, One thing thou lackest: go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give
to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow
me.
Mark 10:22 But his countenance fell at the saying, and he went away
sorrowful: for he was one that had great possessions.
Mark 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his
disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the
kingdom of God!
Mark 10:24 And the disciples were amazed 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!
Mark 10:25 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.
Mark 10:26 And they were astonished exceedingly, saying unto him,
Then who can be saved?
Mark 10:27 Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is
impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.
Mark 10:28 Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and
have followed thee.
Mark 10:29 Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that
hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or
children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake,
Mark 10:30 but he shall receive a 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.
Mark 10:31 But many [that are] first shall be last; and the last first.
Mark 10:32 And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and
Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; and they that
followed were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell
them the things that were to happen unto him,
Mark 10:33 [saying], Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of
man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes; and they
shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles:
Mark 10:34 and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and
shall scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise
again.
Mark 10:35 And there come near unto him James and John, the sons
of Zebedee, saying unto him, Teacher, we would that thou shouldest
do for us whatsoever we shall ask of thee.
Mark 10:36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do
for you?
Mark 10:37 And they said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit,
one on thy right hand, and one on [thy] left hand, in thy glory.
Mark 10:38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Are
ye able to drink the cup that I drink? or to be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with?
Mark 10:39 And they said unto him, We are able. And Jesus said
unto them, The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and with the baptism
that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
Mark 10:40 but to sit on my right hand or on [my] left hand is not
mine to give; but [it is for them] for whom it hath been prepared.
Mark 10:41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be moved with
indignation concerning James and John.
Mark 10:42 And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye
know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it
over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mark 10:43 But it is not so among you: but whosoever would
become great among you, shall be your minister;
Mark 10:44 and whosoever would be first among you, shall be
servant of all.
Mark 10:45 For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Mark 10:46 And they come to Jericho: and as he went out from
Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus,
Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way side.
Mark 10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he
began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on
me.
Mark 10:48 And many rebuked him, that he should hold his peace:
but he cried out the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have
mercy on me.
Mark 10:49 And Jesus stood still, and said, Call ye him. And they
call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good cheer: rise, he calleth
thee.
Mark 10:50 And he, casting away his garment, sprang up, and came
to Jesus.
Mark 10:51 And Jesus answered him, and said, What wilt thou that I
should do unto thee? And the blind man said unto him, Rabboni, that
I may receive my sight.
Mark 10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath
made thee whole. And straightway he received his sight, and
followed him in the way.
Mark 11
Mark 11:1 And when they draw nigh unto Jerusalem, unto
Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his
disciples,
Mark 11:2 and saith unto them, Go your way into the village that is
over against you: and straightway as ye enter into it, ye shall find a
colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him.
Mark 11:3 And if any one say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye, The
Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him back hither.
Mark 11:4 And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door
without in the open street; and they loose him.
Mark 11:5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them,
What do ye, loosing the colt?
Mark 11:6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had said: and they
let them go.
Mark 11:7 And they bring the colt unto Jesus, and cast on him their
garments; and he sat upon him.
Mark 11:8 And many spread their garments upon the way; and
others branches, which they had cut from the fields.
Mark 11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried,
Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
Mark 11:10 Blessed [is] the kingdom that cometh, [the kingdom] of
our father David: Hosanna in the highest.
Mark 11:11 And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and
when he had looked round about upon all things, it being now
eventide, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
Mark 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come out from
Bethany, he hungered.
Mark 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if
haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he
found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs.
Mark 11:14 And he answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit from
thee henceforward for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the
temple, and began to cast out them that sold and them that bought in
the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the
seats of them that sold the doves;
Mark 11:16 and he would not suffer that any man should carry a
vessel through the temple.
Mark 11:17 And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My
house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye
have made it a den of robbers.
Mark 11:18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought
how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the multitude
was astonished at his teaching.
Mark 11:19 And every evening he went forth out of the city.
Mark 11:20 And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig
tree withered away from the roots.
Mark 11:21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him,
Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in
God.
Mark 11:23 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt
in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he
shall have it.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray
and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Mark 11:25 And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have
aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:26 [But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is
in heaven forgive your trespasses.]
Mark 11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was
walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the
scribes, and the elders;
Mark 11:28 and they said unto him, By what authority doest thou
these things? or who gave thee this authority to do these things?
Mark 11:29 And Jesus said unto them, I will ask of you one
question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things.
Mark 11:30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?
answer me.
Mark 11:31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall
say, From heaven; He will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
Mark 11:32 But should we say, From men--they feared the people:
for all verily held John to be a prophet.
Mark 11:33 And they answered Jesus and say, We know not. And
Jesus saith unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these
things.
Mark 12
Mark 12:1 And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man
planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the
winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
into another country.
Mark 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant,
that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the
vineyard.
Mark 12:3 And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away
empty.
Mark 12:4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and him
they wounded in the head, and handled shamefully.
Mark 12:5 And he sent another; and him they killed: and many
others; beating some, and killing some.
Mark 12:6 He had yet one, a beloved son: he sent him last unto
them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mark 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is
the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Mark 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him forth out
of the vineyard.
Mark 12:9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will
come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto
others.
Mark 12:10 Have ye not read even this scripture: The stone which
the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
Mark 12:11 This was from the Lord, And it is marvellous in our
eyes?
Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the
multitude; for they perceived that he spake the parable against them:
and they left him, and went away.
Mark 12:13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of
the Herodians, that they might catch him in talk.
Mark 12:14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Teacher,
we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou
regardest not the person of men, but of a truth teachest the way of
God: Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
Mark 12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing
their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why make ye trial of me? bring me a
denarius, that I may see it.
Mark 12:16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is
this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
Mark 12:17 And Jesus said unto them, Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. And
they marvelled greatly at him.
Mark 12:18 And there come unto him Sadducees, who say that there
is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
Mark 12:19 Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die,
and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother
should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Mark 12:20 There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and
dying left no seed;
Mark 12:21 and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed
behind him; and the third likewise:
Mark 12:22 and the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also
died.
Mark 12:23 In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for
the seven had her to wife.
Mark 12:24 Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err,
that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither
marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.
Mark 12:26 But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye
not read in the book of Moses, in [the place concerning] the Bush,
how God spake unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do
greatly err.
Mark 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and heard them
questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well,
asked him, What commandment is the first of all?
Mark 12:29 Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord
our God, the Lord is one:
Mark 12:30 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.
Mark 12:31 The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher, thou
hast well said that he is one; and there is none other but he:
Mark 12:33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the
understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as
himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said
unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man
after that durst ask him any question.
Mark 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple,
How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?
Mark 12:36 David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said
unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies
the footstool of thy feet.
Mark 12:37 David himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he his
son? And the common people heard him gladly.
Mark 12:38 And in his teaching he said, Beware of the scribes, who
desire to walk in long robes, and [to have] salutations in the
marketplaces,
Mark 12:39 and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at
feasts:
Mark 12:40 they that devour widows' houses, and for a pretence
make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.
Mark 12:41 And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld
how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were
rich cast in much.
Mark 12:42 And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two
mites, which make a farthing.
Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto
them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all
they that are casting into the treasury:
Mark 12:44 for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her
want did cast in all that she had, [even] all her living.
Mark 13
Mark 13:1 And as he went forth out of the temple, one of his
disciples saith unto him, Teacher, behold, what manner of stones and
what manner of buildings!
Mark 13:2 And Jesus said unto him, Seest thou these great
buildings? there shall not be left here one stone upon another, which
shall not be thrown down.
Mark 13:3 And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the
temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
Mark 13:4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be]
the sign when these things are all about to be accomplished?
Mark 13:5 And Jesus began to say unto them, Take heed that no man
lead you astray.
Mark 13:6 Many shall come in my name, saying, I am [he]; and
shall lead many astray.
Mark 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be
not troubled: [these things] must needs come to pass; but the end is
not yet.
Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be
famines: these things are the beginning of travail.
Mark 13:9 But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you
up to councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before
governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto
them.
Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be preached unto all the
nations.
Mark 13:11 And when they lead you [to judgment], and deliver you
up, be not anxious beforehand what ye shall speak: but whatsoever
shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye; for it is not ye that
speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Mark 13:12 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the
father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause
them to be put to death.
Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but
he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark 13:14 But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing
where he ought not (let him that readeth understand), then let them
that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
Mark 13:15 and let him that is on the housetop not go down, nor
enter in, to take anything out his house:
Mark 13:16 and let him that is in the field not return back to take his
cloak.
Mark 13:17 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that
give suck in those days!
Mark 13:18 And pray ye that it be not in the winter.
Mark 13:19 For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath
not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God
created until now, and never shall be.
Mark 13:20 And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh
would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he
shortened the days.
Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the
Christ; or, Lo, there; believe [it] not:
Mark 13:22 for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and
shall show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible,
the elect.
Mark 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have told you all things
beforehand.
Mark 13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
Mark 13:25 and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the
powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.
Mark 13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in
clouds with great power and glory.
Mark 13:27 And then shall he send forth the angels, and shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the
earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Mark 13:28 Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her
branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know
that the summer is nigh;
Mark 13:29 even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to
pass, know ye that he is nigh, [even] at the doors.
Mark 13:30 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, until all these things be accomplished.
Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall
not pass away.
Mark 13:32 But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even
the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Mark 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the
time is.
Mark 13:34 [It is] as [when] a man, sojourning in another country,
having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one
his work, commanded also the porter to watch.
Mark 13:35 Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the
house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or
in the morning;
Mark 13:36 lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Mark 14
Mark 14:1 Now after two days was [the feast of] the passover and
the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought
how they might take him with subtlety, and kill him:
Mark 14:2 for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall
be a tumult of the people.
Mark 14:3 And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the
leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster
cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; [and] she brake the cruse,
and poured it over his head.
Mark 14:4 But there were some that had indignation among
themselves, [saying], To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment
been made?
Mark 14:5 For this ointment might have been sold for above three
hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against
her.
Mark 14:6 But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she
hath wrought a good work on me.
Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever
ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body
beforehand for the burying.
Mark 14:9 And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the gospel shall
be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman
hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Mark 14:10 And Judas Iscariot, he that was one of the twelve, went
away unto the chief priests, that he might deliver him unto them.
Mark 14:11 And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised
to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently
deliver him [unto them].
Mark 14:12 And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they
sacrificed the passover, his disciples say unto him, Where wilt thou
that we go and make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?
Mark 14:13 And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto
them, Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a
pitcher of water: follow him;
Mark 14:14 and wheresoever he shall enter in, say to the master of
the house, The Teacher saith, Where is my guest-chamber, where I
shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Mark 14:15 And he will himself show you a large upper room
furnished [and] ready: and there make ready for us.
Mark 14:16 And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and
found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Mark 14:17 And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve.
Mark 14:18 And as they sat and were eating, Jesus said, Verily I say
unto you, One of you shall betray me, [even] he that eateth with me.
Mark 14:19 They began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by
one, Is it I?
Mark 14:20 And he said unto them, [It is] one of the twelve, he that
dippeth with me in the dish.
Mark 14:21 For the Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him:
but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed!
good were it for that man if he had not been born.
Mark 14:22 And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he
had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is
my body.
Mark 14:23 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he
gave to them: and they all drank of it.
Mark 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the
covenant, which is poured out for many.
Mark 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I shall no more drink of the fruit
of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
Mark 14:26 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out unto the
mount of Olives.
Mark 14:27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended: for
it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be
scattered abroad.
Mark 14:28 Howbeit, after I am raised up, I will go before you into
Galilee.
Mark 14:29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended,
yet will not I.
Mark 14:30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that
thou to-day, [even] this night, before the cock crow twice, shalt deny
me thrice.
Mark 14:31 But he spake exceedingly vehemently, If I must die with
thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.
Mark 14:32 And they come unto a place which was named
Gethsemane: and he saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I pray.
Mark 14:33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and
began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.
Mark 14:34 And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful
even unto death: abide ye here, and watch.
Mark 14:35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and
prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto
thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what
thou wilt.
Mark 14:37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith
unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour?
Mark 14:38 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the
spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Mark 14:39 And again he went away, and prayed, saying the same
words.
Mark 14:40 And again he came, and found them sleeping, for their
eyes were very heavy; and they knew not what to answer him.
Mark 14:41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them,
Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough; the hour is come;
behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Mark 14:42 Arise, let us be going: behold, he that betrayeth me is at
hand.
Mark 14:43 And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one
of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords and staves, from
the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
Mark 14:44 Now he that betrayed him had given them a token,
saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; take him, and lead him
away safely.
Mark 14:45 And when he was come, straightway he came to him,
and saith, Rabbi; and kissed him.
Mark 14:46 And they laid hands on him, and took him.
Mark 14:47 But a certain one of them that stood by drew his sword,
and smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
Mark 14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come
out, as against a robber, with swords and staves to seize me?
Mark 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took
me not: but [this is done] that the scriptures might be fulfilled.
Mark 14:50 And they all left him, and fled.
Mark 14:51 And a certain young man followed with him, having a
linen cloth cast about him, over [his] naked [body]: and they lay hold
on him;
Mark 14:52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled naked.
Mark 14:53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and there
come together with him all the chief priests and the elders and the
scribes.
Mark 14:54 And Peter had followed him afar off, even within, into
the court of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers, and
warming himself in the light [of the fire].
Mark 14:55 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought
witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found it not.
Mark 14:56 For many bare false witness against him, and their
witness agreed not together.
Mark 14:57 And there stood up certain, and bare false witness
against him, saying,
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is
made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without
hands.
Mark 14:59 And not even so did their witness agree together.
Mark 14:60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked
Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness
against thee?
Mark 14:61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the
high priest asked him, and saith unto him, Art thou the Christ, the
Son of the Blessed?
Mark 14:62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man
sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of
heaven.
Mark 14:63 And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What
further need have we of witnesses?
Mark 14:64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they
all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face,
and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the officers
received him with blows of their hands.
Mark 14:66 And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh one
of the maids of the high priest;
Mark 14:67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked upon him,
and saith, Thou also wast with the Nazarene, [even] Jesus.
Mark 14:68 But he denied, saying, I neither know, nor understand
what thou sayest: and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
Mark 14:69 And the maid saw him, and began again to say to them
that stood by, This is [one] of them.
Mark 14:70 But he again denied it. And after a little while again they
that stood by said to Peter, of a truth thou art [one] of them; for thou
art a Galilaean.
Mark 14:71 But he began to curse, and to swear, I know not this man
of whom ye speak.
Mark 14:72 And straightway the second time the cock crew. And
Peter called to mind the word, how that Jesus said unto him, Before
the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought
thereon, he wept.
Mark 15
Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the
elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and
bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
Mark 15:2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And he answering saith unto him, Thou sayest.
Mark 15:3 And the chief priests accused him of many things.
Mark 15:4 And Pilate again asked him, saying, Answerest thou
nothing? behold how many things they accuse thee of.
Mark 15:5 But Jesus no more answered anything; insomuch that
Pilate marvelled.
Mark 15:6 Now at the feast he used to release unto them one
prisoner, whom they asked of him.
Mark 15:7 And there was one called Barabbas, [lying] bound with
them that had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had
committed murder.
Mark 15:8 And the multitude went up and began to ask him [to do]
as he was wont to do unto them.
Mark 15:9 And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release
unto you the King of the Jews?
Mark 15:10 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had
delivered him up.
Mark 15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he
should rather release Barabbas unto them.
Mark 15:12 And Pilate again answered and said unto them, What
then shall I do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
Mark 15:13 And they cried out again, Crucify him.
Mark 15:14 And Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he
done? But they cried out exceedingly, Crucify him.
Mark 15:15 And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released
unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him,
to be crucified.
Mark 15:16 And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is
the Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
Mark 15:17 And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown
of thorns, they put it on him;
Mark 15:18 and they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mark 15:19 And they smote his head with a reed, and spat upon him,
and bowing their knees worshipped him.
Mark 15:20 And when they had mocked him, they took off from him
the purple, and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to
crucify him.
Mark 15:21 And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene,
coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go
[with them], that he might bear his cross.
Mark 15:22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is,
being interpreted, The place of a skull.
Mark 15:23 And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh: but he
received it not.
Mark 15:24 And they crucify him, and part his garments among
them, casting lots upon them, what each should take.
Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written
over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Mark 15:27 And with him they crucify two robbers; one on his right
hand, and one on his left.
Mark 15:28 [And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he
was reckoned with transgressors.]
Mark 15:29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their
heads, and saying, Ha! Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest
it in three days,
Mark 15:30 save thyself, and come down from the cross.
Mark 15:31 In like manner also the chief priests mocking [him]
among themselves with the scribes said, He saved others; himself he
cannot save.
Mark 15:32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from
the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified
with him reproached him.
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness
over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it,
said, Behold, he calleth Elijah.
Mark 15:36 And one ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it
on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let be; let us see whether
Elijah cometh to take him down.
Mark 15:37 And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Mark 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top
to the bottom.
Mark 15:39 And when the centurion, who stood by over against him,
saw that he so gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son
of God.
Mark 15:40 And there were also women beholding from afar: among
whom [were] both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James
the less and of Joses, and Salome;
Mark 15:41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and
ministered unto him; and many other women that came up with him
unto Jerusalem.
Mark 15:42 And when even was now come, because it was the
Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Mark 15:43 there came Joseph of Arimathaea, a councillor of
honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of
God; and he boldly went in unto Pilate, and asked for the body of
Jesus.
Mark 15:44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and
calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been
any while dead.
Mark 15:45 And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the
corpse to Joseph.
Mark 15:46 And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down,
wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been
hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the
tomb.
Mark 15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses
beheld where he was laid.
Mark 16
Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and
Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they
might come and anoint him.
Mark 16:2 And very early on the first day of the week, they come to
the tomb when the sun was risen.
Mark 16:3 And they were saying among themselves, Who shall roll
us away the stone from the door of the tomb?
Mark 16:4 and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled back: for
it was exceeding great.
Mark 16:5 And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting
on the right side, arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed.
Mark 16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus,
the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here:
behold, the place where they laid him!
Mark 16:7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, He goeth before you
into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
Mark 16:8 And they went out, and fled from the tomb; for trembling
and astonishment had come upon them: and they said nothing to any
one; for they were afraid.
Mark 16:9 Now when he was risen early on the first day of the
week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast
out seven demons.
Mark 16:10 She went and told them that had been with him, as they
mourned and wept.
Mark 16:11 And they, when they heard that he was alive, and had
been seen of her, disbelieved.
Mark 16:12 And after these things he was manifested in another
form unto two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
Mark 16:13 And they went away and told it unto the rest: neither
believed they them.
Mark 16:14 And afterward he was manifested unto the eleven
themselves as they sat at meat; and he upbraided them with their
unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them that
had seen him after he was risen.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he
that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Mark 16:17 And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in
my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new
tongues;
Mark 16:18 they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick,
and they shall recover.
Mark 16:19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them,
was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord
working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that
followed. Amen.
Luke
Luke 1
Luke 1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a
narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among
us,
Luke 1:2 even as they delivered them unto us, who from the
beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
Luke 1:3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all
things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most
excellent Theophilus;
Luke 1:4 that thou mightest know the certainty concerning the things
wherein thou wast instructed.
Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain
priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of
the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all
the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Luke 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren,
and they both were [now] well stricken in years.
Luke 1:8 Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest's office
before God in the order of his course,
Luke 1:9 according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to
enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
Luke 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying
without at the hour of incense.
Luke 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord
standing on the right side of altar of incense.
Luke 1:12 And Zacharias was troubled when he saw [him], and fear
fell upon him.
Luke 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: because
thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son,
and thou shalt call his name John.
Luke 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall
rejoice at his birth.
Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy
Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
Luke 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall be turn unto the
Lord their God.
Luke 1:17 And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of
Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
disobedient [to walk] in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the
Lord a people prepared [for him].
Luke 1:18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know
this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
Luke 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that
stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak unto thee, and
to bring thee these good tidings.
Luke 1:20 And behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak,
until the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou
believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Luke 1:21 And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and they
marvelled while he tarried in the temple.
Luke 1:22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and
they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: and he
continued making signs unto them, and remained dumb.
Luke 1:23 And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration
were fulfilled, he departed unto his house.
Luke 1:24 And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and
she hid herself five months, saying,
Luke 1:25 Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he
looked upon [me], to take away my reproach among men.
Luke 1:26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from
God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luke 1:27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of
the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Luke 1:28 And he came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
highly favored, the Lord [is] with thee.
Luke 1:29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and cast in her
mind what manner of salutation this might be.
Luke 1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast
found favor with God.
Luke 1:31 And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring
forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most
High: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father
David:
Luke 1:33 and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of
his kingdom there shall be no end.
Luke 1:34 And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I
know not a man?
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy
Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall
overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten
shall be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:36 And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath
conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her
that was called barren.
Luke 1:37 For no word from God shall be void of power.
Luke 1:38 And Mary said, Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it
unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:39 And Mary arose in these days and went into the hill
country with haste, into a city of Judah;
Luke 1:40 and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted
Elisabeth.
Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation
of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with
the Holy Spirit;
Luke 1:42 and she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said,
Blessed [art] thou among women, and blessed [is] the fruit of thy
womb.
Luke 1:43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord
should come unto me?
Luke 1:44 For behold, when the voice of thy salutation came into
mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Luke 1:45 And blessed [is] she that believed; for there shall be a
fulfilment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord.
Luke 1:46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
Luke 1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Luke 1:48 For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid:
For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Luke 1:49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; And
holy is his name.
Luke 1:50 And his mercy is unto generations and generations On
them that fear him.
Luke 1:51 He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered
the proud in the imagination of their heart.
Luke 1:52 He hath put down princes from [their] thrones, And hath
exalted them of low degree.
Luke 1:53 The hungry he hath filled with good things; And the rich
he hath sent empty away.
Luke 1:54 He hath given help to Israel his servant, That he might
remember mercy
Luke 1:55 (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and his
seed for ever.
Luke 1:56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and
returned unto her house.
Luke 1:57 Now Elisabeth's time was fulfilled that she should be
delivered; and she brought forth a son.
Luke 1:58 And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard that the Lord
had magnified his mercy towards her; and they rejoiced with her.
Luke 1:59 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to
circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after
the name of the father.
Luke 1:60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be
called John.
Luke 1:61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that
is called by this name.
Luke 1:62 And they made signs to his father, what he would have
him called.
Luke 1:63 And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, His
name is John. And they marvelled all.
Luke 1:64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue
[loosed], and he spake, blessing God.
Luke 1:65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all
these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of
Judaea.
Luke 1:66 And all that heard them laid them up in their heart, saying,
What then shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.
Luke 1:67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit,
and prophesied, saying,
Luke 1:68 Blessed [be] the Lord, the God of Israel; For he hath
visited and wrought redemption for his people,
Luke 1:69 And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house
of his servant David
Luke 1:70 (As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have
been from of old),
Luke 1:71 Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that
hate us;
Luke 1:72 To show mercy towards, our fathers, And to remember his
holy covenant;
Luke 1:73 The oath which he spake unto Abraham our father,
Luke 1:74 To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand
of our enemies Should serve him without fear,
Luke 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
Luke 1:76 Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the
Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make
ready his ways;
Luke 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people In the
remission of their sins,
Luke 1:78 Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the
dayspring from on high shall visit us,
Luke 1:79 To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of
death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luke 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in
the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
Luke 2
Luke 2:1 Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree
from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.
Luke 2:2 This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was
governor of Syria.
Luke 2:3 And all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own
city.
Luke 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of
Nazareth, into Judaea, to the city of David, which is called
Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
Luke 2:5 to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him,
being great with child.
Luke 2:6 And it came to pass, while they were there, the days were
fulfilled that she should be delivered.
Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there
was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:8 And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in
the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
Luke 2:9 And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of
the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
Luke 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid; for behold, I
bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people:
Luke 2:11 for there is born to you this day in the city of David a
Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:12 And this [is] the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
Luke 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among
men in whom he is well pleased.
Luke 2:15 And it came to pass, when the angels went away from
them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go
even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which
the Lord hath made known unto us.
Luke 2:16 And they came with haste, and found both Mary and
Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger.
Luke 2:17 And when they saw it, they made known concerning the
saying which was spoken to them about this child.
Luke 2:18 And all that heard it wondered at the things which were
spoken unto them by the shepherds.
Luke 2:19 But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her
heart.
Luke 2:20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God
for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken
unto them.
Luke 2:21 And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him,
his name was called JESUS, which was so called by the angel before
he was conceived in the womb.
Luke 2:22 And when the days of their purification according to the
law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to
present him to the Lord
Luke 2:23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that
openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),
Luke 2:24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in
the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Luke 2:25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name
was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the
consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
Luke 2:26 And it had been revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that
he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Luke 2:27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple: and when the
parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him
after the custom of the law,
Luke 2:28 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and
said,
Luke 2:29 Now lettest thou thy servant depart, Lord, According to
thy word, in peace;
Luke 2:30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Luke 2:31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples;
Luke 2:32 A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of thy
people Israel.
Luke 2:33 And his father and his mother were marvelling at the
things which were spoken concerning him;
Luke 2:34 and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother,
Behold, this [child] is set for the falling and the rising of many in
Israel; and for a sign which is spoken against;
Luke 2:35 yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul; that
thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.
Luke 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of
Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived
with a husband seven years from her virginity,
Luke 2:37 and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four
years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings
and supplications night and day.
Luke 2:38 And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks unto
God, and spake of him to all them that were looking for the
redemption of Jerusalem.
Luke 2:39 And when they had accomplished all things that were
according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their
own city Nazareth.
Luke 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong, filled with
wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Luke 2:41 And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast
of the passover.
Luke 2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up after the
custom of the feast;
Luke 2:43 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were
returning, the boy Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and his parents
knew it not;
Luke 2:44 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's
journey; and they sought for him among their kinsfolk and
acquaintance:
Luke 2:45 and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem,
seeking for him.
Luke 2:46 And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the
temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and
asking them questions:
Luke 2:47 and all that heard him were amazed at his understanding
and his answers.
Luke 2:48 And when they saw him, they were astonished; and his
mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold,
thy father and I sought thee sorrowing.
Luke 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? knew
ye not that I must be in my Father's house?
Luke 2:50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto
them.
Luke 2:51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and
he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all [these] sayings in
her heart.
Luke 2:52 And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor
with God and men.
Luke 3
Luke 3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of
Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke 3:2 in the highpriesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of
God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Luke 3:3 And he came into all the region round about the Jordan,
preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;
Luke 3:4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the
prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready
the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.
Luke 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill
shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the
rough ways smooth;
Luke 3:6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Luke 3:7 He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be
baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from
the wrath to come?
Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin
not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I
say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children
unto Abraham.
Luke 3:9 And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees:
every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
and cast into the fire.
Luke 3:10 And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then must we
do?
Luke 3:11 And he answered and said unto them, He that hath two
coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let
him do likewise.
Luke 3:12 And there came also publicans to be baptized, and they
said unto him, Teacher, what must we do?
Luke 3:13 And he said unto them, Extort no more than that which is
appointed you.
Luke 3:14 And soldiers also asked him, saying, And we, what must
we do? And he said unto them, Extort from no man by violence,
neither accuse [any one] wrongfully; and be content with your wages.
Luke 3:15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men
reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the
Christ;
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you
with water; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of
whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the
Holy Spirit and [in] fire:
Luke 3:17 whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his
threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff
he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Luke 3:18 With many other exhortations therefore preached he good
tidings unto the people;
Luke 3:19 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for
Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod
had done,
Luke 3:20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
Luke 3:21 Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized,
that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was
opened,
Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove,
upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son;
in thee I am well pleased.
Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself, when he began [to teach], was about
thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the
[son] of Heli,
Luke 3:24 the [son] of Matthat, the [son] of Levi, the [son] of
Melchi, the [son] of Jannai, the [son] of Joseph,
Luke 3:25 the [son] of Mattathias, the [son] of Amos, the [son] of
Nahum, the [son] of Esli, the [son] of Naggai,
Luke 3:26 the [son] of Maath, the [son] of Mattathias, the [son] of
Semein, the [son] of Josech, the [son] of Joda,
Luke 3:27 the [son] of Joanan, the [son] of Rhesa, the [son] of
Zerubbabel, the [son] of Shealtiel, the [son] of Neri,
Luke 3:28 the [son] of Melchi, the [son] of Addi, the [son] of Cosam,
the [son] of Elmadam, the [son] of Er,
Luke 3:29 the [son] of Jesus, the [son] of Eliezer, the son of Jorim,
the [son] of Matthat, the [son] of Levi,
Luke 3:30 the [son] of Symeon, the [son] of Judas, the [son] of
Joseph, the [son] of Jonam, the [son] of Eliakim,
Luke 3:31 the [son] of Melea, the [son] of Menna, the [son] of
Mattatha, the [son] of Nathan, the [son] of David,
Luke 3:32 the [son] of Jesse, the [son] of Obed, the [son] of Boaz,
the [son] of Salmon, the [son] of Nahshon,
Luke 3:33 the [son] of Amminadab, the [son] of Arni, the [son] of
Hezron, the [son] of Perez, the [son] of Judah,
Luke 3:34 the [son] of Jacob, the [son] of Isaac, the [son] of
Abraham, the [son] of Terah, the [son] of Nahor,
Luke 3:35 the [son] of Serug, the [son] of Reu, the [son] of Peleg,
the [son] of Eber, the [son] of Shelah
Luke 3:36 the [son] of Cainan, the [son] of Arphaxad, the [son] of
Shem, the [son] of Noah, the [son] of Lamech,
Luke 3:37 the [son] of Methuselah, the [son] of Enoch, the [son] of
Jared, the [son] of Mahalaleel, the [son] of Cainan,
Luke 3:38 the [son] of Enos, the [son] of Seth, the [son] of Adam,
the [son] of God.
Luke 4
Luke 4:1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan,
and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness
Luke 4:2 during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did
eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he
hungered.
Luke 4:3 And the devil said unto him, if thou art the Son of God,
command this stone that it become bread.
Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered unto him, It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone.
Luke 4:5 And he led him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of
the world in a moment of time.
Luke 4:6 And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this
authority, and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me;
and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Luke 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be
thine.
Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, It is written, Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Luke 4:9 And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle
of the temple, and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast
thyself down from hence:
Luke 4:10 for it is written, He shall give his angels charge
concerning thee, to guard thee:
Luke 4:11 and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply
thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt
not make trial of the Lord thy God.
Luke 4:13 And when the devil had completed every temptation, he
departed from him for a season.
Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee:
and a fame went out concerning him through all the region round
about.
Luke 4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up:
and he entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath
day, and stood up to read.
Luke 4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the place where it was
written,
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed
me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim
release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at
liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4:19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:20 And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant,
and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on
him.
Luke 4:21 And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture
been fulfilled in your ears.
Luke 4:22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of
grace which proceeded out of his mouth: and they said, Is not this
Joseph's son?
Luke 4:23 And he said unto them, Doubtless ye will say unto me this
parable, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at
Capernaum, do also here in thine own country.
Luke 4:24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is
acceptable in his own country.
Luke 4:25 But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in
Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years
and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
Luke 4:26 and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but only to
Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Luke 4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha
the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the
Syrian.
Luke 4:28 And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as
they heard these things;
Luke 4:29 and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and
led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that
they might throw him down headlong.
Luke 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way.
Luke 4:31 And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And
he was teaching them on the sabbath day:
Luke 4:32 and they were astonished at his teaching; for his word was
with authority.
Luke 4:33 And in the synagogue there was a man, that had a spirit of
an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,
Luke 4:34 Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene?
art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One
of God.
Luke 4:35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come
out of him. And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst,
he came out of him, having done him no hurt.
Luke 4:36 And amazement came upon all, and they spake together,
one with another, saying, What is this word? for with authority and
power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Luke 4:37 And there went forth a rumor concerning him into every
place of the region round about.
Luke 4:38 And he rose up from the synagogue, and entered into the
house of Simon. And Simon's wife's mother was holden with a great
fever; and they besought him for her.
Luke 4:39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left
her: and immediately she rose up and ministered unto them.
Luke 4:40 And 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.
Luke 4:41 And demons also came out from many, crying out, and
saying, Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered
them not to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Luke 4:42 And when it was day, he came out and went into a desert
place: and the multitudes sought after him, and came unto him, and
would have stayed him, that he should not go from them.
Luke 4:43 But he said unto them, I must preach the good tidings of
the kingdom of God to the other cities also: for therefore was I sent.
Luke 4:44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
Luke 5
Luke 5:1 Now it came to pass, while the multitude pressed upon him
and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of
Gennesaret;
Luke 5:2 and he saw two boats standing by the lake: but the
fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
Luke 5:3 And he entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's,
and asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and
taught the multitudes out of the boat.
Luke 5:4 And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Put
out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke 5:5 And Simon answered and said, Master, we toiled all night,
and took nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets.
Luke 5:6 And when they had done this, they inclosed a great
multitude of fishes; and their nets were breaking;
Luke 5:7 and they beckoned unto their partners in the other boat, that
they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the
boats, so that they began to sink.
Luke 5:8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Luke 5:9 For he was amazed, and all that were with him, at the
draught of the fishes which they had taken;
Luke 5:10 and so were also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who
were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth thou shalt catch men.
Luke 5:11 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left
all, and followed him.
Luke 5:12 And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities,
behold, a man full of leprosy: and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his
face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make
me clean.
Luke 5:13 And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying,
I will; be thou made clean. And straightway the leprosy departed
from him.
Luke 5:14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go thy way, and
show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as
Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Luke 5:15 But so much the more went abroad the report concerning
him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of
their infirmities.
Luke 5:16 But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.
Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on one of those days, that he was
teaching; and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by,
who were come out of every village of Galilee and Judaea and
Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
Luke 5:18 And behold, men bring on a bed a man that was palsied:
and they sought to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
Luke 5:19 And not finding by what [way] they might bring him in
because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him
down through the tiles with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
Luke 5:20 And seeing their faith, he said, Man, thy sins are forgiven
thee.
Luke 5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying,
Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but
God alone?
Luke 5:22 But Jesus perceiving their reasonings, answered and said
unto them, Why reason ye in your hearts?
Luke 5:23 Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to
say, Arise and walk?
Luke 5:24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority
on earth to forgive sins (he said unto him that was palsied), I say unto
thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go unto thy house.
Luke 5:25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that
whereon he lay, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
Luke 5:26 And amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God;
and they were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things
to-day.
Luke 5:27 And after these things he went forth, and beheld a
publican, named Levi, sitting at the place of toll, and said unto him,
Follow me.
Luke 5:28 And he forsook all, and rose up and followed him.
Luke 5:29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house: and there
was a great multitude of publicans and of others that were sitting at
meat with them.
Luke 5:30 And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his
disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the publicans and
sinners?
Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are in
health have no need of a physician; but they that are sick.
Luke 5:32 I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to
repentance.
Luke 5:33 And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often,
and make supplications; likewise also the [disciples] of the Pharisees;
but thine eat and drink.
Luke 5:34 And Jesus said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the
bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
Luke 5:35 But the days will come; and when the bridegroom shall be
taken away from them, then will they fast in those days.
Luke 5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them: No man rendeth a
piece from a new garment and putteth it upon an old garment; else he
will rend the new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with
the old.
Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else
the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the
skins will perish.
Luke 5:38 But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins.
Luke 5:39 And no man having drunk old [wine] desireth new; for he
saith, The old is good.
Luke 6
Luke 6:1 Now it came to pass on a sabbath, that he was going
through the grainfields; and his disciples plucked the ears, and did
eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Luke 6:2 But certain of the Pharisees said, Why do ye that which it is
not lawful to do on the sabbath day?
Luke 6:3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this,
what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with
him;
Luke 6:4 how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the
showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not
lawful to eat save for the priests alone?
Luke 6:5 And he said unto them, The Son of man is lord of the
sabbath.
Luke 6:6 And it came to pass on another sabbath, that he entered into
the synagogue and taught: and there was a man there, and his right
hand was withered.
Luke 6:7 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he
would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.
Luke 6:8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man that had
his hand withered, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose
and stood forth.
Luke 6:9 And Jesus said unto them, I ask you, Is it lawful on the
sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?
Luke 6:10 And he looked round about on them all, and said unto
him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did [so]: and his hand was
restored.
Luke 6:11 But they were filled with madness; and communed one
with another what they might do to Jesus.
Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into
the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Luke 6:13 And when it was day, he called his disciples; and he chose
from them twelve, whom also he named apostles:
Luke 6:14 Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his
brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew,
Luke 6:15 and Matthew and Thomas, and James [the son] of
Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,
Luke 6:16 and Judas [the son] of James, and Judas Iscariot, who
became a traitor;
Luke 6:17 and he came down with them, and stood on a level place,
and a great multitude of his disciples, and a great number of the
people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and
Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
Luke 6:18 and they that were troubled with unclean spirits were
healed.
Luke 6:19 And all the multitude sought to touch him; for power
came forth from him, and healed [them] all.
Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said,
Blessed [are] ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 6:21 Blessed [are] ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.
Blessed [are] ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they
shall separate you [from their company], and reproach you, and cast
out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Luke 6:23 Rejoice in that day, and leap [for joy]: for behold, your
reward is great in heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers
unto the prophets.
Luke 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
consolation.
Luke 6:25 Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger.
Woe [unto you], ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luke 6:26 Woe [unto you], when all men shall speak well of you! for
in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luke 6:27 But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good
to them that hate you,
Luke 6:28 bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully
use you.
Luke 6:29 To him that smiteth thee on the [one] cheek offer also the
other; and from him that taketh away thy cloak withhold not thy coat
also.
Luke 6:30 Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that taketh
away thy goods ask them not again.
Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to
them likewise.
Luke 6:32 And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye?
for even sinners love those that love them.
Luke 6:33 And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what
thank have ye? for even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what
thank have ye? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive again as much.
Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do [them] good, and lend,
never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons
of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Luke 6:36 Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:37 And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn
not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released:
Luke 6:38 give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure,
pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into
your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to
you again.
Luke 6:39 And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind
guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
Luke 6:40 The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when
he is perfected shall be as his teacher.
Luke 6:41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's
eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Luke 6:42 Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me cast
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 cast out the
mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Luke 6:43 For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit;
nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
Luke 6:44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men
do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Luke 6:45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil [man] out of the evil
[treasure] bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance
of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
which I say?
Luke 6:47 Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words,
and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like:
Luke 6:48 he is like a man building a house, who digged and went
deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose,
the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it
had been well builded.
Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built
a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the
stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was
great.
Luke 7
Luke 7:1 After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people,
he entered into Capernaum.
Luke 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him,
was sick and at the point of death.
Luke 7:3 And when he heard concerning Jesus, he sent unto him
elders of the Jews, asking him that he would come and save his
servant.
Luke 7:4 And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him
earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him;
Luke 7:5 for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our
synagogue.
Luke 7:6 And 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
come under my roof:
Luke 7:7 wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto
thee: but say the word, and my servant shall be healed.
Luke 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under
myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to
another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he
doeth it.
Luke 7:9 And when Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him,
and turned and said unto the multitude that followed him, I say unto
you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Luke 7:10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the
servant whole.
Luke 7:11 And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city
called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude.
Luke 7:12 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold,
there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother,
and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luke 7:13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her,
and said unto her, Weep not.
Luke 7:14 And he came nigh and touched the bier: and the bearers
stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
Luke 7:15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he
gave him to his mother.
Luke 7:16 And fear took hold on all: and they glorified God, saying,
A great prophet is arisen among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Luke 7:17 And this report went forth concerning him in the whole of
Judaea, and all the region round about.
Luke 7:18 And the disciples of John told him of all these things.
Luke 7:19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them
to the Lord, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
Luke 7:20 And when the men were come unto him, they said, John
the Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or
look we for another?
Luke 7:21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and
evil spirits; and on many that were blind he bestowed sight.
Luke 7:22 And he answered and said unto them, Go and tell John the
things which ye have seen and heard; the blind receive their sight, the
lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are
raised up, the poor have good tidings preached to them.
Luke 7:23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of
stumbling in me.
Luke 7:24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he
began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out
into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?
Luke 7:25 But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft
raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live
delicately, are in kings' courts.
Luke 7:26 But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto
you, and much more than a prophet.
Luke 7:27 This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my
messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.
Luke 7:28 I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there
is none greater than John: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of
God is greater than he.
Luke 7:29 And all the people when they heard, and the publicans,
justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves
the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.
Luke 7:31 Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation,
and to what are they like?
Luke 7:32 They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and
call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not
dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.
Luke 7:33 For John the Baptist is come eating no bread nor drinking
wine; and ye say, He hath a demon.
Luke 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say,
Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans
and sinners!
Luke 7:35 And wisdom is justified of all her children.
Luke 7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat
with him. And he entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to
meat.
Luke 7:37 And behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and
when she knew that he was sitting at meat in the Pharisee's house, she
brought an alabaster cruse of ointment,
Luke 7:38 and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet
his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and
kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee that had bidden him saw it, he
spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would
have perceived who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth
him, that she is a sinner.
Luke 7:40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have
somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Teacher, say on.
Luke 7:41 A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five
hundred shillings, and the other fifty.
Luke 7:42 When they had not [wherewith] to pay, he forgave them
both. Which of them therefore will love him most?
Luke 7:43 Simon answered and said, He, I suppose, to whom he
forgave the most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
Luke 7:44 And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon, Seest thou
this woman? I entered into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my
feet: but she hath wetted my feet with her tears, and wiped them with
her hair.
Luke 7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but she, since the time I came in,
hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
Luke 7:46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but she hath
anointed my feet with ointment.
Luke 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are
forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, [the
same] loveth little.
Luke 7:48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
Luke 7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within
themselves, Who is this that even forgiveth sins?
Luke 7:50 And he said unto the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee;
go in peace.
Luke 8
Luke 8:1 And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about
through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings
of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve,
Luke 8:2 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and
infirmities: Mary that was called Magdalene, from whom seven
demons had gone out,
Luke 8:3 and Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod's steward, and
Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto them of their
substance.
Luke 8:4 And when a great multitude came together, and they of
every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable:
Luke 8:5 The sower went forth to sow his seed: and as he sowed,
some fell by the way side; and it was trodden under foot, and the
birds of the heaven devoured it.
Luke 8:6 And other fell on the rock; and as soon as it grew, it
withered away, because it had no moisture.
Luke 8:7 And other fell amidst the thorns; and the thorns grew with
it, and choked it.
Luke 8:8 And other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought
forth fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things, he cried, He that
hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Luke 8:9 And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of
the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may
not see, and hearing they may not understand.
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:12 And those by the way side are they that have heard; then
cometh the devil, and taketh away the word from their heart, that they
may not believe and be saved.
Luke 8:13 And those on the rock [are] they who, when they have
heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a
while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Luke 8:14 And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that
have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares
and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Luke 8:15 And that in the good ground, these are such as in an
honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring
forth fruit with patience.
Luke 8:16 And no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, covereth it
with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but putteth it on a stand, that
they that enter in may see the light.
Luke 8:17 For nothing is hid, that shall not be made manifest; nor
[anything] secret, that shall not be known and come to light.
Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to
him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken
away even that which he thinketh he hath.
Luke 8:19 And there came to him his mother and brethren, and they
could not come at him for the crowd.
Luke 8:20 And it was told him, Thy mother and thy brethren stand
without, desiring to see thee.
Luke 8:21 But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my
brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.
Luke 8:22 Now it came to pass on one of those days, that he entered
into a boat, himself and his disciples; and he said unto them, Let us
go over unto the other side of the lake: and they launched forth.
Luke 8:23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a
storm of wind on the lake; and they were filling [with water], and
were in jeopardy.
Luke 8:24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master,
master, we perish. And he awoke, and rebuked the wind and the
raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
Luke 8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And being
afraid they marvelled, saying one to another, Who then is this, that he
commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him?
Luke 8:26 And they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is
over against Galilee.
Luke 8:27 And when he was come forth upon the land, there met
him a certain man out of the city, who had demons; and for a long
time he had worn no clothes, and abode not in [any] house, but in the
tombs.
Luke 8:28 And 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 the Most High God? I beseech thee, torment me
not.
Luke 8:29 For he was commanding the unclean spirit to come out
from the man. For oftentimes it had seized him: and he was kept
under guard, and bound with chains and fetters; and breaking the
bands asunder, he was driven of the demon into the deserts.
Luke 8:30 And Jesus asked him, What is thy name? And he said,
Legion; for many demons were entered into him.
Luke 8:31 And they entreated him that he would not command them
to depart into the abyss.
Luke 8:32 Now there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the
mountain: and they entreated him that he would give them leave to
enter into them. And he gave them leave.
Luke 8:33 And the demons came out from the man, and entered into
the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were
drowned.
Luke 8:34 And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass,
they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
Luke 8:35 And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they
came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the demons were gone
out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and
they were afraid.
Luke 8:36 And they that saw it told them how he that was possessed
with demons was made whole.
Luke 8:37 And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes round
about asked him to depart from them, for they were holden with great
fear: and he entered into a boat, and returned.
Luke 8:38 But the man from whom the demons were gone out
prayed him that he might be with him: but he sent him away, saying,
Luke 8:39 Return to thy house, and declare how great things God
hath done for thee. And he went his way, publishing throughout the
whole city how great things Jesus had done for him.
Luke 8:40 And as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him; for
they were all waiting for him.
Luke 8:41 And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a
ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought
him to come into his house;
Luke 8:42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age,
and she was dying. But as he went the multitudes thronged him.
Luke 8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who
had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of
any,
Luke 8:44 came behind him, and touched the border of his garment:
and immediately the issue of her blood stanched.
Luke 8:45 And Jesus said, Who is it that touched me? And when all
denied, Peter said, and they that were with him, Master, the
multitudes press thee and crush [thee].
Luke 8:46 But Jesus said, Some one did touch me; for I perceived
that power had gone forth from me.
Luke 8:47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came
trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all
the people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed
immediately.
Luke 8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee
whole; go in peace.
Luke 8:49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
synagogue's [house], saying, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the
Teacher.
Luke 8:50 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, Fear not: only believe,
and she shall be made whole.
Luke 8:51 And when he came to the house, he suffered not any man
to enter in with him, save Peter, and John, and James, and the father
of the maiden and her mother.
Luke 8:52 And all were weeping, and bewailing her: but he said,
Weep not; for she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was
dead.
Luke 8:54 But he, taking her by the hand, called, saying, Maiden,
arise.
Luke 8:55 And her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately: and
he commanded that [something] be given her to eat.
Luke 8:56 And her parents were amazed: but he charged them to tell
no man what had been done.
Luke 9
Luke 9:1 And he called the twelve together, and gave them power
and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
Luke 9:2 And he sent them forth to preach the kingdom of God, and
to heal the sick.
Luke 9:3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey,
neither staff, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two
coats.
Luke 9:4 And into whatsoever house ye enter, there abide, and
thence depart.
Luke 9:5 And as many as receive you not, when ye depart from that
city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
Luke 9:6 And they departed, and went throughout the villages,
preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.
Luke 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done: and he
was much perplexed, because that it was said by some, that John was
risen from the dead;
Luke 9:8 and by some, that Elijah had appeared; and by others, that
one of the old prophets was risen again.
Luke 9:9 And Herod said, John I beheaded: but who is this, about
whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him.
Luke 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, declared unto
him what things they had done. And he took them, and withdrew
apart to a city called Bethsaida.
Luke 9:11 But the multitudes perceiving it followed him: and he
welcomed them, and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and them
that had need of healing he cured.
Luke 9:12 And the day began to wear away; and the twelve came,
and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into
the villages and country round about, and lodge, and get provisions:
for we are here in a desert place.
Luke 9:13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said,
We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; except we should
go and buy food for all this people.
Luke 9:14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said unto
his disciples, Make them sit down in companies, about fifty each.
Luke 9:15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
Luke 9:16 And 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.
Luke 9:17 And they ate, and were all filled: and there was taken up
that which remained over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.
Luke 9:18 And it came to pass, as he was praying apart, the disciples
were with him: and he asked them, saying, Who do the multitudes
say that I am?
Luke 9:19 And they answering said, John the Baptist; but others
[say], Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
Luke 9:20 And he said unto them, But who say ye that I am? And
Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
Luke 9:21 But he charged them, and commanded [them] to tell this
to no man;
Luke 9:22 saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be
rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and
the third day be raised up.
Luke 9:23 And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let
him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luke 9:24 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but
whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Luke 9:25 For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world,
and lose or forfeit his own self?
Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words,
of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own
glory, and [the glory] of the Father, and of the holy angels.
Luke 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, There are some of them that stand
here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of
God.
Luke 9:28 And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings,
that he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up into the
mountain to pray.
Luke 9:29 And as he was praying, the fashion of his countenance
was altered, and his raiment [became] white [and] dazzling.
Luke 9:30 And behold, there talked with him two men, who were
Moses and Elijah;
Luke 9:31 who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he
was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
Luke 9:32 Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with
sleep: but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the
two men that stood with him.
Luke 9:33 And it came to pass, as they were parting 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 Elijah:
not knowing what he said.
Luke 9:34 And while he said these things, there came a cloud, and
overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
Luke 9:35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my
Son, my chosen: hear ye him.
Luke 9:36 And when the voice came, Jesus was found alone. And
they held their peace, and told no man in those days any of the things
which they had seen.
Luke 9:37 And it came to pass, on the next day, when they were
come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.
Luke 9:38 And behold, a man from the multitude cried, saying,
Teacher, I beseech thee to look upon my son; for he is mine only
child:
Luke 9:39 and behold, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth
out; and it teareth him that he foameth, and it hardly departeth from
him, bruising him sorely.
Luke 9:40 And I besought thy disciples to cast it out; and they could
not.
Luke 9:41 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? bring
hither thy son.
Luke 9:42 And as he was yet a coming, the demon dashed him
down, and tare [him] grievously. But Jesus rebuked the unclean
spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
Luke 9:43 And they were all astonished at the majesty of God. But
while all were marvelling at all the things which he did, he said unto
his disciples,
Luke 9:44 Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of man
shall be delivered up into the hands of men.
Luke 9:45 But they understood not this saying, and it was concealed
from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to
ask him about this saying.
Luke 9:46 And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them
was the greatest.
Luke 9:47 But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their heart, he took a
little child, and set him by his side,
Luke 9:48 and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this little
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 is great.
Luke 9:49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting
out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followeth
not with us.
Luke 9:50 But Jesus said unto him, Forbid [him] not: for he that is
not against you is for you.
Luke 9:51 And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come
that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to
Jerusalem,
Luke 9:52 and sent messengers before his face: and they went, and
entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
Luke 9:53 And they did not receive him, because his face was [as
though he were] going to Jerusalem.
Luke 9:54 And when his disciples James and John saw [this], they
said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and
consume them?
Luke 9:55 But he turned, and rebuked them.
Luke 9:56 And they went to another village.
Luke 9:57 And as they went on the way, a certain man said unto him,
I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Luke 9:58 And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the
birds of the heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where
to lay his head.
Luke 9:59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord,
suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Luke 9:60 But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own
dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.
Luke 9:61 And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord; but first
suffer me to bid farewell to them that are at my house.
Luke 9:62 But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to
the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Luke 10
Luke 10:1 Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others,
and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place,
whither he himself was about to come.
Luke 10:2 And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous,
but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,
that he send forth laborers into his harvest.
Luke 10:3 Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the
midst of wolves.
Luke 10:4 Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on
the way.
Luke 10:5 And into whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, Peace
[be] to this house.
Luke 10:6 And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon
him: but if not, it shall turn to you again.
Luke 10:7 And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such
things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from
house to house.
Luke 10:8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you,
eat such things as are set before you:
Luke 10:9 and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The
kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Luke 10:10 But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive
you not, go out into the streets thereof and say,
Luke 10:11 Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet,
we wipe off against you: nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of
God is come nigh.
Luke 10:12 I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable in that day for
Sodom, than for that city.
Luke 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for
if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were
done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth
and ashes.
Luke 10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
judgment, than for you.
Luke 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto
heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.
Luke 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you
rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.
Luke 10:17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even
the demons are subject unto us in thy name.
Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning
from heaven.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon
serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and
nothing shall in any wise hurt you.
Luke 10:20 Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are
subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
Luke 10:21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said,
I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide
these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them
unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.
Luke 10:22 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father:
and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the
Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to
reveal [him].
Luke 10:23 And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed
[are] the eyes which see the things that ye see:
Luke 10:24 for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired
to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the
things which ye hear, and heard them not.
Luke 10:25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of
him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 10:26 And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how
readest thou?
Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength,
and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
Luke 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do,
and thou shalt live.
Luke 10:29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And
who is my neighbor?
Luke 10:30 Jesus made answer and said, A certain man was going
down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, who
both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luke 10:31 And by chance a certain priest was going down that way:
and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luke 10:32 And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the
place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Luke 10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he
was: and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
Luke 10:34 and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on
[them] oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought
him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke 10:35 And on the morrow he took out two shillings, and gave
them to the host, and said, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou
spendest more, I, when I come back again, will repay thee.
Luke 10:36 Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor
unto him that fell among the robbers?
Luke 10:37 And he said, He that showed mercy on him. And Jesus
said unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Luke 10:38 Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain
village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her
house.
Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the
Lord's feet, and heard his word.
Luke 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving; and she
came up to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did
leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Luke 10:41 But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha,
Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things:
Luke 10:42 but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good
part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Luke 11
Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place,
that when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach
us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.
Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father,
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive
every one that is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation.
Luke 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend,
and shall go unto him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me
three loaves;
Luke 11:6 for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I
have nothing to set before him;
Luke 11:7 and he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not:
the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot
rise and give thee?
Luke 11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him
because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise
and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek,
and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 11:10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Luke 11:11 And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a
loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a
serpent?
Luke 11:12 Or [if] he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children, how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Luke 11:14 And he was casting out a demon [that was] dumb. And it
came to pass, when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spake;
and the multitudes marvelled.
Luke 11:15 But some of them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the
demons casteth he out demons.
Luke 11:16 And others, trying [him], sought of him a sign from
heaven.
Luke 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every
kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house
[divided] against a house falleth.
Luke 11:18 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall
his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out demons by
Beelzebub.
Luke 11:19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do
your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Luke 11:20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the
kingdom of God come upon you.
Luke 11:21 When the strong [man] fully armed guardeth his own
court, his goods are in peace:
Luke 11:22 but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and
overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he
trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Luke 11:23 He that is not with me is against me; and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth.
Luke 11:24 The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man,
passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he
saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out.
Luke 11:25 And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luke 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh [to him] seven other spirits
more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last
state of that man becometh worse than the first.
Luke 11:27 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain
woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him,
Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst
suck.
Luke 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the
word of God, and keep it.
Luke 11:29 And when the multitudes were gathering together unto
him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh
after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of
Jonah.
Luke 11:30 For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so
shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Luke 11:31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with
the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came
from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and
behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Luke 11:32 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the
preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
Luke 11:33 No man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a
cellar, neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which
enter in may see the light.
Luke 11:34 The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is
single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy
body also is full of darkness.
Luke 11:35 Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not
darkness.
Luke 11:36 If therefore thy whole body be full of light, having no
part dark, it shall be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its
bright shining doth give thee light.
Luke 11:37 Now as he spake, a Pharisee asketh him to dine with
him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
Luke 11:38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had
not first bathed himself before dinner.
Luke 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees
cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part
is full of extortion and wickedness.
Luke 11:40 Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make
the inside also?
Luke 11:41 But give for alms those things which are within; and
behold, all things are clean unto you.
Luke 11:42 But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue
and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Luke 11:43 Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in
the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not,
and the men that walk over [them] know it not.
Luke 11:45 And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him,
Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also.
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load
men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not
the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets,
and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:48 So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your
fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs].
Luke 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto
them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they shall kill and
persecute;
Luke 11:50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from
the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who
perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it
shall be required of this generation.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of
knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering
in ye hindered.
Luke 11:53 And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and
the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke
him to speak of many things;
Luke 11:54 laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
Luke 12
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when the many thousands of the
multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon
another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of
the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:2 But there is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed;
and hid, that shall not be known.
Luke 12:3 Wherefore whatsoever ye have said in the darkness shall
be heard in the light; and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner
chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luke 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that
kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke 12:5 But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who
after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you,
Fear him.
Luke 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of
them is forgotten in the sight of God.
Luke 12:7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear
not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Luke 12:8 And I say unto you, Every one who shall confess me
before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels
of God:
Luke 12:9 but he that denieth me in the presence of men shall be
denied in the presence of the angels of God.
Luke 12:10 And every one who shall speak a word against the Son
of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth
against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.
Luke 12:11 And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the
rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall
answer, or what ye shall say:
Luke 12:12 for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what
ye ought to say.
Luke 12:13 And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid
my brother divide the inheritance with me.
Luke 12:14 But he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a
divider over you?
Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves
from all covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Luke 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of
a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luke 12:17 and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do,
because I have not where to bestow my fruits?
Luke 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns,
and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.
Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods
laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.
Luke 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is
thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared,
whose shall they be?
Luke 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not
rich toward God.
Luke 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you,
Be not anxious for [your] life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on.
Luke 12:23 For the life is more than the food, and the body than the
raiment.
Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap;
which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of
how much more value are ye than the birds!
Luke 12:25 And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto
the measure of his life?
Luke 12:26 If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why
are ye anxious concerning the rest?
Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they toil not, neither
do they spin; yet I say unto you, Even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.
Luke 12:28 But if God doth so clothe the grass in the field, which to-
day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more [shall he
clothe] you, O ye of little faith?
Luke 12:29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall
drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Luke 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek
after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Luke 12:31 Yet seek ye his kingdom, and these things shall be added
unto you.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.
Luke 12:33 Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for
yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that
faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;
Luke 12:36 and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their
lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he
cometh and knocketh, they may straightway open unto him.
Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he
cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird
himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve
them.
Luke 12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the
third, and find [them] so blessed are those [servants].
Luke 12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known
in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not
have left his house to be broken through.
Luke 12:40 Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son
of man cometh.
Luke 12:41 And Peter said, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us,
or even unto all?
Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise
steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them
their portion of food in due season?
Luke 12:43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh
shall find so doing.
Luke 12:44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will set him over all
that he hath.
Luke 12:45 But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord
delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the
maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Luke 12:46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he
expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him
asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful.
Luke 12:47 And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and made not
ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
[stripes];
Luke 12:48 but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes,
shall be beaten with few [stripes]. And to whomsoever much is given,
of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of
him will they ask the more.
Luke 12:49 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if
it is already kindled?
Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I
straitened till it be accomplished!
Luke 12:51 Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell
you, Nay; but rather division:
Luke 12:52 for there shall be from henceforth five in one house
divided, three against two, and two against three.
Luke 12:53 They shall be divided, father against son, and son against
father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law
against her mother in law.
Luke 12:54 And he said to the multitudes also, When ye see a cloud
rising in the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so
it cometh to pass.
Luke 12:55 And when [ye see] a south wind blowing, ye say, There
will be a scorching heat; and it cometh to pass.
Luke 12:56 Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the
earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret
this time?
Luke 12:57 And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
Luke 12:58 For as thou art going with thine adversary before the
magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he
drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the
officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison.
Luke 12:59 I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out
thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.
Luke 13
Luke 13:1 Now there were some present at that very season who told
him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their
sacrifices.
Luke 13:2 And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these
Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have
suffered these things?
Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like
manner perish.
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell,
and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men
that dwell in Jerusalem?
Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish.
Luke 13:6 And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found
none.
Luke 13:7 And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three
years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down;
why doth it also cumber the ground?
Luke 13:8 And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this
year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Luke 13:9 and if it bear fruit thenceforth, [well]; but if not, thou shalt
cut it down.
Luke 13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the
sabbath day.
Luke 13:11 And behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift
herself up.
Luke 13:12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her,
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
Luke 13:13 And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she
was made straight, and glorified God.
Luke 13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with
indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and
said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work:
in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the
sabbath.
Luke 13:15 But the Lord answered him, and said, Ye hypocrites,
doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from
the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Luke 13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, to have
been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?
Luke 13:17 And as he said these things, all his adversaries were put
to shame: and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that
were done by him.
Luke 13:18 He said therefore, Unto what is the kingdom of God
like? and whereunto shall I liken it?
Luke 13:19 It is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took,
and cast into his own garden; and it grew, and became a tree; and the
birds of the heaven lodged in the branches thereof.
Luke 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom
of God?
Luke 13:21 It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in
three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
Luke 13:22 And he went on his way through cities and villages,
teaching, and journeying on unto Jerusalem.
Luke 13:23 And one said unto him, Lord, are they few that are
saved? And he said unto them,
Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say
unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Luke 13:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath
shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the
door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I
know you not whence ye are;
Luke 13:26 then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy
presence, and thou didst teach in our streets;
Luke 13:27 and he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are;
depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Luke 13:28 There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth,
when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without.
Luke 13:29 And they shall come from the east and west, and from
the north and south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Luke 13:30 And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there
are first who shall be last.
Luke 13:31 In that very hour there came certain Pharisees, saying to
him, Get thee out, and go hence: for Herod would fain kill thee.
Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I
cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the
third [day] I am perfected.
Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must go on my way to-day and to-morrow
and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of
Jerusalem.
Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and
stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered
thy children together, even as a hen [gathereth] her own brood under
her wings, and ye would not!
Luke 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you [desolate]: and I say
unto you, Ye shall not see me, until ye shall say, Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord.
Luke 14
Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one
of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were
watching him.
Luke 14:2 And behold, there was before him a certain man that had
the dropsy.
Luke 14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and
Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?
Luke 14:4 But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed
him, and let him go.
Luke 14:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have an ass or
an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a
sabbath day?
Luke 14:6 And they could not answer again unto these things.
Luke 14:7 And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when
he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them,
Luke 14:8 When thou art bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit
not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honorable man than thou
be bidden of him,
Luke 14:9 and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee,
Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the
lowest place.
Luke 14:10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest
place; that when he that hath bidden thee cometh, he may say to thee,
Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have glory in the presence of all
that sit at meat with thee.
Luke 14:11 For everyone that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and
he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 14:12 And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou
makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor
thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again,
and a recompense be made thee.
Luke 14:13 But when thou makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed,
the lame, the blind:
Luke 14:14 and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not
[wherewith] to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the
resurrection of the just.
Luke 14:15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard
these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the
kingdom of God.
Luke 14:16 But he said unto him, A certain man made a great
supper; and he bade many:
Luke 14:17 and he sent forth his servant at supper time to say to
them that were bidden, Come; for [all] things are now ready.
Luke 14:18 And they all with one [consent] began to make excuse.
The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I must needs go out
and see it; I pray thee have me excused.
Luke 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I
go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.
Luke 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I
cannot come.
Luke 14:21 And the servant came, and told 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 maimed and blind and lame.
Luke 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is
done, and yet there is room.
Luke 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the
highways and hedges, and constrain [them] to come in, that my house
may be filled.
Luke 14:24 For I say unto you, that none of those men that were
bidden shall taste of my supper.
Luke 14:25 Now there went with him great multitudes: and he
turned, and said unto them,
Luke 14:26 If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:27 Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after
me, cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first
sit down and count the cost, whether he have [wherewith] to
complete it?
Luke 14:29 Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not
able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,
Luke 14:30 saying, This man began to build, and was not able to
finish.
Luke 14:31 Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in
war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with
ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty
thousand?
Luke 14:32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth
an ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace.
Luke 14:33 So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not
all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:34 Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its
savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Luke 14:35 It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: [men]
cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Luke 15
Luke 15:1 Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto
him to hear him.
Luke 15:2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying,
This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Luke 15:3 And he spake unto them this parable, saying,
Luke 15:4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having
lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness,
and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Luke 15:5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders,
rejoicing.
Luke 15:6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends
and his neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have
found my sheep which was lost.
Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven
over one sinner that repenteth, [more] than over ninety and nine
righteous persons, who need no repentance.
Luke 15:8 Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one
piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently
until she find it?
Luke 15:9 And when she hath found it, she calleth together her
friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the
piece which I had lost.
Luke 15:10 Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of
the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Luke 15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
Luke 15:12 and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give
me the portion of [thy] substance that falleth to me. And he divided
unto them his living.
Luke 15:13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all
together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted
his substance with riotous living.
Luke 15:14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine
in that country; and he began to be in want.
Luke 15:15 And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of
that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks
that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Luke 15:17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
here with hunger!
Luke 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:
Luke 15:19 I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as
one of thy hired servants.
Luke 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was
yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and
ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luke 15:21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against
heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luke 15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth quickly
the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes
on his feet:
Luke 15:23 and bring the fatted calf, [and] kill it, and let us eat, and
make merry:
Luke 15:24 for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost,
and is found. And they began to be merry.
Luke 15:25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and
drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Luke 15:26 And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired
what these things might be.
Luke 15:27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy
father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe
and sound.
Luke 15:28 But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father
came out, and entreated him.
Luke 15:29 But he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many
years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a commandment of
thine; and [yet] thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry
with my friends:
Luke 15:30 but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy
living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.
Luke 15:31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all
that is mine is thine.
Luke 15:32 But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy
brother was dead, and is alive [again]; and [was] lost, and is found.
Luke 16
Luke 16:1 And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain
rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him
that he was wasting his goods.
Luke 16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I
hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be
no longer steward.
Luke 16:3 And the steward said within himself, What shall I do,
seeing that my lord taketh away the stewardship from me? I have not
strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Luke 16:4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the
stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Luke 16:5 And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said
to the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
Luke 16:6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto
him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.
Luke 16:7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And
he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He saith unto him, Take thy
bond, and write fourscore.
Luke 16:8 And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because
he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own
generation wiser than the sons of the light.
Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means
of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may
receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much:
and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
Luke 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous
mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?
Luke 16:12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is
another's, who will give you that which is your own?
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all
these things; and they scoffed at him.
Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify
yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that
which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that
time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man
entereth violently into it.
Luke 16:17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than
for one tittle of the law to fall.
Luke 16:18 Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth
another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put
away from a husband committeth adultery.
Luke 16:19 Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in
purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:
Luke 16:20 and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate,
full of sores,
Luke 16:21 and desiring to be fed with the [crumbs] that fell from
the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs come and licked his sores.
Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he
was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: and the rich
man also died, and was buried.
Luke 16:23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on
me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water,
and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.
Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy
lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil
things: but now here he is comforted and thou art in anguish.
Luke 16:26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great
gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be
able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.
Luke 16:27 And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou
wouldest send him to my father's house;
Luke 16:28 for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment.
Luke 16:29 But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets;
let them hear them.
Luke 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one go to them
from the dead, they will repent.
Luke 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.
Luke 17
Luke 17:1 And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that
occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through
whom they come!
Luke 17:2 It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should
cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him;
and if he repent, forgive him.
Luke 17:4 And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and
seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive
him.
Luke 17:5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard
seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be
thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
Luke 17:7 But who is there of you, having a servant plowing or
keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when he is come in from the
field, Come straightway and sit down to meat;
Luke 17:8 and will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I
may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and
drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Luke 17:9 Doth he thank the servant because he did the things that
were commanded?
Luke 17:10 Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things
that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have
done that which it was our duty to do.
Luke 17:11 And it came to pass, as they were on their way to
Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and
Galilee.
Luke 17:12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him
ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off:
Luke 17:13 and they lifted up their voices, saying, Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us.
Luke 17:14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go and show
yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they
were cleansed.
Luke 17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed,
turned back, with a loud voice glorifying God;
Luke 17:16 and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving him thanks:
and he was a Samaritan.
Luke 17:17 And Jesus answering said, Were not the ten cleansed?
but where are the nine?
Luke 17:18 Were there none found that returned to give glory to
God, save this stranger?
Luke 17:19 And he said unto him, Arise, and go thy way: thy faith
hath made thee whole.
Luke 17:20 And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of
God cometh, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God
cometh not with observation:
Luke 17:21 neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the
kingdom of God is within you.
Luke 17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come,
when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye
shall not see it.
Luke 17:23 And they shall say to you, Lo, there! Lo, here! go not
away, nor follow after [them]:
Luke 17:24 for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part
under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall
the Son of man be in his day.
Luke 17:25 But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of
this generation.
Luke 17:26 And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall
it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luke 17:27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood
came, and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28 Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they
ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luke 17:29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
Luke 17:30 after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son
of man is revealed.
Luke 17:31 In that day, he that shall be on the housetop, and his
goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and let
him that is in the field likewise not return back.
Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but
whosoever shall lose [his life] shall preserve it.
Luke 17:34 I say unto you, In that night there shall be two men on
one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Luke 17:35 There shall be two women grinding together; the one
shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Luke 17:36 [There shall be two men in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other shall be left.]
Luke 17:37 And they answering say unto him, Where, Lord? And he
said unto them, Where the body [is], thither will the eagles also be
gathered together.
Luke 18
Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they
ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luke 18:2 saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God,
and regarded not man:
Luke 18:3 and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto
him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
Luke 18:4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said
within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
Luke 18:5 yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her,
lest she wear me out by her continual coming.
Luke 18:6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge saith.
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day
and night, and [yet] he is longsuffering over them?
Luke 18:8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the
earth?
Luke 18:9 And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in
themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:
Luke 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a
Pharisee, and the other a publican.
Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I
thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as this publican.
Luke 18:12 I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get.
Luke 18:13 But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so
much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be
thou merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 18:14 I say unto you, This man went down to his house
justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself
shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 18:15 And they were bringing unto him also their babes, that
he should touch them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked
them.
Luke 18:16 But Jesus called them unto him, saying, Suffer the little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for to such belongeth
the kingdom of God.
Luke 18:17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the
kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.
Luke 18:18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
none is good, save one, [even] God.
Luke 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit
adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor
thy father and mother.
Luke 18:21 And he said, All these things have I observed from my
youth up.
Luke 18:22 And when Jesus heard it, he said unto him, One thing
thou lackest yet: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luke 18:23 But when he heard these things, he became exceeding
sorrowful; for he was very rich.
Luke 18:24 And Jesus seeing him said, How hardly shall they that
have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's
eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 18:26 And they that heard it said, Then who can be saved?
Luke 18:27 But he said, The things which are impossible with men
are possible with God.
Luke 18:28 And Peter said, Lo, we have left our own, and followed
thee.
Luke 18:29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is
no man that hath left house, or wife, or brethren, or parents, or
children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
Luke 18:30 who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in
the world to come eternal life.
Luke 18:31 And he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written
through the prophets shall be accomplished unto the Son of man.
Luke 18:32 For he shall be delivered up unto the Gentiles, and shall
be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon:
Luke 18:33 and they shall scourge and kill him: and the third day he
shall rise again.
Luke 18:34 And they understood none of these things; and this
saying was hid from them, and they perceived not the things that
were said.
Luke 18:35 And it came to pass, as he drew nigh unto Jericho, a
certain blind man sat by the way side begging:
Luke 18:36 and hearing a multitude going by, he inquired what this
meant.
Luke 18:37 And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
Luke 18:38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me.
Luke 18:39 And they that went before rebuked him, that he should
hold his peace: but he cried out the more a great deal, Thou son of
David, have mercy on me.
Luke 18:40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought
unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,
Luke 18:41 What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And he said,
Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Luke 18:42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight; thy faith
hath made thee whole.
Luke 18:43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed
him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise
unto God.
Luke 19
Luke 19:1 And he entered and was passing through Jericho.
Luke 19:2 And behold, a man called by name Zacchaeus; and he was
a chief publican, and he was rich.
Luke 19:3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for
the crowd, because he was little of stature.
Luke 19:4 And he ran on before, and climbed up into a sycomore
tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
Luke 19:5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and said
unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to-day I must
abide at thy house.
Luke 19:6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him
joyfully.
Luke 19:7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, He is
gone in to lodge with a man that is a sinner.
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord, Behold,
Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have
wrongfully exacted aught of any man, I restore fourfold.
Luke 19:9 And Jesus said unto him, To-day is salvation come to this
house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
Luke 19:10 For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which
was lost.
Luke 19:11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a
parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and [because] they
supposed that the kingdom of God was immediately to appear.
Luke 19:12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far
country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luke 19:13 And he called ten servants of his, and gave them ten
pounds, and said unto them, Trade ye [herewith] till I come.
Luke 19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after
him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.
Luke 19:15 And it came to pass, when he was come back again,
having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants,
unto whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he
might know what they had gained by trading.
Luke 19:16 And the first came before him, saying, Lord, thy pound
hath made ten pounds more.
Luke 19:17 And he said unto him, Well done, thou good servant:
because thou wast found faithful in a very little, have thou authority
over ten cities.
Luke 19:18 And the second came, saying, Thy pound, Lord, hath
made five pounds.
Luke 19:19 And he said unto him also, Be thou also over five cities.
Luke 19:20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, [here is] thy
pound, which I kept laid up in a napkin:
Luke 19:21 for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou
takest up that which thou layedst not down, and reapest that which
thou didst not sow.
Luke 19:22 He saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge
thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man,
taking up that which I laid not down, and reaping that which I did not
sow;
Luke 19:23 then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank,
and I at my coming should have required it with interest?
Luke 19:24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take away from
him the pound, and give it unto him that hath the ten pounds.
Luke 19:25 And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.
Luke 19:26 I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be
given; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be
taken away from him.
Luke 19:27 But these mine enemies, that would not that I should
reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Luke 19:28 And when he had thus spoken, he went on before, going
up to Jerusalem.
Luke 19:29 And it came to pass, when he drew nigh unto Bethphage
and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the
disciples,
Luke 19:30 saying, Go your way into the village over against [you];
in which as ye enter ye shall find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet
sat: loose him, and bring him.
Luke 19:31 And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall
ye say, The Lord hath need of him.
Luke 19:32 And they that were sent went away, and found even as
he had said unto them.
Luke 19:33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof
said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
Luke 19:34 And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
Luke 19:35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they threw their
garments upon the colt, and set Jesus thereon.
Luke 19:36 And as he went, they spread their garments in the way.
Luke 19:37 And as he was now drawing nigh, [even] 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
which they had seen;
Luke 19:38 saying, Blessed [is] the King that cometh in the name of
the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Luke 19:39 And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto
him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples.
Luke 19:40 And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall
hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
Luke 19:41 And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over
it,
Luke 19:42 saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the
things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine
eyes.
Luke 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies
shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep
thee in on every side,
Luke 19:44 and shall dash thee to 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.
Luke 19:45 And he entered into the temple, and began to cast out
them that sold,
Luke 19:46 saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a
house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.
Luke 19:47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief
priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to
destroy him:
Luke 19:48 and they could not find what they might do; for the
people all hung upon him, listening.
Luke 20
Luke 20:1 And it came to pass, on one of the days, as he was
teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, there
came upon him the chief priests and the scribes with the elders;
Luke 20:2 and they spake, saying unto him, Tell us: By what
authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this
authority?
Luke 20:3 And he answered and said unto them, I also will ask you a
question; and tell me:
Luke 20:4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?
Luke 20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall
say, From heaven; he will say, Why did ye not believe him?
Luke 20:6 But if we shall say, From men; all the people will stone
us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.
Luke 20:7 And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was].
Luke 20:8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what
authority I do these things.
Luke 20:9 And he began to speak unto the people this parable: A
man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
another country for a long time.
Luke 20:10 And at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a
servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the
husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
Luke 20:11 And he sent yet another servant: and him also they beat,
and handled him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luke 20:12 And he sent yet a third: and him also they wounded, and
cast him forth.
Luke 20:13 And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will
send my beloved son; it may be they will reverence him.
Luke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned one
with another, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.
Luke 20:15 And they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed
him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
Luke 20:16 He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will
give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God
forbid.
Luke 20:17 But he looked upon them, and said, What then is this that
is written, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made
the head of the corner?
Luke 20:18 Every one that falleth on that stone shall be broken to
pieces; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
Luke 20:19 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands
on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they
perceived that he spake this parable against them.
Luke 20:20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned
themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so
as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.
Luke 20:21 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou
sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest not the person [of any], but
of a truth teachest the way of God:
Luke 20:22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
Luke 20:23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them,
Luke 20:24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription
hath it? And they said, Caesar's.
Luke 20:25 And he said unto them, Then render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.
Luke 20:26 And they were not able to take hold of the saying before
the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
Luke 20:27 And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they
that say that there is no resurrection;
Luke 20:28 and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto
us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his
brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Luke 20:29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a
wife, and died childless;
Luke 20:30 and the second:
Luke 20:31 and the third took her; and likewise the seven also left no
children, and died.
Luke 20:32 Afterward the woman also died.
Luke 20:33 In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them shall
she be? for the seven had her to wife.
Luke 20:34 And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry,
and are given in marriage:
Luke 20:35 but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that
world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are
given in marriage:
Luke 20:36 for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto
the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Luke 20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in [the
place concerning] the Bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Luke 20:38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for
all live unto him.
Luke 20:39 And certain of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou
hast well said.
Luke 20:40 For they durst not any more ask him any question.
Luke 20:41 And he said unto them, How say they that the Christ is
David's son?
Luke 20:42 For David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Luke 20:43 Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
Luke 20:44 David therefore calleth him Lord, and how is he his son?
Luke 20:45 And in the hearing of all the people he said unto his
disciples,
Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes,
and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the
synagogues, and chief places at feasts;
Luke 20:47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make
long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
Luke 21
Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men that were casting
their gifts into the treasury.
Luke 21:2 And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two
mites.
Luke 21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, This poor widow
cast in more than they all:
Luke 21:4 for all these did of their superfluity cast in unto the gifts;
but she of her want did cast in all the living that she had.
Luke 21:5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned
with goodly stones and offerings, he said,
Luke 21:6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come,
in which there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall
not be thrown down.
Luke 21:7 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, when therefore
shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign when these things
are about to come to pass?
Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many
shall come in my name, saying, I am [he]; and, The time is at hand:
go ye not after them.
Luke 21:9 And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not
terrified: for these things must needs come to pass first; but the end is
not immediately.
Luke 21:10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom;
Luke 21:11 and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places
famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs
from heaven.
Luke 21:12 But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on
you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues
and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's
sake.
Luke 21:13 It shall turn out unto you for a testimony.
Luke 21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate
beforehand how to answer:
Luke 21:15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.
Luke 21:16 But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and
brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and [some] of you shall they
cause to be put to death.
Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Luke 21:18 And not a hair of your head shall perish.
Luke 21:19 In your patience ye shall win your souls.
Luke 21:20 But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then
know that her desolation is at hand.
Luke 21:21 Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains;
and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them
that are in the country enter therein.
Luke 21:22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are
written may be fulfilled.
Luke 21:23 Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give
suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and
wrath unto this people.
Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be
led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and
upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the
sea and the billows;
Luke 21:26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things
which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall
be shaken.
Luke 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a
cloud with power and great glory.
Luke 21:28 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up,
and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.
Luke 21:29 And he spake to them a parable: Behold the fig tree, and
all the trees:
Luke 21:30 when they now shoot forth, ye see it and know of your
own selves that the summer is now nigh.
Luke 21:31 Even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to
pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh.
Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, till all things be accomplished.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall
not pass away.
Luke 21:34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life,
and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
Luke 21:35 for [so] shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face
of all the earth.
Luke 21:36 But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that
ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and
to stand before the Son of man.
Luke 21:37 And every day he was teaching in the temple; and every
night he went out, and lodged in the mount that is called Olivet.
Luke 21:38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in
the temple, to hear him.
Luke 22
Luke 22:1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is
called the Passover.
Luke 22:2 And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they
might put him to death; for they feared the people.
Luke 22:3 And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot,
being of the number of the twelve.
Luke 22:4 And he went away, and communed with the chief priests
and captains, how he might deliver him unto them.
Luke 22:5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
Luke 22:6 And he consented, and sought opportunity to deliver him
unto them in the absence of the multitude.
Luke 22:7 And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the
passover must be sacrificed.
Luke 22:8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make ready
for us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke 22:9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we make
ready?
Luke 22:10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into
the city, there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow
him into the house whereinto he goeth.
Luke 22:11 And ye shall say unto the master of the house, The
Teacher saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat
the passover with my disciples?
Luke 22:12 And he will show you a large upper room furnished:
there make ready.
Luke 22:13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and
they made ready the passover.
Luke 22:14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the
apostles with him.
Luke 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat
this passover with you before I suffer:
Luke 22:16 for I say unto you, I shall not eat it, until it be fulfilled in
the kingdom of God.
Luke 22:17 And he received a cup, and when he had given thanks,
he said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
Luke 22:18 for I say unto you, I shall not drink from henceforth of
the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he
brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for
you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luke 22:20 And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This
cup is the new covenant in my blood, [even] that which is poured out
for you.
Luke 22:21 But behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me
on the table.
Luke 22:22 For the Son of man indeed goeth, as it hath been
determined: but woe unto that man through whom he is betrayed!
Luke 22:23 And they began to question among themselves, which of
them it was that should do this thing.
Luke 22:24 And there arose also a contention among them, which of
them was accounted to be greatest.
Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles have
lordship over them; and they that have authority over them are called
Benefactors.
Luke 22:26 But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is the greater
among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he
that doth serve.
Luke 22:27 For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that
serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am in the midst of you as
he that serveth.
Luke 22:28 But ye are they that have continued with me in my
temptations;
Luke 22:29 and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father
appointed unto me,
Luke 22:30 that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom;
and ye shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Luke 22:31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he
might sift you as wheat:
Luke 22:32 but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not;
and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.
Luke 22:33 And he said unto him, Lord, with thee I am ready to go
both to prison and to death.
Luke 22:34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow
this day, until thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
Luke 22:35 And he said unto them, When I sent you forth without
purse, and wallet, and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said,
Nothing.
Luke 22:36 And he said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let
him take it, and likewise a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell
his cloak, and buy a sword.
Luke 22:37 For I say unto you, that this which is written must be
fulfilled in me, And he was reckoned with transgressors: for that
which concerneth me hath fulfilment.
Luke 22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And
he said unto them, It is enough.
Luke 22:39 And he came out, and went, as his custom was, unto the
mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed him.
Luke 22:40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray
that ye enter not into temptation.
Luke 22:41 And he was parted from them about a stone's cast; and
he kneeled down and prayed,
Luke 22:42 saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from
me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Luke 22:43 And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven,
strengthening him.
Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his
sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the
ground.
Luke 22:45 And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the
disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow,
Luke 22:46 and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye
enter not into temptation.
Luke 22:47 While he yet spake, behold, a multitude, and he that was
called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them; and he drew near
unto Jesus to kiss him.
Luke 22:48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of
man with a kiss?
Luke 22:49 And when they that were about him saw what would
follow, they said, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
Luke 22:50 And a certain one of them smote the servant of the high
priest, and struck off his right ear.
Luke 22:51 But Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye [them] thus far.
And he touched his ear, and healed him.
Luke 22:52 And Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the
temple, and elders, that were come against him, Are ye come out, as
against a robber, with swords and staves?
Luke 22:53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched
not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power
of darkness.
Luke 22:54 And they seized him, and led him [away], and brought
him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed afar off.
Luke 22:55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the
court, and had sat down together, Peter sat in the midst of them.
Luke 22:56 And a certain maid seeing him as he sat in the light [of
the fire], and looking stedfastly upon him, said, This man also was
with him.
Luke 22:57 But he denied, saying, Woman, I know him not.
Luke 22:58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou
also art [one] of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.
Luke 22:59 And after the space of about one hour another
confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this man also was with him;
for he is a Galilaean.
Luke 22:60 But Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And
immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
Luke 22:61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter
remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said unto him, Before
the cock crow this day thou shalt deny me thrice.
Luke 22:62 And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Luke 22:63 And the men that held [Jesus] mocked him, and beat
him.
Luke 22:64 And they blindfolded him, and asked him, saying,
Prophesy: who is he that struck thee?
Luke 22:65 And many other things spake they against him, reviling
him.
Luke 22:66 And as soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of
the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and
they led him away into their council, saying,
Luke 22:67 If thou art the Christ, tell us. But he said unto them, If I
tell you, ye will not believe:
Luke 22:68 and if I ask [you], ye will not answer.
Luke 22:69 But from henceforth shall the Son of man be seated at
the right hand of the power of God.
Luke 22:70 And they all said, Art thou then the Son of God? And he
said unto them, Ye say that I am.
Luke 22:71 And they said, What further need have we of witness?
for we ourselves have heard from his own mouth.
Luke 23
Luke 23:1 And the whole company of them rose up, and brought him
before Pilate.
Luke 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man
perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and
saying that he himself is Christ a king.
Luke 23:3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the
Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest.
Luke 23:4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I
find no fault in this man.
Luke 23:5 But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the
people, teaching throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee
even unto this place.
Luke 23:6 But when Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man were a
Galilaean.
Luke 23:7 And when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he
sent him unto Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in these
days.
Luke 23:8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for
he was of a long time desirous to see him, because he had heard
concerning him; and he hoped to see some miracle done by him.
Luke 23:9 And he questioned him in many words; but he answered
him nothing.
Luke 23:10 And the chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently
accusing him.
Luke 23:11 And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and
mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to
Pilate.
Luke 23:12 And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other
that very day: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
Luke 23:13 And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers
and the people,
Luke 23:14 and said unto them, Ye brought unto me this man, as one
that perverteth the people: and behold, I having examined him before
you, found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye
accuse him:
Luke 23:15 no, nor yet Herod: for he sent him back unto us; and
behold, nothing worthy of death hath been done by him.
Luke 23:16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
Luke 23:17 [Now he must needs release unto them at the feast one
prisoner.]
Luke 23:18 But they cried out all together, saying, Away with this
man, and release unto us Barabbas: --
Luke 23:19 one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and
for murder, was cast into prison.
Luke 23:20 And Pilate spake unto them again, desiring to release
Jesus;
Luke 23:21 but they shouted, saying, Crucify, crucify him.
Luke 23:22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil
hath this man done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will
therefore chastise him and release him.
Luke 23:23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he
might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
Luke 23:24 And Pilate gave sentence that what they asked for should
be done.
Luke 23:25 And he released him that for insurrection and murder
had been cast into prison, whom they asked for; but Jesus he
delivered up to their will.
Luke 23:26 And when they led him away, they laid hold upon one
Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the
cross, to bear it after Jesus.
Luke 23:27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people,
and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
Luke 23:28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of
Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your
children.
Luke 23:29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say,
Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the
breasts that never gave suck.
Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us;
and to the hills, Cover us.
Luke 23:31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall
be done in the dry?
Luke 23:32 And there were also two others, malefactors, led with
him to be put to death.
Luke 23:33 And when they came unto the place which is called The
skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right
hand and the other on the left.
Luke 23:34 And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not
what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.
Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also
scoffed at him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this
is the Christ of God, his chosen.
Luke 23:36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him,
offering him vinegar,
Luke 23:37 and saying, If thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.
Luke 23:38 And there was also a superscription over him, THIS IS
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Luke 23:39 And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on
him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.
Luke 23:40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Dost
thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of
our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke 23:42 And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in
thy kingdom.
Luke 23:43 And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day
shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
Luke 23:44 And it was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness
came over the whole land until the ninth hour,
Luke 23:45 the sun's light failing: and the veil of the temple was rent
in the midst.
Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into
thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the
ghost.
Luke 23:47 And when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified
God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
Luke 23:48 And all the multitudes that came together to this sight,
when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their
breasts.
Luke 23:49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed
with him from Galilee, stood afar off, seeing these things.
Luke 23:50 And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor,
a good and righteous man
Luke 23:51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), [a man]
of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was looking for the kingdom
of God:
Luke 23:52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Luke 23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and
laid him in a tomb that was hewn in stone, where never man had yet
lain.
Luke 23:54 And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath
drew on.
Luke 23:55 And the women, who had come with him out of Galilee,
followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.
Luke 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
Luke 24
Luke 24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came
unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Luke 24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
Luke 24:3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord
Jesus.
Luke 24:4 And it came to pass, while they were perplexed
thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel:
Luke 24:5 and as they were affrighted and bowed down their faces to
the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the
dead?
Luke 24:6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto
you when he was yet in Galilee,
Luke 24:7 saying that the Son of man must be delivered up into the
hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
Luke 24:8 And they remembered his words,
Luke 24:9 and returned from the tomb, and told all these things to
the eleven, and to all the rest.
Luke 24:10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary
the [mother] of James: and the other women with them told these
things unto the apostles.
Luke 24:11 And these words appeared in their sight as idle talk; and
they disbelieved them.
Luke 24:12 But Peter arose, and ran unto the tomb; and stooping and
looking in, he seeth the linen cloths by themselves; and he departed
to his home, wondering at that which was come to pass.
Luke 24:13 And behold, two of them were going that very day to a
village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from
Jerusalem.
Luke 24:14 And they communed with each other of all these things
which had happened.
Luke 24:15 And it came to pass, while they communed and
questioned together, that Jesus himself drew near, and went with
them.
Luke 24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know
him.
Luke 24:17 And he said unto them, What communications are these
that ye have one with another, as ye walk? And they stood still,
looking sad.
Luke 24:18 And one of them, named Cleopas, answering said unto
him, Dost thou alone sojourn in Jerusalem and not know the things
which are come to pass there in these days?
Luke 24:19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto
him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet
mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
Luke 24:20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up
to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Luke 24:21 But we hoped that it was he who should redeem Israel.
Yea and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things
came to pass.
Luke 24:22 Moreover certain women of our company amazed us,
having been early at the tomb;
Luke 24:23 and when they found not his body, they came, saying,
that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
Luke 24:24 And certain of them that were with us went to the tomb,
and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Luke 24:25 And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart
to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Luke 24:26 Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to
enter into his glory?
Luke 24:27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he
interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24:28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were
going: and he made as though he would go further.
Luke 24:29 And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us; for it
is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to
abide with them.
Luke 24:30 And it came to pass, when he had sat down with them to
meat, he took the bread and blessed; and breaking [it] he gave to
them.
Luke 24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he
vanished out of their sight.
Luke 24:32 And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning
within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the
scriptures?
Luke 24:33 And they rose up that very hour, and returned to
Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that
were with them,
Luke 24:34 saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to
Simon.
Luke 24:35 And they rehearsed the things [that happened] in the
way, and how he was known of them in the breaking of the bread.
Luke 24:36 And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the
midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.
Luke 24:37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that
they beheld a spirit.
Luke 24:38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and
wherefore do questionings arise in your heart?
Luke 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having.
Luke 24:40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands
and his feet.
Luke 24:41 And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered,
he said unto them, Have ye here anything to eat?
Luke 24:42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish.
Luke 24:43 And he took it, and ate before them.
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are my words which I
spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs
be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets,
and the psalms, concerning me.
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand
the scriptures;
Luke 24:46 and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ
should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;
Luke 24:47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Luke 24:48 Ye are witnesses of these things.
Luke 24:49 And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon
you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on
high.
Luke 24:50 And he led them out until [they were] over against
Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted
from them, and was carried up into heaven.
Luke 24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem
with great joy:
Luke 24:53 and were continually in the temple, blessing God.
John
John 1
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things were made through him; and without him was
not anything made that hath been made.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 1:5 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness
apprehended it not.
John 1:6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:7 The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of
the light, that all might believe through him.
John 1:8 He was not the light, but [came] that he might bear witness
of the light.
John 1:9 There was the true light, [even the light] which lighteth
every man, coming into the world.
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through
him, and the world knew him not.
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and they that were his own
received him not.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to
become children of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
John 1:13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we
beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full
of grace and truth.
John 1:15 John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, This was
he of whom I said, He that cometh after me is become before me: for
he was before me.
John 1:16 For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace.
John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
John 1:19 And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto
him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, Who art thou?
John 1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I am
not the Christ.
John 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he
saith, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.
John 1:22 They said therefore unto him, Who art thou? that we may
give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
John 1:24 And they had been sent from the Pharisees.
John 1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then
baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the
prophet?
John 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: in the
midst of you standeth one whom ye know not,
John 1:27 [even] he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I
am not worthy to unloose.
John 1:28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan,
where John was baptizing.
John 1:29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
John 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is
become before me: for he was before me.
John 1:31 And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest
to Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water.
John 1:32 And John bare witness, saying, I have beheld the Spirit
descending as a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him.
John 1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in
water, he said unto me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit
descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizeth in
the Holy Spirit.
John 1:34 And I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the
Son of God.
John 1:35 Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his
disciples;
John 1:36 and he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and saith, Behold,
the Lamb of God!
John 1:37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
Jesus.
John 1:38 And Jesus turned, and beheld them following, and saith
unto them, What seek ye? And they said unto him, Rabbi (which is to
say, being interpreted, Teacher), where abideth thou?
John 1:39 He saith unto them, Come, and ye shall see. They came
therefore and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day:
it was about the tenth hour.
John 1:40 One of the two that heard John [speak], and followed him,
was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
John 1:41 He findeth first his own brother Simon, and saith unto
him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
John 1:42 He brought him unto Jesus. Jesus looked upon him, and
said, Thou art Simon the son of John: thou shalt be called Cephas
(which is by interpretation, Peter).
John 1:43 On the morrow he was minded to go forth into Galilee,
and he findeth Philip: and Jesus saith unto him, Follow me.
John 1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew
and Peter.
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have
found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote, Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
John 1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can any good thing come
out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him,
Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
John 1:48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when
thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
John 1:49 Nathanael answered him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God;
thou art King of Israel.
John 1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto
thee, I saw thee underneath the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see
greater things than these.
John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye
shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and
descending upon the Son of man.
John 2
John 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee;
and the mother of Jesus was there:
John 2:2 and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the
marriage.
John 2:3 And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto
him, They have no wine.
John 2:4 And Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with
thee? mine hour is not yet come.
John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith
unto you, do it.
John 2:6 Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the
Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.
John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And
they filled them up to the brim.
John 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
ruler of the feast. And they bare it.
John 2:9 And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now
become wine, and knew not whence it was (but the servants that had
drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom,
John 2:10 and saith unto him, Every man setteth on first the good
wine; and when [men] have drunk freely, [then] that which is worse:
thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John 2:11 This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee,
and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
John 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his
mother, and [his] brethren, and his disciples; and there they abode not
many days.
John 2:13 And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem.
John 2:14 And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep
and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
John 2:15 and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the
temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers'
money, and overthrew their tables;
John 2:16 and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things
hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for thy
house shall eat me up.
John 2:18 The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What
sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple,
and in three days I will raise it up.
John 2:20 The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this
temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
John 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 2:22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he spake this; and they believed the scripture, and
the word which Jesus had said.
John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the
feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he did.
John 2:24 But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew
all men,
John 2:25 and because he needed not that any one should bear
witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
John 3
John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews:
John 3:2 the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi,
we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do
these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when
he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be
born?
John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one
be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God!
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice
thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is
every one that is born of the Spirit.
John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these
things be?
John 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of
Israel, and understandest not these things?
John 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we
know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and ye receive
not our witness.
John 3:12 If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall
ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John 3:13 And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that
descended out of heaven, [even] the Son of man, who is in heaven.
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of man be lifted up;
John 3:15 that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have
eternal life.
John 3:17 For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the
world; but that the world should be saved through him.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth
not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the
name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the
world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their
works were evil.
John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh
not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
John 3:21 But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his
works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
John 3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the
land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
John 3:23 And John also was baptizing in Enon near to Salim,
because there was much water there: and they came, and were
baptized.
John 3:24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
John 3:25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's
disciples with a Jew about purifying.
John 3:26 And they came unto John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that
was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness,
behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing,
except it have been given him from heaven.
John 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the
Christ, but, that I am sent before him.
John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of
the bridegroom, that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly
because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is made full.
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the
earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh: he that cometh
from heaven is above all.
John 3:32 What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness;
and no man receiveth his witness.
John 3:33 He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to [this],
that God is true.
John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:
for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.
John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into
his hand.
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that
obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth
on him.
John 4
John 4:1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard
that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4:2 (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),
John 4:3 he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
John 4:4 And he must needs pass through Samaria.
John 4:5 So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to
the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
John 4:6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied
with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus
saith unto her, Give me to drink.
John 4:8 For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.
John 4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it
that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan
woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto 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.
John 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?
John 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh
of this water shall thirst again:
John 4:14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in
him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.
John 4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I
thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.
John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come
hither.
John 4:17 The woman answered and said unto him, I have no
husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:
John 4:18 for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now
hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.
John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a
prophet.
John 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that
in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye
worship the Father.
John 4:22 Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that
which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth
the Father seek to be his worshippers.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in
spirit and truth.
John 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh
(he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all
things.
John 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am [he].
John 4:27 And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that
he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou?
or, Why speakest thou with her?
John 4:28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the
city, and saith to the people,
John 4:29 Come, see a man, who told me all things that [ever] I did:
can this be the Christ?
John 4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
John 4:31 In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi,
eat.
John 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know
not.
John 4:33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man
brought him [aught] to eat?
John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him
that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh
the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on
the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
John 4:36 He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice
together.
John 4:37 For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another
reapeth.
John 4:38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others
have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
John 4:39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on
him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all
things that [ever] I did.
John 4:40 So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought
him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.
John 4:41 And many more believed because of his word;
John 4:42 and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because
of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this
is indeed the Saviour of the world.
John 4:43 And after the two days he went forth from thence into
Galilee.
John 4:44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in
his own country.
John 4:45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received
him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast:
for they also went unto the feast.
John 4:46 He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he
made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son
was sick at Capernaum.
John 4:47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into
Galilee, he went unto him, and besought [him] that he would come
down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
John 4:48 Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and
wonders, ye will in no wise believe.
John 4:49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my
child die.
John 4:50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man
believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.
John 4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him,
saying, that his son lived.
John 4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend.
They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever
left him.
John 4:53 So the father knew that [it was] at that hour in which Jesus
said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole
house.
John 4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come
out of Judaea into Galilee.
John 5
John 5:1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep [gate] a pool, which
is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
John 5:3 In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt,
withered, [waiting for the moving of the water.]
John 5:4 [for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into
the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the
troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole, with whatsoever
disease he was holden.]
John 5:5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight
years in his infirmity.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now
a long time [in that case], he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made
whole?
John 5:7 The sick 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.
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5:9 And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his
bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.
John 5:10 So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath,
and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
John 5:11 But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same
said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5:12 They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take
up [thy bed], and walk?
John 5:13 But he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had
conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.
John 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto
him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing
befall thee.
John 5:15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus
who had made him whole.
John 5:16 And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he
did these things on the sabbath.
John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until
now, and I work.
John 5:18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill
him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his
own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what
he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the
Son also doeth in like manner.
John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things
that himself doeth: and greater works than these will he show him,
that ye may marvel.
John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth the dead and giveth them life,
even so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.
John 5:22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath
given all judgment unto the Son;
John 5:23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word,
and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into
judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now
is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they
that hear shall live.
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to
the Son also to have life in himself:
John 5:27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because
he is a son of man.
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that
are in the tombs shall hear his voice,
John 5:29 and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of judgment.
John 5:30 I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will
of him that sent me.
John 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
John 5:32 It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that
the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
John 5:33 Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto
the truth.
John 5:34 But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I
say these things, that ye may be saved.
John 5:35 He was the lamp that burneth and shineth; and ye were
willing to rejoice for a season in his light.
John 5:36 But the witness which I have is greater than [that of] John;
for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very
works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
John 5:37 And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me.
Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
John 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he
sent, him ye believe not.
John 5:39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye
have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
John 5:40 and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.
John 5:41 I receive not glory from men.
John 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in
yourselves.
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if
another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 5:44 How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another,
and the glory that [cometh] from the only God ye seek not?
John 5:45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one
that accuseth you, [even] Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.
John 5:46 For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he
wrote of me.
John 5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my
words?
John 6
John 6:1 After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the
sea of Galilee, which is [the sea] of Tiberias.
John 6:2 And a great multitude followed him, because they beheld
the signs which he did on them that were sick.
John 6:3 And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with
his disciples.
John 6:4 Now the passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
John 6:5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great
multitude cometh unto him, saith unto Philip, Whence are we to buy
bread, that these may eat?
John 6:6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he
would do.
John 6:7 Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings' worth of bread
is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.
John 6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith
unto him,
John 6:9 There is a lad here, who hath five barley loaves, and two
fishes: but what are these among so many?
John 6:10 Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was
much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five
thousand.
John 6:11 Jesus therefore took the loaves; and having given thanks,
he distributed to them that were set down; likewise also of the fishes
as much as they would.
John 6:12 And when they were filled, he saith unto his disciples,
Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost.
John 6:13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with
broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto
them that had eaten.
John 6:14 When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they
said, This is of a truth the prophet that cometh into the world.
John 6:15 Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come
and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again into the
mountain himself alone.
John 6:16 And when evening came, his disciples went down unto the
sea;
John 6:17 and they entered into a boat, and were going over the sea
unto Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to
them.
John 6:18 And the sea was rising by reason of a great wind that
blew.
John 6:19 When therefore they had rowed about five and twenty or
thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing
nigh unto the boat: and they were afraid.
John 6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
John 6:21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat:
and straightway the boat was at the land whither they were going.
John 6:22 On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side
of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that
Jesus entered not with his disciples into the boat, but [that] his
disciples went away alone
John 6:23 (howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the
place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks):
John 6:24 when the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there,
neither his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to
Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
John 6:25 And when they found him on the other side of the sea,
they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the
loaves, and were filled.
John 6:27 Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food
which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto
you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
John 6:28 They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we
may work the works of God?
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of
God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a
sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou?
John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is
written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
John 6:32 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my
Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.
John 6:33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of
heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:34 They said therefore unto him, Lord, evermore give us this
bread.
John 6:35 Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that
cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall
never thirst.
John 6:36 But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe
not.
John 6:37 All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me;
and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own
will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 6:39 And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that
which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up
at the last day.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that
beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and
I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he
said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.
John 6:42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose
father and mother we know? how doth he now say, I am come down
out of heaven?
John 6:43 Jesus answered and said unto them, Murmur not among
yourselves.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me
draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of
God. Every one that hath heard from the Father, and hath learned,
cometh unto me.
John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he that is from
God, he hath seen the Father.
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath
eternal life.
John 6:48 I am the bread of life.
John 6:49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they
died.
John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a
man may eat thereof, and not die.
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if
any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread
which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
John 6:52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How
can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John 6:53 Jesus therefore 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 not life in yourselves.
John 6:54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal
life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink
indeed.
John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in
me, and I in him.
John 6:57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
John 6:58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as
the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
John 6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in
Capernaum.
John 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when the heard [this],
said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
John 6:61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured
at this, said unto them, Doth this cause you to stumble?
John 6:62 [What] then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending
where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.
John 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew
from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was
that should betray him.
John 6:65 And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no
man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.
John 6:66 Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no
more with him.
John 6:67 Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go
away?
John 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
thou hast the words of eternal life.
John 6:69 And we have believed and know that thou art the Holy
One of God.
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve,
and one of you is a devil?
John 6:71 Now he spake of Judas [the son] of Simon Iscariot, for he
it was that should betray him, [being] one of the twelve.
John 7
John 7:1 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he
would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
John 7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at
hand.
John 7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go
into Judaea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works which thou
doest.
John 7:4 For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to
be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the
world.
John 7:5 For even his brethren did not believe on him.
John 7:6 Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come;
but your time is always ready.
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I
testify of it, that its works are evil.
John 7:8 Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up unto this feast; because
my time is not yet fulfilled.
John 7:9 And having said these things unto them, he abode [still] in
Galilee.
John 7:10 But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then
went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
John 7:11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said,
Where is he?
John 7:12 And there was much murmuring among the multitudes
concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but
he leadeth the multitude astray.
John 7:13 Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John 7:14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up
into the temple, and taught.
John 7:15 The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, How knoweth this
man letters, having never learned?
John 7:16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is
not mine, but his that sent me.
John 7:17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the
teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.
John 7:18 He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but
he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and
no unrighteousness is in him.
John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you
doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
John 7:20 The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh
to kill thee?
John 7:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye
all marvel because thereof.
John 7:22 Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of
Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.
John 7:23 If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the
law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I
made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?
John 7:24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
John 7:25 Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he
whom they seek to kill?
John 7:26 And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto
him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?
John 7:27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the
Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is.
John 7:28 Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying,
Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of
myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
John 7:29 I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
John 7:30 They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his
hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.
John 7:31 But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said,
When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which
this man hath done?
John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things
concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers
to take him.
John 7:33 Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I
go unto him that sent me.
John 7:34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am,
ye cannot come.
John 7:35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will
this man go that we shall not find him? will he go unto the Dispersion
among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
John 7:36 What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall
not find me; and where I am, ye cannot come?
John 7:37 Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and
drink.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from
within him shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:39 But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on
him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet [given]; because Jesus
was not yet glorified.
John 7:40 [Some] of the multitude therefore, when they heard these
words, said, This is of a truth the prophet.
John 7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, doth
the Christ come out of Galilee?
John 7:42 Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the
seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
John 7:43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
John 7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid
hands on him.
John 7:45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and
Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?
John 7:46 The officers answered, Never man so spake.
John 7:47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led
astray?
John 7:48 Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the
Pharisees?
John 7:49 But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.
John 7:50 Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before,
being one of them),
John 7:51 Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from
himself and know what he doeth?
John 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of
Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
John 7:53 And they went every man unto his own house:
John 8
John 8:1 but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
John 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple,
and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
John 8:3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in
adultery; and having set her in the midst,
John 8:4 they say unto him, Teacher, this woman hath been taken in
adultery, in the very act.
John 8:5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what
then sayest thou of her?
John 8:6 And this they said, trying him, that they might have
[whereof] to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger
wrote on the ground.
John 8:7 But 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.
John 8:8 And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on
the ground.
John 8:9 And they, when they heard it, went out one by one,
beginning from the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left
alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst.
John 8:10 And Jesus lifted up himself, and said unto her, Woman,
where are they? did no man condemn thee?
John 8:11 And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I
condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.
John 8:12 Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the
light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the
darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 8:13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest
witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.
John 8:14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Even if I bear witness
of myself, my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither
I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go.
John 8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
John 8:16 Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not
alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
John 8:17 Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two
men is true.
John 8:18 I am he that beareth witness of myself, and the Father that
sent me beareth witness of me.
John 8:19 They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus
answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye
would know my Father also.
John 8:20 These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the
temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.
John 8:21 He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall
seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.
John 8:22 The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he saith,
Whither I go, ye cannot come?
John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from
above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for
except ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.
John 8:25 They said therefore unto him, Who art thou? Jesus said
unto them, Even that which I have also spoken unto you from the
beginning.
John 8:26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you:
howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from
him, these speak I unto the world.
John 8:27 They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.
John 8:28 Jesus therefore said, 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 the Father taught me, I speak these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone;
for I do always the things that are pleasing to him.
John 8:30 As he spake these things, many believed on him.
John 8:31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If
ye abide in my word, [then] are ye truly my disciples;
John 8:32 and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.
John 8:33 They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and
have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye
shall be made free?
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every
one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.
John 8:35 And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the
son abideth for ever.
John 8:36 If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free
indeed.
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me,
because my word hath not free course in you.
John 8:38 I speak the things which I have seen with [my] Father: and
ye also do the things which ye heard from [your] father.
John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham.
Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do
the works of Abraham.
John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the
truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.
John 8:41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We
were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would
love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I
come of myself, but he sent me.
John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [Even] because ye
cannot hear my word.
John 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your
father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and standeth 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 thereof.
John 8:45 But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.
John 8:46 Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do
ye not believe me?
John 8:47 He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause
ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.
John 8:48 The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well
that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?
John 8:49 Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my
Father, and ye dishonor me.
John 8:50 But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh
and judgeth.
John 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he
shall never see death.
John 8:52 The Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a
demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man
keep my word, he shall never taste of death.
John 8:53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and
the prophets died: whom makest thou thyself?
John 8:54 Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it
is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God;
John 8:55 and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I
should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know
him, and keep his word.
John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw
it, and was glad.
John 8:57 The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty
years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
Abraham was born, I am.
John 8:59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid
himself, and went out of the temple.
John 9
John 9:1 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned,
this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents:
but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 9:4 We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is
day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John 9:5 When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made
clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
John 9:7 and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is
by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and
came seeing.
John 9:8 The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime,
that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John 9:9 Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He
said, I am [he].
John 9:10 They said therefore unto him, How then were thine eyes
opened?
John 9:11 He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and
anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I
went away and washed, and I received sight.
John 9:12 And they said unto him, Where is he? He saith, I know
not.
John 9:13 They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
John 9:14 Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the
clay, and opened his eyes.
John 9:15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he
received his sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine
eyes, and I washed, and I see.
John 9:16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from
God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a
man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among
them.
John 9:17 They say therefore unto the blind man again, What sayest
thou of him, in that he opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a
prophet.
John 9:18 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he
had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the
parents of him that had received his sight,
John 9:19 and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was
born blind? How then doth he now see?
John 9:20 His parents answered and said, We know that this is our
son, and that he was born blind:
John 9:21 but how he now seeth, we know not; or who opened his
eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself.
John 9:22 These things said his parents, because they feared the
Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess
him [to be] Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
John 9:24 So they called a second time the man that was blind, and
said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner.
John 9:25 He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know
not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John 9:26 They said therefore unto him, What did he to thee? How
opened he thine eyes?
John 9:27 He answered them, I told you even now, and ye did not
hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his
disciples?
John 9:28 And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but
we are disciples of Moses.
John 9:29 We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this
man, we know not whence he is.
John 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the
marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and [yet] he opened mine
eyes.
John 9:31 We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be
a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.
John 9:32 Since the world began it was never heard that any one
opened the eyes of a man born blind.
John 9:33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.
John 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether
born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he
said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
John 9:36 He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may
believe on him?
John 9:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and he it is
that speaketh with thee.
John 9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that
they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.
John 9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these
things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no
sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.
John 10
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the
door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the
same is a thief and a robber.
John 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the
sheep.
John 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice:
and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
John 10:4 When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them,
and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
John 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from
him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
John 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood
not what things they were which he spake unto them.
John 10:7 Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:8 All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
sheep did not hear them.
John 10:9 I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be
saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and
destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have [it]
abundantly.
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down
his life for the sheep.
John 10:12 He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the
sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and
fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth [them]:
John 10:13 [he fleeth] because he is a hireling, and careth not for the
sheep.
John 10:14 I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine
own know me,
John 10:15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them
also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall
become one flock, one shepherd.
John 10:17 Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down
my life, that I may take it again.
John 10:18 No one taketh it away 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 received I from my Father.
John 10:19 There arose a division again among the Jews because of
these words.
John 10:20 And many of them said, He hath a demon, and is mad;
why hear ye him?
John 10:21 Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed
with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
John 10:22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem:
John 10:23 it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in
Solomon's porch.
John 10:24 The Jews therefore came round about him, and said unto
him, How long dost thou hold us in suspense? If thou art the Christ,
tell us plainly.
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not: the
works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.
John 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me:
John 10:28 and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never
perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:29 My Father, who hath given [them] unto me, is greater
than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father's hand.
John 10:30 I and the Father are one.
John 10:31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed
you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee
not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said,
ye are gods?
John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God
came (and the scripture cannot be broken),
John 10:36 say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into
the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am [the] Son of God?
John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
John 10:38 But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the
works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and
I in the Father.
John 10:39 They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of
their hand.
John 10:40 And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the
place where John was at the first baptizing; and there be abode.
John 10:41 And many came unto him; and they said, John indeed did
no sign: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.
John 10:42 And many believed on him there.
John 11
John 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the
village of Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with
ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus
was sick.
John 11:3 The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold,
he whom thou lovest is sick.
John 11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto
death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified
thereby.
John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John 11:6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that
time two days in the place where he was.
John 11:7 Then after this he saith to the disciples, Let us go into
Judaea again.
John 11:8 The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now
seeking to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
John 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a
man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of
this world.
John 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the
light is not in him.
John 11:11 These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them,
Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him
out of sleep.
John 11:12 The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen
asleep, he will recover.
John 11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that
he spake of taking rest in sleep.
John 11:14 Then Jesus therefore said unto them plainly, Lazarus is
dead.
John 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the
intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
John 11:16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his
fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
John 11:17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the
tomb four days already.
John 11:18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen
furlongs off;
John 11:19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to
console them concerning their brother.
John 11:20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming,
went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house.
John 11:21 Martha therefore said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died.
John 11:22 And even now I know that, whatsoever thou shalt ask of
God, God will give thee.
John 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
John 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in
the resurrection at the last day.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he
that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;
John 11:26 and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never
die. Believest thou this?
John 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I have believed that thou
art the Christ, the Son of God, [even] he that cometh into the world.
John 11:28 And when she had said this, she went away, and called
Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is her, and calleth thee.
John 11:29 And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto
him.
John 11:30 (Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was
still in the place where Martha met him.)
John 11:31 The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were
consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and
went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb
to weep there.
John 11:32 Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, and
saw him, fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died.
John 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews
[also] weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was
troubled,
John 11:34 and said, Where have ye laid him? They say unto him,
Lord, come and see.
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
John 11:36 The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
John 11:37 But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened
the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should
not die?
John 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the
tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
John 11:39 Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of
him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body
decayeth; for he hath been [dead] four days.
John 11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou
believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
John 11:41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his
eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.
John 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of
the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that
thou didst send me.
John 11:43 And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud
voice, Lazarus, come forth.
John 11:44 He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus
saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
John 11:45 Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and
beheld that which he did, believed on him.
John 11:46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told
them the things which Jesus had done.
John 11:47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a
council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.
John 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and
the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
John 11:49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest
that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
John 11:50 nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that
one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish
not.
John 11:51 Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest
that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;
John 11:52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather
together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.
John 11:53 So from that day forth they took counsel that they might
put him to death.
John 11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews,
but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city
called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.
John 11:55 Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many
went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify
themselves.
John 11:56 They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with
another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? That he will not
come to the feast?
John 11:57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given
commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show
it, that they might take him.
John 12
John 12:1 Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to
Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
John 12:2 So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but
Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.
John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard,
very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with
her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
John 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray
him, saith,
John 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred
shillings, and given to the poor?
John 12:6 Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but
because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put
therein.
John 12:7 Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day
of my burying.
John 12:8 For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not
always.
John 12:9 The common people therefore of the Jews learned 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.
John 12:10 But the chief priests took counsel that they might put
Lazarus also to death;
John 12:11 because that by reason of him many of the Jews went
away, and believed on Jesus.
John 12:12 On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the
feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
John 12:13 took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to
meet him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the
name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.
John 12:14 And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is
written,
John 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt.
John 12:16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but
when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things
were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
John 12:17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he
called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare
witness.
John 12:18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, for
that they heard that he had done this sign.
John 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold
how ye prevail nothing: lo, the world is gone after him.
John 12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up
to worship at the feast:
John 12:21 these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of
Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
John 12:22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and
Philip, and they tell Jesus.
John 12:23 And Jesus answereth them, saying, The hour is come,
that the Son of man should be glorified.
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat
fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it
beareth much fruit.
John 12:25 He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life
in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am,
there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the
Father honor.
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father,
save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.
John 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice
out of heaven, [saying], I have both glorified it, and will glorify it
again.
John 12:29 The multitude therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said
that it had thundered: others said, An angel hath spoken to him.
John 12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for
my sake, but for your sakes.
John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince
of this world be cast out.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men
unto myself.
John 12:33 But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he
should die.
John 12:34 The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard
out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou,
The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
John 12:35 Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the
light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness
overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not
whither he goeth.
John 12:36 While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may
become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and
hid himself from them.
John 12:37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet
they believed not on him:
John 12:38 that the word of Isaiah 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?
John 12:39 For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said
again,
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart;
Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart,
And should turn, And I should heal them.
John 12:41 These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and
he spake of him.
John 12:42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him;
but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], lest they should
be put out of the synagogue:
John 12:43 for they loved the glory [that is] of men more than the
glory [that is] of God.
John 12:44 And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me,
believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
John 12:45 And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me.
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever
believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.
John 12:47 And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I
judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the
world.
John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath
one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him
in the last day.
John 12:49 For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me,
he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I
should speak.
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the
things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me,
so I speak.
John 13
John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that
his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his
Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them
unto the end.
John 13:2 And during supper, the devil having already put into the
heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him,
John 13:3 [Jesus], knowing that the Father had given all the things
into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and goeth unto God,
John 13:4 riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments; and he
took a towel, and girded himself.
John 13:5 Then he poureth water into the basin, and began to wash
the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was
girded.
John 13:6 So he cometh to Simon Peter. He saith unto him, Lord,
dost thou wash my feet?
John 13:7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou
knowest not now; but thou shalt understand hereafter.
John 13:8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus
answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
John 13:9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but
also my hands and my head.
John 13:10 Jesus saith to him, He that is bathed needeth not save to
wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
John 13:11 For he knew him that should betray him; therefore said
he, Ye are not all clean.
John 13:12 So when he had washed their feet, and taken his
garments, and sat down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I
have done to you?
John 13:13 Ye call me, Teacher, and, Lord: and ye say well; for so I
am.
John 13:14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your
feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye also should do
as I have done to you.
John 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, a servant is not greater
than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 13:17 If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but
that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth my bread lifted up
his heel against me.
John 13:19 From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that,
when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he].
John 13:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receiveth
whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth
him that sent me.
John 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit,
and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you
shall betray me.
John 13:22 The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom
he spake.
John 13:23 There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of
his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
John 13:24 Simon Peter therefore beckoneth to him, and saith unto
him, Tell [us] who it is of whom he speaketh.
John 13:25 He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast saith unto
him, Lord, who is it?
John 13:26 Jesus therefore answereth, He it is, for whom I shall dip
the sop, and give it him. So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh
and giveth it to Judas, [the son] of Simon Iscariot.
John 13:27 And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus
therefore saith unto him, What thou doest, do quickly.
John 13:28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake
this unto him.
John 13:29 For some thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus
said unto him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast; or, that
he should give something to the poor.
John 13:30 He then having received the sop went out straightway:
and it was night.
John 13:31 When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the
Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him;
John 13:32 and God shall glorify him in himself, and straightway
shall he glorify him.
John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall
seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come;
so now I say unto you.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one
another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye
have love one to another.
John 13:36 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, whither goest thou?
Jesus answered, Whither I go, thou canst not follow now; but thou
shalt follow afterwards.
John 13:37 Peter saith unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee
even now? I will lay down my life for thee.
John 13:38 Jesus answereth, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast
denied me thrice.
John 14
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe
also in me.
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so,
I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and
will receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
John 14:4 And whither I go, ye know the way.
John 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou
goest; how know we the way?
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the
life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father
also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
John 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it
sufficeth us.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you,
and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen
the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the
Father abiding in me doeth his works.
John 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me:
or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these
shall he do; because I go unto the Father.
John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do,
that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14 If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.
John 14:15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
John 14:17 [even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot
receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him;
for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:18 I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more;
but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John 14:20 In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye
in me, and I in you.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it
is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
John 14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, Lord, what is come to
pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he
will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the
word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
John 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, while [yet] abiding
with you.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
to your remembrance all that I said unto you.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as
the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be fearful.
John 14:28 Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto
you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the
Father: for the Father is greater than I.
John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that,
when it is come to pass, ye may believe.
John 14:30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the
world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;
John 14:31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and
as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go
hence.
John 15
John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it
away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it
may bear more fruit.
John 15:3 Already ye are clean because of the word which I have
spoken unto you.
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide
in me.
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me,
and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can
do nothing.
John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and
is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and
they are burned.
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask
whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and
[so] shall ye be my disciples.
John 15:9 Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you:
abide ye in my love.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his
love.
John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be
in you, and [that] your joy may be made full.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even
as I have loved you.
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends.
John 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command
you.
John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things
that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.
John 15:16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed
you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should
abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you.
John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye may love one
another.
John 15:18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me
before [it hated] you.
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own:
but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not
greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute
you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
John 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's
sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not
had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none
other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and
hated both me and my Father.
John 15:25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled
that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto
you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from
the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
John 15:27 and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me
from the beginning.
John 16
John 16:1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be
caused to stumble.
John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour
cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service
unto God.
John 16:3 And these things will they do, because they have not
known the Father, nor me.
John 16:4 But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their
hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these
things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with
you.
John 16:5 But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you
asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 16:6 But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow
hath filled your heart.
John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you
that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto
you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
John 16:8 And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect
of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
John 16:9 of sin, because they believe not on me;
John 16:10 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye
behold me no more;
John 16:11 of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been
judged.
John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot
bear them now.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall
guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but
what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall
declare unto you the things that are to come.
John 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall
declare [it] unto you.
John 16:15 All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore
said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you.
John 16:16 A little while, and ye behold me no more; and again a
little while, and ye shall see me.
John 16:17 [Some] of his disciples therefore said one to another,
What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye behold me
not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to
the Father?
John 16:18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little
while? We know not what he saith.
John 16:19 Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and
he said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this,
that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little
while, and ye shall see me?
John 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and
lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your
sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her
hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she
remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into
the world.
John 16:22 And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away
from you.
John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will
give it you in my name.
John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye
shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the
hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings,
but shall tell you plainly of the Father.
John 16:26 In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto
you, that I will pray the Father for you;
John 16:27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved
me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
John 16:28 I came out from the Father, and am come into the world:
again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.
John 16:29 His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and
speakest no dark saying.
John 16:30 Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest
not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest
forth from God.
John 16:31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is 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.
John 16:33 These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may
have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I
have overcome the world.
John 17
John 17:1 These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to
heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the
son may glorify thee:
John 17:2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all
whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the
only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
John 17:4 I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the
work which thou hast given me to do.
John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with
the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
John 17:6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me
out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and
they have kept thy word.
John 17:7 Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given
me are from thee:
John 17:8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto
them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth
from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those
whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:
John 17:10 and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine:
and I am glorified in them.
John 17:11 And I am no more in the world, and these are in the
world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which
thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we [are].
John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which
thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them
perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:13 But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the
world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world,
but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil [one].
John 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:18 As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them
into the world.
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they
themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
John 17:20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that
believe on me through their word;
John 17:21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may
believe that thou didst send me.
John 17:22 And the glory which thou hast given me I have given
unto them; that they may be one, even as we [are] one;
John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into
one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst
them, even as thou lovedst me.
John 17:24 Father, I desire 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.
John 17:25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew
thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
John 17:26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it
known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and
I in them.
John 18
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with
his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which
he entered, himself and his disciples.
John 18:2 Now Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for
Jesus oft-times resorted thither with his disciples.
John 18:3 Judas then, having received the band [of soldiers], and
officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with
lanterns and torches and weapons.
John 18:4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming
upon him, went forth, and saith unto them, Whom seek ye?
John 18:5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto
them, I am [he]. And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing
with them.
John 18:6 When therefore he said unto them, I am [he], they went
backward, and fell to the ground.
John 18:7 Again therefore he asked them, Whom seek ye? And they
said, Jesus of Nazareth.
John 18:8 Jesus answered, I told you that I am [he]; if therefore ye
seek me, let these go their way:
John 18:9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, Of those
whom thou hast given me I lost not one.
John 18:10 Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck
the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's
name was Malchus.
John 18:11 Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the
sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
John 18:12 So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the
Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
John 18:13 and led him to Annas first; for he was father in law to
Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
John 18:14 Now Caiaphas was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that
it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
John 18:15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and [so did] another
disciple. Now that disciple was known unto the high priest, and
entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
John 18:16 but Peter was standing at the door without. So the other
disciple, who was known unto the high priest, went out and spake
unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
John 18:17 The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto Peter,
Art thou also [one] of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.
John 18:18 Now the servants and the officers were standing [there],
having made a fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming
themselves: and Peter also was with them, standing and warming
himself.
John 18:19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and
of his teaching.
John 18:20 Jesus answered him, I have spoken openly to the world; I
ever taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews
come together; and in secret spake I nothing.
John 18:21 Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard [me],
what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which I said.
John 18:22 And when he had said this, one of the officers standing
by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest
so?
John 18:23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness
of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
John 18:24 Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high
priest.
John 18:25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.
They said therefore unto him, Art thou also [one] of his disciples? He
denied, and said, I am not.
John 18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of
him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden
with him?
John 18:27 Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock
crew.
John 18:28 They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the
Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the
Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
John 18:29 Pilate therefore went out unto them, and saith, What
accusation bring ye against this man?
John 18:30 They answered and said unto him, If this man were not
an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up unto thee.
John 18:31 Pilate therefore said unto them, Take him yourselves, and
judge him according to your law. The Jews said unto him, It is not
lawful for us to put any man to death:
John 18:32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake,
signifying by what manner of death he should die.
John 18:33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and
called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
John 18:34 Jesus answered, Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others
tell it thee concerning me?
John 18:35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the
chief priests delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my
kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I
should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from
hence.
John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then?
Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been
born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear
witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had
said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find
no crime in him.
John 18:39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one
at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of
the Jews?
John 18:40 They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but
Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.)
John 19
John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
John 19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on
his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment;
John 19:3 and they came unto him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews!
and they struck him with their hands.
John 19:4 And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, Behold, I
bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him.
John 19:5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and
the purple garment. And [Pilate] saith unto them, Behold, the man!
John 19:6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him,
they cried out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]! Pilate saith unto
them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in
him.
John 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law
he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
John 19:8 When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more
afraid;
John 19:9 and he entered into the Praetorium again, and saith unto
Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19:10 Pilate therefore saith unto him, Speakest thou not unto
me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have
power to crucify thee?
John 19:11 Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power
against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that
delivered me unto thee hath greater sin.
John 19:12 Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried
out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend:
every one that maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought
Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The
Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
John 19:14 Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about
the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King!
John 19:15 They therefore cried out, Away with [him], away with
[him], crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?
The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
John 19:16 Then therefore he delivered him unto them to be
crucified.
John 19:17 They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the
cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is
called in Hebrew, Golgotha:
John 19:18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on
either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
John 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And
there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE
JEWS.
John 19:20 This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place
where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in
Hebrew, [and] in Latin, [and] in Greek.
John 19:21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate,
Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the
Jews.
John 19:22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
John 19:23 The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and
also the coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top
throughout.
John 19:24 They said therefore one to another, 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 garments among them, And upon my
vesture did they cast lots.
John 19:25 These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were
standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister,
Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman,
behold thy son!
John 19:27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold, thy mother! And
from that hour the disciple took her unto his own [home].
John 19:28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished,
that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst.
John 19:29 There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a
sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that
the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the
day of that sabbath was a high [day]), asked of Pilate that their legs
might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
John 19:32 The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the
first, and of the other that was crucified with him:
John 19:33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they brake not his legs:
John 19:34 howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,
and straightway there came out blood and water.
John 19:35 And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness
is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe.
John 19:36 For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be
fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
John 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him
whom they pierced.
John 19:38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that
he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave.
He came therefore, and took away his body.
John 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first
came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a
hundred pounds.
John 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen
cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
John 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a
garden; and in the garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet
laid.
John 19:42 There then because of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb
was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.
John 20
John 20:1 Now on the first [day] of the week cometh Mary
Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the
stone taken away from the tomb.
John 20:2 She runneth therefore, 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 tomb, and we know not where they
have laid him.
John 20:3 Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they
went toward the tomb.
John 20:4 And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran
Peter, and came first to the tomb;
John 20:5 and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths
lying; yet entered he not in.
John 20:6 Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and
entered into the tomb; and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying,
John 20:7 and the napkin, that was upon his head, not lying with the
linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
John 20:8 Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, who
came first to the tomb, and he saw, and believed.
John 20:9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise
from the dead.
John 20:10 So the disciples went away again unto their own home.
John 20:11 But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so,
as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;
John 20:12 and she beholdeth two angels in white sitting, one at the
head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John 20:13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She
saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know
not where they have laid him.
John 20:14 When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and
beholdeth Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
John 20:15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom
seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him,
Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him,
and I will take him away.
John 20:16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turneth herself, and saith
unto him in Hebrew, Rabboni; which is to say, Teacher.
John 20:17 Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet
ascended unto the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I
ascend unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
John 20:18 Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, I have
seen the Lord; and [that] he had said these things unto her.
John 20:19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first
[day] of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples
were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and
saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.
John 20:20 And when he had said this, he showed unto them his
hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw
the Lord.
John 20:21 Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace [be] unto you:
as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and
saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:
John 20:23 whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto
them; whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.
John 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not
with them when Jesus came.
John 20:25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have
seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands
the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.
John 20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and
Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in
the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto you.
John 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and
see my hands; and reach [hither] thy hand, and put it into my side:
and be not faithless, but believing.
John 20:28 Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my
God.
John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Because thou hast seen me, thou
hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have
believed.
John 20:30 Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence of
the disciples, which are not written in this book:
John 20:31 but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his
name.
John 21
John 21:1 After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the
disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested [himself] on this
wise.
John 21:2 There was together Simon Peter, and Thomas called
Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the [sons] of
Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto
him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and entered into the
boat; and that night they took nothing.
John 21:4 But when day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the
beach: yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
John 21:5 Jesus therefore saith unto them, Children, have ye aught to
eat? They answered him, No.
John 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the
boat, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not
able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
John 21:7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter,
It is the Lord. So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt
his coat about him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.
John 21:8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they
were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits off),
dragging the net [full] of fishes.
John 21:9 So when they got out upon the land, they see a fire of
coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
John 21:10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have
now taken.
John 21:11 Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land,
full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three: and for all there
were so many, the net was not rent.
John 21:12 Jesus saith unto them, Come [and] break your fast. And
none of the disciples durst inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing
that it was the Lord.
John 21:13 Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and
the fish likewise.
John 21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to
the disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
John 21:15 So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon
Peter, Simon, [son] of John, 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.
John 21:16 He saith to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of
John, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest
that I love thee. He saith unto him, Tend my sheep.
John 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John,
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.
John 21:18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young,
thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when
thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall
gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
John 21:19 Now this he spake, signifying by what manner of death
he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto
him, Follow me.
John 21:20 Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved
following; who also leaned back on his breast at the supper, and said,
Lord, who is he that betrayeth thee?
John 21:21 Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what
shall this man do?
John 21:22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come,
what [is that] to thee? Follow thou me.
John 21:23 This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, that
that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, that he
should not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to
thee?
John 21:24 This is the disciple that beareth witness of these things,
and wrote these things: and we know that his witness is true.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did,
the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the
world itself would not contain the books that should be written.
Acts
Acts 1
Acts 1:1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all
that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
Acts 1:2 until the day in which he was received up, after that he had
given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom
he had chosen:
Acts 1:3 To whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by
many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and
speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:
Acts 1:4 and, being assembled together with them, he charged them
not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the
Father, which, [said he], ye heard from me:
Acts 1:5 For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be
baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
Acts 1:6 They therefore, when they were come together, asked him,
saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or
seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come
upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all
Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 1:9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he
was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Acts 1:10 And while they were looking stedfastly into heaven as he
went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Acts 1:11 who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking
into heaven? this Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven
shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven.
Acts 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called
Olivet, which is nigh unto Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey off.
Acts 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into the upper
chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James
and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James
[the son] of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas [the son] of
James.
Acts 1:14 These all with one accord continued stedfastly in prayer,
with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brethren.
Acts 1:15 And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the
brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons [gathered]
together, about a hundred and twenty),
Acts 1:16 Brethren, it was needful that the Scripture should be
fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of David
concerning Judas, who was guide to them that took Jesus.
Acts 1:17 For he was numbered among us, and received his portion
in this ministry.
Acts 1:18 (Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his
iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all
his bowels gushed out.
Acts 1:19 And it became known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem;
insomuch that in their language that field was called Akeldama, that
is, The field of blood.)
Acts 1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation
be made desolate, And let no man dwell therein: and, His office let
another take.
Acts 1:21 Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the
time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
Acts 1:22 beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he
was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us
of his resurrection.
Acts 1:23 And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who
was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
Acts 1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the
hearts of all men, show of these two the one whom thou hast chosen,
Acts 1:25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from
which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
Acts 1:26 And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon
Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Acts 2
Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were
all together in one place.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the
rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
sitting.
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like
as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men,
from every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came
together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them
speaking in his own language.
Acts 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold,
are not all these that speak Galilaeans?
Acts 2:8 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein
we were born?
Acts 2:9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,
Acts 2:10 in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya
about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Acts 2:11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our
tongues the mighty works of God.
Acts 2:12 And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one
to another, What meaneth this?
Acts 2:13 But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.
Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice,
and spake forth unto them, [saying], Ye men of Judaea, and all ye
that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and give ear unto
my words.
Acts 2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is [but]
the third hour of the day.
Acts 2:16 but this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet
Joel:
Acts 2:17 And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth
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:
Acts 2:18 Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those
days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
Acts 2:19 And I will show wonders in the heaven above, And signs
on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into
blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable [day].
Acts 2:21 And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a
man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and
signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye
yourselves know;
Acts 2:23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and
slay:
Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death:
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:25 For David saith concerning him, I beheld the Lord always
before my face; For he is on my right hand, that I should not be
moved:
Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
Moreover my flesh also shall dwell in hope:
Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither
wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 2:28 Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; Thou shalt
make me full of gladness with thy countenance.
Acts 2:29 Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David,
that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this
day.
Acts 2:30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had
sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set
[one] upon his throne;
Acts 2:31 he foreseeing [this] spake of the resurrection of the Christ,
that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Acts 2:32 This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33 Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and
having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath
poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
Acts 2:34 For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith
himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
Acts 2:36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that
God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye
crucified.
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard [this,] they were pricked in their
heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what
shall we do?
Acts 2:38 And Peter [said] unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of
your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:39 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all
that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call unto
him.
Acts 2:40 And with many other words he testified, and exhorted
them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
Acts 2:41 They then that received his word were baptized: and there
were added [unto them] in that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' teaching and
fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and
signs were done through the apostles.
Acts 2:44 And all that believed were together, and had all things
common;
Acts 2:45 and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them
to all, according as any man had need.
Acts 2:46 And day by day, continuing stedfastly with one accord in
the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with
gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts 2:47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. And
the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.
Acts 3
Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the
hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour].
Acts 3:2 And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb
was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is
called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts 3:3 who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple,
asked to receive an alms.
Acts 3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with John, said,
Look on us.
Acts 3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive
something from them.
Acts 3:6 But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have,
that give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.
Acts 3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and raised him up: and
immediately his feet and his ankle-bones received strength.
Acts 3:8 And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk; and he entered
with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Acts 3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
Acts 3:10 and they took knowledge of him, that it was he that 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.
Acts 3:11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together
unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Acts 3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye
men of Israel, why marvel ye at this man? or why fasten ye your eyes
on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to
walk?
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God
of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered
up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to
release him.
Acts 3:14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a
murderer to be granted unto you,
Acts 3:15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the
dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 3:16 And by faith in his name hath his name made this man
strong, whom ye behold and know: yea, the faith which is through
him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as
did also your rulers.
Acts 3:18 But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all
the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be
blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the
presence of the Lord;
Acts 3:20 and that he may send the Christ who hath been appointed
for you, [even] Jesus:
Acts 3:21 whom the heaven must receive until the times of
restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of His holy
prophets that have been from of old.
Acts 3:22 Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord God raise up
unto you from among your brethren, like unto me. To him shall ye
hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you.
Acts 3:23 And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to
that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.
Acts 3:24 Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that
followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Acts 3:25 Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which
God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed
shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Servant, sent him
to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.
Acts 4
Acts 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the
captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
Acts 4:2 being sore troubled because they taught the people, and
proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in ward unto the
morrow: for it was now eventide.
Acts 4:4 But many of them that heard the word believed; and the
number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and
elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;
Acts 4:6 and Annas the high priest [was there], and Caiaphas, and
John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high
priest.
Acts 4:7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, By
what power, or in what name, have ye done this?
Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, Ye
rulers of the people, and elders,
Acts 4:9 if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to
an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;
Acts 4:10 be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel,
that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified,
whom God raised from the dead, [even] in him doth this man stand
here before you whole.
Acts 4:11 He is the stone which was set at nought of you the
builders, which was made the head of the corner.
Acts 4:12 And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there
any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we
must be saved.
Acts 4:13 Now when they beheld the boldness of Peter and John, and
had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they
marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with
Jesus.
Acts 4:14 And seeing the man that was healed standing with them,
they could say nothing against it.
Acts 4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the
council, they conferred among themselves,
Acts 4:16 saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a
notable miracle hath been wrought through them, is manifest to all
that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
Acts 4:17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us
threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Acts 4:18 And they called them, and charged them not to speak at all
nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether
it is right in the sight of God to hearken unto you rather than unto
God, judge ye:
Acts 4:20 for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and
heard.
Acts 4:21 And they, when they had further threatened them, let them
go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the
people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Acts 4:22 For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this
miracle of healing was wrought.
Acts 4:23 And being let go, they came to their own company, and
reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said unto them.
Acts 4:24 And they, when they heard it, lifted up their voice to God
with one accord, and said, O Lord, thou that didst make the heaven
and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
Acts 4:25 who by the Holy Spirit, [by] the mouth of our father David
thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples
imagine vain things?
Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the
rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord, and against his
Anointed:
Acts 4:27 for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus,
whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the
Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,
Acts 4:28 to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to
come to pass.
Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant
unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,
Acts 4:30 while thy stretchest forth thy hand to heal; and that signs
and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant
Jesus.
Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken wherein
they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart
and soul: and not one [of them] said that aught of the things which he
possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Acts 4:33 And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Acts 4:34 For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as
many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought
the prices of the things that were sold,
Acts 4:35 and laid them at the apostles' feet: and distribution was
made unto each, according as any one had need.
Acts 4:36 And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas
(which is, being interpreted, Son of exhortation), a Levite, a man of
Cyprus by race,
Acts 4:37 having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at
the apostles' feet.
Acts 5
Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife,
sold a possession,
Acts 5:2 and kept back [part] of the price, his wife also being privy to
it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to
lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?
Acts 5:4 While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it
was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived
this thing in thy heart? thou has not lied unto men, but unto God.
Acts 5:5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the
ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it.
Acts 5:6 And the young men arose and wrapped him round, and they
carried him out and buried him.
Acts 5:7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his
wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
Acts 5:8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the
land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much.
Acts 5:9 But Peter [said] unto her, How is it that ye have agreed
together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that
have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.
Acts 5:10 And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the
ghost: and the young men came in and found her dead, and they
carried her out and buried her by her husband.
Acts 5:11 And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all
that heard these things.
Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with one
accord in Solomon's porch.
Acts 5:13 But of the rest durst no man join himself to them: howbeit
the people magnified them;
Acts 5:14 and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes
both of them and women;
Acts 5:15 insomuch that they even carried out the sick into the
streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that, as Peter came by, at
the least his shadow might overshadow some one of them.
Acts 5:16 And there also came together the multitudes from the cities
round about Jerusalem, bring sick folk, and them that were vexed
with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
Acts 5:17 But the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him
(which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with
jealousy,
Acts 5:18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public
ward.
Acts 5:19 But an angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors,
and brought them out, and said,
Acts 5:20 Go ye, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all
the words of this Life.
Acts 5:21 And when they heard [this], they entered into the temple
about daybreak, 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-house to have them
brought.
Acts 5:22 But the officers that came found them not in the prison;
and they returned, and told,
Acts 5:23 saying, The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and
the keepers standing at the doors: but when we had opened, we found
no man within.
Acts 5:24 Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests
heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them
whereunto this would grow.
Acts 5:25 And there came one and told them, Behold, the men whom
ye put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the
people.
Acts 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them,
[but] without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be
stoned.
Acts 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the
council. And the high priest asked them,
Acts 5:28 saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name:
and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend
to bring this man's blood upon us.
Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must
obey God rather than men.
Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew,
hanging him on a tree.
Acts 5:31 Him did God exalt with his right hand [to be] a Prince and
a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
Acts 5:32 And we are witnesses of these things; and [so is] the Holy
Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Acts 5:33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and
minded to slay them.
Acts 5:34 But there stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named
Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in honor of all the people, and
commanded to put the men forth a little while.
Acts 5:35 And he said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to
yourselves as touching these men, what ye are about to do.
Acts 5:36 For before these days rose up Theudas, giving himself out
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 dispersed, and came to nought.
Acts 5:37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the
enrolment, and drew away [some of the] people after him: he also
perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let
them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be
overthrown:
Acts 5:39 but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them;
lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.
Acts 5:40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the
apostles unto them, they beat them and charged them not to speak in
the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 5:41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council,
rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the
Name.
Acts 5:42 And every day, in the temple and at home, they ceased not
to teach and to preach Jesus [as] the Christ.
Acts 6
Acts 6:1 Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was
multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the
Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily
ministration.
Acts 6:2 And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto
them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God,
and serve tables.
Acts 6:3 Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men
of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may
appoint over this business.
Acts 6:4 But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the
ministry of the word.
Acts 6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and
Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a
proselyte of Antioch;
Acts 6:6 whom they set before the apostles: and when they had
prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the
disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company
of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great
wonders and signs among the people.
Acts 6:9 But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue
called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of
the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with
Stephen.
Acts 6:10 And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the
Spirit by which he spake.
Acts 6:11 Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him
speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God.
Acts 6:12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the
scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into
the council,
Acts 6:13 and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not
to speak words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 6:14 for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall
destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses
delivered unto us.
Acts 6:15 And all that sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him,
saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Acts 7
Acts 7:1 And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Acts 7:2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of
glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in
Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
Acts 7:3 and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy
kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
Acts 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt
in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, [God] removed
him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:
Acts 7:5 and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as
to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in
possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.
Acts 7:6 And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in
a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and
treat them ill, four hundred years.
Acts 7:7 And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I
judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in
this place.
Acts 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so
[Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and
Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph,
sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,
Acts 7:10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him
favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him
governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 7:11 Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and
great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Acts 7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he
sent forth our fathers the first time.
Acts 7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his
brethren; and Joseph's race became manifest unto Pharaoh.
Acts 7:14 And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all
his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Acts 7:15 And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and
our fathers;
Acts 7:16 and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the
tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor
in Shechem.
Acts 7:17 But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God
vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Acts 7:18 till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not
Joseph.
Acts 7:19 The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our
fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not
live.
Acts 7:20 At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair;
and he was nourished three months in his father's house.
Acts 7:21 and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up,
and nourished him for her own son.
Acts 7:22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.
Acts 7:23 But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his
heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Acts 7:24 And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended him,
and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:
Acts 7:25 and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by
his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.
Acts 7:26 And the day following he appeared 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?
Acts 7:27 But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away,
saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7:28 Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian
yesterday?
Acts 7:29 And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in
the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
Acts 7:30 And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to
him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts 7:31 And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as
he drew near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord,
Acts 7:32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of
Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
Acts 7:33 And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet:
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Acts 7:34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in
Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver
them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a
ruler and a judge? him hath God sent [to be] both a ruler and a
deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:36 This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and
signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, who said unto the children of Israel, A
prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like
unto me.
Acts 7:38 This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the
angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who
received living oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him
from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,
Acts 7:40 saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us:
for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we
know not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice
unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Acts 7:42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of
heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto
me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house
of Israel?
Acts 7:43 And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of
the god Rephan, The figures which ye made to worship them: And I
will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the
wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he
should make it according to the figure that he had seen.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with
Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God
thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts 7:46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a
habitation for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him a house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in [houses] made
with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:49 The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my
feet: What manner of house will ye build me? saith the Lord: Or what
is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Did not my hand make all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and
they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous
One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
Acts 7:53 ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and
kept it not.
Acts 7:54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the
heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God,
Acts 7:56 and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of
Man standing on the right hand of God.
Acts 7:57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their
ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;
Acts 7:58 and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the
witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named
Saul.
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [the Lord], and
saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Acts 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord,
lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell
asleep.
Acts 8
Acts 8:1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on
that day a great persecution against the church which was in
Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions
of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Acts 8:2 And devout men buried Stephen, and made great
lamentation over him.
Acts 8:3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house,
and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
Acts 8:4 They therefore that were scattered abroad, went about
preaching the word.
Acts 8:5 And Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and
proclaimed unto them the Christ.
Acts 8:6 And the multitudes gave heed with one accord unto the
things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard, and saw the signs
which he did.
Acts 8:7 For [from] many of those that had unclean spirits, they came
out, crying with a loud voice: and many that were palsied, and that
were lame, were healed.
Acts 8:8 And there was much joy in that city.
Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who
beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of
Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Acts 8:10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest,
saying, This man is that power of God which is called Great.
Acts 8:11 And they gave heed to him, because that of long time he
had amazed them with his sorceries.
Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching good tidings
concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they
were baptized, both men and women.
Acts 8:13 And Simon also himself believed: and being baptized, he
continued with Philip; and beholding signs and great miracles
wrought, he was amazed.
Acts 8:14 Now when the apostles that were at Jerusalem heard that
Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and
John:
Acts 8:15 who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that
they might receive the Holy Spirit:
Acts 8:16 for as yet it was fallen upon none of them: only they had
been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the
Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:18 Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the
apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
Acts 8:19 saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay
my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee,
because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.
Acts 8:21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is
not right before God.
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord,
if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
Acts 8:23 For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the
bond of iniquity.
Acts 8:24 And Simon answered and said, Pray ye for me to the Lord,
that none of the things which ye have spoken come upon me.
Acts 8:25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the
word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to
many villages of the Samaritans.
Acts 8:26 But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise,
and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from
Jerusalem unto Gaza: the same is desert.
Acts 8:27 And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a
eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians,
who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to
worship;
Acts 8:28 and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was
reading the prophet Isaiah.
Acts 8:29 And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to
this chariot.
Acts 8:30 And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the
prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Acts 8:31 And he said, How can I, except some one shall guide me?
And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.
Acts 8:32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading
was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before
his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:
Acts 8:33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His
generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.
Acts 8:34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of
whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other?
Acts 8:35 And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this
Scripture, preached unto him Jesus.
Acts 8:36 And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain
water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, [here is] water; what doth hinder
me to be baptized?
Acts 8:37 [And Philip said, If thou believest with all thy heart, thou
mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the
Son of God.]
Acts 8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both
went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he
baptized him.
Acts 8:39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the
Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he
went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he
preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
Acts 9
Acts 9:1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the
disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
Acts 9:2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues,
that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he
might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 9:3 And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto
Damascus: and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of
heaven:
Acts 9:4 and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto
him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Acts 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest:
Acts 9:6 but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what
thou must do.
Acts 9:7 And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing the voice, but beholding no man.
Acts 9:8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were
opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought
him into Damascus.
Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor
drink.
Acts 9:10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named
Ananias; and the Lord said unto him in a vision, Ananias. And he
said, Behold, I [am here], Lord.
Acts 9:11 And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go to the street
which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one
named Saul, a man of Tarsus: for behold, he prayeth;
Acts 9:12 and he hath seen a man named Ananias coming in, and
laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.
Acts 9:13 But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of
this man, how much evil he did to thy saints at Jerusalem:
Acts 9:14 and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all
that call upon thy name.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen
vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and
the children of Israel:
Acts 9:16 for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my
name's sake.
Acts 9:17 And Ananias departed, and entered into the house; and
laying his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus,
who appeared unto thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me,
that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9:18 And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales,
and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;
Acts 9:19 and he took food and was strengthened. And he was
certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus.
Acts 9:20 And straightway in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus,
that he is the Son of God.
Acts 9:21 And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this
he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name?
and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them
bound before the chief priests.
Acts 9:22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded
the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 9:23 And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel
together to kill him:
Acts 9:24 but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the
gates also day and night that they might kill him:
Acts 9:25 but his disciples took him by night, and let him down
through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Acts 9:26 And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join
himself to the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, not believing
that he was a disciple.
Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles,
and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and
that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached
boldly in the name of Jesus.
Acts 9:28 And he was with them going in and going out at Jerusalem,
Acts 9:29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord: and he spake
and disputed against the Grecian Jews; but they were seeking to kill
him.
Acts 9:30 And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to
Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts 9:31 So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and
Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord
and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.
Acts 9:32 And it came to pass, as Peter went throughout all parts, he
came down also to the saints that dwelt at Lydda.
Acts 9:33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had
kept his bed eight years; for he was palsied.
Acts 9:34 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ healeth
thee: arise and make thy bed. And straightway he arose.
Acts 9:35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and
they turned to the Lord.
Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha,
which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good
works and almsdeeds which she did.
Acts 9:37 And it came to pass in those days, that she fell sick, and
died: and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper
chamber.
Acts 9:38 And as Lydda was nigh unto Joppa, the disciples, hearing
that Peter was there, sent two men unto him, entreating him, Delay
not to come on unto us.
Acts 9:39 And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was
come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows
stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which
Dorcas made, while she was with them.
Acts 9:40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down and prayed;
and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her
eyes; and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Acts 9:41 And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling
the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
Acts 9:42 And it became known throughout all Joppa: and many
believed on the Lord.
Acts 9:43 And it came to pass, that he abode many days in Joppa
with one Simon a tanner.
Acts 10
Acts 10:1 Now [there was] a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by
name, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band],
Acts 10:2 a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house,
who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.
Acts 10:3 He saw in a vision openly, as it were about the ninth hour
of the day, an angel of God coming in unto him, and saying to him,
Cornelius.
Acts 10:4 And he, fastening his eyes upon him, and being affrighted,
said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine
alms are gone up for a memorial before God.
Acts 10:5 And now send men to Joppa, and fetch one Simon, who is
surnamed Peter:
Acts 10:6 he lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the
sea side.
Acts 10:7 And when the angel that spake unto him was departed, he
called two of his household-servants, and a devout soldier of them
that waited on him continually;
Acts 10:8 and having rehearsed all things unto them, he sent them to
Joppa.
Acts 10:9 Now on the morrow, as they were on their journey, and
drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray,
about the sixth hour:
Acts 10:10 and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they
made ready, he fell into a trance;
Acts 10:11 and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel
descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon
the earth:
Acts 10:12 wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and
creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven.
Acts 10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
Acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten
anything that is common and unclean.
Acts 10:15 And a voice [came] unto him again the second time,
What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
Acts 10:16 And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was
received up into heaven.
Acts 10:17 Now while Peter was much perplexed in himself what the
vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men that were sent
by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before
the gate,
Acts 10:18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed
Peter, were lodging there.
Acts 10:19 And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said
unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Acts 10:20 But arise, and get thee down, and go with them, nothing
doubting: for I have sent them.
Acts 10:21 And Peter went down to the men, and said, Behold, I am
he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and
one that feareth God, and well reported of by all the nation of the
Jews, was warned [of God] by a holy angel to send for thee into his
house, and to hear words from thee.
Acts 10:23 So he called them in and lodged them. And on the
morrow he arose and went forth with them, and certain of the
brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
Acts 10:24 And on the morrow they entered into Caesarea. And
Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen
and his near friends.
Acts 10:25 And when it came to pass that Peter entered, Cornelius
met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
Acts 10:26 But Peter raised him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also
am a man.
Acts 10:27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and findeth many
come together:
Acts 10:28 and he said unto them, Ye yourselves know how it is an
unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto
one of another nation; and [yet] unto me hath God showed that I
should not call any man common or unclean:
Acts 10:29 wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was
sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.
Acts 10:30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago, until this hour, I was
keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man
stood before me in bright apparel,
Acts 10:31 and saith, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms
are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
Acts 10:32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call unto thee Simon, who is
surnamed Peter; he lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea
side.
Acts 10:33 Forthwith therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done
that thou art come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight
of God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee of the
Lord.
Acts 10:34 And Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I
perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Acts 10:35 but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness, is acceptable to him.
Acts 10:36 The word which he sent unto the children of Israel,
preaching good tidings of peace by Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all.) --
Acts 10:37 that saying ye yourselves know, which was published
throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism
which John preached;
Acts 10:38 [even] Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the
Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing
all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Acts 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in
the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom also they slew,
hanging him on a tree.
Acts 10:40 Him God raised up the third day, and gave him to be
made manifest,
Acts 10:41 not to all the people, but unto witnesses that were chosen
before of God, [even] to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose
from the dead.
Acts 10:42 And he charged us to preach unto the people, and to
testify that this is he who is ordained of God [to be] the Judge of the
living and the dead.
Acts 10:43 To him bear all the prophets witness, that through his
name every one that believeth on him shall receive remission of sins.
Acts 10:44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell on
all them that heard the word.
Acts 10:45 And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed,
as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was
poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify
God. Then answered Peter,
Acts 10:47 Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be
baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
Acts 10:48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Acts 11
Acts 11:1 Now the apostles and the brethren that were in Judaea
heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were
of the circumcision contended with him,
Acts 11:3 saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst
eat with them.
Acts 11:4 But Peter began, and expounded [the matter] unto them in
order, saying,
Acts 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a
vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down
from heaven by four corners; and it came even unto me:
Acts 11:6 upon which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered,
and saw the fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and
creeping things and birds of the heaven.
Acts 11:7 And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill
and eat.
Acts 11:8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean
hath ever entered into my mouth.
Acts 11:9 But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What
God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
Acts 11:10 And this was done thrice: and all were drawn up again
into heaven.
Acts 11:11 And behold, forthwith three men stood before the house
in which we were, having been sent from Caesarea unto me.
Acts 11:12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, making no
distinction. And these six brethren also accompanied me; and we
entered into the man's house:
Acts 11:13 and he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his
house, and saying, Send to Joppa, and fetch Simon, whose surname is
Peter;
Acts 11:14 who shall speak unto thee words, whereby thou shalt be
saved, thou and all thy house.
Acts 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them,
even as on us at the beginning.
Acts 11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said,
John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy
Spirit.
Acts 11:17 If then God gave unto them the like gift as [he did] also
unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I
could withstand God?
Acts 11:18 And when they heard these things, they held their peace,
and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted
repentance unto life.
Acts 11:19 They therefore that were scattered abroad upon the
tribulation that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, and
Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none save only to Jews.
Acts 11:20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene,
who, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Greeks also,
preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great
number that believed turned unto the Lord.
Acts 11:22 And the report concerning them came to the ears of the
church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas as far as
Antioch:
Acts 11:23 who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God,
was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they
would cleave unto the Lord:
Acts 11:24 for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of
faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
Acts 11:25 And he went forth to Tarsus to seek for Saul;
Acts 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him unto
Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were
gathered together with the church, and taught much people, and that
the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts 11:27 Now in these days there came down prophets from
Jerusalem unto Antioch.
Acts 11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and
signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the
world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.
Acts 11:29 And the disciples, every man according to his ability,
determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judea:
Acts 11:30 which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand
of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 12
Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to
afflict certain of the church.
Acts 12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Acts 12:3 And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to
seize Peter also. And [those] were the days of unleavened bread.
Acts 12:4 And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and
delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending
after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.
Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made
earnestly of the church unto God for him.
Acts 12:6 And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same
night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two
chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.
Acts 12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light
shined in the cell: and he smote Peter on the side, and awoke him,
saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Acts 12:8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy
sandals. And he did so. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment
about thee, and follow me.
Acts 12:9 And he went out, and followed; and he knew not that it
was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.
Acts 12:10 And when they were past the first and the second guard,
they came unto the iron gate that leadeth into the city; which opened
to them of its own accord: and they went out, and passed on through
one street; and straightway the angel departed from him.
Acts 12:11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I
know of a truth, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel and delivered
me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the
people of the Jews.
Acts 12:12 And when he had considered [the thing], he came to the
house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark; where
many were gathered together and were praying.
Acts 12:13 And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid
came to answer, named Rhoda.
Acts 12:14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the
gate for joy, but ran in, and told that Peter stood before the gate.
Acts 12:15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she
confidently affirmed that it was even so. And they said, It is his
angel.
Acts 12:16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had
opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
Acts 12:17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their
peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him forth out of
the prison. And he said, Tell these things unto James, and to the
brethren. And he departed, and went to another place.
Acts 12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among
the soldiers, what was become of Peter.
Acts 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not,
he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to
death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and tarried there.
Acts 12:20 Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and
Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made
Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace,
because their country was fed from the king's country.
Acts 12:21 And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal
apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them.
Acts 12:22 And the people shouted, [saying], The voice of a god, and
not of a man.
Acts 12:23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him,
because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and
gave up the ghost.
Acts 12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Acts 12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when
they had fulfilled their ministration, taking with them John whose
surname was Mark.
Acts 13
Acts 13:1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was [there],
prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger,
and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 13:2 And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy
Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I
have called them.
Acts 13:3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their
hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 13:4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to
Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
Acts 13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word
of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John as their
attendant.
Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the whole island unto
Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose
name was Bar-jesus;
Acts 13:7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of
understanding. The same called unto him Barnabas and Saul, and
sought to hear the word of God.
Acts 13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by
interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul
from the faith.
Acts 13:9 But Saul, who is also [called] Paul, filled with the Holy
Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,
Acts 13:10 and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the
devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert
the right ways of the Lord?
Acts 13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and
thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately
there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking
some to lead him by the hand.
Acts 13:12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done,
believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Acts 13:13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and
came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departed from them and
returned to Jerusalem.
Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of
Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat
down.
Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the
rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Brethren, if ye have
any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts 13:16 And Paul stood up, and beckoning with the hand said,
Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken:
Acts 13:17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and
exalted the people when they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and
with a high arm led he them forth out of it.
Acts 13:18 And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father
bare he them in the wilderness.
Acts 13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of
Canaan, he gave [them] their land for an inheritance, for about four
hundred and fifty years:
Acts 13:20 and after these things he gave [them] judges until Samuel
the prophet.
Acts 13:21 And afterward they asked for a king: and God gave unto
them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for the
space of forty years.
Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be
their king; to whom also he bare witness and said, I have found David
the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who shall do all My will.
Acts 13:23 Of this man's seed hath God according to promise
brought unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus;
Acts 13:24 when John had first preached before his coming the
baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Acts 13:25 And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, What
suppose ye that I am? I am not [he]. But behold, there cometh one
after me the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.
Acts 13:26 Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those
among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent
forth.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because
they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read
every sabbath, fulfilled [them] by condemning [him].
Acts 13:28 And though they found no cause of death [in him], yet
asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.
Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written
of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:
Acts 13:31 and he was seen for many days of them that came up with
him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses unto the
people.
Acts 13:32 And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto
the fathers,
Acts 13:33 that God hath fulfilled the same unto our children, in that
he raised up Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou art
my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Acts 13:34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead,
now no more to return to corruption, he hath spoken on this wise, I
will give you the holy and sure [blessings] of David.
Acts 13:35 Because he saith also in another [psalm], Thou wilt not
give Thy Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the
counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw
corruption:
Acts 13:37 but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.
Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, brethren, that through
this man is proclaimed unto you remission of sins:
Acts 13:39 and by him every one that believeth is justified from all
things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 13:40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon [you] which is
spoken in the prophets:
Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work
a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one
declare it unto you.
Acts 13:42 And as they went out, they besought that these words
might be spoken to them the next sabbath.
Acts 13:43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews
and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who,
speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
Acts 13:44 And the next sabbath almost the whole city was gathered
together to hear the word of God.
Acts 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled
with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by
Paul, and blasphemed.
Acts 13:46 And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was
necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing
ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life,
lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set
thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation
unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 13:48 And as the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and
glorified the word of God: and as many as were ordained to eternal
life believed.
Acts 13:49 And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout
all the region.
Acts 13:50 But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable
estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution
against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.
Acts 13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and
came unto Iconium.
Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy with the Holy
Spirit.
Acts 14
Acts 14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together
into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude
both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
Acts 14:2 But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of
the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore they tarried [there] speaking boldly in
the Lord, who bare witness unto the word of his grace, granting signs
and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held
with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Acts 14:5 And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles
and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to
stone them,
Acts 14:6 they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of
Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about:
Acts 14:7 and there they preached the gospel.
Acts 14:8 And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet,
a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
Acts 14:9 The same heard Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes upon
him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
Acts 14:10 said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he
leaped up and walked.
Acts 14:11 And when the multitude saw what Paul had done, they
lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are
come down to us in the likeness of men.
Acts 14:12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury,
because he was the chief speaker.
Acts 14:13 And the priest of Jupiter whose [temple] was before the
city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done
sacrifice with the multitudes.
Acts 14:14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it,
they rent their garments, and sprang forth among the multitude,
crying out
Acts 14:15 and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are
men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye
should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the
heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
Acts 14:16 who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to
walk in their own ways.
Acts 14:17 And yet He left not himself without witness, in that he did
good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling
your hearts with food and gladness.
Acts 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the
multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.
Acts 14:19 But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium:
and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged
him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 14:20 But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up,
and entered into the city: and on the morrow he went forth with
Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and
had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium,
and to Antioch,
Acts 14:22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to
continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must
enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 14:23 And when they had appointed for them elders in every
church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the
Lord, on whom they had believed.
Acts 14:24 And they passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
Acts 14:25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went
down to Attalia;
Acts 14:26 and thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had
been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had
fulfilled.
Acts 14:27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church
together, they rehearsed all things that God had done with them, and
that he had opened a door of faith unto the Gentiles.
Acts 14:28 And they tarried no little time with the disciples.
Acts 15
Acts 15:1 And certain men came down from Judaea and taught the
brethren, [saying], Except ye be circumcised after the custom of
Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 15:2 And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and
questioning with them, [the brethren] appointed that Paul and
Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto
the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts 15:3 They therefore, being brought on their way by the church,
passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion
of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
Acts 15:4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were
received of the church and the apostles and the elders, and they
rehearsed all things that God had done with them.
Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who
believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to charge them
to keep the law of Moses.
Acts 15:6 And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to
consider of this matter.
Acts 15:7 And when there had been much questioning, Peter rose up,
and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago God
made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear
the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts 15:8 And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness,
giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
Acts 15:9 and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing
their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:10 Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should
put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers
nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15:11 But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace
of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they.
Acts 15:12 And all the multitude kept silence; and they hearkened
unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God had
wrought among the Gentiles through them.
Acts 15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered,
saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
Acts 15:14 Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the
Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Acts 15:15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is
written,
Acts 15:16 After these things I will return, And I will build again the
tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins
thereof, And I will set it up:
Acts 15:17 That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all
the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,
Acts 15:18 Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of
old.
Acts 15:19 Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that
from among the Gentiles turn to God;
Acts 15:20 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the
pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled,
and from blood.
Acts 15:21 For Moses from generations of old hath in every city
them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.
Acts 15:22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with
the whole church, to choose men out of their company, and send
them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas called
Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Acts 15:23 and they wrote [thus] by them, The apostles and the
elders, brethren, unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch
and Syria and Cilicia, greeting:
Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard that certain who went out
from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls; to
whom we gave no commandment;
Acts 15:25 it seemed good unto us, having come to one accord, to
choose out men and send them unto you with our beloved Barnabas
and Paul,
Acts 15:26 men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves
also shall tell you the same things by word of mouth.
Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay
upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
Acts 15:29 that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from
blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if
ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
Acts 15:30 So they, when they were dismissed, came down to
Antioch; and having gathered the multitude together, they delivered
the epistle.
Acts 15:31 And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the
consolation.
Acts 15:32 And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets,
exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
Acts 15:33 And after they had spent some time [there], they were
dismissed in peace from the brethren unto those that had sent them
forth.
Acts 15:34 [But it seemed good unto Silas to abide there.]
Acts 15:35 But Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and
preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
Acts 15:36 And after some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us
return now and visit the brethren in every city wherein we proclaimed
the word of the Lord, [and see] how they fare.
Acts 15:37 And Barnabas was minded to take with them John also,
who was called Mark.
Acts 15:38 But Paul thought not good to take with them him who
withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the
work.
Acts 15:39 And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted
asunder one from the other, and Barnabas took Mark with him, and
sailed away unto Cyprus;
Acts 15:40 but Paul choose Silas, and went forth, being commended
by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.
Acts 15:41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the
churches.
Acts 16
Acts 16:1 And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and behold, a
certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess that
believed; but his father was a Greek.
Acts 16:2 The same was well reported of by the brethren that were at
Lystra and Iconium.
Acts 16:3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took
and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for
they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Acts 16:4 And as they went on their way through the cities, they
delivered them the decrees to keep which had been ordained of the
apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem.
Acts 16:5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and
increased in number daily.
Acts 16:6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia,
having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;
Acts 16:7 and when they were come over against Mysia, they
assayed to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not;
Acts 16:8 and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
Acts 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a
man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over
into Macedonia, and help us.
Acts 16:10 And when he had seen the vision, straightway we sought
to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to
preach the gospel to them.
Acts 16:11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight
course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia,
the first of the district, a [Roman] colony: and we were in this city
tarrying certain days.
Acts 16:13 And on the sabbath day we went forth without the gate by
a river side, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we
sat down, and spake unto the women that were come together.
Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of
the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart
the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by
Paul.
Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she
besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,
come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of
prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, who
brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
Acts 16:17 The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying,
These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto
you the way of salvation.
Acts 16:18 And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore
troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of
Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.
Acts 16:19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was
gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the
marketplace before the rulers,
Acts 16:20 and when they had brought them unto the magistrates,
they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
Acts 16:21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to
receive, or to observe, being Romans.
Acts 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the
magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat
them with rods.
Acts 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they
cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Acts 16:24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the
inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Acts 16:25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and
singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
Acts 16:26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the
doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Acts 16:27 And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the
prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself,
supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
Acts 16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no
harm: for we are all here.
Acts 16:29 And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for
fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,
Acts 16:30 and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be
saved?
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt
be saved, thou and thy house.
Acts 16:32 And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all
that were in his house.
Acts 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed
their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
Acts 16:34 And he brought them up into his house, and set food
before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed
in God.
Acts 16:35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants,
saying, Let those men go.
Acts 16:36 And the jailor reported the words to Paul, [saying], The
magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore come forth, and go
in peace.
Acts 16:37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us publicly,
uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison;
and do they now cast us out privily? Nay verily; but let them come
themselves and bring us out.
Acts 16:38 And the sergeants reported these words unto the
magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;
Acts 16:39 and they came and besought them; and when they had
brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.
Acts 16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into [the
house] of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they
comforted them, and departed.
Acts 17
Acts 17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and
Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the
Jews:
Acts 17:2 and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for
three sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 17:3 opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer,
and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, [said he,] I
proclaim unto you, is the Christ.
Acts 17:4 And some of them were persuaded, and consorted with
Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the
chief women not a few.
Acts 17:5 But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them
certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city
on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring
them forth to the people.
Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and
certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have
turned the world upside down are come hither also;
Acts 17:7 whom Jason hath received: and these all act contrary to the
decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.
Acts 17:8 And they troubled the multitude and the rulers of the city,
when they heard these things.
Acts 17:9 And when they had taken security from Jason and the rest,
they let them go.
Acts 17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas
by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the
synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind,
examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
Acts 17:12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the Greek
women of honorable estate, and of men, not a few.
Acts 17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that
the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Beroea also, they came
thither likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.
Acts 17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go
as far as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy abode there still.
Acts 17:15 But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as
Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that
they should come to him with all speed, they departed.
Acts 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.
Acts 17:17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the
devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met
him.
Acts 17:18 And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say?
others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he
preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17:19 And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the
Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is
spoken by thee?
Acts 17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we
would know therefore what these things mean.
Acts 17:21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there
spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new
thing.)
Acts 17:22 And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said,
Ye men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that ye are very religious.
Acts 17:23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your
worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN
UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set
forth unto you.
Acts 17:24 The God that made the world and all things therein, he,
being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
hands;
Acts 17:25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed
anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all
things;
Acts 17:26 and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all
the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons,
and the bounds of their habitation;
Acts 17:27 that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after
him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:
Acts 17:28 for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
Acts 17:29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think
that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art
and device of man.
Acts 17:30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but
now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:
Acts 17:31 inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will
judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained;
whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised
him from the dead.
Acts 17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead,
some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet
again.
Acts 17:33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Acts 17:34 But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among
whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named
Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 18
Acts 18:1 After these things he departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth.
Acts 18:2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of
Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla,
because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome:
and he came unto them;
Acts 18:3 and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them,
and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers.
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and
persuaded Jews and Greeks.
Acts 18:5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia,
Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus
was the Christ.
Acts 18:6 And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he
shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your
own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Acts 18:7 And he departed thence, and went into the house of a
certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose
house joined hard to the synagogue.
Acts 18:8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the
Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing
believed, and were baptized.
Acts 18:9 And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be
not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:
Acts 18:10 for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm
thee: for I have much people in this city.
Acts 18:11 And he dwelt [there] a year and six months, teaching the
word of God among them.
Acts 18:12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with
one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the
judgment-seat,
Acts 18:13 saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God
contrary to the law.
Acts 18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said
unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked
villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
Acts 18:15 but if they are questions about words and names and your
own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these
matters.
Acts 18:16 And he drove them from the judgment-seat.
Acts 18:17 And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the
synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared
for none of these things.
Acts 18:18 And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took
his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him
Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn his head in Cenchreae; for he had a
vow.
Acts 18:19 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he
himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Acts 18:20 And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he
consented not;
Acts 18:21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return
again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.
Acts 18:22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and
saluted the church, and went down to Antioch.
Acts 18:23 And having spent some time [there], he departed, and
went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order,
establishing all the disciples.
Acts 18:24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by
race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the
scriptures.
Acts 18:25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and
being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught accurately the things
concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John:
Acts 18:26 and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when
Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and
expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 18:27 And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, the
brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him:
and when he was come, he helped them much that had believed
through grace;
Acts 18:28 for he powerfully confuted the Jews, [and that] publicly,
showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 19
Acts 19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth,
Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and
found certain disciples:
Acts 19:2 and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when
ye believed? And they [said] unto him, Nay, we did not so much as
hear whether the Holy Spirit was [given].
Acts 19:3 And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they
said, Into John's baptism.
Acts 19:4 And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him
that should come after him, that is, on Jesus.
Acts 19:5 And when they heard this, they were baptized into the
name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy
Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Acts 19:7 And they were in all about twelve men.
Acts 19:8 And he entered into the synagogue, and spake boldly for
the space of three months, reasoning and persuading [as to] the things
concerning the kingdom of God.
Acts 19:9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking
evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and
separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
Acts 19:10 And this continued for the space of two years; so that all
they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and
Greeks.
Acts 19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
Acts 19:12 insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his
body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the evil spirits went out.
Acts 19:13 But certain also of the strolling Jews, exorcists, took upon
them to name over them that had the evil spirits the name of the Lord
Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Acts 19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief
priest, who did this.
Acts 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said unto them, Jesus I
know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?
Acts 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them,
and mastered both of them, and prevailed against them, so that they
fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Acts 19:17 And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, that
dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the
Lord Jesus was magnified.
Acts 19:18 Many also of them that had believed came, confessing,
and declaring their deeds.
Acts 19:19 And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought
their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they
counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts 19:20 So mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed.
Acts 19:21 Now 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.
Acts 19:22 And having sent into Macedonia two of them that
ministered unto him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia
for a while.
Acts 19:23 And about that time there arose no small stir concerning
the Way.
Acts 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who
made silver shrines of Diana, brought no little business unto the
craftsmen;
Acts 19:25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like
occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this business we have our
wealth.
Acts 19:26 And 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 are no gods, that are made with hands:
Acts 19:27 and not only is there danger that this our trade come into
disrepute; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana be
made of no account, and that she should even be deposed from her
magnificence whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Acts 19:28 And when they heard this they were filled with wrath,
and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesus.
Acts 19:29 And the city was filled with the confusion: and they
rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and
Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.
Acts 19:30 And when Paul was minded to enter in unto the people,
the disciples suffered him not.
Acts 19:31 And certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent
unto him and besought him not to adventure himself into the theatre.
Acts 19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the
assembly was in confusion; and the more part knew not wherefore
they were come together.
Acts 19:33 And they brought Alexander out of the multitude, the
Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand,
and would have made a defense unto the people.
Acts 19:34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one
voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the
Ephesians.
Acts 19:35 And when the townclerk had quieted the multitude, he
saith, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not that
the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of
the [image] which fell down from Jupiter?
Acts 19:36 Seeing then that these things cannot be gainsaid, ye ought
to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.
Acts 19:37 For ye have brought [hither] these men, who are neither
robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.
Acts 19:38 If therefore Demetrius, and the craftsmen that are with
him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are
proconsuls: let them accuse one another.
Acts 19:39 But if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be
settled in the regular assembly.
Acts 19:40 For indeed we are in danger to be accused concerning this
day's riot, there being no cause [for it]: and as touching it we shall not
be able to give account of this concourse.
Acts 19:41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the
assembly.
Acts 20
Acts 20:1 And after the uproar ceased, Paul having sent for the
disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed to go
into Macedonia.
Acts 20:2 And when he had gone through those parts, and had given
them much exhortation, he came into Greece.
Acts 20:3 And when he had spent three months [there,] and a plot
was laid against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he
determined to return through Macedonia.
Acts 20:4 And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater of
Beroea, [the son] of Pyrrhus; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus
and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia,
Tychicus and Trophimus.
Acts 20:5 But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at
Troas.
Acts 20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of
unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where
we tarried seven days.
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when we were
gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them,
intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until
midnight.
Acts 20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber where
we were gathered together.
Acts 20:9 And there sat in the window a certain young man named
Eutychus, borne down with deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet
longer, being borne down by his sleep he fell down from the third
story, and was taken up dead.
Acts 20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him
said, Make ye no ado; for his life is in him.
Acts 20:11 And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and
eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day,
so he departed.
Acts 20:12 And they brought the lad alive, and were not a little
comforted.
Acts 20:13 But we going before to the ship set sail for Assos, there
intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, intending himself
to go by land.
Acts 20:14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him in, and came
to Mitylene.
Acts 20:15 And sailing from thence, we came the following day over
against Chios; and the next day we touched at Samos; and the day
after we came to Miletus.
Acts 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he
might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were
possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
Acts 20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him
the elders of the church.
Acts 20:18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye
yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what
manner I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:19 serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with
tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;
Acts 20:20 how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that
was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,
Acts 20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward
God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem,
not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
Acts 20:23 save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city,
saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Acts 20:24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself,
so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of
God.
Acts 20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went
about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.
Acts 20:26 Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from
the blood of all men.
Acts 20:27 For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole
counsel of God.
Acts 20:28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which
the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord
which he purchased with his own blood.
Acts 20:29 I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall
enter in among you, not sparing the flock;
Acts 20:30 and from among your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Acts 20:31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of
three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with
tears.
Acts 20:32 And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his
grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the
inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
Acts 20:33 I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
Acts 20:34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my
necessities, and to them that were with me.
Acts 20:35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye
ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and
prayed with them all.
Acts 20:37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed
him,
Acts 20:38 sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken,
that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on
his way unto the ship.
Acts 21
Acts 21:1 And when it came to pass that were parted from them and
had set sail, we came with a straight course unto Cos, and the next
day unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:
Acts 21:2 and having found a ship crossing over unto Phoenicia, we
went aboard, and set sail.
Acts 21:3 And when we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on
the left hand, we sailed unto Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the
ship was to unlade her burden.
Acts 21:4 And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven
days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set
foot in Jerusalem.
Acts 21:5 And when it came to pass that we had accomplished the
days, we departed and went on our journey; and they all, with wives
and children, brought us on our way till we were out of the city: and
kneeling down on the beach, we prayed, and bade each other
farewell;
Acts 21:6 and we went on board the ship, but they returned home
again.
Acts 21:7 And when we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we
arrived at Ptolemais; and we saluted the brethren, and abode with
them one day.
Acts 21:8 And on the morrow we departed, and came unto Caesarea:
and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of
the seven, we abode with him.
Acts 21:9 Now this man had four virgin daughters, who prophesied.
Acts 21:10 And as we tarried there some days, there came down
from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
Acts 21:11 And coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his
own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the
Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall
deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts 21:12 And when we heard these things, both we and they of that
place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking
my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying,
The will of the Lord be done.
Acts 21:15 And after these days we took up our baggage and went up
to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:16 And there went with us also [certain] of the disciples
from Caesarea, bringing [with them] one Mnason of Cyprus, an early
disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Acts 21:17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren
received us gladly.
Acts 21:18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James;
and all the elders were present.
Acts 21:19 And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one
the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles through his
ministry.
Acts 21:20 And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they
said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are
among the Jews of them that have believed; and they are all zealous
for the law:
Acts 21:21 and they have been informed concerning thee, that thou
teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses,
telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the
customs.
Acts 21:22 What is it therefore? They will certainly hear that thou art
come.
Acts 21:23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men
that have a vow on them;
Acts 21:24 these take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges
for them, that they may shave their heads: and all shall know that
there is no truth in the things whereof they have been informed
concerning thee; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, keeping
the law.
Acts 21:25 But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we
wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things
sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and
from fornication.
Acts 21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying
himself with them went into the temple, declaring the fulfilment of
the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one
of them.
Acts 21:27 And when the seven days were almost completed, the
Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the
multitude and laid hands on him,
Acts 21:28 crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that
teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this
place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath
defiled this holy place.
Acts 21:29 For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus
the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the
temple.
Acts 21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together;
and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and
straightway the doors were shut.
Acts 21:31 And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to
the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
Acts 21:32 And forthwith he took soldiers and centurions, and ran
down upon them: and they, when they saw the chief captain and the
soldiers, left off beating Paul.
Acts 21:33 Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him,
and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who
he was, and what he had done.
Acts 21:34 And some shouted one thing, some another, among the
crowd: and when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he
commanded him to be brought into the castle.
Acts 21:35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was
borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd;
Acts 21:36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out,
Away with him.
Acts 21:37 And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he
saith unto the chief captain, May I say something unto thee? And he
said, Dost thou know Greek?
Acts 21:38 Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days
stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand
men of the Assassins?
Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of
no mean city: and I beseech thee, give me leave to speak unto the
people.
Acts 21:40 And when he had given him leave, Paul, standing on the
stairs, beckoned with the hand unto the people; and when there was
made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew language,
saying,
Acts 22
Acts 22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now
make unto you.
Acts 22:2 And when they heard that he spake unto them in the
Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
Acts 22:3 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this
city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner
of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are
this day:
Acts 22:4 and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and
delivering into prisons both men and women.
Acts 22:5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the
estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the
brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were
there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
Acts 22:6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and drew
nigh unto Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven
a great light round about me.
Acts 22:7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto
me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Acts 22:8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me,
I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Acts 22:9 And they that were with me beheld indeed the light, but
they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
Acts 22:10 And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto
me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all
things which are appointed for thee to do.
Acts 22:11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being
led by the hand of them that were with me I came into Damascus.
Acts 22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law,
well reported of by all the Jews that dwelt there,
Acts 22:13 came unto me, and standing by me said unto me, Brother
Saul, receive thy sight. And in that very hour I looked up on him.
Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee
to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice
from his mouth.
Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what
thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and
wash away thy sins, calling on his name.
Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I had returned to
Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
Acts 22:18 and saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee
quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive of thee
testimony concerning me.
Acts 22:19 And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned
and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
Acts 22:20 and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I
also was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of
them that slew him.
Acts 22:21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far
hence unto the Gentiles.
Acts 22:22 And they gave him audience unto this word; and they
lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the
earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Acts 22:23 And as they cried out, and threw off their garments, and
cast dust into the air,
Acts 22:24 the chief captain commanded him be brought into the
castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he
might know for what cause they so shouted against him.
Acts 22:25 And when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said
unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man
that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
Acts 22:26 And when the centurion heard it, he went to the chief
captain and told him, saying, What art thou about to do? for this man
is a Roman.
Acts 22:27 And the chief captain came and said unto him, Tell me,
art thou a Roman? And he said, Yea.
Acts 22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum
obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, But I am [a Roman] born.
Acts 22:29 They then that were about to examine him straightway
departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid when he
knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
Acts 22:30 But on the morrow, desiring to know the certainty
wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and
commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and
brought Paul down and set him before them.
Acts 23
Acts 23:1 And Paul, looking stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren,
I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.
Acts 23:2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood
by him to smite him on the mouth.
Acts 23:3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited
wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and
commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts 23:4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high
priest?
Acts 23:5 And Paul said, I knew not, brethren, that he was high
priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of thy
people.
Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees
and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a
Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of
the dead I am called in question.
Acts 23:7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between
the Pharisees and Sadducees; and the assembly was divided.
Acts 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither
angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts 23:9 And there arose a great clamor: and some of the scribes of
the Pharisees part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this
man: and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?
Acts 23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief
captain, fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them,
commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from
among them, and bring him into the castle.
Acts 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said,
Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified concerning me at
Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
Acts 23:12 And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and
bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat
nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:13 And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy.
Acts 23:14 And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and
said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing
until we have killed Paul.
Acts 23:15 Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief
captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge
of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to
slay him.
Acts 23:16 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he
came and entered into the castle and told Paul.
Acts 23:17 And Paul called unto him one of the centurions, and said,
Bring this young man unto the chief captain; for he hath something to
tell him.
Acts 23:18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and
saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring
this young man unto thee, who hath something to say to thee.
Acts 23:19 And the chief captain took him by the hand, and going
aside asked him privately, What is it that thou hast to tell me?
Acts 23:20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring
down Paul tomorrow unto the council, as though thou wouldest
inquire somewhat more exactly concerning him.
Acts 23:21 Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in
wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound
themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have
slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.
Acts 23:22 So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him,
Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me.
Acts 23:23 And he called unto him two of the centurions, and said,
Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, and
horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third
hour of the night:
Acts 23:24 and [he bade them] provide beasts, that they might set
Paul thereon, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
Acts 23:25 And he wrote a letter after this form:
Acts 23:26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix,
greeting.
Acts 23:27 This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be
slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued
him, having learned that he was a Roman.
Acts 23:28 And desiring to know the cause wherefore they accused
him, I brought him down unto their council:
Acts 23:29 whom I found to be accused about questions of their law,
but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts 23:30 And when it was shown to me that there would be a plot
against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers
also to speak against him before thee.
Acts 23:31 So the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul and
brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts 23:32 But on the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him,
and returned to the castle:
Acts 23:33 and they, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the
letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
Acts 23:34 And when he had read it, he asked of what province he
was; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia,
Acts 23:35 I will hear thee fully, said he, when thine accusers also
are come: and he commanded him to be kept in Herod's palace.
Acts 24
Acts 24:1 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down
with certain elders, and [with] an orator, one Tertullus; and they
informed the governor against Paul.
Acts 24:2 And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him,
saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy much peace, and that by the
providence evils are corrected for this nation,
Acts 24:3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent
Felix, with all thankfulness.
Acts 24:4 But, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I entreat thee to
hear us of thy clemency a few words.
Acts 24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover
of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a
ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Acts 24:6 who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom
also we laid hold: [and we would have judged him according to our
law.]
Acts 24:7 [But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence
took him away out of our hands,]
Acts 24:8 [commanding his accusers to come before thee.] from
whom thou wilt be able, by examining him thyself, to take
knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him.
Acts 24:9 And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these
things were so.
Acts 24:10 And when the governor had beckoned unto him to speak,
Paul answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many
years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make my defense:
Acts 24:11 Seeing that thou canst take knowledge that it is not more
than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem:
Acts 24:12 and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with
any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
Acts 24:13 Neither can they prove to thee the things whereof they
now accuse me.
Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they
call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things
which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
Acts 24:15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves
look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.
Acts 24:16 Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of
offence toward God and men always.
Acts 24:17 Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation,
and offerings:
Acts 24:18 amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with
no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but [there were] certain Jews from
Asia--
Acts 24:19 who ought to have been here before thee, and to make
accusation, if they had aught against me.
Acts 24:20 Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing
they found when I stood before the council,
Acts 24:21 except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among
them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question
before you this day.
Acts 24:22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the
Way, deferred them, saying, When Lysias the chief captain shall
come down, I will determine your matter.
Acts 24:23 And he gave order to the centurion that he should be kept
in charge, and should have indulgence; and not to forbid any of his
friends to minister unto him.
Acts 24:24 But after certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife,
who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the
faith in Christ Jesus.
Acts 24:25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, and self-control,
and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, Go thy
way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I will call
thee unto me.
Acts 24:26 He hoped withal that money would be given him of Paul:
wherefore also he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Acts 24:27 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded
by Porcius Festus; and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left
Paul in bonds.
Acts 25
Acts 25:1 Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three
days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
Acts 25:2 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews
informed him against Paul; and they besought him,
Acts 25:3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to
Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.
Acts 25:4 Howbeit Festus answered, that Paul was kept in charge at
Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart [thither] shortly.
Acts 25:5 Let them therefore, saith he, that are of power among you
go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them
accuse him.
Acts 25:6 And when he had tarried among them not more than eight
or ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and on the morrow he sat
on the judgment-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
Acts 25:7 And when he was come, the Jews that had come down
from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many
and grievous charges which they could not prove;
Acts 25:8 while Paul said in his defense, Neither against the law of
the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at
all.
Acts 25:9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered
Paul and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of
these things before me?
Acts 25:10 But Paul said, I am standing before Caesar's judgment-
seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong,
as thou also very well knowest.
Acts 25:11 If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything
worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is
[true] whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I
appeal unto Caesar.
Acts 25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council,
answered, Thou hast appealed unto Caesar: unto Caesar shalt thou go.
Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the King
and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.
Acts 25:14 And as they tarried there many days, Festus laid Paul's
case before the King, saying, There is a certain man left a prisoner by
Felix;
Acts 25:15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests
and the elders of the Jews informed [me], asking for sentence against
him.
Acts 25:16 To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the
Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the
accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defense
concerning the matter laid against him.
Acts 25:17 When therefore they were come together here, I made no
delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded
the man to be brought.
Acts 25:18 Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they
brought no charge of such evil things as I supposed;
Acts 25:19 but had certain questions against him of their own
religion, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be
alive.
Acts 25:20 And I, being perplexed how to inquire concerning these
things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged
of these matters.
Acts 25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of
the emperor, I commanded him to be kept till I should send him to
Caesar.
Acts 25:22 And Agrippa [said] unto Festus, I also could wish to hear
the man myself. To-morrow, saith he, thou shalt hear him.
Acts 25:23 So on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice,
with great pomp, and they were entered into the place of hearing with
the chief captains and principal men of the city, at the command of
Festus Paul was brought in.
Acts 25:24 And Festus saith, King Agrippa, and all men who are here
present with us, ye behold this man, about whom all the multitude of
the Jews made suit to me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he
ought not to live any longer.
Acts 25:25 But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of
death: and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send
him.
Acts 25:26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord.
Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before
thee, king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I may have somewhat
to write.
Acts 25:27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner,
not withal to signify the charges against him.
Acts 26
Acts 26:1 And Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak
for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and made his defence:
Acts 26:2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my
defense before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am
accused by the Jews:
Acts 26:3 especially because thou art expert in all customs and
questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to
hear me patiently.
Acts 26:4 My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from
the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the
Jews;
Acts 26:5 having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing
to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts 26:6 And now I stand [here] to be judged for the hope of the
promise made of God unto our fathers;
Acts 26:7 unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, earnestly serving
[God] night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am
accused by the Jews, O king!
Acts 26:8 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the
dead?
Acts 26:9 I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things
contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:10 And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many
of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief
priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
Acts 26:11 And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I
strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against
them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.
Acts 26:12 Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the
authority and commission of the chief priests,
Acts 26:13 at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven,
above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them
that journeyed with me.
Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice
saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.
Acts 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am
Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts 26:16 But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I
appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of
the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will
appear unto thee;
Acts 26:17 delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles,
unto whom I send thee,
Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to
light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive
remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified
by faith in me.
Acts 26:19 Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto
the heavenly vision:
Acts 26:20 but declared both to them of Damascus first and at
Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the
Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works
worthy of repentance.
Acts 26:21 For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and
assayed to kill me.
Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I
stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing
but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;
Acts 26:23 how that the Christ must suffer, [and] how that he first by
the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people
and to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:24 And as he thus made his defense, Festus saith with a loud
voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning is turning thee mad.
Acts 26:25 But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but
speak forth words of truth and soberness.
Acts 26:26 For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom also I
speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden
from him; for this hath not been done in a corner.
Acts 26:27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that
thou believest.
Acts 26:28 And Agrippa [said] unto Paul, With but little persuasion
thou wouldest fain make me a Christian.
Acts 26:29 And Paul [said], I would to God, that whether with little
or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might
become such as I am, except these bonds.
Acts 26:30 And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and
they that sat with them:
Acts 26:31 and when they had withdrawn, they spake one to another,
saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts 26:32 And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been
set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Acts 27
Acts 27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy,
they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named
Julius, of the Augustan band.
Acts 27:2 And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was
about to sail unto the places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea,
Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
Acts 27:3 And the next day we touched at Sidon: and Julius treated
Paul kindly, and gave him leave to go unto his friends and refresh
himself.
Acts 27:4 And putting to sea from thence, we sailed under the lee of
Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
Acts 27:5 And when we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia
and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, [a city] of Lycia.
Acts 27:6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing
for Italy; and he put us therein.
Acts 27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and were
come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not further
suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete, over against Salmone;
Acts 27:8 and with difficulty coasting along it we came unto a certain
place called Fair Havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
Acts 27:9 And when much time was spent, and the voyage was now
dangerous, because the Fast was now already gone by, Paul
admonished them,
Acts 27:10 and said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will
be with injury and much loss, not only of the lading and the ship, but
also of our lives.
Acts 27:11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the
owner of the ship, than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
Acts 27:12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in,
the more part advised to put to sea from thence, if by any means they
could reach Phoenix, and winter [there; which is] a haven of Crete,
looking northeast and south-east.
Acts 27:13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they
had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along
Crete, close in shore.
Acts 27:14 But after no long time there beat down from it a
tempestuous wind, which is called Euraquilo:
Acts 27:15 and when the ship was caught, and could not face the
wind, we gave way [to it,] and were driven.
Acts 27:16 And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda,
we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat:
Acts 27:17 and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-
girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis,
they lowered the gear, and so were driven.
Acts 27:18 And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next
day they began to throw the [the freight] overboard;
Acts 27:19 and the third day they cast out with their own hands the
tackling of the ship.
Acts 27:20 And when neither sun nor stars shone upon [us] for many
days, and no small tempest lay on [us,] all hope that we should be
saved was now taken away.
Acts 27:21 And when they had been long without food, then Paul
stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have
hearkened unto me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten
this injury and loss.
Acts 27:22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there shall
be no loss of life among you, but [only] of the ship.
Acts 27:23 For there stood by me this night an angel of the God
whose I am, whom also I serve,
Acts 27:24 saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar:
and lo, God hath granted thee all them that sail with thee.
Acts 27:25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that
it shall be even so as it hath been spoken unto me.
Acts 27:26 But we must be cast upon a certain island.
Acts 27:27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were
driven to and fro in the [sea of] Adria, about midnight the sailors
surmised that they were drawing near to some country:
Acts 27:28 and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a
little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27:29 And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky
ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the
day.
Acts 27:30 And as the sailors were seeking to flee out of the ship,
and had lowered the boat into the sea, under color as though they
would lay out anchors from the foreship,
Acts 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except
these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 27:32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let
her fall off.
Acts 27:33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them
all to take some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye
wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts 27:34 Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for
your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of
you.
Acts 27:35 And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave
thanks to God in the presence of all; and he brake it, and began to eat.
Acts 27:36 Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also
took food.
Acts 27:37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore
and sixteen souls.
Acts 27:38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship,
throwing out the wheat into the sea.
Acts 27:39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they
perceived a certain bay with a beach, and they took counsel whether
they could drive the ship upon it.
Acts 27:40 And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at
the same time loosing the bands of the rudders; and hoisting up the
foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
Acts 27:41 But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran
the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained
unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence [of the
waves].
Acts 27:42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest
any [of them] should swim out, and escape.
Acts 27:43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stayed them from
their purpose; and commanded that they who could swim should cast
themselves overboard, and get first to the land;
Acts 27:44 and the rest, some on planks, and some on [other] things
from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to the
land.
Acts 28
Acts 28:1 And when we were escaped, then we knew that the island
was called Melita.
Acts 28:2 And the barbarians showed us no common kindness; for
they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain,
and because of the cold.
Acts 28:3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid
them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened
on his hand.
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the [venomous] creature
hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is
a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice
hath not suffered to live.
Acts 28:5 Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no
harm.
Acts 28:6 But they expected that he would have swollen, or fallen
down dead suddenly: but when they were long in expectation and
beheld nothing amiss came to him, they changed their minds, and
said that he was a god.
Acts 28:7 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands
belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who
received us, and entertained us three days courteously.
Acts 28:8 And it was so, that the father of Publius lay sick of fever
and dysentery: unto whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laying his
hands on him healed him.
Acts 28:9 And when this was done, the rest also that had diseases in
the island came, and were cured:
Acts 28:10 who also honored us with many honors; and when we
sailed, they put on board such things as we needed.
Acts 28:11 And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria
which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers.
Acts 28:12 And touching at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
Acts 28:13 And from thence we made a circuit, and arrived at
Rhegium: and after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the
second day we came to Puteoli;
Acts 28:14 where we found brethren, and were entreated to tarry with
them seven days: and so we came to Rome.
Acts 28:15 And from thence the brethren, when they heard of us,
came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three
Taverns; whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
Acts 28:16 And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to
abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him.
Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days he called
together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were
come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done
nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was
delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:
Acts 28:18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me at
liberty, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts 28:19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to
appeal unto Caesar; not that I had aught whereof to accuse my nation.
Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to
speak with [me]: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with
this chain.
Acts 28:21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters from
Judaea concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither and
report or speak any harm of thee.
Acts 28:22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as
concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken
against.
Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, they came to
him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded [the
matter,] testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them
concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets,
from morning till evening.
Acts 28:24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and
some disbelieved.
Acts 28:25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they
departed after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy
Spirit through Isaiah the prophet unto your fathers,
Acts 28:26 saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye
shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see,
and shall in no wise perceive:
Acts 28:27 For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are
dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they
should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And
understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal
them.
Acts 28:28 Be it known therefore unto you, that this salvation of God
is sent unto the Gentiles: they will also hear.
Acts 28:29 [And when he had said these words, the Jews departed,
having much disputing among themselves.]
Acts 28:30 And he abode two whole years in his own hired dwelling,
and received all that went in unto him,
Acts 28:31 preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things
concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding
him.
Romans
Romans 1
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle,
separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans 1:2 which he promised afore through his prophets in the
holy scriptures,
Romans 1:3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David
according to the flesh,
Romans 1:4 who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead;
[even] Jesus Christ our Lord,
Romans 1:5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto
obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
Romans 1:6 among whom are ye also called [to be] Jesus Christ's:
Romans 1:7 To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be]
saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all,
that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the
gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in
my prayers
Romans 1:10 making request, if by any means now at length I may
be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.
Romans 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some
spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
Romans 1:12 that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each
of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
Romans 1:13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that
oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto),
that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the
Gentiles.
Romans 1:14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to
the wise and to the foolish.
Romans 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the
gospel to you also that are in Rome.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power
of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
Romans 1:17 For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from
faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in
unrighteousness;
Romans 1:19 because that which is known of God is manifest in
them; for God manifested it unto them.
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are
made, [even] his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be
without excuse:
Romans 1:21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as
God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and
their senseless heart was darkened.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the
likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed
beasts, and creeping things.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their
hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored
among themselves:
Romans 1:25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions:
for their women changed the natural use into that which is against
nature:
Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of
the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men
working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense
of their error which was due.
Romans 1:28 And even as they refused to have God in [their]
knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not fitting;
Romans 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
malignity; whisperers,
Romans 1:30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without
natural affection, unmerciful:
Romans 1:32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that
practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but
also consent with them that practise them.
Romans 2
Romans 2:1 Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever
thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou
condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same
things.
Romans 2:2 And we know that the judgment of God is according to
truth against them that practise such things.
Romans 2:3 And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that
practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the
judgment of God?
Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and
forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God
leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 2:5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up
for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God;
Romans 2:6 who will render to every man according to his works:
Romans 2:7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory
and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
Romans 2:8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth,
but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
Romans 2:9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that
worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
Romans 2:10 but glory and honor and peace to every man that
worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
Romans 2:11 for there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also
perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law
shall be judged by the law;
Romans 2:13 for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but
the doers of the law shall be justified:
Romans 2:14 (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature
the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto
themselves;
Romans 2:15 in that they show the work of the law written in their
hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts
one with another accusing or else excusing [them]);
Romans 2:16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men,
according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
Romans 2:17 But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon
the law, and gloriest in God,
Romans 2:18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are
excellent, being instructed out of the law,
Romans 2:19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the
blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
Romans 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in
the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
Romans 2:21 thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not
thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans 2:22 thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery,
dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob
temples?
Romans 2:23 thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression
of the law dishonorest thou God?
Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the
Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
Romans 2:25 For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of
the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is
become uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of
the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
Romans 2:27 and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if
it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a
transgressor of the law?
Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is
that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:
Romans 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision
is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of
men, but of God.
Romans 3
Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit
of circumcision?
Romans 3:2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted
with the oracles of God.
Romans 3:3 For what if some were without faith? shall their want of
faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a
liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And
mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
Romans 3:5 But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness
of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with
wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
Romans 3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Romans 3:7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto
his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Romans 3:8 and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as
some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
condemnation is just.
Romans 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for
we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all
under sin;
Romans 3:10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that
seeketh after God;
Romans 3:12 They have all turned aside, they are together become
unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues
they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Romans 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
Romans 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
Romans 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it
speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of
God:
Romans 3:20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of
sin.
Romans 3:21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God
hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus
Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:24 being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 3:25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through
faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing
over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
Romans 3:26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this
present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him
that hath faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:27 Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what
manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.
Romans 3:28 We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith
apart from the works of the law.
Romans 3:29 Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God]
of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:
Romans 3:30 if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith?
God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
Romans 4
Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather,
hath found according to the flesh?
Romans 4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof
to glory; but not toward God.
Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed
God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
Romans 4:4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as
of grace, but as of debt.
Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that
justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.
Romans 4:6 Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man,
unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,
Romans 4:7 [saying], Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered.
Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom, the Lord will not reckon
sin.
Romans 4:9 Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision,
or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith
was reckoned for righteousness.
Romans 4:10 How then was it reckoned? when he was in
circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision:
Romans 4:11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in
uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all them that believe,
though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be
reckoned unto them;
Romans 4:12 and the father of circumcision to them who not only
are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of
our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.
Romans 4:13 For not through the law was the promise to Abraham
or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the
righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:14 For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made
void, and the promise is made of none effect:
Romans 4:15 for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law,
neither is there transgression.
Romans 4:16 For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according
to grace; to the end that the promise may 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
Romans 4:17 (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made
thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to
the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.
Romans 4:18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he
might become a father of many nations, according to that which had
been spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Romans 4:19 And without being weakened in faith he considered his
own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old),
and the deadness of Sarah's womb;
Romans 4:20 yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not
through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to
God,
Romans 4:21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he
was able also to perform.
Romans 4:22 Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for
righteousness.
Romans 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was
reckoned unto him;
Romans 4:24 but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned,
who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Romans 4:25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was
raised for our justification.
Romans 5
Romans 5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Romans 5:2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of
God.
Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations:
knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
Romans 5:4 and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness,
hope:
Romans 5:5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God
hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which
was given unto us.
Romans 5:6 For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died
for the ungodly.
Romans 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for
peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall
we be saved from the wrath [of God] through him.
Romans 5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to
God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall
we be saved by his life;
Romans 5:11 and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the
world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for
that all sinned:--
Romans 5:13 for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not
imputed when there is no law.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses,
even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's
transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
Romans 5:15 But not as the trespass, so also [is] the free gift. For if
by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of
God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound
unto the many.
Romans 5:16 And not as through one that sinned, [so] is the gift: for
the judgment [came] of one unto condemnation, but the free gift
[came] of many trespasses unto justification.
Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through
the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, [even]
Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:18 So then as through one trespass [the judgment came]
unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of
righteousness [the free gift came] unto all men to justification of life.
Romans 5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many
were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the
many be made righteous.
Romans 5:20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might
abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more
exceedingly:
Romans 5:21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that
grace may abound?
Romans 6:2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any
longer live therein?
Romans 6:3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism
unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:5 For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness
of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;
Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him],
that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer
be in bondage to sin;
Romans 6:7 for he that hath died is justified from sin.
Romans 6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him;
Romans 6:9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no
more; death no more hath dominion over him.
Romans 6:10 For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but
the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans 6:11 Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin,
but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
should obey the lusts thereof:
Romans 6:13 neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments
of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from
the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto
God.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are
not under law, but under grace.
Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law,
but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as]
servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether
of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants
of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching
whereunto ye were delivered;
Romans 6:18 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of
righteousness.
Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as]
servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now
present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto
sanctification.
Romans 6:20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in
regard of righteousness.
Romans 6:21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things
whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end
eternal life.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7
Romans 7:1 Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who
know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long
time as he liveth?
Romans 7:2 For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to
the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged
from the law of the husband.
Romans 7:3 So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to
another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die,
she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be
joined to another man.
Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the
law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another,
[even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring
forth fruit unto God.
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions,
which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth
fruit unto death.
Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having
died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the
spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not
known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
Romans 7:8 but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the
commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is]
dead.
Romans 7:9 And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
Romans 7:10 and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I
found [to be] unto death:
Romans 7:11 for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment
beguiled me, and through it slew me.
Romans 7:12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy,
and righteous, and good.
Romans 7:13 Did then that which is good become death unto me?
God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working
death to me through that which is good; --that through the
commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal,
sold under sin.
Romans 7:15 For that which I do I know not: for not what I would,
that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
Romans 7:16 But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the
law that it is good.
Romans 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which
dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no
good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is
good [is] not.
Romans 7:19 For the good which I would I do not: but the evil
which I would not, that I practise.
Romans 7:20 But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that
do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:21 I find then the law, that, to me who would do good,
evil is present.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans 7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the
law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:24 Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of
the body of this death?
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of
myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the
flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that
are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me
free from the law of sin and of death.
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the
flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the
Spirit is life and peace:
Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for
it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
Romans 8:8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit
of Christ, he is none of his.
Romans 8:10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of
sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead
shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that
dwelleth in you.
Romans 8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live after the flesh:
Romans 8:13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the
Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are
sons of God.
Romans 8:15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto
fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father.
Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are children of God:
Romans 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also
glorified with [him].
Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to
us-ward.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for
the revealing of the sons of God.
Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own
will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of
God.
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-
fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:24 For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not
hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we
with patience wait for it.
Romans 8:26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit
himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be
uttered;
Romans 8:27 and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the
mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints
according to [the will of] God.
Romans 8:28 And we know that to them that love God all things
work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to
[his] purpose.
Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be]
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren:
Romans 8:30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and
whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them
he also glorified.
Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for
us, who [is] against us?
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up
for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
Romans 8:33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It
is God that justifieth;
Romans 8:34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died,
yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall
tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the
day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us.
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers,
Romans 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
Romans 9
Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing
witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
Romans 9:2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were anathema from
Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Romans 9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory,
and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of
God], and the promises;
Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as
concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 9:6 But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to
nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
Romans 9:7 neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Romans 9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are
children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a
seed.
Romans 9:9 For this is a word of promise, According to this season
will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
Romans 9:10 And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived
by one, [even] by our father Isaac--
Romans 9:11 for [the children] being not yet born, neither having
done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to
election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
Romans 9:12 it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Romans 9:13 Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with
God? God forbid.
Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I
have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have
compassion.
Romans 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that
runneth, but of God that hath mercy.
Romans 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very
purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and
that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.
Romans 9:18 So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he
will be hardeneth.
Romans 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find
fault? For who withstandeth his will?
Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against
God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst
thou make me thus?
Romans 9:21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the
same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto
dishonor?
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make
his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath
fitted unto destruction:
Romans 9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory
upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
Romans 9:24 [even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews
only, but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 9:25 As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people,
which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.
Romans 9:26 And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said
unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of
the living God.
Romans 9:27 And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of
the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that
shall be saved:
Romans 9:28 for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth,
finishing it and cutting it short.
Romans 9:29 And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of
Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been
made like unto Gomorrah.
Romans 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who
followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the
righteousness which is of faith:
Romans 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did
not arrive at [that] law.
Romans 9:32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but
as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
Romans 9:33 even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall
not be put to shame.
Romans 10
Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God
is for them, that they may be saved.
Romans 10:2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God,
but not according to knowledge.
Romans 10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking
to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the
righteousness of God.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to
every one that believeth.
Romans 10:5 For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the
righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.
Romans 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say
not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring
Christ down:)
Romans 10:7 or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (That is, to bring
Christ up from the dead.)
Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth,
and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
Romans 10:9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as]
Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved:
Romans 10:10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him
shall not be put to shame.
Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek:
for the same [Lord] is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon
him:
Romans 10:13 for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have
not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not
heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Romans 10:15 and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even
as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad
tidings of good things!
Romans 10:16 But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For
Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Romans 10:17 So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the
word of Christ.
Romans 10:18 But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound
went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the
world.
Romans 10:19 But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I
will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a
nation void of understanding will I anger you.
Romans 10:20 And Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found of
them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not
of me.
Romans 10:21 But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread
out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Romans 11
Romans 11:1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid.
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
Romans 11:2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or
know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with
God against Israel:
Romans 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged
down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left
for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
Baal.
Romans 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace.
Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise
grace is no more grace.
Romans 11:7 What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he
obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:
Romans 11:8 according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of
stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not
hear, unto this very day.
Romans 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a
trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
Romans 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
And bow thou down their back always.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God
forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to
provoke them to jealousy.
Romans 11:12 Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their
loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans 11:13 But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as
I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
Romans 11:14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that
are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
Romans 11:15 For if the casting away of them [is] the reconciling of
the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the
dead?
Romans 11:16 And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the
root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and
thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst
become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:18 glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is
not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I
might be grafted in.
Romans 11:20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou
standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Romans 11:21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither
will he spare thee.
Romans 11:22 Behold then the goodness and severity of God:
toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if
thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Romans 11:23 And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief,
shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Romans 11:24 For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a
wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural [branches], be
grafted into their own olive tree?
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part
hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;
Romans 11:26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written,
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob:
Romans 11:27 And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take
away their sins.
Romans 11:28 As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your
sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers'
sake.
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented
of.
Romans 11:30 For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but
now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
Romans 11:31 even so have these also now been disobedient, that by
the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.
Romans 11:32 For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he
might have mercy upon all.
Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the
knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his
ways past tracing out!
Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who
hath been his counsellor?
Romans 11:35 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto him again?
Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all
things. To him [be] the glory for ever. Amen.
Romans 12
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
God, [which is] your spiritual service.
Romans 12:2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove
what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to
every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly
than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as
God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
Romans 12:4 For even as we have many members in one body, and
all the members have not the same office:
Romans 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and
severally members one of another.
Romans 12:6 And having gifts differing according to the grace that
was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the
proportion of our faith;
Romans 12:7 or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or
he that teacheth, to his teaching;
Romans 12:8 or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth,
[let him do it] with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that
showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is
evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans 12:10 In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to
another; in honor preferring one another;
Romans 12:11 in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the
Lord;
Romans 12:12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing
stedfastly in prayer;
Romans 12:13 communicating to the necessities of the saints; given
to hospitality.
Romans 12:14 Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that
weep.
Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your
mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not
wise in your own conceits.
Romans 12:17 Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for
things honorable in the sight of all men.
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace
with all men.
Romans 12:19 Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto
the wrath [of God]: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I
will recompense, saith the Lord.
Romans 12:20 But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give
him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his
head.
Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good.
Romans 13
Romans 13:1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers:
for there is no power but of God; and the [powers] that be are
ordained of God.
Romans 13:2 Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the
ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves
judgment.
Romans 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the
evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is
good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:
Romans 13:4 for he is a 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 a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth
evil.
Romans 13:5 Wherefore [ye] must needs be in subjection, not only
because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
Romans 13:6 For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are
ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.
Romans 13:7 Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is
due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom
honor.
Romans 13:8 Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he
that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt
not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any
other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is
the fulfilment of the law.
Romans 13:11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time
for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than
when we [first] believed.
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor
of light.
Romans 13:13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in
revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in
strife and jealousy.
Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
Romans 14
Romans 14:1 But him that is weak in faith receive ye, [yet] not for
decision of scruples.
Romans 14:2 One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak
eateth herbs.
Romans 14:3 Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth
not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God
hath received him.
Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his
own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for
the Lord hath power to make him stand.
Romans 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another
esteemeth every day [alike]. Let each man be fully assured in his own
mind.
Romans 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord:
and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks;
and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God
thanks.
Romans 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to
himself.
Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether
we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we
are the Lord's.
Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he
might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Romans 14:10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou
again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand
before the judgment-seat of God.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every
knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.
Romans 14:12 So then each one of us shall give account of himself
to God.
Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but
judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's
way, or an occasion of falling.
Romans 14:14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that
nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything
to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans 14:15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou
walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom
Christ died.
Romans 14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
Romans 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking,
but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:18 For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to
God, and approved of men.
Romans 14:19 So then let us follow after things which make for
peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
Romans 14:20 Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All
things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth
with offence.
Romans 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to
do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.
Romans 14:22 The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before
God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.
Romans 14:23 But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because
[he eateth] not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Romans 15
Romans 15:1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of
the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans 15:2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is
good, unto edifying.
Romans 15:3 For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written,
The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of
the scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to
be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:6 that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also
received you, to the glory of God.
Romans 15:8 For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the
circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises
[given] unto the fathers,
Romans 15:9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy;
as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the
Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.
Romans 15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his
people.
Romans 15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; And let
all the peoples praise him.
Romans 15:12 And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of
Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the
Gentiles hope.
Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy
Spirit.
Romans 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren,
that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge,
able also to admonish one another.
Romans 15:15 But I write the more boldly unto you in some
measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace
that was given me of God,
Romans 15:16 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the
Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the
Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy
Spirit.
Romans 15:17 I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in
things pertaining to God.
Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those
which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles,
by word and deed,
Romans 15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of
the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto
Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
Romans 15:20 yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not
where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon
another man's foundation;
Romans 15:21 but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no
tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.
Romans 15:22 Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from
coming to you:
Romans 15:23 but now, having no more any place in these regions,
and having these many years a longing to come unto you,
Romans 15:24 whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in
my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first
in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)--
Romans 15:25 but now, I [say], I go unto Jerusalem, ministering
unto the saints.
Romans 15:26 For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and
Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints
that are at Jerusalem.
Romans 15:27 Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their
debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their
spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in
carnal things.
Romans 15:28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have
sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.
Romans 15:29 And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come
in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in
your prayers to God for me;
Romans 15:31 that I may be delivered from them that are
disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for
Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
Romans 15:32 that I may come unto you in joy through the will of
God, and together with you find rest.
Romans 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Romans 16
Romans 16:1 I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a
servant of the church that is at Cenchreae:
Romans 16:2 that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints,
and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you:
for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.
Romans 16:3 Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ
Jesus,
Romans 16:4 who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom
not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:
Romans 16:5 and [salute] the church that is in their house. Salute
Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia unto Christ.
Romans 16:6 Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you.
Romans 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my
fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have
been in Christ before me.
Romans 16:8 Salute Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord.
Romans 16:9 Salute Urbanus our fellow-worker in Christ, and
Stachys my beloved.
Romans 16:10 Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute them
that are of the [household] of Aristobulus.
Romans 16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute them of the
[household] of Narcissus, that are in the Lord.
Romans 16:12 Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the
Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
Romans 16:13 Salute Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and his mother
and mine.
Romans 16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas,
Hermas, and the brethren that are with them.
Romans 16:15 Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and
Olympas, and all the saints that are with them.
Romans 16:16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches
of Christ salute you.
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are
causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the
doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but
their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the
hearts of the innocent.
Romans 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I
rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which
is good, and simple unto that which is evil.
Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your
feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Romans 16:21 Timothy my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius
and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
Romans 16:22 I Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the
Lord.
Romans 16:23 Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you.
Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus the brother.
Romans 16:24 [The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amen.]
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you according to
my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the
revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through
times eternal,
Romans 16:26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the
prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made
known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
Romans 16:27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom
be the glory for ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 1
1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ
through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1 Corinthians 1:2 unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even]
them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all
that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their
[Lord] and ours:
1 Corinthians 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always concerning you, for the
grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
1 Corinthians 1:5 that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all
utterance and all knowledge;
1 Corinthians 1:6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in
you:
1 Corinthians 1:7 so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the
revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Corinthians 1:8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye
be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, through whom ye were called into
the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, through 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 perfected together
in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 1:11 For it hath been signified unto me concerning
you, my brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe, that
there are contentions among you.
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am
of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or
were ye baptized into the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, save
Crispus and Gaius;
1 Corinthians 1:15 lest any man should say that ye were baptized
into my name.
1 Corinthians 1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas:
besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach
the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be
made void.
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is
the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of
the world?
1 Corinthians 1:21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world
through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure
through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
1 Corinthians 1:22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek
after wisdom:
1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a
stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
1 Corinthians 1:24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many
wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]:
1 Corinthians 1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world,
that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the
weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that
are strong;
1 Corinthians 1:28 and the base things of the world, and the things
that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not,
that he might bring to nought the things that are:
1 Corinthians 1:29 that no flesh should glory before God.
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made
unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and
redemption:
1 Corinthians 1:31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 2
1 Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not
with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the
testimony of God.
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among
you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and
in much trembling.
1 Corinthians 2:4 And my speech and my preaching were not in
persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power:
1 Corinthians 2:5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are
fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this
world, who are coming to nought:
1 Corinthians 2:7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even]
the [wisdom] that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before
the worlds unto our glory:
1 Corinthians 2:8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known:
for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory:
1 Corinthians 2:9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and
ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man,
Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 2:10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knoweth the things of a
man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of
God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but
the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were
freely given to us of God.
1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which
man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining
spiritual things with spiritual [words].
1 Corinthians 2:14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of
the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot
know them, because they are spiritually judged.
1 Corinthians 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he
himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that
he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3
1 Corinthians 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were
not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now are ye able;
1 Corinthians 3:3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among
you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the
manner of men?
1 Corinthians 3:4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I
am of Apollos; are ye not men?
1 Corinthians 3:5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers
through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the
increase.
1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth anything,
neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one:
but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's
husbandry, God's building.
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which was given
unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another
buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth
thereon.
1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that
which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:12 But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold,
silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1 Corinthians 3:13 each man's work shall be made manifest: for the
day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself
shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.
1 Corinthians 3:14 If any man's work shall abide which he built
thereon, he shall receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer
loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and
[that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh
that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that
he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with
God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
1 Corinthians 3:20 and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of
the wise that they are vain.
1 Corinthians 3:21 Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things
are yours;
1 Corinthians 3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are
yours;
1 Corinthians 3:23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
1 Corinthians 4
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of
Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a
man be found faithful.
1 Corinthians 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should
be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own
self.
1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not
hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:5 Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the
Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall
each man have his praise from God.
1 Corinthians 4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure
transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might
learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of
you be puffed up for the one against the other.
1 Corinthians 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou
that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou
glory as if thou hadst not received it?
1 Corinthians 4:8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich,
ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign,
that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 4:9 For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last
of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the
world, both to angels and men.
1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in
Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have
dishonor.
1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and
thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-
place;
1 Corinthians 4:12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being
reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
1 Corinthians 4:13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the
filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
1 Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but to
admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ,
yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you
through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 4:16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
1 Corinthians 4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy,
who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you
in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach
everywhere in every church.
1 Corinthians 4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not
coming to you.
1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will;
and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the
power.
1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in
power.
1 Corinthians 4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod,
or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
1 Corinthians 5
1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles,
that one [of you] hath his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn,
that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in
spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so
wrought this thing,
1 Corinthians 5:4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered
together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1 Corinthians 5:5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the
Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been
sacrificed, [even] Christ:
1 Corinthians 5:8 wherefore 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.
1 Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no
company with fornicators;
1 Corinthians 5:10 not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this
world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for
then must ye needs go out of the world:
1 Corinthians 5:11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep
company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such a one no, not to eat.
1 Corinthians 5:12 For what have I to do with judging them that are
without? Do not ye judge them that are within?
1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Put away
the wicked man from among yourselves.
1 Corinthians 6
1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his
neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
1 Corinthians 6:2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the
world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge
the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how
much more, things that pertain to this life?
1 Corinthians 6:4 If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this
life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?
1 Corinthians 6:5 I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot
there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to
decide between his brethren,
1 Corinthians 6:6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that
before unbelievers?
1 Corinthians 6:7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that
ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why
not rather be defrauded?
1 Corinthians 6:8 Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud,
and that [your] brethren.
1 Corinthians 6:9 Or 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 men,
1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye were
washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things
are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought
under the power of any.
1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but
God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for
fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
1 Corinthians 6:14 and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up
as through his power.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of
Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them
members of a harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 6:16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot
is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is
without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against
his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the
Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not
your own;
1 Corinthians 6:20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God
therefore in your body.
1 Corinthians 7
1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is
good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:2 But, because of fornications, let each man have
his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and
likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but
the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his
own body, but the wife.
1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by
consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and
may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your
incontinency.
1 Corinthians 7:6 But this I say by way of concession, not of
commandment.
1 Corinthians 7:7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself.
Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner,
and another after that.
1 Corinthians 7:8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is
good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they have not continency, let them marry:
for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 7:10 But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I,
but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
1 Corinthians 7:11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried,
or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not
his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother
hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let
him not leave her.
1 Corinthians 7:13 And the woman that hath an unbelieving
husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her
husband.
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the
wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were
your children unclean; but now are they holy.
1 Corinthians 7:15 Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart:
the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God
hath called us in peace.
1 Corinthians 7:16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou
shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether
thou shalt save thy wife?
1 Corinthians 7:17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man,
as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the
churches.
1 Corinthians 7:18 Was any man called being circumcised? Let him
not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision?
Let him not be circumcised.
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.
1 Corinthians 7:20 Let each man abide in that calling wherein he
was called.
1 Corinthians 7:21 Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not
for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.
1 Corinthians 7:22 For he that was called in the Lord being a
bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called
being free, is Christ's bondservant.
1 Corinthians 7:23 Ye were bought with a price; become not
bondservants of men.
1 Corinthians 7:24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called,
therein abide with God.
1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no
commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath
obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
1 Corinthians 7:26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the
distress that is upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he
is.
1 Corinthians 7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be
loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:28 But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned;
and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have
tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened,
that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had
none;
1 Corinthians 7:30 and those that weep, as though they wept not;
and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy,
as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians 7:31 and those that use the world, as not using it to the
full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1 Corinthians 7:32 But I would have you to be free from cares. He
that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may
please the Lord:
1 Corinthians 7:33 but he that is married is careful for the things of
the world, how he may please his wife,
1 Corinthians 7:34 and is divided. [So] also the woman that is
unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she
may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is
careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may
cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may
attend upon the Lord without distraction.
1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself
unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of
her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth
not; let them marry.
1 Corinthians 7:37 But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having
no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his
own virgin [daughter], shall do well.
1 Corinthians 7:38 So then both he that giveth his own virgin
[daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in
marriage shall do better.
1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband
liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom
she will; only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my
judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 8
1 Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We
know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love
edifieth.
1 Corinthians 8:2 If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
1 Corinthians 8:3 but if any man loveth God, the same is known by
him.
1 Corinthians 8:4 Concerning therefore the eating of things
sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world,
and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:5 For though there be that are called gods, whether
in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;
1 Corinthians 8:6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are
all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through
whom are all things, and we through him.
1 Corinthians 8:7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge:
but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing
sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:8 But food will not commend us to God: neither, if
we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
1 Corinthians 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of
yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting
at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be
emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
1 Corinthians 8:11 For through thy knowledge he that is weak
perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and
wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to
stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother
to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9
1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not
seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to
you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:3 My defence to them that examine me is this.
1 Corinthians 9:4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians 9:5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a
believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord,
and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to
forbear working?
1 Corinthians 9:7 What soldier ever serveth at his own charges?
who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who
feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians 9:8 Do I speak these things after the manner of men?
or saith not the law also the same?
1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt
not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen
that God careth,
1 Corinthians 9:10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our
sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope,
and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.
1 Corinthians 9:11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great
matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not
we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all
things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred
things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the
altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14 Even so did the Lord ordain that they that
proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have used none of these things: and I write
not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good
for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying
void.
1 Corinthians 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory
of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not
the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a
reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to
me.
1 Corinthians 9:18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the
gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the
full my right in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:19 For though I was free from all [men,] I brought
myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might
gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being
myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:21 to them that are without law, as without law, not
being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain
them that are without law.
1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the
weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save
some.
1 Corinthians 9:23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I
may be a joint partaker thereof.
1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all,
but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth in the games
exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a
corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I,
as not beating the air:
1 Corinthians 9:27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage:
lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself
should be rejected.
1 Corinthians 10
1 Corinthians 10:1 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that
our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1 Corinthians 10:2 and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud
and in the sea;
1 Corinthians 10:3 and did all eat the same spiritual food;
1 Corinthians 10:4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for
they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was
Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well
pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the
intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as
it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
play.
1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of
them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of
them made trial, and perished by the serpents.
1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them
murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened unto them by way
of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom
the ends of the ages are come.
1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take
heed lest he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as
man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make
also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a
communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it
not a communion of the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10:17 seeing that we, who are many, are one bread,
one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
1 Corinthians 10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that
eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 10:19 What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols
is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1 Corinthians 10:20 But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not
that ye should have communion with demons.
1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the
cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the
table of demons.
1 Corinthians 10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we
stronger than he?
1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful; but not all things are
expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
1 Corinthians 10:24 Let no man seek his own, but [each] his
neighbor's [good].
1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking
no question for conscience' sake,
1 Corinthians 10:26 for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness
thereof.
1 Corinthians 10:27 If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a
feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat,
asking no question for conscience' sake.
1 Corinthians 10:28 But if any man say unto you, This hath been
offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for
conscience sake:
1 Corinthians 10:29 conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's;
for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
1 Corinthians 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil
spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews,
or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
1 Corinthians 10:33 even as I also please all men in all things, not
seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may
be saved.
1 Corinthians 11
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of
Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I praise you that ye remember me in all
things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of
every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the
head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his
head covered, dishonoreth his head.
1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with
her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same
thing as if she were shaven.
1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be
shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be veiled.
1 Corinthians 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head
veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the
woman is the glory of the man.
1 Corinthians 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman
of the man:
1 Corinthians 11:9 for neither was the man created for the woman;
but the woman for the man:
1 Corinthians 11:10 for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign
of] authority on her head, because of the angels.
1 Corinthians 11:11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the
man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:12 For as the woman is of the man, so is the man
also by the woman; but all things are of God.
1 Corinthians 11:13 Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a
woman pray unto God unveiled?
1 Corinthians 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a
man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
1 Corinthians 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to
her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
1 Corinthians 11:16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we
have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 11:17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not,
that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
1 Corinthians 11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the
church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also factions among you, that
they that are approved may be made manifest among you.
1 Corinthians 11:20 When therefore ye assemble yourselves
together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:
1 Corinthians 11:21 for in your eating each one taketh before [other]
his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians 11:22 What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?
or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have
not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you
not.
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received of the Lord that which also I
delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was
betrayed took bread;
1 Corinthians 11:24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and
said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of
me.
1 Corinthians 11:25 In like manner also the cup, after supper,
saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as
ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the
cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come.
1 Corinthians 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or
drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of
the body and the blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat
of the bread, and drink of the cup.
1 Corinthians 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and
drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.
1 Corinthians 11:30 For this cause many among you are weak and
sickly, and not a few sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be
judged.
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of
the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
1 Corinthians 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come
together to eat, wait one for another.
1 Corinthians 11:34 If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that
your coming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set in
order whensoever I come.
1 Corinthians 12
1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I
would not have you ignorant.
1 Corinthians 12:2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were]
led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led.
1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man
speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man
can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:5 And there are diversities of ministrations, and the
same Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:6 And there are diversities of workings, but the
same God, who worketh all things in all.
1 Corinthians 12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the
Spirit to profit withal.
1 Corinthians 12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of
wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the
same Spirit:
1 Corinthians 12:9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to
another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:10 and to another workings of miracles; and to
another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another
[divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of
tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:11 but all these worketh the one and the same
Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.
1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one
body; so also is Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one
body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all
made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1 Corinthians 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand,
I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the
eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the
hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1 Corinthians 12:18 But now hath God set the members each one of
them in the body, even as it pleased him.
1 Corinthians 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were
the body?
1 Corinthians 12:20 But now they are many members, but one body.
1 Corinthians 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no
need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1 Corinthians 12:22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body
which seem to be more feeble are necessary:
1 Corinthians 12:23 and those [parts] of the body, which we think to
be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and
our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;
1 Corinthians 12:24 whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but
God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that
[part] which lacked;
1 Corinthians 12:25 that there should be no schism in the body; but
[that] the members should have the same care one for another.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffereth, all the
members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members
rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally
members thereof.
1 Corinthians 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts
of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all
teachers? are all [workers of] miracles?
1 Corinthians 12:30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with
tongues? do all interpret?
1 Corinthians 12:31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And
moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all
mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor],
and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me
nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth
not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its
own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth
with the truth;
1 Corinthians 13:7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be]
prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they
shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.
1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
1 Corinthians 13:10 but when that which is perfect is come, that
which is in part shall be done away.
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a
child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put
away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as
also I was fully known.
1 Corinthians 13:13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three;
and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14
1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual
[gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not
unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit
he speaketh mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men
edification, and exhortation, and consolation.
1 Corinthians 14:4 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but
he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
1 Corinthians 14:5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues,
but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth
than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the
church may receive edifying.
1 Corinthians 14:6 But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking
with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by
way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of
teaching?
1 Corinthians 14:7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether
pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it
be known what is piped or harped?
1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who
shall prepare himself for war?
1 Corinthians 14:9 So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech
easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will
be speaking into the air.
1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in
the world, and no [kind] is without signification.
1 Corinthians 14:11 If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I
shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be
a barbarian unto me.
1 Corinthians 14:12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual
[gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.
1 Corinthians 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue
pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but
my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I
will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I
will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians 14:16 Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he
that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of
thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?
1 Corinthians 14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other
is not edified.
1 Corinthians 14:18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than
you all:
1 Corinthians 14:19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five
words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than
ten thousand words in a tongue.
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice
be ye babes, but in mind be men.
1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written, By men of strange
tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and
not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them
that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign],
not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.
1 Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole church be assembled
together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned
or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?
1 Corinthians 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one
unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;
1 Corinthians 14:25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and
so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God
is among you indeed.
1 Corinthians 14:26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come
together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation,
hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto
edifying.
1 Corinthians 14:27 If any man speaketh in a tongue, [let it be] by
two, or at the most three, and [that] in turn; and let one interpret:
1 Corinthians 14:28 but if there be no interpreter, let him keep
silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
1 Corinthians 14:29 And let the prophets speak [by] two or three,
and let the others discern.
1 Corinthians 14:30 But if a revelation be made to another sitting
by, let the first keep silence.
1 Corinthians 14:31 For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may
learn, and all may be exhorted;
1 Corinthians 14:32 and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the
prophets;
1 Corinthians 14:33 for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of
peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
1 Corinthians 14:34 let the women keep silence in the churches: for
it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection,
as also saith the law.
1 Corinthians 14:35 And if they would learn anything, let them ask
their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak
in the church.
1 Corinthians 14:36 What? was it from you that the word of God
went forth? or came it unto you alone?
1 Corinthians 14:37 If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you,
that they are the commandment of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:38 But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 14:39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to
prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:40 But let all things be done decently and in order.
1 Corinthians 15
1 Corinthians 15:1 Now I make known unto you brethren, the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein
also ye stand,
1 Corinthians 15:2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the
word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which
also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:4 and that he was buried; and that he hath been
raised on the third day according to the scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the
twelve;
1 Corinthians 15:6 then he appeared to above five hundred brethren
at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are
fallen asleep;
1 Corinthians 15:7 then he appeared to James; then to all the
apostles;
1 Corinthians 15:8 and last of all, as to the [child] untimely born, he
appeared to me also.
1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not
meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and
his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I
labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God
which was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:11 Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach,
and so ye believed.
1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ is preached that he hath been
raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no
resurrection of the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead,
neither hath Christ been raised:
1 Corinthians 15:14 and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our
preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
1 Corinthians 15:15 Yea, we are found false witnesses of God;
because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he
raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.
1 Corinthians 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, neither hath
Christ been raised:
1 Corinthians 15:17 and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is
vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ
have perished.
1 Corinthians 15:19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we
are of all men most pitiable.
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now hath Christ been raised from the dead,
the firstfruits of them that are asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came]
also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all
be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
then they that are Christ's, at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall deliver
up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have
abolished all rule and all authority and power.
1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all his
enemies under his feet.
1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.
1 Corinthians 15:27 For, He put all things in subjection under his
feet. But when he saith, All things are put in subjection, it is evident
that he is excepted who did subject all things unto him.
1 Corinthians 15:28 And when all things have been subjected unto
him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did
subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians 15:29 Else what shall they do that are baptized for the
dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for
them?
1 Corinthians 15:30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
1 Corinthians 15:31 I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren,
which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
1 Corinthians 15:32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts
at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us
eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt
good morals.
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not;
for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to
shame.
1 Corinthians 15:35 But some one will say, How are the dead
raised? and with what manner of body do they come?
1 Corinthians 15:36 Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself
sowest is not quickened except it die:
1 Corinthians 15:37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the
body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of
some other kind;
1 Corinthians 15:38 but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him,
and to each seed a body of its own.
1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one
[flesh] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds,
and another of fishes.
1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the [glory] of the
terrestrial is another.
1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory
of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from
another star in glory.
1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is
sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corinthians 15:43 it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is
sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1 Corinthians 15:44 it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body].
1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, The first man Adam
became a living soul. The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but
that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second
man is of heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are
earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not
sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:54 But when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall
come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in
victory.
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is
thy sting?
1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is
the law:
1 Corinthians 15:57 but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as
ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 16
1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I
gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.
1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of
you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be
made when I come.
1 Corinthians 16:3 And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall
approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto
Jerusalem:
1 Corinthians 16:4 and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go
with me.
1 Corinthians 16:5 But I will come unto you, when I shall have
passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia;
1 Corinthians 16:6 but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even
winter, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I
go.
1 Corinthians 16:7 For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for
I hope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
1 Corinthians 16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost;
1 Corinthians 16:9 for a great door and effectual is opened unto me,
and there are many adversaries.
1 Corinthians 16:10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you
without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do:
1 Corinthians 16:11 let no man therefore despise him. But set him
forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I
expect him with the brethren.
1 Corinthians 16:12 But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought
him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not all [his]
will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like
men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that ye do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:15 Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the
house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they
have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
1 Corinthians 16:16 that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to
every one that helpeth in the work and laboreth.
1 Corinthians 16:17 And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and
Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part
they supplied.
1 Corinthians 16:18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours:
acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.
1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and
Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their
house.
1 Corinthians 16:20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another
with a holy kiss.
1 Corinthians 16:21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be
anathema. Maranatha.
1 Corinthians 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1 Corinthians 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 1
2 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of
God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at
Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Corinthians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we
may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the
comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2 Corinthians 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us,
even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort
and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort,
which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which
we also suffer:
2 Corinthians 1:7 and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as
ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
2 Corinthians 1:8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren,
concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were
weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we
despaired even of life:
2 Corinthians 1:9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death
within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God
who raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians 1:10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will
deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver
us;
2 Corinthians 1:11 ye also helping together on our behalf by your
supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many,
thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our
conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly
wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world,
and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Corinthians 1:13 For we write no other things unto you, than what
ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto
the end:
2 Corinthians 1:14 as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are
your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come
first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
2 Corinthians 1:16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again
from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on
my journey unto Judaea.
2 Corinthians 1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I show
fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the
flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?
2 Corinthians 1:18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is
not yea and nay.
2 Corinthians 1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was
preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timothy,
was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.
2 Corinthians 1:20 For how many soever be the promises of God, in
him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the
glory of God through us.
2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ,
and anointed us, is God;
2 Corinthians 1:22 who also sealed us, and gave [us] the earnest of
the Spirit in our hearts.
2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to
spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
2 Corinthians 1:24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are
helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.
2 Corinthians 2
2 Corinthians 2:1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not
come again to you with sorrow.
2 Corinthians 2:2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he that
maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?
2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I
should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having
confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.
2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I
wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry,
but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto
you.
2 Corinthians 2:5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused
sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
2 Corinthians 2:6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which
was [inflicted] by the many;
2 Corinthians 2:7 so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him
and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed
up with his overmuch sorrow.
2 Corinthians 2:8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love
toward him.
2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know
the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 2:10 But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive]
also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for
your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;
2 Corinthians 2:11 that no advantage may be gained over us by
Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians 2:12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of
Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not
Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into
Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us
in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his
knowledge in every place.
2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in
them that are saved, and in them that perish;
2 Corinthians 2:16 to the one a savor from death unto death; to the
other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these
things?
2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as the many, corrupting the word
of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak
we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3
2 Corinthians 3:1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves?
or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from
you?
2 Corinthians 3:2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known
and read of all men;
2 Corinthians 3:3 being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of
flesh.
2 Corinthians 3:4 And such confidence have we through Christ to
God-ward:
2 Corinthians 3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account
anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new
covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life.
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written, [and]
engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel
could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his
face; which [glory] was passing away:
2 Corinthians 3:8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit
be with glory?
2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath
glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in
glory.
2 Corinthians 3:10 For verily that which hath been made glorious
hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory
that surpasseth.
2 Corinthians 3:11 For if that which passeth away [was] with glory,
much more that which remaineth [is] in glory.
2 Corinthians 3:12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great
boldness of speech,
2 Corinthians 3:13 and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his
face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end
of that which was passing away:
2 Corinthians 3:14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very
day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not
being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a
veil lieth upon their heart.
2 Corinthians 3:16 But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil
is taken away.
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit
of the Lord is, [there] is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4
2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as
we obtained mercy, we faint not:
2 Corinthians 4:2 but we have renounced the hidden things of
shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in
them that perish:
2 Corinthians 4:4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the
minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as
Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of
darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that
the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from
ourselves;
2 Corinthians 4:8 [we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened;
perplexed, yet not unto despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not
destroyed;
2 Corinthians 4:10 always bearing about in the body the dying of
Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered unto death
for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our
mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 4:13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to
that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also
believe, and therefore also we speak;
2 Corinthians 4:14 knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus
shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace,
being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to
abound unto the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 4:16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward
man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment,
worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of
glory;
2 Corinthians 4:18 while we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly house of our
tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not
made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed
upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
2 Corinthians 5:3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found
naked.
2 Corinthians 5:4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan,
being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we
would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of
life.
2 Corinthians 5:5 Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God,
who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:6 Being therefore always of good courage, and
knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from
the Lord
2 Corinthians 5:7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight);
2 Corinthians 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:9 Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at
home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all be made manifest before the
judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done]
in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or
bad.
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we
persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that
we are made manifest also in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:12 We are not again commending ourselves unto
you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf,
that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance,
and not in heart.
2 Corinthians 5:13 For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto
God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because
we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
2 Corinthians 5:15 and he died for all, that they that live should no
longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died
and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the
flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we
know [him so] no more.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new
creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become
new.
2 Corinthians 5:18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to
himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of
reconciliation;
2 Corinthians 5:19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and
having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of
Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on
behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our
behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 6
2 Corinthians 6:1 And working together [with him] we entreat also
that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
2 Corinthians 6:2 (for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened
unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succor thee: behold, now is
the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):
2 Corinthians 6:3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that
our ministration be not blamed;
2 Corinthians 6:4 but in everything commending ourselves, as
ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in
distresses,
2 Corinthians 6:5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors,
in watchings, in fastings;
2 Corinthians 6:6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in
kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
2 Corinthians 6:7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the
armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2 Corinthians 6:8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good
report; as deceivers, and [yet] true;
2 Corinthians 6:9 as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and
behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
2 Corinthians 6:10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet
making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6:11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our
heart is enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened
in your own affections.
2 Corinthians 6:13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as
unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for
what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what
communion hath light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or
what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with
idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and
be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will
receive you,
2 Corinthians 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to
me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 7
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting
holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:2 Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we
corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
2 Corinthians 7:3 I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said
before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.
2 Corinthians 7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great
is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow
with joy in all our affliction.
2 Corinthians 7:5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our
flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; without
[were] fightings, within [were] fears.
2 Corinthians 7:6 Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even]
God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
2 Corinthians 7:7 and not by his coming only, but also by the
comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your
longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
2 Corinthians 7:8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do
not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made
you sorry, though but for a season),
2 Corinthians 7:9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but
that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry
after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto
salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of
the world worketh death.
2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were
made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you,
yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear,
yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye
approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
2 Corinthians 7:12 So although I wrote unto you, I [wrote] not for
his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the
wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto
you in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 7:13 Therefore we have been comforted: And in our
comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because
his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.
2 Corinthians 7:14 For if in anything I have gloried to him on your
behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in
truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be
truth.
2 Corinthians 7:15 And his affection is more abundantly toward
you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear
and trembling ye received him.
2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage
concerning you.
2 Corinthians 8
2 Corinthians 8:1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the
grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;
2 Corinthians 8:2 how that in much proof of affliction the
abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the
riches of their liberality.
2 Corinthians 8:3 For according to their power, I bear witness, yea
and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,
2 Corinthians 8:4 beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this
grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:
2 Corinthians 8:5 and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave
their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
2 Corinthians 8:6 Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made
a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.
2 Corinthians 8:7 But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and
utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love
to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
2 Corinthians 8:8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as
proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your
love.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye
through his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:10 And herein I give [my] judgment: for this is
expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago,
not only to do, but also to will.
2 Corinthians 8:11 But now complete the doing also; that as [there
was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion also out
of your ability.
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the readiness is there, [it is] acceptable
according as [a man] hath, not according as [he] hath not.
2 Corinthians 8:13 For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased
[and] ye distressed;
2 Corinthians 8:14 but by equality: your abundance [being a supply]
at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may
become [a supply] for your want; that there may be equality:
2 Corinthians 8:15 as it is written, He that [gathered] much had
nothing over; and he that [gathered] little had no lack.
2 Corinthians 8:16 But thanks be to God, who putteth the same
earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
2 Corinthians 8:17 For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but
being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.
2 Corinthians 8:18 And we have sent together with him the brother
whose praise in the gospel [is spread] through all the churches;
2 Corinthians 8:19 and not only so, but who was also appointed by
the churches to travel with us in [the matter of] this grace, which is
ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our
readiness:
2 Corinthians 8:20 Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in
[the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:
2 Corinthians 8:21 for we take thought for things honorable, not
only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
2 Corinthians 8:22 and we have sent with them our brother, whom
we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much
more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which [he hath] in
you.
2 Corinthians 8:23 Whether [any inquire] about Titus, [he is] my
partner and [my] fellow-worker to you-ward, or our brethren, [they
are] the messengers of the churches, [they are] the glory of Christ.
2 Corinthians 8:24 Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the
churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
2 Corinthians 9
2 Corinthians 9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
superfluous for me to write to you:
2 Corinthians 9:2 for I know your readiness, of which I glory on
your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for
a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.
2 Corinthians 9:3 But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on
your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said,
ye may be prepared:
2 Corinthians 9:4 lest by any means, if there come with me any of
Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should
be put to shame in this confidence.
2 Corinthians 9:5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the
brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up
beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready
as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
2 Corinthians 9:6 But this [I say,] He that soweth sparingly shall
reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:7 [Let] each man [do] according as he hath
purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth
a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound unto
you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound
unto every good work:
2 Corinthians 9:9 as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath
given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.
2 Corinthians 9:10 And he that supplieth seed to the sower and
bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and
increase the fruits of your righteousness:
2 Corinthians 9:11 ye being enriched in everything unto all
liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:12 For the ministration of this service not only
filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also
through many thanksgivings unto God;
2 Corinthians 9:13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this
ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession
unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution
unto them and unto all;
2 Corinthians 9:14 while they themselves also, with supplication on
your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God
in you.
2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians 10
2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness
and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among
you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
2 Corinthians 10:2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present
show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold
against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
according to the flesh
2 Corinthians 10:4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the
flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),
2 Corinthians 10:5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:6 and being in readiness to avenge all
disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
2 Corinthians 10:7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If
any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this
again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.
2 Corinthians 10:8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly
concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up,
and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
2 Corinthians 10:9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by
my letters.
2 Corinthians 10:10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and
strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
2 Corinthians 10:11 Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in
word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when
we are present.
2 Corinthians 10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare
ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they
themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing
themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:13 But we will not glory beyond [our] measure,
but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned
to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.
2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as
though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you
in the gospel of Christ:
2 Corinthians 10:15 not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in
other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we
shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further]
abundance,
2 Corinthians 10:16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts
beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of
things ready to our hand.
2 Corinthians 10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is
approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
2 Corinthians 11
2 Corinthians 11:1 Would that ye could bear with me in a little
foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy:
for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a
pure virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from
the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus,
whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye
did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do
well to bear with [him].
2 Corinthians 11:5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very
chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:6 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not
in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto
you in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye
might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for
nought?
2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them]
that I might minister unto you;
2 Corinthians 11:9 and when I was present with you and was in
want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they
came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in
everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so]
will I keep [myself].
2 Corinthians 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall
stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God
knoweth.
2 Corinthians 11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off
occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory,
they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful
workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth
himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also
fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be
according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16 I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if
[ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
2 Corinthians 11:17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord,
but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
2 Corinthians 11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will
glory also.
2 Corinthians 11:19 For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise
[yourselves].
2 Corinthians 11:20 For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into
bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth
himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
2 Corinthians 11:21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we
had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in
foolishness), I am bold also.
2 Corinthians 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites?
so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one
beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more
abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes]
save one.
2 Corinthians 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I
stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in
the deep;
2 Corinthians 11:26 [in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in]
perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from
the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in]
perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;
2 Corinthians 11:27 [in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28 Besides those things that are without, there is
that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is
caused to stumble, and I burn not?
2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things
that concern my weakness.
2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who
is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the
king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:
2 Corinthians 11:33 and through a window was I let down in a
basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
2 Corinthians 12
2 Corinthians 12:1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient;
but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago
(whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know
not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or
apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),
2 Corinthians 12:4 how that he was caught up into Paradise, and
heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
2 Corinthians 12:5 On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine
own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:6 For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be
foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should
account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from
me.
2 Corinthians 12:7 And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the
revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to
me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I
should not be exalted overmuch.
2 Corinthians 12:8 Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice,
that it might depart from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient
for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in
injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake:
for when I am weak, then am I strong.
2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I
ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind
the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought
among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.
2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is there wherein ye were made inferior
to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a
burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to
come to you; and I will not be a burden 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.
2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for
your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
2 Corinthians 12:16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but,
being crafty, I caught you with guile.
2 Corinthians 12:17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them
whom I have sent unto you?
2 Corinthians 12:18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with
him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same
spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?
2 Corinthians 12:19 Ye think all this time that we are excusing
ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all
things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I
should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of
you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife,
jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings,
tumults;
2 Corinthians 12:21 lest again when I come my God should humble
me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have
sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and
fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
2 Corinthians 13
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. At the
mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word established.
2 Corinthians 13:2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand,
as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them
that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I
will not spare;
2 Corinthians 13:3 seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that
speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:
2 Corinthians 13:4 for he was crucified through weakness, yet he
liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we
shall live with him through the power of God toward you.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith;
prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that
Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.
2 Corinthians 13:6 But I hope that ye shall know that we are not
reprobate.
2 Corinthians 13:7 Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that
we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable,
though we be as reprobate.
2 Corinthians 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for
the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:9 For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are
strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
2 Corinthians 13:10 For this cause I write these things while absent,
that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority
which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be
comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love
and peace shall be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:12 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
2 Corinthians 13:13 All the saints salute you.
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love
of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
Galatians
Galatians 1
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man,
but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from
the dead),
Galatians 1:2 and all the brethren that are with me, unto the churches
of Galatia:
Galatians 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our
Lord Jesus Christ,
Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us
out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and
Father:
Galatians 1:5 to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that
called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;
Galatians 1:7 which is not another [gospel] only there are some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should
preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto
you, let him be anathema.
Galatians 1:9 As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man
preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let
him be anathema.
Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or
am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not
be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:11 For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the
gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.
Galatians 1:12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I
taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:13 For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past
in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the
church of God, and made havoc of it:
Galatians 1:14 and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of
mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly
zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Galatians 1:15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who
separated me, [even] from my mother's womb, and called me through
his grace,
Galatians 1:16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him
among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Galatians 1:17 neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were
apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned
unto Damascus.
Galatians 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit
Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.
Galatians 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the
Lord's brother.
Galatians 1:20 Now touching the things which I write unto you,
behold, before God, I lie not.
Galatians 1:21 Then I came unto the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Galatians 1:22 And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of
Judaea which were in Christ:
Galatians 1:23 but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us
now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;
Galatians 1:24 and they glorified God in me.
Galatians 2
Galatians 2:1 Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again
to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them
the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before
them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or
had run, in vain.
Galatians 2:3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek,
was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians 2:4 and that because of the false brethren privily brought
in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ
Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 2:5 to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no,
not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Galatians 2:6 But from those who were reputed to be somewhat
(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not
man's person)-- they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to
me:
Galatians 2:7 but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been
intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with
[the gospel] of the circumcision
Galatians 2:8 (for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of
the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles);
Galatians 2:9 and when they perceived the grace that was given unto
me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars,
gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we
should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;
Galatians 2:10 only [they would] that we should remember the poor;
which very thing I was also zealous to do.
Galatians 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to
the face, because he stood condemned.
Galatians 2:12 For before that certain came from James, he ate with
the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated
himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision.
Galatians 2:13 And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with
him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their
dissimulation.
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly
according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them]
all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the
Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Galatians 2:15 We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the
Gentiles,
Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works
of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on
Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by
the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh
be justified.
Galatians 2:17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we
ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God
forbid.
Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed,
I prove myself a transgressor.
Galatians 2:19 For I through the law died unto the law, that I might
live unto God.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I
that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in
the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Galatians 2:21 I do not make void the grace of God: for if
righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.
Galatians 3
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before
whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn from you. Received ye the
Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye
now perfected in the flesh?
Galatians 3:4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in
vain.
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and
worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned
unto him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:7 Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are
sons of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify
the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham,
[saying,] In thee shall all the nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:9 So then they that are of faith are blessed with the
faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under
a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all
things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.
Galatians 3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God,
is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;
Galatians 3:12 and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them
shall live in them.
Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangeth on a tree:
Galatians 3:14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of
Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it
be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one
maketh it void, or addeth thereto.
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to
his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to
thy seed, which is Christ.
Galatians 3:17 Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by
God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth
not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.
Galatians 3:18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of
promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.
Galatians 3:19 What then is the law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath
been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a
mediator.
Galatians 3:20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is
one.
Galatians 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God
forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive,
verily righteousness would have been of the law.
Galatians 3:22 But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that
the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept in ward under
the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Galatians 3:24 So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto
Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:25 But now faith that is come, we are no longer under a
tutor.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ
Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did
put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be
neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are
one [man] in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed,
heirs according to promise.
Galatians 4
Galatians 4:1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth
nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;
Galatians 4:2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day
appointed of the father.
Galatians 4:3 So we also, when we were children, were held in
bondage under the rudiments of the world:
Galatians 4:4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth
his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Galatians 4:5 that he might redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:6 And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of
his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:7 So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son;
and if a son, then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:8 Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in
bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
Galatians 4:9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to
be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly
rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
Galatians 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have
bestowed labor upon you in vain.
Galatians 4:12 I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also
[am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
Galatians 4:13 but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I
preached the gospel unto you the first time:
Galatians 4:14 and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh
ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God,
[even] as Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:15 Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I
bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your
eyes and given them to me.
Galatians 4:16 So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the
truth?
Galatians 4:17 They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they
desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter
at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until
Christ be formed in you--
Galatians 4:20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to
change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not
hear the law?
Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by
the handmaid, and one by the freewoman.
Galatians 4:23 Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the
flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise.
Galatians 4:24 Which things contain an allegory: for these [women]
are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto
bondage, which is Hagar.
Galatians 4:25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and
answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her
children.
Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our
mother.
Galatians 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;
Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children
of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.
Galatians 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of
promise.
Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh
persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 4:30 Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the
handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit
with the son of the freewoman.
Galatians 4:31 Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a
handmaid, but of the freewoman.
Galatians 5
Galatians 5:1 For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore,
and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive
circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:3 Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth
circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 5:4 Ye are severed from Christ, ye would be justified by
the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
Galatians 5:5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of
righteousness.
Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth
anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
Galatians 5:7 Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye
should not obey the truth?
Galatians 5:8 This persuasion [came] not of him that calleth you.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Galatians 5:10 I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye
will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear
his judgment, whosoever he be.
Galatians 5:11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am
I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been
done away.
Galatians 5:12 I would that they that unsettle you would even go
beyond circumcision.
Galatians 5:13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use]
not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be
servants one to another.
Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in
this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that
ye be not consumed one of another.
Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil
the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye
may not do the things that ye would.
Galatians 5:18 But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the
law.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
[these]: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths,
factions, divisions, parties,
Galatians 5:21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of
which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who
practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:24 And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the
flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
Galatians 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
Galatians 5:26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one
another, envying one another.
Galatians 6
Galatians 6:1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass,
ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness;
looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of
Christ.
Galatians 6:3 For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he
is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Galatians 6:4 But let each man prove his own work, and then shall
he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his
neighbor.
Galatians 6:5 For each man shall bear his own burden.
Galatians 6:6 But let him that is taught in the word communicate
unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that
which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of
the household of the faith.
Galatians 6:11 See with how large letters I write unto you with mine
own hand.
Galatians 6:12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh,
they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be
persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:13 For not even they who receive circumcision do
themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised,
that they may glory in your flesh.
Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified
unto me, and I unto the world.
Galatians 6:15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Galatians 6:16 And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace [be]
upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Galatians 6:17 Henceforth, let no man trouble me; for I bear branded
on my body the marks of Jesus.
Galatians 6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit, brethren. Amen.
Ephesians
Ephesians 1
Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of
God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly [places] in Christ:
Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in
love:
Ephesians 1:5 having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through
Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely
bestowed on us in the Beloved:
Ephesians 1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Ephesians 1:8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and
prudence,
Ephesians 1:9 making known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Ephesians 1:10 unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to
sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things
upon the earth; in him, [I say,]
Ephesians 1:11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been
foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things
after the counsel of his will;
Ephesians 1:12 to the end that we should be unto the praise of his
glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
Ephesians 1:13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth,
the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye
were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 1:14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the
redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the
Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward
all the saints,
Ephesians 1:16 cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of
you] in my prayers;
Ephesians 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him;
Ephesians 1:18 having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye
may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 1:19 and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-
ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his
might
Ephesians 1:20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him
from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly
[places],
Ephesians 1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but
also in that which is to come:
Ephesians 1:22 and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and
gave him to be head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 1:23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all
in all.
Ephesians 2
Ephesians 2:1 And you [did he make alive,] when ye were dead
through your trespasses and sins,
Ephesians 2:2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the
spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
Ephesians 2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our
flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
Ephesians 2:4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us,
Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with
him in the heavenly [places], in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding
riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;
Ephesians 2:9 not of works, that no man should glory.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in
them.
Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in
the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;
Ephesians 2:12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ,
alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the
covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the
world.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are
made nigh in the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake
down the middle wall of partition,
Ephesians 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the enmity, [even] the
law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; that he might create
in himself of the two one new man, [so] making peace;
Ephesians 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body unto God
through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Ephesians 2:17 and he came and preached peace to you that were far
off, and peace to them that were nigh:
Ephesians 2:18 for through him we both have our access in one
Spirit unto the Father.
Ephesians 2:19 So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but
ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Ephesians 2:20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 2:21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together,
groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
Ephesians 2:22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation
of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 3
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in
behalf of you Gentiles,--
Ephesians 3:2 if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that
grace of God which was given me to you-ward;
Ephesians 3:3 how that by revelation was made known unto me the
mystery, as I wrote before in few words,
Ephesians 3:4 whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my
understanding in the mystery of Christ;
Ephesians 3:5 which in other generation was not made known unto
the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles
and prophets in the Spirit;
Ephesians 3:6 [to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-
members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ
Jesus through the gospel,
Ephesians 3:7 whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift
of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of
his power.
Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was
this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
of Christ;
Ephesians 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of
the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all
things;
Ephesians 3:10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the
powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the
church the manifold wisdom of God,
Ephesians 3:11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed
in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Ephesians 3:12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence
through our faith in him.
Ephesians 3:13 Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my
tribulations for you, which are your glory.
Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
Ephesians 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is
named,
Ephesians 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of
his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit
in the inward man;
Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to
the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 3:18 may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what
is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Ephesians 3:19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth
knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that
worketh in us,
Ephesians 3:21 unto him [be] the glory in the church and in Christ
Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 4
Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to
walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
Ephesians 4:2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,
forbearing one another in love;
Ephesians 4:3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the
bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:4 [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye
were called in one hope of your calling;
Ephesians 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and
through all, and in all.
Ephesians 4:7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according
to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led
captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men.
Ephesians 4:9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also
descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far
above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Ephesians 4:12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of
ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians 4:14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro
and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Ephesians 4:15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all
things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
Ephesians 4:16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit
together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the
working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of
the body unto the building up of itself in love.
Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Ephesians 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated
from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them,
because of the hardening of their heart;
Ephesians 4:19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to
lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ephesians 4:20 But ye did not so learn Christ;
Ephesians 4:21 if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him,
even as truth is in Jesus:
Ephesians 4:22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner
of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
Ephesians 4:23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, that after God hath been
created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth
each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down
upon your wrath:
Ephesians 4:27 neither give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him
labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have
whereof to give to him that hath need.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth,
but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give
grace to them that hear.
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye
were sealed unto the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor,
and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 4:32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 5
Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and
gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor
of a sweet smell.
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,
let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians 5:4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are
not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor
unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for
because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of
disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them;
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the
Lord: walk as children of light
Ephesians 5:9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth),
Ephesians 5:10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
Ephesians 5:11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather even reprove them;
Ephesians 5:12 for the things which are done by them in secret it is a
shame even to speak of.
Ephesians 5:13 But all things when they are reproved are made
manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
Ephesians 5:15 Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise,
but as wise;
Ephesians 5:16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the
will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but
be filled with the Spirit;
Ephesians 5:19 speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the
Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 giving thanks always for all things in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
Ephesians 5:21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of
Christ.
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands,
as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ
also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the
body.
Ephesians 5:24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the
wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved
the church, and gave himself up for it;
Ephesians 5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the
washing of water with the word,
Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the church to himself a
glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but
that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Ephesians 5:29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth
and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
Ephesians 5:30 because we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one
flesh.
Ephesians 5:32 This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ
and of the church.
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his
own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her
husband.
Ephesians 6
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is
right.
Ephesians 6:2 Honor thy father and mother (which is the first
commandment with promise),
Ephesians 6:3 that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live
long on the earth.
Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath:
but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the
flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your
heart, as unto Christ;
Ephesians 6:6 not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Ephesians 6:7 with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and
not unto men:
Ephesians 6:8 knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth,
the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether [he be] bond
or free.
Ephesians 6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and
forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and
yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of
his might.
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able
to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but
against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers
of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the
heavenly [places].
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye
may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to
stand.
Ephesians 6:14 Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth,
and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Ephesians 6:15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the
gospel of peace;
Ephesians 6:16 withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil [one].
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Ephesians 6:18 with all prayer and supplication praying at all
seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and
supplication for all the saints,
Ephesians 6:19 And on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto
me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery
of the gospel,
Ephesians 6:20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I
may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Ephesians 6:21 But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do,
Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall
make known to you all things:
Ephesians 6:22 whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose,
that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.
Ephesians 6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus
Christ with [a love] incorruptible.
Philippians
Philippians 1
Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the
saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and
deacons:
Philippians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:3 I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
Philippians 1:4 always in every supplication of mine on behalf of
you all making my supplication with joy,
Philippians 1:5 for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from
the first day until now;
Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began
a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf
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 with me of grace.
Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in
the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more
and more in knowledge and all discernment;
Philippians 1:10 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent;
that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which
are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:12 Now I would have you know, brethren, that the
things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the
progress of the gospel;
Philippians 1:13 so that my bonds became manifest in Christ
throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;
Philippians 1:14 and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being
confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the
word of God without fear.
Philippians 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife;
and some also of good will:
Philippians 1:16 the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the
defence of the gospel;
Philippians 1:17 but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not
sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
Philippians 1:18 What then? only that in every way, whether in
pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea,
and will rejoice.
Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation,
through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that
in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as
always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether
by life, or by death.
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:22 But if to live in the flesh, --[if] this shall bring fruit
from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.
Philippians 1:23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the
desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
Philippians 1:24 yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your
sake.
Philippians 1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall
abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the
faith;
Philippians 1:26 that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in
me through my presence with you again.
Philippians 1:27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the
gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I
may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul
striving for the faith of the gospel;
Philippians 1:28 and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which
is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and
that from God;
Philippians 1:29 because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of
Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
Philippians 1:30 having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and
now hear to be in me.
Philippians 2
Philippians 2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any
consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender
mercies and compassions,
Philippians 2:2 make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind,
having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Philippians 2:3 [doing] nothing through faction or through
vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than
himself;
Philippians 2:4 not looking each of you to his own things, but each
of you also to the things of others.
Philippians 2:5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus:
Philippians 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the
being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Philippians 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant,
being made in the likeness of men;
Philippians 2:8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the
cross.
Philippians 2:9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave
unto him the name which is above every name;
Philippians 2:10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
[things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth,
Philippians 2:11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:12 So then, my beloved, even 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;
Philippians 2:13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to
work, for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and
questionings:
Philippians 2:15 that ye may become blameless and harmless,
children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
Philippians 2:16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have
whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither
labor in vain.
Philippians 2:17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and
service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
Philippians 2:18 and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice
with me.
Philippians 2:19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy
shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know
your state.
Philippians 2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly
for your state.
Philippians 2:21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus
Christ.
Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child
[serveth] a father, [so] he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.
Philippians 2:23 Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I
shall see how it will go with me:
Philippians 2:24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come
shortly.
Philippians 2:25 But I counted it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and
your messenger and minister to my need;
Philippians 2:26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled,
because ye had heard that he was sick:
Philippians 2:27 for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God
had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might
not have sorrow upon sorrow.
Philippians 2:28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that,
when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less
sorrowful.
Philippians 2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and
hold such in honor:
Philippians 2:30 because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto
death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your
service toward me.
Philippians 3
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write
the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is
safe.
Philippians 3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
beware of the concision:
Philippians 3:3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the
Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in
the flesh:
Philippians 3:4 though I myself might have confidence even in the
flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet
more:
Philippians 3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of
the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a
Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching
the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Philippians 3:7 Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I
counted loss for Christ.
Philippians 3:8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I
suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I
may gain Christ,
Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of
mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
Philippians 3:10 that I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming
conformed unto his death;
Philippians 3:11 if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection
from the dead.
Philippians 3:12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already
made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for
which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold:
but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and
stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus
minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall
God reveal unto you:
Philippians 3:16 only, whereunto we have attained, by that same
[rule] let us walk.
Philippians 3:17 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark
them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
Philippians 3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now
tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of
Christ:
Philippians 3:19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and
[whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we
wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Philippians 3:21 who shall fashion anew the body of our
humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things
unto himself.
Philippians 4
Philippians 4:1 Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my
joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
Philippians 4:2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the
same mind in the Lord.
Philippians 4:3 Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these
women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also,
and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of
life.
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.
Philippians 4:5 Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The
Lord is at hand.
Philippians 4:6 In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God.
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ
Jesus.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honorable, 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.
Philippians 4:9 The things which ye both learned and received and
heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be
with you.
Philippians 4:10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length
ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take
thought, but ye lacked opportunity.
Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have
learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.
Philippians 4:12 I know how to be abased, and I know also how to
abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both
to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:14 Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my
affliction.
Philippians 4:15 And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that
in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no
church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving
but ye only;
Philippians 4:16 for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again
unto my need.
Philippians 4:17 Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit
that increaseth to your account.
Philippians 4:18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled,
having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you,
and odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to
God.
Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply every need of yours
according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:20 Now unto our God and Father [be] the glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren that
are with me salute you.
Philippians 4:22 All the saints salute you, especially they that are of
Caesar's household.
Philippians 4:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit.
Colossians
Colossians 1
Colossians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of
God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ [that are]
at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Colossians 1:3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, praying always for you,
Colossians 1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the
love which ye have toward all the saints,
Colossians 1:5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the
heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the
gospel,
Colossians 1:6 which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the
world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the
day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
Colossians 1:7 even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-
servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
Colossians 1:8 who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do
not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with
the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Colossians 1:10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing,
bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of
God;
Colossians 1:11 strengthened with all power, according to the might
of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
Colossians 1:12 giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to
be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and
translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
Colossians 1:14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of
our sins:
Colossians 1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of all creation;
Colossians 1:16 for in him were all things created, in the heavens
and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been
created through him, and unto him;
Colossians 1:17 and he is before all things, and in him all things
consist.
Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is
the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might
have the preeminence.
Colossians 1:19 For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in
him should all the fulness dwell;
Colossians 1:20 and through him to reconcile all things unto himself,
having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I
say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.
Colossians 1:21 And you, being in time past alienated and enemies
in your mind in your evil works,
Colossians 1:22 yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and without blemish and
unreproveable before him:
Colossians 1:23 if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and
stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye
heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I
Paul was made a minister.
Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and
fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in
my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
Colossians 1:25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the
dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the
word of God,
Colossians 1:26 [even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and
generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,
Colossians 1:27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is
the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Colossians 1:28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and
teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man
perfect in Christ;
Colossians 1:29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his
working, which worketh in me mightily.
Colossians 2
Colossians 2:1 For I would have you know how greatly I strive for
you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my
face in the flesh;
Colossians 2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even]
Christ,
Colossians 2:3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge hidden.
Colossians 2:4 This I say, that no one may delude you with
persuasiveness of speech.
Colossians 2:5 For though I am 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.
Colossians 2:6 As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so]
walk in him,
Colossians 2:7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your
faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh
spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition
of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
Colossians 2:9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily,
Colossians 2:10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all
principality and power:
Colossians 2:11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a
circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of
the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye
were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who
raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead through your trespasses and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], did he make alive
together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
Colossians 2:14 having blotted out the bond written in ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out
that way, nailing it to the cross;
Colossians 2:15 having despoiled the principalities and the powers,
he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink,
or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:
Colossians 2:17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the
body is Christ's.
Colossians 2:18 Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary
humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which
he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the
body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands,
increasing with the increase of God.
Colossians 2:20 If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to
ordinances,
Colossians 2:21 Handle not, nor taste, nor touch
Colossians 2:22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after
the precepts and doctrines of men?
Colossians 2:23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-
worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any
value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Colossians 3
Colossians 3:1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the
things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of
God.
Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the
things that are upon the earth.
Colossians 3:3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested,
then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon
the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry;
Colossians 3:6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon
the sons of disobedience:
Colossians 3:7 wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these
things;
Colossians 3:8 but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath,
malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
Colossians 3:9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the
old man with his doings,
Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed
unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Colossians 3:11 where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision
and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but
Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a
heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians 3:13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if
any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you,
so also do ye:
Colossians 3:14 and above all these things [put on] love, which is the
bond of perfectness.
Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the
which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all
wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and]
hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto
God.
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, [do] all
in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through him.
Colossians 3:18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is
fitting in the Lord.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against
them.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is
well-pleasing in the Lord.
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not
discouraged.
Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your
masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers,
but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
Colossians 3:23 whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord,
and not unto men;
Colossians 3:24 knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the
recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:25 For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the
wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Colossians 4
Colossians 4:1 Masters, render unto your servants that which is just
and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Colossians 4:2 Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with
thanksgiving;
Colossians 4:3 withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us
a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am
also in bonds;
Colossians 4:4 that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without,
redeeming the time.
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with
salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
Colossians 4:7 All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you,
the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the
Lord:
Colossians 4:8 whom I have sent you for this very purpose, that ye
may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;
Colossians 4:9 together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved
brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all
things that [are done] here.
Colossians 4:10 Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you, and
Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (touching whom ye received
commandments; if he come unto you, receive him),
Colossians 4:11 and Jesus that is called Justus, who are of the
circumcision: these only [are my] fellow-workers unto the kingdom
of God, men that have been a comfort unto me.
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ
Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye
may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
Colossians 4:13 For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for
you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.
Colossians 4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you.
Colossians 4:15 Salute the brethren that are in Laodicea, and
Nymphas, and the church that is in their house.
Colossians 4:16 And when this epistle hath been read among you,
cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye
also read the epistle from Laodicea.
Colossians 4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry
which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
Colossians 4:18 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.
1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 1
1 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ: Grace to you and peace.
1 Thessalonians 1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all,
making mention [of you] in our prayers;
1 Thessalonians 1:3 remembering without ceasing your work of
faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,
before our God and Father;
1 Thessalonians 1:4 knowing, brethren beloved of God, your
election,
1 Thessalonians 1:5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word
only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much
assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed
ourselves toward you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord,
having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy
Spirit;
1 Thessalonians 1:7 so that ye became an ensample to all that
believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8 For from you hath sounded forth the word of the
Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your
faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak
anything.
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves report concerning us what
manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God
from idols, to serve a living and true God,
1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he
raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath
to come.
1 Thessalonians 2
1 Thessalonians 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in
unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
1 Thessalonians 2:2 but having suffered before and been shamefully
treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak
unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of
uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians 2:4 but even as we have been approved of God to
be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but
God who proveth our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither at any time were we found using
words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is
witness;
1 Thessalonians 2:6 nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor
from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of
Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when
a nurse cherisheth her own children:
1 Thessalonians 2:8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you,
we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only,
but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and
travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you,
we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily
and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you
that believe:
1 Thessalonians 2:11 as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of
you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and
encouraging [you], and testifying,
1 Thessalonians 2:12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of
God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 And for this cause we also thank God without
ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message,
[even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men,
but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that
believe.
1 Thessalonians 2:14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the
churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also
suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of
the Jews;
1 Thessalonians 2:15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the
prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to
all men;
1 Thessalonians 2:16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they
may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon
them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians 2:17 But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a
short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more
exceedingly to see your face with great desire:
1 Thessalonians 2:18 because we would fain have come unto you, I
Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of
glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 2:20 For ye are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 3
1 Thessalonians 3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear,
we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone;
1 Thessalonians 3:2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's
minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you]
concerning your faith;
1 Thessalonians 3:3 that no man be moved by these afflictions; for
yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.
1 Thessalonians 3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you
beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass,
and ye know.
1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause I also, when I could no longer
forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the
tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3:6 But when Timothy came even now unto us from
you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye
have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we
also [to see] you;
1 Thessalonians 3:7 for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over
you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:
1 Thessalonians 3:8 for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:9 For what thanksgiving can we render again unto
God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before
our God;
1 Thessalonians 3:10 night and day praying exceedingly that we
may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your
faith?
1 Thessalonians 3:11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our
Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:
1 Thessalonians 3:12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound
in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do]
toward you;
1 Thessalonians 3:13 to the end he may establish your hearts
unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of
our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians 4
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort
you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk
and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and
more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2 For ye know what charge we gave you through
the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, [even] your
sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
1 Thessalonians 4:4 that each one of you know how to possess
himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles
who know not God;
1 Thessalonians 4:6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in
the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also
we forewarned you and testified.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in
sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man,
but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no
need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to
love one another;
1 Thessalonians 4:10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that
are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound
more and more;
1 Thessalonians 4:11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your
own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;
1 Thessalonians 4:12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that
are without, and may have need of nothing.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 But we would not have you ignorant, brethren,
concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest,
who have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring
with him.
1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord,
shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
1 Thessalonians 4:17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall
together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
1 Thessalonians 5
1 Thessalonians 5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons,
brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of
the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with
child; and they shall in no wise escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that
day should overtake you as a thief:
1 Thessalonians 5:5 for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day:
we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
1 Thessalonians 5:6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us
watch and be sober.
1 Thessalonians 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they
that are drunken are drunken in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope
of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto
the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or
sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore exhort one another, and build each
other up, even as also ye do.
1 Thessalonians 5:12 But we beseech you, brethren, to know them
that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish
you;
1 Thessalonians 5:13 and to esteem them exceeding highly in love
for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the
disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be
longsuffering toward all.
1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render unto any one evil for evil;
but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and
toward all.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice always;
1 Thessalonians 5:17 pray without ceasing;
1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks: for this is the will of
God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 Quench not the Spirit;
1 Thessalonians 5:20 despise not prophesyings;
1 Thessalonians 5:21 prove all things; hold fast that which is good;
1 Thessalonians 5:22 abstain from every form of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the God of peace himself sanctify you
wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire,
without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do
it.
1 Thessalonians 5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
1 Thessalonians 5:26 Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.
1 Thessalonians 5:27 I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be
read unto all the brethren.
1 Thessalonians 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you.
2 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians 1
2 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ;
2 Thessalonians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to give thanks to God always to
you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth
exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another
aboundeth;
2 Thessalonians 1:4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the
churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions
and in the afflictions which ye endure;
2 Thessalonians 1:5 [which is] a manifest token of the righteous
judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the
kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2 Thessalonians 1:6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to
recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
2 Thessalonians 1:7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the
revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power
in flaming fire,
2 Thessalonians 1:8 rendering vengeance to them that know not
God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 1:9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal
destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
2 Thessalonians 1:10 when he shall come to be glorified in his
saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our
testimony unto you was believed) in that day.
2 Thessalonians 1:11 To which end we also pray always for you,
that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every
desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;
2 Thessalonians 1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be
glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto
him;
2 Thessalonians 2:2 to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from
your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by
epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;
2 Thessalonians 2:3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will
not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition,
2 Thessalonians 2:4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all
that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the
temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
2 Thessalonians 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with
you, I told you these things?
2 Thessalonians 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the
end that he may be revealed in his own season.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already
work: only [there is] one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of
the way.
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one,
whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and
bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;
2 Thessalonians 2:9 [even he], whose coming is according to the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God sendeth them a
working of error, that they should believe a lie:
2 Thessalonians 2:12 that they all might be judged who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks to God
always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you
from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth:
2 Thessalonians 2:14 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of
ours.
2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God
our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope
through grace,
2 Thessalonians 2:17 comfort your hearts and establish them in
every good work and word.
2 Thessalonians 3
2 Thessalonians 3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of
the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also [it is] with you;
2 Thessalonians 3:2 and that we may be delivered from
unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you,
and guard you from the evil [one].
2 Thessalonians 3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching
you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of
God, and into the patience of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every
brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they
received of us.
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate
us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
2 Thessalonians 3:8 neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's
hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might
not burden any of you:
2 Thessalonians 3:9 not because we have not the right, but to make
ourselves and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we
commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear of some that walk among you
disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now them that are such we command and
exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat
their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.
2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this
epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end
that he may be ashamed.
2 Thessalonians 3:15 And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but
admonish him as a brother.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
2 Thessalonians 3:17 The salutation of me Paul with mine own
hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
2 Thessalonians 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all.
1 Timothy
1 Timothy 1
1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the
commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope;
1 Timothy 1:2 unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy,
peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Timothy 1:3 As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was
going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to
teach a different doctrine,
1 Timothy 1:4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies,
which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which
is in faith; [so do I now].
1 Timothy 1:5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart
and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
1 Timothy 1:6 from which things some having swerved have turned
aside unto vain talking;
1 Timothy 1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they
understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently
affirm.
1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it
lawfully,
1 Timothy 1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous
man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for
the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy 1:10 for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men,
for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other
thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
1 Timothy 1:11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed
God, which was committed to my trust.
1 Timothy 1:12 I thank him that enabled me, [even] Christ Jesus our
Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to [his] service;
1 Timothy 1:13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in
unbelief;
1 Timothy 1:14 and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly
with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1:15 Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am
chief:
1 Timothy 1:16 howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me
as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an
ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal
life.
1 Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only God, [be] honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy,
according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them
thou mayest war the good warfare;
1 Timothy 1:19 holding faith and a good conscience; which some
having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
1 Timothy 1:20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I
delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
1 Timothy 2
1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications,
prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
1 Timothy 2:2 for kings and all that are in high place; that we may
lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
1 Timothy 2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
Saviour;
1 Timothy 2:4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the
knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, one mediator also between God
and men, [himself] man, Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:6 who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to
be borne] in its own times;
1 Timothy 2:7 whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle
(I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
truth.
1 Timothy 2:8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place,
lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner, that women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided
hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
1 Timothy 2:10 but (which becometh women professing godliness)
through good works.
1 Timothy 2:11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
1 Timothy 2:12 But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have
dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
1 Timothy 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
1 Timothy 2:14 and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being
beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
1 Timothy 2:15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if
they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
1 Timothy 3
1 Timothy 3:1 Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a
bishop, he desireth a good work.
1 Timothy 3:2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the
husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to
hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no
lover of money;
1 Timothy 3:4 one that ruleth well his own house, having [his]
children in subjection with all gravity;
1 Timothy 3:5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house,
how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 3:6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the
condemnation of the devil.
1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them
that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy 3:8 Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-
tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1 Timothy 3:9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1 Timothy 3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them
serve as deacons, if they be blameless.
1 Timothy 3:11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not
slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their]
children and their own houses well.
1 Timothy 3:13 For they that have served well as deacons gain to
themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is
in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 3:14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto
thee shortly;
1 Timothy 3:15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men
ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church
of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit,
Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the
world, Received up in glory.
1 Timothy 4
1 Timothy 4:1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some
shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons,
1 Timothy 4:2 through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded
in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
1 Timothy 4:3 forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain
from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by
them that believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to
be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1 Timothy 4:5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and
prayer.
1 Timothy 4:6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou
shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the
faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now]:
1 Timothy 4:7 but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise
thyself unto godliness:
1 Timothy 4:8 for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but
godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which
now is, and of that which is to come.
1 Timothy 4:9 Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation.
1 Timothy 4:10 For to this end we labor and strive, because we have
our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men,
specially of them that believe.
1 Timothy 4:11 These things command and teach.
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an
ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in
faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to
teaching.
1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given
thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
1 Timothy 4:15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to
them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue
in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them
that hear thee.
1 Timothy 5
1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the
younger men as brethren:
1 Timothy 5:2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in
all purity.
1 Timothy 5:3 Honor widows that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let
them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to
requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath
her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers
night and day.
1 Timothy 5:6 But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while
she liveth.
1 Timothy 5:7 These things also command, that they may be without
reproach.
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his
own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an
unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:9 Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore
years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5:10 well reported of for good works; if she hath brought
up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath
washed the saints' feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath
diligently followed every good work.
1 Timothy 5:11 But younger widows refuse: for when they have
waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
1 Timothy 5:12 having condemnation, because they have rejected
their first pledge.
1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn also [to be] idle, going about
from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and
busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
1 Timothy 5:14 I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry,
bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary
for reviling:
1 Timothy 5:15 for already some are turned aside after Satan.
1 Timothy 5:16 If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her
relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it mat relieve
them that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of
double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
1 Timothy 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at
[the mouth of] two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest
also may be in fear.
1 Timothy 5:21 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus,
and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice,
doing nothing by partiality.
1 Timothy 5:22 Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of
other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
1 Timothy 5:23 Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine
for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
1 Timothy 5:24 Some men's sins are evident, going before unto
judgment; and some men also they follow after.
1 Timothy 5:25 In like manner also there are good works that are
evident; and such as are otherwise cannot be hid.
1 Timothy 6
1 Timothy 6:1 Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their
own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the
doctrine be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy 6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them not
despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the
rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and
beloved. These things teach and exhort.
1 Timothy 6:3 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and
consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1 Timothy 6:4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about
questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
railings, evil surmisings,
1 Timothy 6:5 wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the
truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain:
1 Timothy 6:7 for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can
we carry anything out;
1 Timothy 6:8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith
content.
1 Timothy 6:9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a
temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as
drown men in destruction and perdition.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil:
which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and
have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life
eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good
confession in the sight of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:13 I charge thee in the sight of God, who giveth life to
all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed
the good confession;
1 Timothy 6:14 that thou keep the commandment, without spot,
without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Timothy 6:15 which in its own times he shall show, who is the
blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1 Timothy 6:16 who only hath immortality, dwelling in light
unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be]
honor and power eternal. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that
they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of
riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
1 Timothy 6:18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works,
that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
1 Timothy 6:19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation
against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is
[life] indeed.
1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto
[thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of
the knowledge which is falsely so called;
1 Timothy 6:21 which some professing have erred concerning the
faith. Grace be with you.
2 Timothy
2 Timothy 1
2 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of
God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 Timothy 1:2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace,
from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a
pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my
supplications, night and day
2 Timothy 1:4 longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may
be filled with joy;
2 Timothy 1:5 having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in
thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother
Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also.
2 Timothy 1:6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou
stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my
hands.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of
power and love and discipline.
2 Timothy 1:8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our
Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel
according to the power of God;
2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,
which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
2 Timothy 1:10 but hath now been manifested by the appearing of
our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel,
2 Timothy 1:11 whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an
apostle, and a teacher.
2 Timothy 1:12 For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am
not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am
persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto
him against that day.
2 Timothy 1:13 Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast
heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto [thee]
guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.
2 Timothy 1:15 This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned
away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord grant mercy unto the house of
Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my
chain;
2 Timothy 1:17 but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently,
and found me
2 Timothy 1:18 (the Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord
in that day); and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou
knowest very well.
2 Timothy 2
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace
that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:2 And the things which thou hast heard from me among
many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be
able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 2:3 Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ
Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs
of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:5 And if also a man contend in the games, he is not
crowded, except he have contended lawfully.
2 Timothy 2:6 The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to
partake of the fruits.
2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee
understanding in all things.
2 Timothy 2:8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the
seed of David, according to my gospel:
2 Timothy 2:9 wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor;
but the word of God is not bound.
2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that
they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with
eternal glory.
2 Timothy 2:11 Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we
shall also live with him:
2 Timothy 2:12 if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we
shall deny him, he also will deny us:
2 Timothy 2:13 if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot
deny himself.
2 Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging
[them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no
profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
2 Timothy 2:15 Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word
of truth.
2 Timothy 2:16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed
further in ungodliness,
2 Timothy 2:17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom
is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
2 Timothy 2:18 men who concerning the truth have erred, saying
that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.
2 Timothy 2:19 Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth,
having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every
one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 2:20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of
gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto
honor, and some unto dishonor.
2 Timothy 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall
be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared
unto every good work.
2 Timothy 2:22 after righteousness, faith, love, pace, with them that
call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2:23 But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse,
knowing that they gender strifes.
2 Timothy 2:24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle
towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
2 Timothy 2:25 in meekness correcting them that oppose
themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the
knowledge of the truth,
2 Timothy 2:26 and they may recover themselves out of the snare of
the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.
2 Timothy 3
2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days grievous times
shall come.
2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money,
boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3:3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers,
without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God;
2 Timothy 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the
power therefore. From these also turn away.
2 Timothy 3:6 For of these are they that creep into houses, and take
captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
2 Timothy 3:7 ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so
do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate
concerning the faith.
2 Timothy 3:9 But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall
be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.
2 Timothy 3:10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct,
purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
2 Timothy 3:11 persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at
Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out
of them all the Lord delivered me.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and
worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3:14 But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned
and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred
writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16 Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in
righteousness.
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be complete, furnished
completely unto every good work.
2 Timothy 4
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of Christ
Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing
and his kingdom:
2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure the
sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves
teachers after their own lusts;
2 Timothy 4:4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn
aside unto fables.
2 Timothy 4:5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the
work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
2 Timothy 4:6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my
departure is come.
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the
course, I have kept the faith:
2 Timothy 4:8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me
at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved
his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:9 Give diligence to come shortly unto me:
2 Timothy 4:10 for Demas forsook me, having loved this present
world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to
Dalmatia.
2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him
with thee; for he is useful to me for ministering.
2 Timothy 4:12 But Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.
2 Timothy 4:13 The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, bring
when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments.
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the
Lord will render to him according to his works:
2 Timothy 4:15 of whom do thou also beware; for he greatly
withstood our words.
2 Timothy 4:16 At my first defence no one took my part, but all
forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.
2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that
through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the
Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
2 Timothy 4:18 The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and
will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory
forever and ever. Amen.
2 Timothy 4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of
Onesiphorus.
2 Timothy 4:20 Erastus remained at Corinth: but Trophimus I left at
Miletus sick.
2 Timothy 4:21 Give diligence to come before winter. Eubulus
saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the
brethren.
2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.
Titus
Titus 1
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth
which is according to godliness,
Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie,
promised before times eternal;
Titus 1:3 but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message,
wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our
Saviour;
Titus 1:4 to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and
peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
Titus 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in
order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city,
as I gave thee charge;
Titus 1:6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having
children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus 1:7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not
self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of
filthy lucre;
Titus 1:8 but given to hospitality, as lover of good, sober-minded,
just, holy, self-controlled;
Titus 1:9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the
teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to
convict the gainsayers.
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and
deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
Titus 1:11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow
whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's
sake.
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans
are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.
Titus 1:13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them
sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Titus 1:14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of
men who turn away from the truth.
Titus 1:15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled
and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their
conscience are defiled.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they
deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good
work reprobate.
Titus 2
Titus 2:1 But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:
Titus 2:2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in
faith, in love, in patience:
Titus 2:3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not
slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
Titus 2:4 that they may train the young women to love their
husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:5 [to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being
in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not
blasphemed:
Titus 2:6 the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:
Titus 2:7 in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in
thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity,
Titus 2:8 sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of
the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.
Titus 2:9 [Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters,
[and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;
Titus 2:10 not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they
may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to
all men,
Titus 2:12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in
this present world;
Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of
the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession,
zealous of good works.
Titus 2:15 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all
authority. Let no man despise thee.
Titus 3
Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to
authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,
Titus 3:2 to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle,
showing all meekness toward all men.
Titus 3:3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful,
hating one another.
Titus 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love
toward man, appeared,
Titus 3:5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did
ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ
our Saviour;
Titus 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs
according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:8 Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire
that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed
God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good
and profitable unto men:
Titus 3:9 but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes,
and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus 3:10 A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;
Titus 3:11 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being
self-condemned.
Titus 3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, give
diligence to come unto me to Nicopolis: for there I have determined
to winter.
Titus 3:13 Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their
journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
Titus 3:14 And let our [people] also learn to maintain good works for
necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
Titus 3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us
in faith. Grace be with you all.
Philemon
Philemon 1
Philemon 1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our
brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,
Philemon 1:2 and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-
soldier, and to the church in thy house:
Philemon 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:4 I thank my God always, making mention of thee in my
prayers,
Philemon 1:5 hearing of thy love, and of the faith which thou hast
toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
Philemon 1:6 that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual,
in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.
Philemon 1:7 For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because
the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
Philemon 1:8 Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to
enjoin thee that which is befitting,
Philemon 1:9 yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as
Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
Philemon 1:10 I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in
my bonds, Onesimus,
Philemon 1:11 who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is
profitable to thee and to me:
Philemon 1:12 whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that
is, my very heart:
Philemon 1:13 whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy
behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Philemon 1:14 but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy
goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
Philemon 1:15 For perhaps he was therefore parted [from thee] for a
season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;
Philemon 1:16 no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a
brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in
the flesh and in the Lord.
Philemon 1:17 If then thou countest me a partner, receive him as
myself.
Philemon 1:18 But if he hath wronged the at all, or oweth [thee]
aught, put that to mine account;
Philemon 1:19 I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it:
that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self
besides.
Philemon 1:20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord:
refresh my heart in Christ.
Philemon 1:21 Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto
thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
Philemon 1:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that
through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.
Philemon 1:23 Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth
thee;
Philemon 1:24 [and so do] Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my
fellow-workers.
Philemon 1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit. Amen.
Hebrews
Hebrews 1:1 God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the
prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,
Hebrews 1:2 hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in [his]
Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he
made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:3 who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very
image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his
power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right
hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 1:4 having become by so much better than the angels, as he
hath inherited a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou
art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him
a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?
Hebrews 1:6 And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the
world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels
winds, And his ministers a flame a fire:
Hebrews 1:8 but of the Son [he saith,] Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy
kingdom.
Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness
above thy fellows.
Hebrews 1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the
foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
Hebrews 1:11 They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all
shall wax old as doth a garment;
Hebrews 1:12 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment,
and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall
not fail.
Hebrews 1:13 But of which of the angels hath he said at any time,
Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of
thy feet?
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do
service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?
Hebrews 2
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the
things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them].
Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense
of reward;
Hebrews 2:3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?
which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was
confirmed unto us by them that heard;
Hebrews 2:4 God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and
wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to his own will.
Hebrews 2:5 For not unto angels did he subject the world to come,
whereof we speak.
Hebrews 2:6 But one hath somewhere testified, saying, What is man,
that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest
him?
Hebrews 2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou
crownedst him with glory and honor, And didst set him over the
works of thy hands:
Hebrews 2:8 Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet.
For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not
subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him.
Hebrews 2:9 But we behold him who hath been made a little lower
than the angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death
crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should
taste of death for every [man].
Hebrews 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and
through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to
make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Hebrews 2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified
are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brethren,
Hebrews 2:12 saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, In
the midst of the congregation will I sing thy praise.
Hebrews 2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again,
Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me.
Hebrews 2:14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood,
he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through
death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that
is, the devil;
Hebrews 2:15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews 2:16 For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he
giveth help to the seed of Abraham.
Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made
like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the
sins of the people.
Hebrews 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he
is able to succor them that are tempted.
Hebrews 3
Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly
calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,
[even] Jesus;
Hebrews 3:2 who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was
Moses in all his house.
Hebrews 3:3 For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than
the house.
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is builded by some one; but he that
built all things is God.
Hebrews 3:5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a
servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be
spoken;
Hebrews 3:6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are
we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm
unto the end.
Hebrews 3:7 Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye
shall hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as
in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Hebrews 3:9 Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,] And
saw my works forty years.
Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And
said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my
ways;
Hebrews 3:11 As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my
rest.
Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any
one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living
God:
Hebrews 3:13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is
called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness
of sin:
Hebrews 3:14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast
the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
Hebrews 3:15 while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Hebrews 3:16 For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not
all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?
Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it
not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into
his rest, but to them that were disobedient?
Hebrews 3:19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because
of unbelief.
Hebrews 4
Hebrews 4:1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of
entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short
of it.
Hebrews 4:2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us,
even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them,
because it was not united by faith with them that heard.
Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even
as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my
rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the
world.
Hebrews 4:4 For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this
wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;
Hebrews 4:5 and in this [place] again, They shall not enter into my
rest.
Hebrews 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter
thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached
failed to enter in because of disobedience,
Hebrews 4:7 he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in
David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-
day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.
Hebrews 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have
spoken afterward of another day.
Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people
of God.
Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also
rested from his works, as God did from his.
Hebrews 4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest,
that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul
and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him
with whom we have to do.
Hebrews 4:14 Having then a great high priest, who hath passed
through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
confession.
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points
tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the
throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to
help [us] in time of need.
Hebrews 5
Hebrews 5:1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is
appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins:
Hebrews 5:2 who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for
that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;
Hebrews 5:3 and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so
also for himself, to offer for sins.
Hebrews 5:4 And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he
is called of God, even as was Aaron.
Hebrews 5:5 So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high
priest, but he that spake unto him, Thou art my Son, This day have I
begotten thee:
Hebrews 5:6 as he saith also in another [place,] Thou art a priest for
ever After the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers
and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able
to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Hebrews 5:8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the
things which he suffered;
Hebrews 5:9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them
that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
Hebrews 5:10 named of God a high priest after the order of
Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of
interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.
Hebrews 5:12 For when by reason of the time ye ought to be
teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments
of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as
have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Hebrews 5:13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without
experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who
by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Hebrews 6
Hebrews 6:1 Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of
Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation
of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 6:2 of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands,
and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
Hebrews 6:4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and
tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
Spirit,
Hebrews 6:5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
age to come,
Hebrews 6:6 and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them
again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of
God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews 6:7 For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft
upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is
also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:
Hebrews 6:8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and
nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,
and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:
Hebrews 6:10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the
love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the
saints, and still do minister.
Hebrews 6:11 And we desire that each one of you may show the
same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:
Hebrews 6:12 that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, since he
could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,
Hebrews 6:14 saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and
multiplying I will multiply thee.
Hebrews 6:15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the
promise.
Hebrews 6:16 For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of
theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly
unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel,
interposed with an oath;
Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is
impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who
have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
Hebrews 6:19 which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both
sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Hebrews 6:20 whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having
become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7
Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God
Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the
kings and blessed him,
Hebrews 7:2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all
(being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also
King of Salem, which is King of peace;
Hebrews 7:3 without father, without mother, without genealogy,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto
the Son of God), abideth a priest continually.
Hebrews 7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom
Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the chief spoils.
Hebrews 7:5 And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the
priest's office have commandment to take tithes of the people
according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though these have
come out of the loins of Abraham:
Hebrews 7:6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath
taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.
Hebrews 7:7 But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews 7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of
whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
Hebrews 7:9 And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who
receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes;
Hebrews 7:10 for he was yet in the loins of his father, when
Melchizedek met him.
Hebrews 7:11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical
priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what
further need [was there] that another priest should arise after the
order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of
necessity a change also of the law.
Hebrews 7:13 For he of whom these things are said belongeth to
another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar.
Hebrews 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of
Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests.
Hebrews 7:15 And [what we say] is yet more abundantly evident, if
after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,
Hebrews 7:16 who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal
commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
Hebrews 7:17 for it is witnessed [of him,] Thou art a priest for ever
After the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:18 For there is a disannulling of a foregoing
commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness
Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in
thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews 7:20 And inasmuch as [it is] not without the taking of an
oath
Hebrews 7:21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an
oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware
and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);
Hebrews 7:22 by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a
better covenant.
Hebrews 7:23 And they indeed have been made priests many in
number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:
Hebrews 7:24 but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his
priesthood unchangeable.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost
them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them.
Hebrews 7:26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless,
undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Hebrews 7:27 who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer
up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the
people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 7:28 For the law appointeth men high priests, having
infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law,
[appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore.
Hebrews 8
Hebrews 8:1 Now in the things which we are saying the chief point
[is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand
of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
Hebrews 8:2 a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched, not man.
Hebrews 8:3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts
and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also
have somewhat to offer.
Hebrews 8:4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all,
seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;
Hebrews 8:5 who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the
heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about
to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more
excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant,
which hath been enacted upon better promises.
Hebrews 8:7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then
would no place have been sought for a second.
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out
of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I
regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws
into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will
be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,
And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall
know me, From the least to the greatest of them.
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins
will I remember no more.
Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the
first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh
unto vanishing away.
Hebrews 9
Hebrews 9:1 Now even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine
service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.
Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein
[were] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is
called the Holy place.
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called
the Holy of holies;
Hebrews 9:4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the
covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] a golden pot
holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the
covenant;
Hebrews 9:5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the
mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally.
Hebrews 9:6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests
go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;
Hebrews 9:7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the
year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the
errors of the people:
Hebrews 9:8 the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the
holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle
is yet standing;
Hebrews 9:9 which [is] a figure for the time present; according to
which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching
the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,
Hebrews 9:10 [being] only (with meats and drinks and divers
washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good
things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not
made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
Hebrews 9:12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but
through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a
heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the
cleanness of the flesh:
Hebrews 9:14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God,
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of a new
covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been
called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:16 For where a testament is, there must of necessity be
the death of him that made it.
Hebrews 9:17 For a testament is of force where there hath been
death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
Hebrews 9:18 Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been
dedicated without blood.
Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by
Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of
the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and
sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Hebrews 9:20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God
commanded to you-ward.
Hebrews 9:21 Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the
ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.
Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law, I may almost say, all things
are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no
remission.
Hebrews 9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things
in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 9:24 For Christ entered not into a holy place made with
hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear
before the face of God for us:
Hebrews 9:25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high
priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his
own;
Hebrews 9:26 else must he often have suffered since the foundation
of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been
manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die,
and after this [cometh] judgment;
Hebrews 9:28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the
sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that
wait for him, unto salvation.
Hebrews 10
Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to
come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same
sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect
them that draw nigh.
Hebrews 10:2 Else would they not have ceased to be offered?
because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had
no more consciousness of sins.
Hebrews 10:3 But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made
of sins year by year.
Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats
should take away sins.
Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou
prepare for me;
Hebrews 10:6 In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou
hadst no pleasure:
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is
written of me) To do thy will, O God.
Hebrews 10:8 Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole
burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither
hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),
Hebrews 10:9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Hebrews 10:10 By which will we have been sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:11 And every priest indeed standeth day by day
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which
can never take away sins:
Hebrews 10:12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10:13 henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the
footstool of his feet.
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them
that are sanctified.
Hebrews 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for
after he hath said,
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them After
those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And
upon their mind also will I write them; [then saith he,]
Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no
more.
Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more
offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and
living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Hebrews 10:21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God;
Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our
body washed with pure water,
Hebrews 10:23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it
waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
Hebrews 10:24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto love
and good works;
Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the
custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the
more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10:27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth
without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses:
Hebrews 10:29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be
judged 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?
Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth
unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his
people.
Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.
Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which,
after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
Hebrews 10:33 partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches
and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were
so used.
Hebrews 10:34 For ye both had compassion on them that were in
bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing
that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.
Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath
great recompense of reward.
Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the
will of God, ye may receive the promise.
Hebrews 10:37 For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall
come, and shall not tarry.
Hebrews 10:38 But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he
shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them that shrink back unto
perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.
Hebrews 11
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a
conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:2 For therein the elders had witness borne to them.
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds have been
framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made
out of things which appear.
Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that
he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and
through it he being dead yet speaketh.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath
had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-
pleasing unto God:
Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing
[unto him]; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
[that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning
things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the
saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and
became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go
out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he
went out, not knowing whither he went.
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise,
as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the
heirs with him of the same promise:
Hebrews 11:10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11:11 By faith even Sarah herself received power to
conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful
who had promised:
Hebrews 11:12 wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good
as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the
sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the
promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and
having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Hebrews 11:14 For they that say such things make it manifest that
they are seeking after a country of their own.
Hebrews 11:15 And if indeed they had been mindful of that
[country] from which they went out, they would have had
opportunity to return.
Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, a
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their
God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea,
he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only
begotten [son];
Hebrews 11:18 even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed
be called:
Hebrews 11:19 accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from
the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
Hebrews 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even
concerning things to come.
Hebrews 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of
the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his
staff.
Hebrews 11:22 By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made
mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave
commandment concerning his bones.
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three
months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and
they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to
be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Hebrews 11:25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people
of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Hebrews 11:26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than
the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.
Hebrews 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of
the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of
the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
Hebrews 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry
land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up.
Hebrews 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had
been compassed about for seven days.
Hebrews 11:31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that
were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
Hebrews 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me
if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel
and the prophets:
Hebrews 11:33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Hebrews 11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the
sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war,
turned to flight armies of aliens.
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead by a resurrection: and
others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might
obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:36 and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Hebrews 11:37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were
tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in
sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
Hebrews 11:38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in
deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having had witness borne to them
through their faith, received not the promise,
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing concerning
us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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,
Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our]
faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of
sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against
sin:
Hebrews 12:5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth
with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of
the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Hebrews 12:7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with
you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth
not?
Hebrews 12:8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have
been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to
chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be
in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12:10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as
seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be
partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12:11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not
joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto
them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of
righteousness.
Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the
palsied knees;
Hebrews 12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which
is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow after peace with all men, and the
sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
Hebrews 12:15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth
short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up
trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;
Hebrews 12:16 lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
Hebrews 12:17 For ye know that even when he afterward desired to
inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a
change of mind [in his father,] though he sought is diligently with
tears.
Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness,
and tempest,
Hebrews 12:19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be
spoken unto them;
Hebrews 12:20 for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If
even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
Hebrews 12:21 and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said,
I exceedingly fear and quake:
Hebrews 12:22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts
of angels,
Hebrews 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn
who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12:24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.
Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth,
much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that
[warneth] from heaven:
Hebrews 12:26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth
only, but also the heaven.
Hebrews 12:27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been
made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be
shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-
pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
Hebrews 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13
Hebrews 13:1 Let love of the brethren continue.
Hebrews 13:2 Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby
some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with
them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.
Hebrews 13:4 [Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let]
the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such
things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee,
neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
Hebrews 13:6 So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my
helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?
Hebrews 13:7 Remember them that had the rule over you, men that
spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their
life, imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and to-day, [yea]
and for ever.
Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings:
for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats,
wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat
that serve the tabernacle.
Hebrews 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is
brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin,
are burned without the camp.
Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the
people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Hebrews 13:13 Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp,
bearing his reproach.
Hebrews 13:14 For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek
after [the city] which is to come.
Hebrews 13:15 Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise
to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to
his name.
Hebrews 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for
with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
[to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall
give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for
this [were] unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a
good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
Hebrews 13:19 And I exhort [you] the more exceedingly to do this,
that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought again from the
dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal
covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus,
Hebrews 13:21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will,
working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus
Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:22 But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of
exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.
Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at
liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
Hebrews 13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all
the saints. They of Italy salute you.
Hebrews 13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
James
James 1
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.
James 1:2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold
temptations;
James 1:3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
James 1:4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
James 1:5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God,
who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him.
James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that
doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
James 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of
the Lord;
James 1:8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:
James 1:10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the
flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James 1:11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and
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
goings.
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he
hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the
Lord] promised to them that love him.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of
God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth
no man:
James 1:14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his
own lust, and enticed.
James 1:15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and
the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
James 1:16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no
variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
James 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of
God.
James 1:21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of
wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able
to save your souls.
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deluding your own selves.
James 1:23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he
is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
James 1:24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
James 1:25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of
liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a
doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.
James 1:26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he
bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is
vain.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is
this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to
keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 2
James 2:1 My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.
James 2:2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold
ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile
clothing;
James 2:3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing,
and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man,
Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;
James 2:4 Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and
become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them
that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the
kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
James 2:6 But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich
oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye
are called?
James 2:8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the
scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
James 2:9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being
convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble
in one [point], he is become guilty of all.
James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do
not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art
become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a
law of liberty.
James 2:13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed
no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath
faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?
James 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
James 2:16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye
warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the
body; what doth it profit?
James 2:17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
James 2:18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works:
show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will
show thee [my] faith.
James 2:19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the
demons also believe, and shudder.
James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from
works is barren?
James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that
he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
James 2:22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by
works was faith made perfect;
James 2:23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham
believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he
was called the friend of God.
James 2:24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by
faith.
James 2:25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot
justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them
out another way?
James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so
faith apart from works is dead.
James 3
James 3:1 Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that
we shall receive heavier judgment.
James 3:2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in
word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
James 3:3 Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that
they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.
James 3:4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are
driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder,
whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.
James 3:5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great
things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our
members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on
fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
James 3:7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and
things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.
James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it
is] full of deadly poison.
James 3:9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith
curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:
James 3:10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James 3:11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening
sweet [water] and bitter?
James 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs?
Neither [can] salt water yield sweet.
James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him
show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
James 3:14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart,
glory not and lie not against the truth.
James 3:15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from
above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
James 3:16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion
and every vile deed.
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,
without variance, without hypocrisy.
James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them
that make peace.
James 4
James 4:1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among
you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your
members?
James 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot
obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
spend [it] in your pleasures.
James 4:4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of
the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
James 4:5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the
spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith,
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
James 4:7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he
will flee from you.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
James 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
exalt you.
James 4:11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh
against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and
judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the
law, but a judge.
James 4:12 One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is
able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy
neighbor?
James 4:13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go
into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
James 4:14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What
is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and
then vanisheth away.
James 4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both
live, and do this or that.
James 4:16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is
evil.
James 4:17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it
not, to him it is sin.
James 5
James 5:1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that
are coming upon you.
James 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-
eaten.
James 5:3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall
be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye
have laid up your treasure in the last days.
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields,
which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them
that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
James 5:5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your
pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
James 5:6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one];
he doth not resist you.
James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the
Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
James 5:8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of
the Lord is at hand.
James 5:9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not
judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
James 5:10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of
patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
James 5:11 Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard
of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that
the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
James 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by
the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea
be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
James 5:13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any
cheerful? Let him sing praise.
James 5:14 Is any among you sick? 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:
James 5:15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the
Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be
forgiven him.
James 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one
for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous
man availeth much in its working.
James 5:17 Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed
fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three
years and six months.
James 5:18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the
earth brought forth her fruit.
James 5:19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and
one convert him;
James 5:20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a
multitude of sins.
1 Peter
1 Peter 1
1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are
sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,
and Bithynia,
1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
1 Peter 1:5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto
a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while,
if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,
1 Peter 1:7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than
gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto
praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 1:8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye
see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable
and full of glory:
1 Peter 1:9 receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of
[your] souls.
1 Peter 1:10 Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and
searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that [should come]
unto you:
1 Peter 1:11 searching what [time] or what manner of time the Spirit
of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified
beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow
them.
1 Peter 1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but
unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been
announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you
by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angel desire
to look into.
1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober
and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto
you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1:14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves
according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
1 Peter 1:15 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves
also holy in all manner of living;
1 Peter 1:16 because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
1 Peter 1:17 And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of
persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your
sojourning in fear:
1 Peter 1:18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible
things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed
down from your fathers;
1 Peter 1:19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot,
[even the blood] of Christ:
1 Peter 1:20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the
world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,
1 Peter 1:21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him
from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might
be in God.
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to
the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from
the heart fervently:
1 Peter 1:23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
1 Peter 1:24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the
flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is
the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.
1 Peter 2
1 Peter 2:1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is
without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
1 Peter 2:3 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
1 Peter 2:4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of
men, but with God elect, precious,
1 Peter 2:5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to
be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to
God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:6 Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion
a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that believeth on him
shall not be put to shame.
1 Peter 2:7 For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for
such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same
was made the head of the corner;
1 Peter 2:8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they
stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were
appointed.
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the
excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light:
1 Peter 2:10 who in time past were no people, but now are the people
of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to
abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 2:12 having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that,
wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good
works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 2:13 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter 2:14 or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-
doers and for praise to them that do well.
1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should
put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1 Peter 2:16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of
wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1 Peter 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor
the king.
1 Peter 2:18 Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all
fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1 Peter 2:19 For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a
man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.
1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted
[for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer
[for it], ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
1 Peter 2:21 For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also
suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his
steps:
1 Peter 2:22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1 Peter 2:23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he
suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth
righteously:
1 Peter 2:24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree,
that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by
whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 2:25 For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now
returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
1 Peter 3
1 Peter 3:1 In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your won
husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the
word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
1 Peter 3:2 beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
1 Peter 3:3 Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of
braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on
apparel;
1 Peter 3:4 but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the
incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price.
1 Peter 3:5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also,
who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their
own husbands:
1 Peter 3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any
terror.
1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives]
according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the
weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end
that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as
brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
1 Peter 3:9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but
contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should
inherit a blessing.
1 Peter 3:10 For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let
him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no
guile:
1 Peter 3:11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him
seek peace, and pursue it.
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his
ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them
that do evil.
1 Peter 3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of
that which is good?
1 Peter 3:14 But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake,
blessed [are ye:] and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;
1 Peter 3:15 but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready
always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason
concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
1 Peter 3:16 having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken
against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of
life in Christ.
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye
suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous
for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death
in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
1 Peter 3:19 in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in
prison,
1 Peter 3:20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering
of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
1 Peter 3:21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you,
[even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 3:22 who is one the right hand of God, having gone into
heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto
him.
1 Peter 4
1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye
yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the
flesh hath ceased from sin;
1 Peter 4:2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh
to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1 Peter 4:3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire
of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Peter 4:4 wherein they think strange that ye run not with [them]
into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [of]:
1 Peter 4:5 who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the
living and the dead.
1 Peter 4:6 For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the
dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh,
but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of
sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
1 Peter 4:8 above all things being fervent in your love among
yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
1 Peter 4:9 using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
1 Peter 4:10 according as each hath received a gift, ministering it
among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
1 Peter 4:11 if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of
God; is any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which
God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus
Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a
strange thing happened unto you:
1 Peter 4:13 but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings,
rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with
exceeding joy.
1 Peter 4:14 If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are
ye]; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon
you.
1 Peter 4:15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an
evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:
1 Peter 4:16 but if [a man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be
ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the
house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of
them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the
ungodly and sinner appear?
1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will
of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.
1 Peter 5
1 Peter 5:1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder,
and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of
the glory that shall be revealed:
1 Peter 5:2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising
the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will
of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
1 Peter 5:3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but
making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye
shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all
of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God
resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you in due time;
1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for
you.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
1 Peter 5:9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the
same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the
world.
1 Peter 5:10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his
eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall
himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.
1 Peter 5:11 To him [be] the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 5:12 By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account [him], I
have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the
true grace of God. Stand ye fast therein.
1 Peter 5:13 She that is in Babylon, elect together with [you],
saluteth you; and [so doth] Mark my son.
1 Peter 5:14 Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be unto
you all that are in Christ.
2 Peter
2 Peter 1
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to
them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the
righteousness of our God and [the] Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 1:2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge
of God and of Jesus our Lord;
2 Peter 1:3 seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of
him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
2 Peter 1:4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and
exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption
that is in that world by lust.
2 Peter 1:5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all
diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;
2 Peter 1:6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-
control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;
2 Peter 1:7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your]
brotherly kindness love.
2 Peter 1:8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you
to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
2 Peter 1:9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what
is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make
your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never
stumble:
2 Peter 1:11 for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance
into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:12 Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in
remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are
established in the truth which is with [you].
2 Peter 1:13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to
stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
2 Peter 1:14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh
swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.
2 Peter 1:15 Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be
able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.
2 Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when
we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory,
when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:
2 Peter 1:18 and this voice we [ourselves] heard borne out of heaven,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
2 Peter 1:19 And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a
dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:
2 Peter 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of
private interpretation.
2 Peter 1:21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men
spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 2
2 Peter 2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as
among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring
in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them,
bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason
of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Peter 2:3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not,
and their destruction slumbereth not.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast
them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be
reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter 2:5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah
with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a
flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 Peter 2:6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example
unto those that should live ungodly;
2 Peter 2:7 and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the
lascivious life of the wicked
2 Peter 2:8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing
and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their]
lawless deeds):
2 Peter 2:9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the
day of judgment;
2 Peter 2:10 but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble
not to rail at dignities:
2 Peter 2:11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power,
bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as creatures without reason, born mere
animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are
ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,
2 Peter 2:13 suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that
count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes,
revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;
2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from
sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in
covetousness; children of cursing;
2 Peter 2:15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having
followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of
wrong-doing;
2 Peter 2:16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb
ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by a
storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
2 Peter 2:18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they
entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just
escaping from them that live in error;
2 Peter 2:19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are
bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the
same is he also brought into bondage.
2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the
world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is
become worse with them than the first.
2 Peter 2:21 For it were better for them not to have known the way
of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
2 Peter 2:22 It has happened unto them according to the true
proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that
had washed to wallowing in the mire.
2 Peter 3
2 Peter 3:1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto
you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in
remembrance;
2 Peter 3:2 that ye should remember the words which were spoken
before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and
Saviour through your apostles:
2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall
come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
2 Peter 3:4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for,
from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they
were from the beginning of the creation.
2 Peter 3:5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens
from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water,
by the word of God;
2 Peter 3:6 by which means the world that then was, being
overflowed with water, perished:
2 Peter 3:7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same
word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of
judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:8 But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some
count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the
works that are therein shall be burned up.
2 Peter 3:11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and
godliness,
2 Peter 3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day
of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things,
give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and
blameless in his sight.
2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the
wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;
2 Peter 3:16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these
things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the
ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures,
unto their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things]
beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the
wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever.
Amen.
1 John
1 John 1
1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have
heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld,
and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life
1 John 1:2 (and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear
witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal [life], which was
with the Father, and was manifested unto us);
1 John 1:3 that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you
also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our
fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
1 John 1:4 and these things we write, that our joy may be made full.
1 John 1:5 And this is the message which we have heard from him
and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at
all.
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in
the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth
us from all sin.
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar,
and his word is not in us.
1 John 2
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you that ye
may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1 John 2:2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours
only, but also for the whole world.
1 John 2:3 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments.
1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
1 John 2:5 but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love
of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
1 John 2:6 he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk
even as he walked.
1 John 2:7 Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an
old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old
commandment is the word which ye heard.
1 John 2:8 Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which
thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away,
and the true light already shineth.
1 John 2:9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in
the darkness even until now.
1 John 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there
is no occasion of stumbling in him.
1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and
walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because
the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
1 John 2:12 I write unto you, [my] little children, because your sins
are forgiven you for his name's sake.
1 John 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is
from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have
overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children,
because ye know the Father.
1 John 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him
who 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 evil one.
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the
lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is
of the world.
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he
that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that
antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists;
whereby we know that it is the last hour.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if
they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they
went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of
us.
1 John 2:20 And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye
know all the things.
1 John 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the
truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ? This is the antichrist, [even] he that denieth the Father and the
Son.
1 John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father: he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.
1 John 2:24 As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the
beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye
also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise which he promised us, [even] the
life eternal.
1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them
that would lead you astray.
1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his
anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no
lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
1 John 2:28 And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he
shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed
before him at his coming.
1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one
also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
1 John 3
1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are.
For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet
made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be
manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
1 John 3:3 And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure.
1 John 3:4 Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is
lawlessness.
1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away sins;
and in him is no sin.
1 John 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth
hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.
1 John 3:7 [My] little children, let no man lead you astray: he that
doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:
1 John 3:8 he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from
the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he
might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his
seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of
God.
1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children
of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither
he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 3:11 For this is the message which ye heard from the
beginning, that we should love one another:
1 John 3:12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother.
And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his
brother's righteous.
1 John 3:13 Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life,
because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye
know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for
us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his
brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth
the love of God abide in him?
1 John 3:18 [My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with
the tongue; but in deed and truth.
1 John 3:19 Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall
assure our heart before him:
1 John 3:20 because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our
heart, and knoweth all things.
1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness
toward God;
1 John 3:22 and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we
keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his
sight.
1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in
the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he
gave us commandment.
1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him,
and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the
Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 4
1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits,
whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out
into the world.
1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1 John 4:3 and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God:
and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it
cometh; and now it is in the world already.
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome
them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they [as] of the
world, and the world heareth them.
1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who
is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:9 Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God
hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live
through him.
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved
us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another.
1 John 4:12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one
another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
1 John 4:13 hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father
hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,
God abideth in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:16 And we know and have believed the love which God
hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God,
and God abideth in him.
1 John 4:17 Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in
this world.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear,
because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect
in love.
1 John 4:19 We love, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love
God whom he hath not seen.
1 John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who
loveth God love his brother also.
1 John 5
1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten
of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is
begotten of him.
1 John 5:2 Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when
we love God and do his commandments.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even] our faith.
1 John 5:5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that
believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus
Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.
1 John 5:7 And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit
is the truth.
1 John 5:8 For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the
water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.
1 John 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is
greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness
concerning his Son.
1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in
him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath
not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.
1 John 5:11 And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the
Son of God hath not the life.
1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you, that ye may know
that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of
the Son of God.
1 John 5:14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him,
that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John 5:15 and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask,
we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death,
he shall ask, and [God] will give him life for them that sin not unto
death. There is a sin unto death: not concerning this do I say that he
should make request.
1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto
death.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not;
but he that was begotten of God keepeth himself, and the evil one
toucheth him not.
1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth
in the evil one.
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath
given us an understanding, that we 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.
1 John 5:21 [My] little children, guard yourselves from idols.
2 John
2 John 1
2 John 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I
love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;
2 John 1:2 for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be
with us for ever:
2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the
Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
2 John 1:4 I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of thy children
walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
2 John 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to
thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning,
that we love one another.
2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we should walk after his
commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the
beginning, that ye should walk in it.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even]
they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the
deceiver and the antichrist.
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we
have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.
2 John 1:9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching
of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath
both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:10 If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this
teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no
greeting:
2 John 1:11 for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil
works.
2 John 1:12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not
[write them] with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to
speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.
2 John 1:13 The children of thine elect sister salute thee.
3 John
3 John 1:1 The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and
be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 John 1:3 For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare
witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.
3 John 1:4 Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children
walking in the truth.
3 John 1:5 Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou
doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;
3 John 1:6 who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom
thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:
3 John 1:7 because that for the sake of the Name they went forth,
taking nothing of the Gentiles.
3 John 1:8 We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be
fellow-workers for the truth.
3 John 1:9 I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who
loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
3 John 1:10 Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his
works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not
content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and
them that would he forbiddeth and casteth [them] out of the church.
3 John 1:11 Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is
good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen
God.
3 John 1:12 Demetrius hath the witness of all [men], and of the truth
itself: yea, we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is
true.
3 John 1:13 I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling
to write [them] to thee with ink and pen:
3 John 1:14 but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak face to
face. Peace [be] unto thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends
by name.
Jude
Jude 1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to
them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus
Christ:
Jude 1:2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you
of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you
exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for
all delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who
were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly
men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying
our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know
all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the
land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 1:6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left
their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under
darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them,
having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication
and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the
punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the
flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.
Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil
he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a
railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Jude 1:10 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and
what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in
these things are they destroyed.
Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran
riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the
gainsaying of Korah.
Jude 1:12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts
when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed
themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn
leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 1:13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been
reserved forever.
Jude 1:14 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his
holy ones,
Jude 1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the
ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly
wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have
spoken against him.
Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words]), showing
respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
Jude 1:17 But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been
spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude 1:18 That they said to you, In the last time there shall be
mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
Jude 1:19 These are they who make separations, sensual, having not
the Spirit.
Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy
of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:22 And on some have mercy, who are in doubt;
Jude 1:23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on
some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the
flesh.
Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling,
and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in
exceeding joy,
Jude 1:25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and
now, and for evermore. Amen.
Revelation
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him
to show unto his servants, [even] the things which must shortly come
to pass: and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant
John;
Revelation 1:2 who bare witness of the word of God, and of the
testimony of Jesus Christ, [even] of all things that he saw.
Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the
words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein:
for the time is at hand.
Revelation 1:4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to
you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come;
and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness,
the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto
him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
Revelation 1:6 and he made us [to be] a kingdom, [to be] priests unto
his God and Father; to him [be] the glory and the dominion for ever
and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye
shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth
shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God,
who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 1:9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in
tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the
isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of
Jesus.
Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet
Revelation 1:11 saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send
[it] to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto
Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Revelation 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.
And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks;
Revelation 1:13 and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a
son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at
the breasts with a golden girdle.
Revelation 1:14 And his head and his hair were white as white wool,
[white] as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Revelation 1:15 and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had
been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of
his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance
was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead.
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first
and the last,
Revelation 1:18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I
am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Revelation 1:19 Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and
the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass
hereafter;
Revelation 1:20 the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in
my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are
the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are
seven churches.
Revelation 2
Revelation 2:1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These
things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that
walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:
Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that
thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves
apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;
Revelation 2:3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's
sake, and hast not grown weary.
Revelation 2:4 But I have [this] against thee, that thou didst leave
thy first love.
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and
repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move
thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.
Revelation 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the
Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of
the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
Revelation 2:8 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived
[again]:
Revelation 2:9 I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art
rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art
not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 2:10 Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer:
behold, the devil is about to 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 the crown of life.
Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second
death.
Revelation 2:12 and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:
Revelation 2:13 I know where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan's
throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith,
even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was
killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou
hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak
to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
Revelation 2:15 So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the
Nicolaitans in like manner.
Revelation 2:16 Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and
I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the
hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a
new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.
Revelation 2:18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of
fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass:
Revelation 2:19 I know thy works, and thy love and faith and
ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.
Revelation 2:20 But I have [this] against thee, that thou sufferest the
woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth
and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things
sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 2:21 And I gave her time that she should repent; and she
willeth not to repent of her fornication.
Revelation 2:22 Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her
works.
Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the
churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts:
and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.
Revelation 2:24 But to you I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as
many as have not this teaching, who know not the deep things of
Satan, as they are wont to say; I cast upon you none other burden.
Revelation 2:25 Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I
come.
Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my
works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations:
Revelation 2:27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the
vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of
my Father:
Revelation 2:28 and I will give him the morning star.
Revelation 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches.
Revelation 3
Revelation 3:1 And to 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 thou art
dead.
Revelation 3:2 Be thou watchful, and establish the things that
remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine
perfected before my God.
Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and
didst hear; and keep [it], and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch,
I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come
upon thee.
Revelation 3:4 But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not
defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they
are worthy.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white
garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life,
and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches.
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key
of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and
none openeth:
Revelation 3:8 I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a
door opened, which none can shut), that thou hast a little power, and
didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them
that say they are Jews, and they 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.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I
also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come
upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation 3:11 I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that
no one take thy crown.
Revelation 3:12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the
temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will
write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my
God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my
God, and mine own new name.
Revelation 3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches.
Revelation 3:14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God:
Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot:
I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelation 3:16 So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor
cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten
riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the
wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that
thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest
clothe thyself, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness be not made
manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man
hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:21 He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down
with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my
Father in his throne.
Revelation 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches.
Revelation 4
Revelation 4:1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in
heaven, and the first voice that I heard, [a voice] as of a trumpet
speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee
the things which must come to pass hereafter.
Revelation 4:2 Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was
a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;
Revelation 4:3 and he that sat [was] to look upon like a jasper stone
and a sardius: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, like
an emerald to look upon.
Revelation 4:4 And round about the throne [were] four and twenty
thrones: and upon the thrones [I saw] four and twenty elders sitting,
arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.
Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices
and thunders. And [there was] seven lamps of fire burning before the
throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
Revelation 4:6 and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a
crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne,
four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
Revelation 4:7 And the first creature [was] like a lion, and the
second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a
man, and the fourth creature [was] like a flying eagle.
Revelation 4:8 and the four living creatures, having each one of them
six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no
rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord God, the
Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
Revelation 4:9 And when the living creatures shall give glory and
honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth
for ever and ever,
Revelation 4:10 the four and twenty elders shall fall down before
him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for
ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Revelation 4:11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive
the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things,
and because of thy will they were, and were created.
Revelation 5
Revelation 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the
throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven
seals.
Revelation 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great
voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals
thereof?
Revelation 5:3 And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under
the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.
Revelation 5:4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy
to open the book, or to look thereon:
Revelation 5:5 and one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not;
behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath
overcome to open the book and the seven seals thereof.
Revelation 5:6 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four
living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as
though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which
are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.
Revelation 5:7 And he came, and he taketh [it] out of the right hand
of him that sat on the throne.
Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four living
creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb,
having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are
the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 5:9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to
take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and
didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and
tongue, and people, and nation,
Revelation 5:10 and madest them [to be] unto our God a kingdom
and priests; and they reign upon earth.
Revelation 5:11 And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels
round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the
number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands
of thousands;
Revelation 5:12 saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that
hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and
might and honor, and glory, and blessing.
Revelation 5:13 And every created thing which is in the heaven, and
on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things are in
them, heard I saying, Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the
Lamb, [be] the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the
dominion, for ever and ever.
Revelation 5:14 And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the
elders fell down and worshipped.
Revelation 6
Revelation 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven
seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a
voice of thunder, Come.
Revelation 6:2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat
thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he
came forth conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation 6:3 And when he opened the second seal, I heard the
second living creature saying, Come.
Revelation 6:4 And another [horse] came forth, a red horse: and to
him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and
that they should slay one another: and there was given unto him a
great sword.
Revelation 6:5 And when he opened the first seal, I heard the third
living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a black horse;
and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand.
Revelation 6:6 And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four
living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three
measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the wine hurt thou
not.
Revelation 6:7 And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come.
Revelation 6:8 And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat
upon him, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And
there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth,
to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild
beasts of the earth.
Revelation 6:9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath
the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God,
and for the testimony which they held:
Revelation 6:10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long,
O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our
blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Revelation 6:11 And there was given them to each one a white robe;
and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time,
until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be
killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course].
Revelation 6:12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of
hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
Revelation 6:13 and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a
fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind.
Revelation 6:14 And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is
rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their
places.
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the
chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and
freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the
mountains;
Revelation 6:16 and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb:
Revelation 6:17 for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is
able to stand?
Revelation 7
Revelation 7:1 After his I saw four angels standing at the four
corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind
should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.
Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising,
having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to
the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Revelation 7:3 saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the
trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their
foreheads.
Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a
hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the
children of Israel:
Revelation 7:5 Of the tribe of Judah [were] sealed twelve thousand:
Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Gad twelve
thousand;
Revelation 7:6 Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; Of the tribe of
Naphtali twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand;
Revelation 7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; Of the tribe
of Levi twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand;
Revelation 7:8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; Of the tribe
of Joseph twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed
twelve thousand.
Revelation 7:9 After these things I saw, and behold, a great
multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of
[all] tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and
before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;
Revelation 7:10 and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation
unto our God who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Revelation 7:11 And all the angels were standing round about the
throne, and [about] the elders and the four living creatures; and they
fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Revelation 7:12 saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom,
and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, [be] unto our
God for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me,
These that are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and whence
came they?
Revelation 7:14 And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he
said to me, These are they that come of the great tribulation, and they
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God; and
they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the
throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.
Revelation 7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;
neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat:
Revelation 7:17 for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall
be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of
life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Revelation 8
Revelation 8:1 And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed
a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Revelation 8:2 And I saw the seven angels that stand before God;
and there were given unto them seven trumpets.
Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood over the altar,
having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense,
that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden
altar which was before the throne.
Revelation 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the
saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.
Revelation 8:5 And the angel taketh the censer; and he filled it with
the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed
thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Revelation 8:6 And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets
prepared themselves to sound.
Revelation 8:7 And the first sounded, and there followed hail and
fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the
third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was
burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Revelation 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great
mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of
the sea became blood;
Revelation 8:9 and there died the third part of the creatures which
were in the sea, [even] they that had life; and the third part of the
ships was destroyed.
Revelation 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell from
heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part
of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters;
Revelation 8:11 and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and
the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died
of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of
the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part
of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the
day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like
manner.
Revelation 8:13 And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid
heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that
dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the
three angels, who are yet to sound.
Revelation 9
Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from
heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of
the pit of the abyss.
Revelation 9:2 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up
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.
Revelation 9:3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the
earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have
power.
Revelation 9:4 And it was said unto them that they should not hurt
the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but
only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
Revelation 9:5 And it was given them 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 it striketh a man.
Revelation 9:6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in
no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from
them.
Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses
prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto
gold, and their faces were as men's faces.
Revelation 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their
teeth were as [teeth] of lions.
Revelation 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of
iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of
many horses rushing to war.
Revelation 9:10 And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings;
and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.
Revelation 9:11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss:
his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath
the name Apollyon.
Revelation 9:12 The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two
Woes hereafter.
Revelation 9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice
from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Revelation 9:14 one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet,
Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.
Revelation 9:15 And the four angels were loosed, that had been
prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should
kill the third part of men.
Revelation 9:16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was
twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them.
Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them
that sat on them, having breastplates [as] of fire and of hyacinth and
of brimstone: and the heads of lions; and out of their mouths
proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.
Revelation 9:18 By these three plagues was the third part of men
killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded
out of their mouths.
Revelation 9:19 For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in
their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and
with them they hurt.
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with
these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they
should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and
of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear,
nor walk:
Revelation 9:21 and they repented not of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Revelation 10
Revelation 10:1 And I saw another strong angel coming down out of
heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head,
and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire;
Revelation 10:2 and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set
his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth;
Revelation 10:3 and he cried with a great voice, as a lion roareth:
and when he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
Revelation 10:4 And when the seven thunders uttered [their voices],
I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up
the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Revelation 10:5 And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and
upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven,
Revelation 10:6 and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who
created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and
the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein,
that there shall be delay no longer:
Revelation 10:7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel,
when he is about to sound, then is finished they mystery of God,
according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the
prophets.
Revelation 10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven, [I heard
it] again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is
open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the
earth.
Revelation 10:9 And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he
should give me the little book. And he saith unto me, Take it, and eat
it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be
sweet as honey.
Revelation 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand,
and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and when I had
eaten it, my belly was made bitter.
Revelation 10:11 And they say unto me, Thou must prophesy again
over many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.
Revelation 11
Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and
one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and
them that worship therein.
Revelation 11:2 And the court which is without the temple leave
without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations:
and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Revelation 11:3 And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they
shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed
in sackcloth.
Revelation 11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two
candlesticks, standing before the Lord of the earth.
Revelation 11:5 And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire
proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any
man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed.
Revelation 11:6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain
not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the
waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every
plague, as often as they shall desire.
Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony,
the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them,
and overcome them, and kill them.
Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies [lie] in the street of the great
city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their
Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:9 And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues
and nations do [men] look upon their dead bodies three days and a
half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them,
and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because
these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
Revelation 11:11 And after the three days and a half the breath of
life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and
great fear fell upon them that beheld them.
Revelation 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying
unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the
cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Revelation 11:13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and
the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake
seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory
to the God of heaven.
Revelation 11:14 The second Woe is past: behold, the third Woe
cometh quickly.
Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed
great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is
become [the kingdom] of out Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall
reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God
on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God,
Revelation 11:17 saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the
Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great
power, and didst reign.
Revelation 11:18 And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came,
and the time of the dead to be judged, and [the time] to give their
reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that
fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that
destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:19 And there was opened the temple of God that is in
heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and
there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an
earthquake, and great hail.
Revelation 12
Revelation 12:1 And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman
arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head
a crown of twelve stars;
Revelation 12:2 and she was the child; and she crieth out, travailing
in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
Revelation 12:3 And there was seen another sign in heaven: and
behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and
upon his heads seven diadems.
Revelation 12:4 And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before
the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he
may devour her child.
Revelation 12:5 And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is
to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up
unto God, and unto his throne.
Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she
hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a
thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his
angels [going forth] to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred
and his angels;
Revelation 12:8 And they prevailed not, neither was their place
found any more in heaven.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old
serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the
whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast
down with him.
Revelation 12:10 And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now
is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast
down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him because of the blood of
the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved
not their life even unto death.
Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in
them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone
down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short
time.
Revelation 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to
the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man
[child].
Revelation 12:14 And there were given to the woman the two wings
of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her
place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,
from the face of the serpent.
Revelation 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the
woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by
the stream.
Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast
out of his mouth.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and
went away to make war with the rest of her seed, that keep the
commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus:
Revelation 13
Revelation 13:1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a
beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads,
and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of
blasphemy.
Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth
of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and
great authority.
Revelation 13:3 And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been
smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole
earth wondered after the beast;
Revelation 13:4 and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave
his authority unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying,
Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to war with him?
Revelation 13:5 and there was given to him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to
continue forty and two months.
Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against
God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that
dwell in the heaven.
Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the
saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority
over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him,
[every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of
the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
Revelation 13:9 If any man hath an ear, let him hear.
Revelation 13:10 If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he
goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be
killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 13:11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the
earth; and he had two horns like unto lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast
in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them dwell therein to
worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed.
Revelation 13:13 And he doeth great signs, that he should even make
fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.
Revelation 13:14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
reason of the signs which it was given him 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 who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.
Revelation 13:15 And it was given [unto him] to give breath to it,
[even] to the image to the breast, that the image of the beast should
both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image
of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the
rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them
a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;
Revelation 13:17 and that no man should be able to buy or to sell,
save he that hath the mark, [even] the name of the beast or the
number of his name.
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let
him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and
his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.
Revelation 14
Revelation 14:1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the
mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand,
having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their
foreheads.
Revelation 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of
many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which
I heard [was] as [the voice] of harpers harping with their harps:
Revelation 14:3 and they sing as it were a new song before the
throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no
man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four
thousand, [even] they that had been purchased out of the earth.
Revelation 14:4 These are they that were not defiled with women;
for they are virgins. These [are] they that follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, [to
be] the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.
Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth was found no lie: they are
without blemish.
Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven,
having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the
earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;
Revelation 14:7 and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give
him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him
that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters.
Revelation 14:8 And another, a second angel, followed, saying,
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to
drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying
with a great voice, If any man worshippeth the beast and his image,
and receiveth a mark on his forehead, or upon his hand,
Revelation 14:10 he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation 14:11 and the smoke of their torment goeth up for ever
and ever; and they have no rest day and night, they that worship the
beast and his image, and whoso receiveth the mark of his name.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 14:13 And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write,
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith
the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow
with them.
Revelation 14:14 And I saw, and behold, a white cloud; and on the
cloud [I saw] one sitting like unto a son of man, having on his head a
golden crown, and in his hand sharp sickle.
Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out from the temple,
crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy
sickle, and reap: for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the
earth is ripe.
Revelation 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon
the earth; and the earth was reaped.
Revelation 14:17 Another angel came out from the temple which is
in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Revelation 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, he that
hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had
the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the
clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Revelation 14:19 And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and
gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress, the
great [winepress], of the wrath of God.
Revelation 14:20 And the winepress are trodden without the city,
and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of
the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 15
Revelation 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and
marvellous, seven angels having seven plagues, [which are] the last,
for in them is finished the wrath of God.
Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with
fire; and them that come off victorious from the beast, and from his
image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass,
having harps of God.
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God,
and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy
works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways,
thou King of the ages.
Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name?
for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship
before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.
Revelation 15:5 And after these things I saw, and the temple of the
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
Revelation 15:6 and there came out from the temple the seven angels
that had the seven plagues, arrayed with [precious] stone, pure [and]
bright, and girt about their breasts with golden girdles.
Revelation 15:7 And one of the four living creatures gave unto the
seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who liveth
for ever and ever.
Revelation 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the
glory of God, and from his power; and none was able to enter into the
temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels should be finished.
Revelation 16
Revelation 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying
to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath
of God into the earth.
Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the
earth; and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men that
had the mark of the beast, and that worshipped his image.
Revelation 16:3 And the second poured out his bowl into the sea;
and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died,
[even] the things that were in the sea.
Revelation 16:4 And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and
the fountains of the waters; and it became blood.
Revelation 16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying,
Righteous art thou, who art and who wast, thou Holy One, because
thou didst thus judge:
Revelation 16:6 for they poured out the blood of the saints and the
prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.
Revelation 16:7 And I heard the altar saying, Yea, O Lord God, the
Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
Revelation 16:8 And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun;
and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.
Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched men with great heat: and
they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these
plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.
Revelation 16:10 And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne
of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they gnawed their
tongues for pain,
Revelation 16:11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of
their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works.
Revelation 16:12 And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great
river, the [river] Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that
the way might by made ready for the kings that [come] from the
sunrising.
Revelation 16:13 And I saw [coming] out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the
false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs:
Revelation 16:14 for they are spirits of demons, working signs;
which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them
together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
Revelation 16:15 (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that
watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walked naked, and they
see his shame.)
Revelation 16:16 And they gathered them together into the place
which is called in Hebrew Har-magedon.
Revelation 16:17 And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air;
and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne,
saying, It is done:
Revelation 16:18 and there were lightnings, and voices, and
thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since
there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.
Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and
the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered
in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the
fierceness of his wrath.
Revelation 16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains
were not found.
Revelation 16:21 And great hail, [every stone] about the weight of a
talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed
God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is
exceeding great.
Revelation 17
Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels that had the
seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show
thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;
Revelation 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed
fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with
the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 17:3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a
wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast,
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet,
and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her
hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of
her fornication,
Revelation 17:5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw
her, I wondered with a great wonder.
Revelation 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou
wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast
that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.
Revelation 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is
about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they
that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name hath not
been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,
when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall
come.
Revelation 17:9 Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads
are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
Revelation 17:10 and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the
one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must
continue a little while.
Revelation 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also
an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.
Revelation 17:12 And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings,
who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as
kings, with the beast, for one hour.
Revelation 17:13 These have one mind, and they give their power
and authority unto the beast.
Revelation 17:14 These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb
shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and
they [also shall overcome] that are with him, called and chosen and
faithful.
Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou
sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues.
Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the
beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and
naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.
Revelation 17:17 For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and
to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until
the words of God should be accomplished.
Revelation 17:18 And the woman whom thou sawest is the great
city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18
Revelation 18:1 After these things I saw another angel coming down
out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened
with his glory.
Revelation 18:2 And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen,
fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons,
and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and
hateful bird.
Revelation 18:3 For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all
the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the
power of her wantonness.
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with
her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:
Revelation 18:5 for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and
God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation 18:6 Render unto her even as she rendered, and double
[unto her] the double according to her works: in the cup which she
mingled, mingle unto her double.
Revelation 18:7 How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed
wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in
her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see
mourning.
Revelation 18:8 Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death,
and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire;
for strong is the Lord God who judged her.
Revelation 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who committed
fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over
her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,
Revelation 18:10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment,
saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one
hour is thy judgment come.
Revelation 18:11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn
over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more;
Revelation 18:12 merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious
stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and
all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of
most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
Revelation 18:13 and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and
ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and
wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and [merchandise] of horses and
chariots and slaves; and souls of men.
Revelation 18:14 And the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone
from thee, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished
from thee, and [men] shall find them no more at all.
Revelation 18:15 The merchants of these things, who were made
rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping
and mourning;
Revelation 18:16 saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was
arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and
precious stone and pearl!
Revelation 18:17 for in an hour so great riches is made desolate. And
every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any wither, and mariners,
and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off,
Revelation 18:18 and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her
burning, saying, What [city] is like the great city?
Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried,
weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all
that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her
costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and
ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on
her.
Revelation 18:21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a
great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty
fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no
more at all.
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-
players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no
craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee;
and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation 18:23 and the light of a lamp 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 princes of the earth;
for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of
saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.
Revelation 19
Revelation 19:1 After these things I heard as it were a great voice of
a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory,
and power, belong to our God:
Revelation 19:2 for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath
judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her
fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her
hand.
Revelation 19:3 And a second time they say, Hallelujah. And her
smoke goeth up for ever and ever.
Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four living
creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne,
saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
Revelation 19:5 And a voice came forth from the throne, saying,
Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear him, the small
and the great.
Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude,
and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders,
saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth.
Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give
the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his
wife hath made herself ready.
Revelation 19:8 And it was given unto her that she should array
herself in fine linen, bright [and] pure: for the fine linen is the
righteous acts of the saints.
Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they that
are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me,
These are true words of God.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell down before his feet to worship him.
And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with
thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship
God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation 19:11 And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white
horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in
righteous he doth judge and make war.
Revelation 19:12 And his eyes [are] a flame of fire, and upon his
head [are] many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one
knoweth but he himself.
Revelation 19:13 And he [is] arrayed in a garment sprinkled with
blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 19:14 And the armies which are in heaven followed him
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white [and] pure.
Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth proceedeth 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 of the
wrath of God, the Almighty.
Revelation 19:16 And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a
name written, KINGS OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Revelation 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he
cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven,
Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God;
Revelation 19:18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of
captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of
them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond,
and small and great.
Revelation 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and
their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon
the horse, and against his army.
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false
prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived
them that had received the mark of the beast and them that
worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire
that burneth with brimstone:
Revelation 19:21 and the rest were killed with the sword of him that
sat upon the horse, [even the sword] which came forth out of his
mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
Revelation 20
Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven,
having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent,
which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
Revelation 20:3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], and sealed
[it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the
thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a
little time.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that had
been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God,
and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received
not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived,
and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:5 The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand
years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first
resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a
thousand years.
Revelation 20:7 And when the thousand years are finished, Satan
shall be loosed out of his prison,
Revelation 20:8 and shall come forth to deceive the nations which
are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them
together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation 20:9 And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and
fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false
prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat
upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and
there was found no place for them.
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small,
standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book
was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out
of the things which were written in the books, according to their
works.
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and
death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works.
Revelation 20:14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:15 And if any was not found written in the book of
life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the
first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no
more.
Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her
husband.
Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with
them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with
them, [and be] their God:
Revelation 21:4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes;
and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor
crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
Revelation 21:5 And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I
make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful
and true.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am
the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto
him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I
will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Revelation 21:8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and
abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth
with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
Revelation 21:9 And there came one of the seven angels who had the
seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he
spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the
wife of the Lamb.
Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain
great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down
out of heaven from God,
Revelation 21:11 having the glory of God: her light was like unto a
stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal:
Revelation 21:12 having a wall great and high; having 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:
Revelation 21:13 on the east were three gates; and on the north three
gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations,
and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation 21:15 And he that spake with me had for a measure a
golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall
thereof.
Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length
thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the
height thereof are equal.
Revelation 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and
forty and four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of
an angel.
Revelation 21:18 And the building of the wall thereof was jasper:
and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.
Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the wall of the city were
adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was
jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth,
emerald;
Revelation 21:20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase;
the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
Revelation 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one
of the several gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was
pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Revelation 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the
Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof.
Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the
moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the
lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.
Revelation 21:24 And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof:
and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it.
Revelation 21:25 And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by
day (for there shall be no night there):
Revelation 21:26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the
nations into it:
Revelation 21:27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything
unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they
that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22
Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Revelation 22:2 in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of
the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve [manner of]
fruits, yielding its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:3 And there shall be no curse any more: and the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall
serve him;
Revelation 22:4 and they shall see his face; and his name [shall be]
on their foreheads.
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be night no more; and they need no
light of lamp, neither light of sun; for the Lord God shall give them
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 22:6 And he said unto me, These words are faithful and
true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his
angels to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come
to pass.
Revelation 22:7 And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that
keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.
Revelation 22:8 And I John am he that heard and saw these things.
And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of
the angel that showed me these things.
Revelation 22:9 And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a
fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren the prophets, and with
them that keep the words of this book: worship God.
Revelation 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the
prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.
Revelation 22:11 He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness
still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is
righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him
be made holy still.
Revelation 22:12 Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me,
to render to each man according as his work is.
Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the
last, the beginning and the end.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they
may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and my enter in by the
gates into the city.
Revelation 22:15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the
fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that
loveth and maketh a lie.
Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you
these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of
David, the bright, the morning star.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he
that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come:
he that will, let him take the water of life freely.
Revelation 22:18 I testify unto every man that heareth the words of
the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall
add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:
Revelation 22:19 and if any man shall take away from the words of
the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree
of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
Revelation 22:20 He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come
quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints.
Amen.