7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha and against his house even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands in being like the house of Jeroboam and because he killed him 8 ¶ In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah two years 9 And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza †Heb. which was over steward of his house in Tirzah 10 And Zimri went in and smote him and killed him in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his stead 11 ¶ And it came to pass when he began to reign assoon as he sat on his throne that he slew all the house of Baasha he left him not one that pisseth against a wall ‖ Or both his kinsmen and his friends neither of his kinsfolks nor of his friends 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha according to the word of the LORD which he spake against Baasha †Heb. by the hand of by Jehu the prophet 13 For all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son by which they sinned and by which they made Israel to sin in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 15 ¶ In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah and the people were encamped against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines 16 And the people that were encamped heard say Zimri hath conspired and hath also slain the king wherefore all Israel made Omri the captain of the host king over Israel that day in the camp 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon and all Israel with him and they besieged Tirzah 18 And it came to pass when Zimri saw that the city was taken that he went into the palace of the kings house and burnt the kings house over him with fire and died 19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD in walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make Israel sin 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his treason that he wrought are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 21 ¶ Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king and half followed Omri 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath so Tibni died Omri reigned 23 ¶ In the thirty and one year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel twelve years six years reigned he in Tirzah 24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver and built on the hill and called the name of the city which he built after the name of Shemer owner of the hill †Heb. Shomâ—roâ— Samaria 25 ¶ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD and did worse then all that were before him 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might that he shewed are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 28 So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria and Ahab his son reigned in his stead 29 ¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him 31 And it came to pass †Heb. was it a light thing c. as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians and went and served Baal and worshipped him 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria 33 And Ahab made a grove and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger then all the kings of Israel that were before him 34 ¶ In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his first-born and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub * Josh 6.25 according to the word of the LORD which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun. CHAP. XVII 1 Elijah having trophesied against Ahab is sent to Cherith where the ravens feed him 8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath 17 He raiseth the widows son 24 The woman believeth him ANd †Heb. Elijahu Luk. 4.25 he is called Elias Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead said unto Ahab * Ecclus 48.3 Jam. 5.17 As the LORD God of Israel liveth before whom I stand there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word 2 And the word of the LORD came unto him saying 3 Get thee hence and turn thee east-ward and hide thy self by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan 4 And it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook 7 And it came to pass †Heb. at the end of days after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land 8 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto him saying 9 Arise get thee to * Luk. 4.26 called Sarepta Zarephath which belongeth to Zidon and dwell there behold I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath and when he came to the gate of the city behold the widow woman was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said Fetch me I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink 11 And as she was going to fetch it he called to her and said Bring me
keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all tâ—ine heart and with all thy soul 11 ¶ For this commandment which I command thee this day it is not hidden from thee neither is it far off 12 * Rom. 10.6 c. It is not in heaven that thou shouldest say Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it 13 Neither is it beyond the sea that thou shouldest say Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it 15 ¶ See I have set before thee this day life good and death and evil 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God to walk in his ways to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgements that thou mayest live and multiply and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it 17 But if thine heart turn away so that thou wilt not hear but shalt be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them 18 I denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it 19 * Chap. 4.26 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may â—ive 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God and that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life and the length of thy days that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give them CHAP. XXXI 1 Moses encourageth the people 7 He encourageth Joshua 9 He delivereth the law unto the priests to read it in the seventh â—ear to the people 14 God giveth a charge to Joshua 19 and a song to testifie against the people 24 Moses delivereth the book of the law to the Levites to keep 28 He maketh a protestation to the elders ANd Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel 2 And he said unto them I am an hundred and twenty years old this day I can no more go out and come in also the LORD hath said unto me * Numb 20.12 Chap. 3.27 Thou shalt not go over this Jordan 3 The LORD thy God he will go over before thee and he will destroy these nations from before thee and thou shalt possess them and Joshua he shall go over before thee * Numb 27.21 as the LORD hath said 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og kings of the Amorites and unto the land of them whom he destroyed 5 And * Chap. â— 2 the LORD shall give them up before your face that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you 6 Be strong and of a goood courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the LORD thy God he it is that doth go with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee 7 ¶ And Moses called unto Joshua and said unto him in the sight of all Israel Be strong and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them and thou shalt cause them to inherit it 8 And the LORD he it is that doth go before thee he will be with thee he will not fail thee neither forsake thee fear not neither be dismayed 9 ¶ And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD and unto all the elders of Israel 10 And Moses commanded them saying At the end of every seven years in the solemnity of the * Chap. 25.1 year of release in the fâ—ast of tabernacles 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing 12 Gather the people together men and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God and observe to do all the words of this law 13 And that their children which have not known any thing may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it 14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Behold thy days approach that thou must die call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation that I may give him a charge And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation 15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle 16 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Behold thou shalt †Heb. lie down sleep with thy fathers and this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be amongst them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and I will hide my face from them and they shall be devoured and many evils and troubles shall †Heb. finde them befal them so that they will say in that day Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not amongst us 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought in that they are turned unto other gods 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you and teach it the children of Israel put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that floweth with milk and honey and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat then will they turn unto other gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant 21 And it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befaln them that this song shall testifie †Heb. before against them as a witness for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed for I know their imagination which they †Heb. dâ— go about even now before I have brought them into the land which I sware 22 ¶ Moses
sin unto the house of Jeroboam even to out it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth CHAP. XIV 1 Abijah being sick Jeroboam sendeth his wife disguised with presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh 5 Ahijah forewarned by God denounceth Gods judgement 17 Abijah dieth and is buried 19 Nadab succeedeth Jeroboam 21 Rehoboams wicked reign 25 Shishak spoileth Jerusalem 29 Abijam succeedeth Rehoboam AT that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam sell sick 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife Arise I pray thee and disguise thy self that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam and get thee to Shiloh behold there is Ahijah the prophet which told me that * Ch. 11.31 I should be king over this people 3 And take †Heb. in thine hand with thee ten loaves and ‖ Or cakes cracknels and a ‖ Or bottle cruse of honey and go to him he shall tell thee what shall become of the childe 4 And Jeroboams wife did so and arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah but Ahijah could not see for his eyes †Heb. stood for his hoariness were set by reason of his age 5 ¶ And the LORD said unto Ahijah Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son for he is sick thus and thus shalt thou say unto her for it shall be when she cometh in that she shall feign her self to be another woman 6 And it was so when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door that he said Come in thou wife of Jeroboam why feignest thou thy self to be another for I am sent to thee with †Heb. haâ—d heaâ—ie tidings 7 Go tell Jeroboam thus saith the LORD God of Israel Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee prince over my people Israel 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it thee and yet thou hast not been as my servant David who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do that onely which was right in mine eyes 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee for thou hast gone and made thee other gods and molten images to provoke me to anger and hast cast me behinde thy back 10 Therefore behold * Ch. 15.29 I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam * Ch. 21.21 2 Kin. 9.8 him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam as a man taketh away dung till it be all gone 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat for the LORD hath spoken it 12 Arise thou therefore get thee to thine own house and when thy feet enter into the city the childe shall die 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him for he onely of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him there is sound some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day but what even now 15 For the LORD shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water and he shall root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers and shall scatter them beyond the river because they have made their groves provoking the LORD to anger 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam who did sin and who made Israel to sin 17 ¶ And Jeroboams wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah and when she came to the threshold of the door the childe died 18 And they buried him and all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam how he warred and how he reigned behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years and he †Heb. lay dowâ— slept with his fathers and Nadab his son reigned in his stead 21 ¶ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah * 2 Chr. 12.13 Rehoboam was fourty and one years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitess 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD and they provoked him to jealousie with their sins which they had committed above all that their fathers had done 23 For they also built them high places and ‖ Or standing images or statues images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree 24 And there were also sodomites in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel 25 ¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the kings house he even took away all and he took away all the shields of gold * Chap. 10.16 which Solomon had made 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the †Heb. runners guard which kept the door of the kings house 28 And it was so when the king went into the house of the LORD that the guard bare them and brought them back into the guard-chamber 29 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitess And Abijam his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XV. 1 Abijams wicked reign 7 Asa succeedeth him 9 Asa's good reign 16 The war between Baasha and him causeth him to make a league with Benhadad 23 Jehoshaphat succeedeth Asa 25 Nadabs wicked reign 27 Baasha conspirinâ— against him executeth Abijahs prophesie 31 Nadabs acts and death 33 Baasha's wicked reign NOw in the eighteenth year of king * 2 Chr. 13.1 Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father which he
had done before him and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God as the heart of David his father 4 Nevertheless for Davids sake did the LORD his God give him a ‖ Or candle lamp in Jerusalem to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem 5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life * 2 Sam. 11.4 12.9 save onely in the matter of Uriah the Hittite 6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life 7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did are they not written in the * 2 Chr. 13.3 book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam 8 And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David and * 2 Chr. 14 1. Asa his son reigned in his stead 9 ¶ And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah 10 And fourty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem and his ‖ That is grand-mothers mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD as did David his father 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made 13 And also * 2 Chr. 15.16 Maachah his mother even her he removed from being queen because she had made an idol in a grove and Asa †Heb. cut of destroyed her idol and burnt it by the brook Kidron 14 But the high places were not removed nevertheless Asa his heart was perfect with the LORD all his days 15 And he brought in the †Heb. holy things which his father had dedicated and the things which himself had dedicated into the house of the LORD silver and gold and vessels 16 ¶ And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days 17 And * 2 Chr. 16.1 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were lest in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the kings house and delivered them into the hand of his servants and king Asa sent them to * 2 Chr. 16.2 Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimon the son of Hezion king of Syria that dwelt at Damascus saying 19 There is a league between me and thee and between my father and thy father behold I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel that he may †Heb. go up depart from me 20 So Ben-hadad hearkned unto king Asa and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel and smote ljon and Dan and Abel-beth-maachah and all Cinneroth with all the land of Naphtali 21 And it came to pass when Baasha heard thereof that he left off building of Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah none was †Heb. â—ree exempted and they took away the stones of Ramah and the timber thereof wherewith Baasha had builded and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah 23 The rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet 24 And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father and * Mat. 1.8 called Josaphat Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead 25 ¶ And Nadab the son of Jeroboam †Heb. reigned began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah and reigned over Israel two years 26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin 27 ¶ And Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon which belongeth to the Philistines for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him and reigned in his stead 29 And it came to pass when he reigned that he smote all the house of Jeroboam he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed until he had destroyed him according unto * Chap. 〈◊〉 the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he made Israel sin by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger 31 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah twenty and four years 34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin CHAP. XVI 1 7 Jehu's prophesie against Baasha 5 Elab succeedeth him 8 Zimri conspiring against Elah succeedeth him 11 Zimri exceuteth Jehu's prophesie 15 Omri made king by the souldiers forceth Zimri desperately to burn himself 21 The kingdom being divided Omri prevaileth against Tibni 23 Omri buildeth Samaria 25 His wieked reign 27 Abah succeedeth him 29 Ahabs most wicked reign 34 Joshua's curse upon Hiel the builder of Jericho THen the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha saying 2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust and made thee prince over my people Israel and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam and hast made my people Israel to sin to provoke me to anger with their sins 3 Behold I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house and will make thy house like * Ch. 15.29 the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat 4 * Ch. 14.11 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 6 So Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah and Elah his son reigned in his stead
manner and another said on that manner 21 And there came forth a spirit and stood before the LORD and said I will perswade him 22 And the LORD said unto him Wherewith And he said I will go forth I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets And he said Thou shalt perswade him and prevail also go forth and do so 23 Now therefore behold the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee 24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and smote Micaiah on the cheek and said * 2 Chr. 18.23 Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee 25 And Micaiah said Behold thou shalt see in that day when thou shalt go ‖ Or from chamber to chamber into †Heb. a chamber in a chamber an inner chamber to hide thy self 26 And the king of Israel said Take Micaiah and carry him back unto Amon the governour of the city and to Joash the kings son 27 And say Thus saith the king Put this fellow in the prison and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I come in peace 28 And Micaiah said If thou return at all in peace the LORD hath not spoken by me And he said Hearken O people every one of you 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead 30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat ‖ Or when he was to disguise himself and enter into the battel I will disguise my self and enter into the battel but put thou on thy robes And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battel 31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots saying Fight neither with small nor great save onely with the king of Israel 32 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat that they said Surely it is the king of Israel And they turned aside to fight against him and Jehoshaphat cried out 33 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel that they turned back from pursuing him 34 And a certain man drew a bowe †Heb. in his simplicity at a venture and smote the king of Israel between the †Heb. joynts and the breast-plate joynts of the harness wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot Turn thine hand and carry me out of the host for I am †Heb. made sick wounded 35 And the battel †Heb. ascended increased that day and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians and died at even and the bloud ran out of the wound into the †Heb. bosom midst of the chariot 36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun saying Every man to his city and every man to his own countrey 37 ¶ So the king died and †Heb. came was brought to Samaria and they buried the king in Samaria 38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs licked up his bloud and they washed his armour according * Chap. 21.19 unto the word of the LORD which he spake 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house which he made and all the cities that he built are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead 41 ¶ And * 2 Chr. 20.31 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi 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 the LORD nevertheless the high places were not taken away for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places 44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat and his might that he shewed and how he warred are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 46 And the remnant of the sodomites which remained in the days of his father Asa he took out of the land 47 There was then no king in Edom a deputy was king 48 Jehoshaphat ‖ Or had ten ships made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold but they went not for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber 49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships but Jehoshaphat would not 50 ¶ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead 51 ¶ Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and reigned two years over Israel 52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin 53 For he served Baal and worshipped him and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel according to all that his father had done ¶ The second book of the KINGS commonly called The fourth book of the KINGS CHAP. I. 1 Moab rebelleth 2 Ahaziah sending to Baal-zebub hath his judgement by Elijah 5 Elijah twice bringeth fire from heaven upon them whom Abaziah sent to apprehend him 13 He pitieth the third captain and encouraged by an angel telleth the king of his death 17 Jehoram succeedeth Ahaziah THen Moab rebelled against Israel * Chap. 3.5 after the death of Ahab 2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattess in his upper chamber that was in Samaria and was sick and he sent messengers and said unto them Go enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease 3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite Arise go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say unto them Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron 4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD †Heb. The bed whither thou art goen up thou shalt not come down from it Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die And Elijah departed 5 ¶ And when the messengers turned back unto him he said unto them
field since the day that she left the land even till now 7 ¶ And Elisha came to Damascus and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick and it was told him saying The man of God is come hither 8 And the king said unto Hazael Take a present in thine hand and go meet the man of God and enquire of the LORD by him saying Shall I recover of this disease 9 So Hazael went to meet him and took a present †Heb. in his hand with him even of every good thing of Damascus fourty camels burden and came and stood before him and said Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to the◠saying Shall I recover of this disease 10 And Elisha said unto him Go say unto him Thou mayest certainly recover howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die 11 And he settled his countenance †Heb. and see it stedfastly until he was ashamed and the man of God wept 12 And Hazael said Why weepeth my lord And he answered Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel their strong holds wilt thou set on fire and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their women with childe 13 And Hazael said But what is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing And Elisha answered The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria 14 So he departed from Elisha and came to his master who said to him What said Elisha to thee And he answered He told me that thou shouldest surely recover 15 And it came to pass on the morrow that he took a thick cloth and dipt it in water and spead it on his face so that he died and Hazael reigned in his stead 16 ¶ And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah * 2 Chr. 21.4 Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah †Heb. reigned began to reign 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as did the house of Ahab for the daughter of Ahab was his wife and he did evil in the sight of the LORD 19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servants sake * 2 Sam. ◠12 as he promised him to give him alway a †Heb. candle or lamp light and to his children 20 ¶ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves 21 So Joram went over to Zair and all the chariots with him and he rose by night and smote the Edomites which compassed him about and the captains of the chariots and the people fled into their tents 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day Then Libnah revolted at the same time 23 And the rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 24 And Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David and * 2 Chr. 22.1 Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead 25 ¶ In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahah king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign 26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign and he reigned one year in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD as did the house of Ahab for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab 28 ¶ And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead and the Syrians wounded Joram 29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds †Heb. wherewith in Syrians had wounded which the Syrians had given him at Ramah when he sought 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 †Heb. wounded sick CHAP. IX 1 Elisha sendeth a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth-gilead 4 The prophet having done his message fleeth 11 Jehu being made king by the souldiers killeth Joram in the field of Naboth 27 Ahaziah is slain at Guy and buried at Jerusalem 30 Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window and eaten by dogs ANd Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets and said unto him Gird up thy loyns and take this box of oyl in thine hand and go to Ramoth-gilead 2 And when thou comest thither look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi and go in and make him arise up from among his brethren and carry him to an †Heb. chamber in a chamber inner chamber 3 Then * 1 King 19.16 take the box of oyl and pour it on his head and say Thus saith the LORD I have anointed thee king over Israel then open the door and flee and tarry not 4 ¶ So the young man even the young man the prophet went to Ramoth-gilead 5 And when he came behold the captains of the host were sitting and he said I have an errand to thee O captain And Jehu said Unto which of all us And he said To thee O captain 6 And he arose and went into the house and he poured the oyl on his head and said unto him Thus saith the LORD God of Israel I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD even over Israel 7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master that I may avenge the bloud of my servants the prophets and the bloud of all the servants of the LORD * 1 King 21 1◠at the hand of Jezebel 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish and * 1 Kin. 14.10 21.21 I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel 9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of * 1 Kin. 14.10 21.22 Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of * 1 Kin. 16.3 Baasha the son of Ahijah 10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel and there shall be none to bury her And he opened the door and fled 11 ¶ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord and one said unto him Is all well wherefore came this mad fellow to thee And he said unto them Ye know the man and his communication 12 And they said It is false tell us now And he said Thus and thus spake he to me saying Thus
persons and put their heads in baskets and sent him them to Jezreel 8 ¶ And there came a messenger and told him saying They have brought the heads of the kings sons And he said Lay ye them in two heaps at the entring in of the gate until the morning 9 And it came to pass in the morning that he went out and stood and said to all the people Ye be righteous behold I conspired against my master and slew him but who slew all these 10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab for the LORD hath done that which he spake * 1 King 21.29 †Heb. by the hand of by his servant Elijah 11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel and all his great men and his ‖ Or acquaintance kinsfolks and his priests until he left him none remaining 12 ¶ And he arose and departed and came to Samaria And as he was at the †Heb. house of shephards binding sheep shearing-house in the way 13 Jehu †Heb sound 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 †Heb. to the peace of c. to salute the children of the king and the childen of the queen 14 And he said Take them alive And they took them alive and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house even two and fourty men neither left he any of them 15 ¶ And when he was departed thence he †Heb. souâ—â— lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him and he †〈◊〉 blessed saluted him and said to him Is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart And Jehonadab answered It is If it be give me thine hand And he gave him his hand and he took him up to him into the chariot 16 And he said Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD So they made him ride in his chariot 17 And when he came to Samaria he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria till he had destroyed him according to the saying of the LORD which he spake to Elijah 18 ¶ And Jehu gathered all the people together and said unto them Ahab served Baal a little but Jehu shall serve him much 19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal all his servants and all his priests let none be wanting for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal whosoever shall be wanting he shall not live But Jehu did it in subtilty to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal 20 And Jehu said †Heb. Saâ—tâ—â—â— Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal And they proclaimed it 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel and all the worshippers of Baal came so that there was not a man lest that came not and they came into the house of Baal and the house of Baal was ‖ Or so full that they stood mouth to mouth full from one end to another 22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal And he brought them forth vestments 23 And Jehu went and Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal and said unto the worshippers of Baal Search and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD but the worshippers of Baal onely 24 And when they went in to ofter sacrifices and burnt offerings Jehu appointed fourscore men without and said If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape he that letteth him go his life shall be for the life of him 25 And it came to pass assoon 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 smore them with †Heb. the mouth the edge of the sword and the guard and the captains cast them out and went to the city of the house of Baal 26 And they brought forth the †Heb. statâ—tes images out of the house of Baal and burnt them 27 And they brake down the image of Baal and brake down the house of Baal and made it a draught-house unto this day 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel 29 ¶ Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin Jehu departed not from after them to wit the golden calves that were in Beth-el and that were in Dan. 30 And the LORD said unto Jehu Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel 31 But Jehu †Heb. observed not took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin 32 ¶ In those days the LORD began †Heb. to cut off the ends to cut Israel short and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel 33 From Jordan †Heb. toward the â—â—sinâ— of the sun east-ward all the land of Gilead the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites from Aroer which is by the river Arnon ‖ Or even to Gilead and Bashan even Gilead and Bashan 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu all that he did all his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 35 And Jehu slept with his fathers and they buried him in Samaria and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead 36 And †Heb. the days were the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years CHAP. XI 1 Jeboash being saved by Jehosheba his aunt from Athaliabs massacre of the seed royal is hid six years in the house of God 4 Jehoiada giving order to the captains in the seventh year anointeth him king 13 Athaliah is slain 17 Jehoiada restoreth the worship of God ANd when * 2 Chr. 22.10 Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead she arose and destroyed all the †Heb. â—â—ed of the kingdom seed royal 2 But Jehosheba the daughter of king Joram sister of Ahaziah took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the kings sons which were slain and they hid him even him and his nurse in the bed-chamber from Athaliah so that he was not slain 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years and Athaliah did reign over the land 4 ¶ And * 2 Chr. 12.1 the seventh year Jehoiada sent and set the rulers over hundreds with the captains and the
to the workmen and repaired therewith the house of the LORD 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen for they dealt faithfully 16 The trespass-money and sin-money was not brought into the house of the LORD it was the priests 17 ¶ Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers kings of Judah had dedicate and his own hallowed things and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD and in the kings house and sent it to Hazael king of Syria and he †Heb. went up went away from Jerusalem 19 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 20 And his servants arose and made 2 conspiracy and slew Joash in ‖ Or Betl-millo the house of Millo which goeth down to Silla 21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehuzahad 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 CHAP. XIII 1 Jehoahaz his wicked reign 3 Jehoahaz oppressed by Hazael is relieved by prayer 8 Joash succeedeth him 10 His wicked reign 12 Jeroboam succeedeth him 14 Elisha dying prophesieth to Joash three victories over the Syrians 20 The Moabites invading the land Elisha's bones raise up a dead man 22 Hazael dying Joash getteth three victories over Ben-hadad IN †Heb. the twentieth year and third year the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned seventeen years 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD and †Heb. walked after followed the sins of Jerohoam the son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom 3 ¶ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael all their days 4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD and the LORD hearkned unto him for he saw the oppression of Israel because the king of Syria oppressed them 5 And the LORD gave Israel a saviour so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents †Heb. aâ— yesterday and third day as before time 6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam who made Israel sin but †Heb. be walked walked therein and there †Heb. stood remained the grove also in Samaria 7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty hors-men and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust by threshing 8 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did and his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in Samaria and Joash his son reigned in his stead 10 ¶ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned sixteen year 11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel sin but he walked therein 12 And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did and his might wherewith he sought against Amaziah king of Judah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 13 And Joash slept with his fathers Jeroboam sat upon his throne and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel 14 ¶ Now Elisha was tain sick of his sickness whereof he died and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him and wept over his face and said O my father my father the chariot of Israel and the hors-men thereof 15 And Elisha said unto him Take bowe and arrows and he took unto him bowe and arrows 16 And he said to the king of Israel †Heb. Make thine land to ride Put thine hand upon the bowe and he put his hand upon it and Elisha put his hands upon the kings hands 17 And he said Open the window east-ward and he opened it Then Elisha said Shoot and he shot And he said The arrow of the LORDs deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou have consumed them 18 And he said Take the arrows and he took them And he said unto the king of Israel Smite upon the ground and he smote thrice and stayed 19 And the man of God was wroth with him and said Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice 20 ¶ And Elisha died and they buried him and the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year 21 And it came to pass as they were burying a man that behold they spied a band of men and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha and when the man †Heb. went down was let down and touched the bones of Elisha * Ecclus 48.14 he revived and stood up on his feet 22 ¶ But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz 23 And the LORD was gracious unto them and had compassion on them and had respect unto them because of his covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and would not destroy them neither cast he them from his †Heb. fâ—â—t presence as yet 24 So Hazael king of Syria died and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz †Heb. râ—turned and took took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war three times did Joash beat him and recovered the cities of Israel CHAP. XIV 1 Amaziah his good reign 5 His justice on the murderers of his father 7 His victory over Edom. 8 Amaziah provoking Jehoash is overcome and spoiled 16 Jerohoam succeedeth Jehoash 17 Amaziah slain by a conspiracy 21 Azariah succeedeth him 23 Jerohoams wicked reign 28 Zachariah succeedeth him IN the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned * 2 Chr. 25.1 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah 2 He was twenty and five years old when
he began to reign and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD yet not like David his father he did according to all things as Joash his father did 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places 5 ¶ And it came to pass assoon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand that he slew his servants * Chap. 12.20 which had slain the king his father 6 But the children of the murderers he slew not according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses wherein the LORD commanded saying * Deut. 24.16 Ezek. 18.20 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children nor the children be put to death for the fathers but every man shall be put to death for his own sin 7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand and took ‖ Ot the rock Selah by war and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day 8 ¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel saying Come let us look one another in the face 9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah saying The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon saying Give thy daughter to my son to wife and there passed by a wilde beast that was in Lebanon and trod down the thistle 10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom and thine heart hath listed thee up glory of this and tarry †Heb. at thy house at home for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and Judah with thee 11 But Amaziah would not hear therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh which belongeth to Judah 12 And Judah †Heb. was smitten was put to the worse before Israel and they fled every man to their tents 13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah at Beth-shemesh and came to Jerusalem and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner-gate four hundred cubits 14 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the kings house and hostages and returned to Samaria 15 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead 17 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years 18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 19 Now * 2 Chr 25.27 they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish but they sent after him to Lachish and slew him there 20 And they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David 21 ¶ And all the people of Judah took †2 Chr. 26.1 he iâ— called Vzziah Azariah which â—â—as sixteen years old and made him king in stead of his father Amaziah 22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah after that the king slept with his fathers 23 ¶ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria and reigned fourty and one years 24 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entring of Hamath unto the sea of the plain according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which he spake by the hand of his servant * Mat. 12.39 40 called Jonas Jonan the son of Amittai the prophet which was of Gath-hepher 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel that it was very bitter for there was not any shut up nor any lest nor any helper for Israel 27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might how he warred and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath which belonged to Judah for Israel are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers even with the kings of Israel and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XV. 1 Azariah his good reign 5 He dying a leper Jotham succeedeth 8 Zachariah the last of Jehu his generation reigning ill is slain by Shallum 13 Shallum reigning a moneth is slain by Menahem 16 Menahem strengthneth himself by Pul. 21 Pekahiah succeedeth him 23 Pekahiah is slain by Pekah 27 Pekah is oppressed by Tiglath-pileser and slain by Hoshea 32 Jothams good reign 36 Ahaz succeedeth him IN the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD according to all that his father Amaziah had done 4 Save that the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places 5 ¶ And the LORD smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a several house and Jotham the kings son was over the house judging the people of the land 6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 7 So Azariah slept with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David and Jotham his son reigned in his stead 8 ¶ In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six moneths 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD as his fathers had done he departed not from the fins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat Who made Israel to sin 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired
against him and smote him before the people and slew him and reigned in his stead 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 12 This was * Chap. 10.30 the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu saying Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation And so it came to pass 13 ¶ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of * Mat. 1.8 9 called Ozias Uzziah king of Judah and he reigned †Heb. a moneth of days a full moneth in Samaria 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and slew him and reigned in his stead 15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum and his conspiracy which he made behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 16 ¶ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah and all that were therein and the coasts thereof from Tirzah because they opened not to him therefore he smote it and all the women therein that were with childe he ript up 17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin 19 And * 1 Chr 5.26 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand 20 And Menahem †Heb. caused to come forth exacted the money of Israel even of all the mighty men of wealth of each man fifty shekels of silver to give to the king of Assyria so the king of Assyria turned back and stayed not there in the land 21 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead 23 ¶ In the fiftâ—eth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son or Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned two years 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah a captain of his conspired against him and smote him in Samaria in the palace of the kings house with Argob and Arieh and with him fifty men of the Gileadites and the killed him and reigned in his room 26 And the rest of the act of Pekahiah and all that he did behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 27 ¶ In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned twenty years 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria and took ljon and Abel-beth-maachah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee all the land of Naphtali and carried them captive to Assyria 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 32 ¶ In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began * 2 Chr. 27.1 Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done 35 ¶ Howbeit the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burnt incense still in the high places he built the higher gate of the house of the LORD 36 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah 38 And Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XVI 1 Ahaz his wicked reign 5 Ahaz assailed by Rezin and Pekah hireth Tiglath-pileser against them 10 Ahaz sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Vrijah diverteth the brasen altar to his own devotion 17 He spoileth the temple 19 Hezekiah succeedeth him IN * 2 Chr. 28.1 the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God like David his father 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel yea and made his son to pass through the fire according to the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree 5 ¶ * Isaiah 7.1 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria and drave the Jews from Elath and the Syrians came to Elath and dwelt there unto this day 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria saying I am thy servant and thy son come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel which rise up against me 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was sound in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the kings house and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria 9 And the king of Assyria hearkned unto him for the king of Assyria went up against †Heb. Dammeek Damascus and took it and carried the people of it captive to Kir and slew Rezin 10
called Josias Josiah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXII 1 Josiah his good reign 3 He taketh care for the repair of the temple 8 Hilkiab having found a book of the law Josiah sendeth to Husdah to enquire of the Lord. 15 Huldah prophesiâ—th the destruction of Jerusalem but respite thereof in Josiahs time JOsiah * 2 Chr. 34.1 was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of David his father and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left 3 ¶ And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe to the house of the LORD saying 4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD which the keepers of the †Heb. threshold door have gathered of the people 5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work that have the oversight of the house of the LORD and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD to repair the breaches of the house 6 Unto carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand because they dealt faithfully 8 ¶ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan and he read it 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again and said Thy servants have †Heb. â—â—â—ted gathered the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work that have the oversight of the house of the LORD 10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king saying Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book and Shaphan read it before the king 11 And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam the son of Shaphan and Achbor the son of Michaiah and Shaphan the scribe and Asahiah a servant of the kings saying 13 Go ye enquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us because our fathers have not hearkned unto the words of this book to do according unto all that which is written concerning us 14 So Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asahiah went unto Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Harhas keeper of the †Heb. â—aâ—ments wardrobe now she dwelt in Jerusalem ‖ Or in the second put in the colledge and they communed with her 15 ¶ And she said unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Tell the man that sent you to me 16 Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read 17 Because they have forsaken me and have burnt incense unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched 18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD thus shall ye say to him Thus saith the LORD God of Israel As touching the words which thou hast heard 19 Because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self before the LORD when thou heardest what I spake against this place and against the inhabitants thereof that they should become a desolation and a curse and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me I also have heard thee saith the LORD 20 Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy fathers and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place And they brought the king word again CHAP. XXIII 1 Josiah causeth the book to be read in a solemn assembly 3 He reneweth the covenant of the Lord. 4 He destroyeth idolatry 15 He burneth dead mens bones upon the altar of Beth-el as was fore-prophesied 21 He keepeth a most solemn pass-over 24 He putteth away witches and all abomination 26 Gods final wrath against Judah 29 Josiah provoking Pharaoh-nechoh is slain at Megiddo 31 Jehoahaz succeeding him is imprisoned by Pharaoh-nechoh who made Jehoiakim king 36 Jehoiakim his wicked reign ANd * 2 Chron. 34.30 the king sent and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem 2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people †Heb. from small 〈◊〉 unto great both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD 3 ¶ And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book and all the people stood to the covenant 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the door to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el 5 And he †Heb. â—â—â—sed to â—â—ase put down the †Heb. â—â—â—marâ—m 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 burnt incense unto Baal to the sun and to the moon and to the ‖ Or twelve signâ— or constellations planets and to all the host of heaven 6 And he brought out the * Chap. 21. â— grove from the house of the LORD without Jerusalem unto the brook Kidron and burnt it at the brook Kidron and stampt it small to powder and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people 7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the LORD where the women wove †Heb. houses hangings for the grove 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of â—udah and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense from Geba to Beer-sheba and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entring in of the gate of Joshua the governour of the city which were on a mans left hand at the gate of the city 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren 10 And he defiled Topheth which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun at the entring in of the house of the LORD by the chamber of Nathan-melech the ‖ Or eunuch oâ— officer chamberlain which was in the suburbs and burnt the chariots of the sun with fire 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz which the kings of Judah had made and the altars which * Ch. 21.5 Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD did the king beat down and ‖ Or ran from thence brake them down from thence and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem which were on the right hand of ‖ That is the mount of Oâ—ives the mount of corruption which * 1 Kin. 11.7 Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon did the king defile 14 And he brake in pieces the †Heb. statâ—es images and cut down the groves and filled their places with the bones of men 15 ¶ Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin had made both that altar and the high place he brake down and burnt the high place and stampt it small to powder and burnt the grove 16 And as Josiah turned himself he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it according to the * 1 Kin. 13. â— word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed who proclaimed these words 17 Then he said What title is that that I see And the men of the city told him It is the sepulchre of the man of God which came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el 18 And he said Let him alone let no man move his bones so they let his bones †Heb. to escape alone with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger Josiah took away and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el 20 And he ‖ Or sacrificed slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars and burnt mens bones upon them and returned to Jerusalem 21 ¶ And the king commanded all the people saying * 2 Chron. 35.1 1 Esdr 1.1 Keep the pass-over unto the LORD your God * Exod. 12.3 Deut. 16.2 as it is written in the book of this covenant 22 Surely there was not holden such a pass-over from the days of the judges that judged Israel nor in all the days of the kings of Israel nor of the kings of Judah 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem 24 ¶ Moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards and the ‖ Or teraphim images and the idols and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem did Josiah put away that he might perform the words of * Levit. 20.27 Deut. 18.11 the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD 25 And like unto him was there no king before him that turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him 26 ¶ Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah because of all the †Heb. angers provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal 27 And the LORD said I will remove Judah also out of my sight as I have removed Israel and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I said * 1 Kin. 8.29 9.3 Chap. 21.7 My name shall be there 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 29 ¶ * 2 Chron. 35.20 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates and king Josiah went against him and he slew him at Megiddo when he had seen him 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own sepulchre and * 2 Chron. 36.1 the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his fathers stead 31 ¶ Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign and he reigned three moneths in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD according to all that his fathers had done 33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in hands at Riblah in the land of Hamath ‖ Or because be reigned that he might not reign in Jerusalem and †Heb. set a mulct upon the land put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold 34 And Pharaoh nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father and turned his name to * Mat. 1.11 called Jakim Jehoiakim and took Jehoahaz away and he came to Egypt and died there 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land of every one according to his
took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to king Solomon CHAP. IX 1 The queen of Sheba admireth the wisdom of Solomon 13 Solomons gold 15 His targets 17 The throne of ivory 20 His vessels 23 His presents 25 His chariots and horse 26 His tributes 29 His reign and death ANd * 1 King 10.1 c. Mat. 12.42 Luke 11. â—1 when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem with a very great company and camels that barespices and gold in abundance and precious stones and when she was come to Solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart 2 And Solomon told her all her questions and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not 3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he had built 4 And the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel his ‖ Or butlers cup-bearers also and their apparel and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD there was no more spirit in her 5 And she said to the king It was a true †Heb. word report which I heard in mine own land of thine ‖ Or sayings acts and of thy wisdom 6 Howbeit I beleeved not their words until I came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me for thou exceedest the fame that I heard 7 Happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom 8 Blessed be the LORD thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne to be king for the LORD thy God because thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made he thee king over them to do judgement and justice 9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold and of spices great abundance and precious stones neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon 10 And the servants also of Huram the servants of Solomon which brought gold from Ophir brought algum-trees and precious stones 11 And the king made of the algum-trees ‖ Or stays †Heb. high ways terrises to the house of the LORD and to the kings palace and harps and psalteries for singers and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah 12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire whatsoever she asked besides that which she had brought unto the king so she turned and went away to her own land she and her servants 13 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold 14 Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought and all the kings of Arabia and ‖ Or captains governours of the countrey brought gold and silver to Solomon 15 ¶ And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target 16 And three hundred shields made be of beaten gold three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon 17 ¶ Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold 18 And there were six steps to the throne with a foot-stool of gold which were fastned to the throne and †Heb. lands stays on each side of the sitting place and two lions standing by the stays 19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps There was not the like made in any kingdom 20 ¶ And all the drinking-vessels of king Solomon were of gold and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of †Heb. shut up pure gold ‖ Or there was no silver in them none were of silver it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon 21 For the kings ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold and silver ‖ Or elephants teeth ivory and apes and peacocks 22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom 23 ¶ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart 24 And they brought every man his present vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment harness and spices horses and mules a rate year by year 25 ¶ And Solomon * 1 King 4.26 had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots and twelve thousand hors-men whom he bestowed in the chariot-cities and with the king at Jerusalem 26 ¶ And he reigned over all the kings * Gen. 15.18 from the ‖ That is Euphrates river even unto the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt 27 And the king †Heb. gave made silver in Jerusalem as stones cedar-trees made he as the sycomore-trees that are in the low plains in abundance 28 * 1 King 10.28 Chap. 1.16 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt and out of all lands 29 ¶ Now the rest of the * 1 King 11.41 acts of Solomon first and last are they not written in the †Heb. words book of Nathan the prophet and in the prophesie of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of * Chap. 12.15 Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel fourty years 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers and he was buried in the city of David his father and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead CHAP. X. 1 The Israelites assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him 6 Rehoboam refusing the old mens counsel by the advice of young men answereth them roughly 16 Ten tribes revolting kill Hadoram and make Rehoboam to flee ANd * 1 King 12.1 c. Rehoboam went to Shechem for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king 2 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat who was in Egypt whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king heard it that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt 3 And they sent and called him so Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam saying 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us and we will serve thee 5 And he said unto them Come again unto me after three days And the people departed 6 ¶ And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before
his work cease 6 Then Asa the king took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timber thereof wherewith Baasha was a building and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah 7 ¶ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said unto him Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria and not relied on the LORD thy God therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand 8 Were not * Ch. 14.9 the Ethiopians and the Lubims †Heb. in abundance a huge host with very many chariots and hors-men yet because thou didst rely on the LORD he delivered them into thine hand 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth ‖ Or strongly to hold with them c. to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him Herein thou hast done foolishly therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars 10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in a prison-house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing And Asa †Heb. crushed oppressed some of the people the same time 11 ¶ And behold the acts of Asa first and last lo they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel 12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD but to the physicians 13 ¶ And Asa slept with his fathers and died in the one and fourtieth year of his reign 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had †Heb. digged made for himself in the city of David and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries art and they made a very great burning for him CHAP. XVII 1 Jehoshaphat succeeding Asa reigneth well and prospereth 7 He sendeth Levites with the princes to teach Judah 10 His enemies being terrified by God some of them bring him presents and tribute 12 His greatness captains and armies ANd * 1 Kin. 15. â—4 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead and strengthned himself against Israel 2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah and set garisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had taken 3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the first ways of his father David and sought not unto Baalim 4 But sought to the LORD God of his father and walked in his commandments and not after the doings of Israel 5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand and all Judah †Heb. gave brought to Jehoshaphat presents and he had riches and honour in abundance 6 And his heart ‖ That is was â—ncourazed was lift up in the ways of the LORD moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah 7 ¶ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes even to Ben-hail and to Obadiah and to Zechariah and to Nethaneel and to Michaiah to teach in the cities of Judah 8 And with them he sent Levites even Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah Levites and with them Elishama and Jehoram priests 9 And they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the LORD with them and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people 10 ¶ And the fear of the LORD †Heb. was fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat 11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and tribute-silver and the Arabians brought him flocks seven thousand and seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred he-goats 12 ¶ And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly and he built in Judah ‖ Or â—pâ—laâ—â—â— castles and cities of store 13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah and the men of war mighty men of valour were in Jerusalem 14 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers Of Judah the captains of thousands Adnah the chief and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand 15 And †Heb. aâ— his hand next to him was Jehohanan the captain and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand 16 And next him was â—masiah the son of Zichri who willingly offered himself unto the LORD and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour 17 And of Benjamin Eliada a mighty man of valour and with him armed men with bowe and shield two hundred thousand 18 And next him was Jehozabad and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war 19 These waited on the king besides those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah CHAP. XVIII 1 Jehoshaphat joyned in affinity with Ahab is perswaded to go with him against Ramoth-gilead 4 Ahab seduced by false prophets according to the word of Michiah is slain there NOw Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance and joyned affinity with Ahab 2 * 1 Kin. 22.2 And †Heb. at the end of years after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria and Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance and for the people that he had with him and perswaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead 3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead And he answered him I am a thou art and my people as thy people and we will be with thee in the war 4 ¶ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel Enquire I pray thee at the word of the LORD to day 5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men and said unto them Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battel or shall I forbear And they said Go up for God will deliver it into the kings hand 6 But Jehoshaphat said Is there not here a prophet of the LORD †Heb. yet or more besides that we might enquire of him 7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat There is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the LORD but I hate him for he never prophesieth good unto me but always evil the same is Micaiah the son of Imla And Jehoshaphat said Let not the king say so 8 And the king of Israel called for one of his ‖ Or eunucht officers and said †Heb. hasten Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla 9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne clothed in their robes and they sat in a ‖ Or floor void place at the
of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler under the hand of Hananiah one of the kings captains 12 The whose number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred 13 And under their hand was †Heb. the power of an army an army three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred that made war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy 14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields and spears and helmets and habergeons and bowes and †Heb. stones of 〈◊〉 slings to cast stones 15 And he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal and his name †Heb. went forth spread far abroad for he was marvellously helped till he was strong 16 ‖ But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to bis destruction for he transgressed against the LORD his God and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense up on the altar of the incense 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him and with him fourscore priests of the LORD that were valiant men 18 And they withstood Uzziah the King and said unto him It * Num 18.7 appertaineth not unto thee Uzziah to burn incense unto the LORD but to the * Exod 30.7 priests the sons of Aaron that are consecrated to to burn incense go out of the sanctuary for thou hast trespassed neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God 19 Then Uzziah was wroth and had a censer in his hand to burn incense and while he was wroth with the priests the leprosie even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD from beside the incense-altar 20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked upon him and behold he was leprous in his forehead and they thrust him out from thence yea himself * As Efth. 6.12 hasted also to go out because the LORD had smitten him 21 * 2 Kin 15.5 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a * Levit. 13.46 †Heb. free several house being a leper for he was cut off from the house of the LORD and Jotham his son was over the kings house judging the people of the land 22 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah first and last did Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz write 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings for they said He is a leper and Jotham his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXVII 1 Jotham reigning well prospereth 5 He subdueth the Ammonites 7 His reign 9 Ahaz succeedeth him JOtham * 2 Kin. 15.32 c was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem his mothers name also was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah did howbeit he entred not into the temple of the LORD And the people did yet corruptly 3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD and on the wall of ‖ Or the tower Ophel he built much 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah and in the forests he built castles and towers 5 ¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand of barley †Heb. this So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him both the second year and the third 6 So Jotham became mighty because he ‖ Oâ— â—stâ—blisâ—â—d prepared his ways before the LORD his God 7 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways lo they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem 9 ¶ And Jotham slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXVIII 1 Ahaz reigning very wickedly it greatly afflicted by the Syrians 6 Judah being captivated by the Israelites is sent home by the counsel of Oded the prophet 16 Ahaz sending for aid to Assyria is not helped thereby 22 In his dâ—stress he groweth more idolatrous 26 He dying Hezekiah succeedeth him AHaz * 1 King 16.2 was twenty years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD like David his father 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made also molten images for Baalim 3 Moreover he ‖ Or offered sacrifice burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom and burnt * Levâ—t 18.21 his children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel 4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree 5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria and they smote him and carried away a great multitude of them captives and brought them to †Heb Daâ—mâ—sâ—k Damascus and he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel who smote him with a great slaughter 6 ¶ For Pekih the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day which were all †Heb. sons of velour valiant men because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers 7 And Zichri a mighty man of Ephraim slew Maaseiah the kings son and Azrikam the governour of the house and Elkanah that was †Heb. the second â—o the king next to the king 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women sons and daughters and took also away much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria 9 But a prophet of the LORD was there whose name was Oded and he went out before the host that came to Samaria and said unto them Behold because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah he hath delivered them into your hand and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bond-men and bond-women unto you but are there not with you even with you sins against the LORD your God 11 Now hear me therefore and deliver the captives again which ye have taken captive of your
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign and he reigned three moneths in Jerusalem 3 And the king of Egypt †Heb. removed him put him down at Jerusalem and †Heb. muâ—cted condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem and turned his name to Jehoiakim And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt 5 ¶ Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in ‖ Or chains fetters to carry him to Babylon 7 * 2 Kin. 24.13 Dan. 1.1 2. Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and his abominations which he did and that which was found in him behold they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah and ‖ Or Jeconiah 1 Chr. 3.16 or Coniah Jer. 22.24 Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead 9 ¶ * 2 Kin. 24.8 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned three moneths and ten days in Jerusalem and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD 10 And †Heb. at the return of the year when the year was expired king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the †Heb. vâ—ssels of desire goodly vessels of the house of the LORD and made ‖ Or. Mattaniah 2 King 24.17 * Jer. 37.1 Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem 11 ¶ * 2 Kin. 24.18 Jer. 52.1 c. Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD 13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear by God but he stiffned his neck and hardned his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel 14 ¶ Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem 15 * Jer. 25.2 4. and 35.15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them †Heb. by the hand of his messengers by his messengers rising up ‖ That is continually and carefully betimes and sending because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place 16 But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people till there was no †Heb. healing remedy 17 * 2 Kin. 25.1 c. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Caldees who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion upon young man or maiden old man or him that stooped for age he gave them all into his hand 18 And all the vessels of the house of God great and small and the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king and of his princes all these he brought to Babylon 19 And they burnt the house of God and brake down the wall of Jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof 20 And †Heb. the remainder from the sword them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Perâ—ia 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of * Jer. 25 9 12. 29.10 Jeremiah until the land * Lev. 26.34 35 43. had enjoyed her sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath to fulfil threescore and ten years 22 ¶ * Ezra 1.1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of * Jer. 25.12.13 29.10 Jeremiah might be acomplished the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing saying 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Pesia All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem which is in Judah who is there among you of all his people the LORD his God be with him and let him go up ¶ EZRA CHAP. I. 1 The proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the temple 5 The people provide for the return 7 Cyrus restoreth the vessels of the temple to Sheshbazzar NOw in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia that the word of the LORD * 2 Chr. 36.22 Jer. 25.12 29.10 by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia that he †Heb. caused a vâ—â—ce to â—ass made a Proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing saying 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he hath * Isa 44.28 45.13 charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem which is in Judah 3 Who is there among you of all his people his God be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and build the house of the LORD God of Israel he is the God which is in Jerusalem 4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth let the men of his place †Heb. lift him up help him with silver and with gold and with goods and with beasts besides the free-will-offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem 5 ¶ Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites with all them whose spirit God had raised to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem 6 And all they that were about them ‖ This is helped them strengthned their hands with vessels of silver with gold with goods and with beasts and with precious things besides all that was willingly offered 7 ¶ Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD * 2 King 24.12 2 Chr. â—6 â— which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem and had put them in the house of his gods 8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring sorth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer and numbred them unto
of Judah saying 2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the LORD into one of the chambers and give them wine to drink 3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah the son of Habaziniah and his brethren and all his sons the whole house of the Rechabites 4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah a man of God which was by the chamber of the princes which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum the keeper of the †Heb. threshold or vesel door 5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups and I said unto them Drink ye wine 6 But they said We will drink no wine for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us saying Ye shall drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever 7 Neither shall ye build house nor sowe seed nor plant vineyard nor have any but all your days ye shall dwell in tents that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days we our wives our sons nor our daughters 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we vineyard nor field nor seed 10 But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us 11 But it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land that we said Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Caldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians so we dwell at Jerusalem 12 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words saith the LORD 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their fathers commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkned not unto me 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early and sending them saying * Chap. 18.11 25.5 Return ye now every man from his evil way and iniend 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 hearkned unto me 16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them but this people hath not hearkned unto me 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them because I have spoken unto them but they have not heard and I have called unto them but they have not answered 18 ¶ And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded you 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel †Heb. There shall not a man be cut off from Jonedab the son of Rechab to stand c. Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever CHAP. XXXVI 1 Jeremiah causeth Barueh to write his prophesie 5 and publickly to read it 11 The princes having intelligence thereof by Michalab send Jedudi to fetch the roll and read it 19 They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah 20 The king Jehoiakim being certified thereof heareth part of it and burneth the roll 27 Jeremiah denouneeth his judgement 32 Baruch writeth a new copy ANd it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD saying 2 Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations from the day I spake unto thee from the days of * Ch. 25.3 Josiah even unto this day 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which he had spoken unto him upon a roll of a book 5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am shut up I cannot go into the house of the LORD 6 Therefore go thou and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORDS house upon the fasting-day and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities 7 It may be †Heb. their supplication shall sall they will present their supplication before the LORD and will return every one from his evil way for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people 8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet cummanded him reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORDs house 9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah in the ninth moneth that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe in the higher court at the ‖ Or door * Chap. 26.10 entry of the new gate of the LORDs house in the ears of all the people 11 ¶ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah the son Shaphan had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD 12 Then he went down into the kings house into the scribes chamber and lo all the princes sat there even Elishama the scribe and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah and Elnathan the son of Achbor and Gemariah the son of Shaphan and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah and all the princes 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in
that sinned and ‖ Or â—ne ungodly did wickedly against the Lord above all people and kingdoms and how they grieved him ‖ Or sensibly exceedingly so that the words of the Lord rose up against Israel 25 * 2 Chr. 35.20 Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchamis upon Euphrates and Josias went out against him 26 But the king of Egypt sent to him saying What have I to do with thee O king of Judea 27 I am not sent out from the Lord God against thee for my war is upon Euphrates and now the Lord is with me yea the Lord is with me hasting me forward depart from me and be not against the Lord. 28 Howbeit Josias did not turn back his chariot from him but undertook to fight with him not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy spoken by the mouth of the Lord 29 But joyned battel with him in the plain of Magiddo and the princes came against king Josias 30 Then said the king unto his servants Carry me away out of the battel for I am very weak and immediately his servants took him away out of the battel 31 Then gat he up upon his second chariot and being brought back to Jerusalem died and was buried in his fathers sepulchre 32 And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias yea Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him unto this day and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel 33 These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah and every one of the acts that Josias did and his glory and his understanding in the law of the Lord and the things that he had done before and the things now recited are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea 34 * 2 Kings 23.30 2 Chr. 36 1â— And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias and made him king in stead of Josias his father when he was twenty and three years old 35 And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three moneths and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem 36 And he set a tax upon the land of an hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold 37 The king of Egypt also made king Joacim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem 38 And he bound Joacim and the nobles but Zaraces his brother he apprehended and brought him out of Egypt 39 Five and twenty years old was * 2 Chr. 36 4 5. Jeboiakim or Ellakim Joacim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem and he did evil before the Lord. 40 Wherefore against him Nebuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up and bound him with a chain of brass and carried him unto Babylon 41 Nebuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord and carried them away and set them in his own temple at Babylon 42 But those things that are recorded of him and of his uncleanness and impiety are written in the chronicles of the kings 43 And Joacim his son reigned in his stead he was made king being eighteen years old 44 And reigned but three moneths and ten days in Jerusalem and did evil before the Lord. 45 So after a year Nebuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord 46 And made Zedechias king of Judea and Jerusalem when he was one and twenty years old and he reigned eleven years 47 And he did evil also in the sight of the Lord and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the mouth of the Lord. 48 And after that king Nebuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord he forswore himself and rebelled and hardning his neck and his heart he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel 49 The governours also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws and passed all the pollutions of all nations and defiled the temple of the Lord which was sanctified in Jerusalem 50 Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back because he spared them and his tabernacle also 51 But they had his messengers in derision and look when the Lord spake unto them they made a sport of his prophets 52 So far forth that he being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness commanded the kings of the Caldees to come up against them 53 Who slew their young men with the sword yea even within the compass of their holy temple and spared neither young man nor maid old man nor childe among them for he delivered all into their hands 54 And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord both great and small with the vessels of the ark of God and the kings treasures and carried them away into Babylon 55 As for the house of the Lord they burnt it brake down the walls of Jerusalem set fire upon her towers 56 And as for her glorious things they never ceased till they had consumed and brought them all to nought and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried unto Babylon 57 Who became servants to him and his children till the Persians reigned to fulfil the * Jer. 25.11 29.10 word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremy 58 Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths the whole time of her desolation shall she ‖ Or keep sabbath rest until the full term of seventy years CHAP. II. 1 Cyrus is moved by God to build the temple 5 and giveth leave to the Jews to return and contribute to it 11 He delivereth again the vessels which had been taken thence 25 Artaxerxes forbiddeth the Jews to build any more IN the * 2 Chr. 36.22 Ezra 1.1 c. first year of Cyrus king of the Persians that the word of the Lord might be accomplished that he had promised by the mouth of Jeremy 2 The Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the Persians and he made proclamation through all his kingdom and also by writing 3 Saying Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians The Lord of Israel the most high Lord hath made me king of the whole world 4 And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry 5 If therefore there be any of you that are of his people let the Lord even his Lord be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea and build the house of the Lord of Israel for ‖ Or this he is the Lord that dwelleth in Jerusalem 6 Whosoever then dwell in the places about let them help him those I say that are his neighbours with gold and with silver 7 With gifts with horses and with cattel and other
another nation without both by speaking and writing my grandfather Jesus when he had much given himself to the reading of the law and the prophets and other books of our fathers and had gotten therein good judgement was drawn on also himself to write something pertaining to learning and wisdom to the intent that those which are desirous to learn and are addâ—cted to these things might profit much more in living according to the law Wherefore let me intreat you to read it with favour and attention and to pardon us wherein we may seem to come short of some words which we have laboured to interpret For the same things uttered in Hebrew and translated into another tongue have not the same force in them and not onely these things but the law it self and the †Gr. prophesies prophets and the rest of the books have no small ‖ Or excellency difference when they are spoken in their own language For in the eight and thirtieth year coming into Egypt when Euergetes was king and continuing there some time I found a ‖ Or help of learning book of no small learning therefore I thought it most necessary for me to bestow some diligence and travel to interpret it using great watchfulness and skill in that space to bring the book to an end and set it forth for them also which in a strange countrey are willing to learn being prepared before in manners to live after the law CHAP. I. 1 All wisdom is from God 10 He giveth it to them that love him 12 The sear of God is full of many blessings 28 To fear God without hypocrisy ALl * 1 King 3.9 wisdom cometh from the Lord and is with him for ever 2 Who can number the sand of the sea and the drops of rain and the days of eternity 3 Who can finde out the height of heaven and the breadth of the earth and the deep and wisdom 4 Wisdom hath been created before all things and the understanding of prudence from everlasting 5 The word of God most High is the fountain of wisdom and her ways are everlasting commandments 6 * Rom. 11.34 To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed or who hath known her wise counsels 7 Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest and who hath understood her great experience 8 There is one wise and greatly to be feared the Lord sitting upon his throne 9 He created her and saw her and numbred her and poured her out upon all his works 10 She is with all flesh according to his gist and he hath given her to them that love him 11 The fear of the Lord is honour and glory and gladness and a crown of rejoycing 12 The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart and giveth joy and gladness and a long life 13 Whoso feareth the Lord it shall go well with him at the last and he ‖ Or shall blessed shall finde favour in the day of his death 14 * Prov. 1.7 Ps 111.10 To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and it was created with the faithful in the womb 15 She hath built an everlasting foundation with men and she shall continue * 2 Chr. 20.21 with their seed 16 To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom and filleth men with her fruits 17 She filleth all their house with things desirable and the garners with her increase 18 The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom making peace and perfect health to flourish both which are the gifts of God and it enlargeth their rejoycing that love him 19 Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast 20 The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord and the branches thereof are long life 21 The fear of the Lord driveth away sins and where it is present it turneth away wrath 22 A furious man cannot ‖ Or escape punishment be justified for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction 23 A patient man will bear for a time and afterward joy shall spring up unto him 24 He will hide his words for a time and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom 25 The parables of knowledge are in the treasures of wisdom but godliness is an abomination to a sinner 26 If thou desire wisdom keep the commandments and the Lord shall give her unto thee 27 For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction and faith and meekness are his delight 28 ‖ Or be not disobedient to Distrust not the fear of the Lord when thou art poor and come not unto him with a double heart 29 Be nor an hypocrite in the sight of men and take good heed what thou speakest 30 Exalt not thy fell lest thou fall and bring dishonour upon thy soul and so God discover thy secrets and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation because thou camest not in truth to the sear of the Lord but thy heart is full of deceit CHAP. II. 1 Gods servants must look for trouble 7 and be patient and trust in him 12 For wo to them that do not so 15 But they that fear the Lord will do so MY son if * Matt. 4.1 2 Tim. 3.12 1 Pet. 4.12 thou come to serve the Lord prepare thy soul for temptation 2 Set thy heart aright and constantly endure and ‖ Or haste not make not haste in time of trouble 3 Cleave unto him and depart not away that thou mayest be increased at thy last end 4 Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate 5 * Wild. 26. Prov. 17.3 For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity 6 Beleeve in him and he will help thee order thy way aright and trust in him 7 Ye that fear the Lord wait for his mercy and go not aside lest ye fall 8 Ye that fear the Lord beleeve him and your reward shall not fail 9 Ye that fear the Lord hope for good and for everlasting joy and mercy 10 Look at the generations of old and see * Psal 37.25 did ever any trust in the Lord and was confounded or did any abide in his fear and was forsaken or whom did he ever despise that called upon him 11 For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and very pitiful and forgiveth sins and saveth in time of affliction 12 Wo be to fearful hearts and faint hands and the sinner that goeth two ways 13 Wo unto him that is faint-hearted for he beleeveth not therefore shall he not be defended 14 Wo unto you that have lost patience and what will ye do when the Lord shall visit you 15 They that fear the Lord will not disobey his word and * John 14.23 they that love him will keep his ways 16 They that fear the Lord will seek that which
praise him therewith 23 Draw near unto me you unlearned and dwell in the house of learning 24 Wherefore are you slow and what say you of these things seeing your souls are very thirsty 25 I opened my mouth and said * Isai 55.1 Buy her for your selves without money 26 Put your neck under the yoke and let your soul receive instruction she is hard at hand to finde 27 * Chap. 6.19 Behold with your eyes how that I have had but little labour and have gotten unto me much rest 28 Get learning with a great sum of money get much gold by her 29 Let your soul rejoyce in his mercy and be not ashamed of his praise 30 Work your work betimes and in his time he will give you your reward ¶ BARUCH CHAP. I. 1 Baruch wrote a book in Babylon 5 The Jews there wept at the reading of it 7 They send money and the book to the brethren at Jerusalem ANd these are the words of the book which Baruch the son of Nerias the son of Maasias the son of Sedecias the son of Asadias the son of Chelcias wrote in Babylon 2 In the fifth year and in the seventh day of the moneth what time as the Caldeans took Jerusalem and burnt it with fire 3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of ‖ Or Joacim Joachim king of Juda and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book 4 And in the hearing of the nobles and of the kings sons and in the hearing of the elders and of all the people from the lowest unto the highest even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud 5 Whereupon they wept fasted ‖ Or and vowed vows and prayed before the Lord. 6 They made also a collection of money according to every mans power 7 And they sent it to Jerusalem unto ‖ Or Joacim Joachim the high priest the son of Chescias son of Salom and to the priests and to all the people which were sound with him at Jerusalem 8 At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the Lord that were carried out of the temple to return them into the land of Juda the tenth day of the moneth Sivan namely silver vessels which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made 9 After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias and the princes and the ‖ Or prisoners captives and the mighty men and the people of the land from Jerusalem and brought them unto Babylon 10 And they said behold we have sent you money to buy you burnt-offerings and sin-offerings and incense and prepare ye †Gr corruptly for minâ—ba manna and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God 11 And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and for the life of Balthalar his son that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven * meat-offering 12 And the Lord will give us strength and lighten our eyes and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and under the shadow of Balthasar his son and we shall serve them many days and finde favour in their sight 13 Pray for us also unto the Lord our God for we have sinned against the Lord our God and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us 14 And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you to make confession in the house of the Lord upon the feasts and solemn days 15 And ye shall say * Chap. â— 6 To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness but unto us the confusion of faces as it is coms to pass this day unto them of Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerulalem 16 And to our kings and to our princes and to our priests and to our prophets and to our fathers 17 For we have * Dan. 9.5 sinned before the Lord 18 And disobeyed him and have not hearkned unto the voice of the Lord our God to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly 19 Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt unto this present day we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice 20 * Deut. 28.15 Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us and the curse which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey like as it is to see this day 21 Nevertheless we have not hearkned unto the voice of the Lord our God according unto all the words of the prophets whom he sent unto us 22 But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart to serve strange gods and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God CHAP. II. The prayer and confession which the Jews at Babylon made and sent in that book unto the brethreâ—◠〈◊〉 Jerusalem THerefore the Lord hath made good his word which he pronounced against us and against our judges that judged Israel and against our kings and against our princes and against the men of Israel and Juda. 2 To bring upon us great plagues such as never hapned under the whose heaven as it came to pass in Jerusalem according to the things that were written in the law of Moses 3 That a man should * Deut. 28.53 eat the flesh of his own son and the flesh of his own daughter 4 Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about where the Lord hath scattered them 5 Thus we †Gr. were beneath and not above were cast down and not exalted becaused we have sinned against the Lord our God and have not been obedient unto his voice 6 * Ch. 1.15 To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness but unto us and to our fathers open shame as appeareth this day 7 For all these plagues are come upon us which the Lord hath pronounced against us 8 Yet have we not prayed before the Lord that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart 9 Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil and the Lord hath brought it upon us for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us 10 Yet we have not hearkned unto his voice to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he hath set before us 11 * Dan. 9.15 And now O Lord God of Israel that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and high arm and with signs and with wonders and with great power and hast gotten thy self a name as appeareth this day 12 O Lord our
of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charran and from thence when his father was dead he removed him into this land wherein ye now dwell 5 And he gave him none inheritance in it no not so much as to set his foot on yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him when as yet he had no childe 6 And God spake on this wise that his seed should sojourn in a strange land and that they should bring them into bondage and entreat them evil four hundred years 7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge said God and after that shall they come forth and serve me in this place 8 * Gen. 1â— 9 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision * Gen. 21.3 and so Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day * Gen. 23.26 and Isaac begat Jacob and * Gen. 29.31 c. Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs 9 * Gen. 37.28 And the patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph into Egypt but God was with him 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions * Gen. 41.37 and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he made him governour over Egypt and all his house 11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan and great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance 12 * Gen. 42.1 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt he sent out our fathers first 13 * Gen. 45.4 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren and Josephs kindred was made known unto Pharaoh 14 Then sent Joseph and called his father Jacob to him and all his kindred threescore and fifteen souls 15 * Gen. 46.5 So Jacob went down into Egypt * Gen. 49.33 and died he and our fathers 16 And were carried over into Sychem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem 17 But when the time of the promise drew night which God had sworn to Abraham the people grew and multiplied in Egypt 18 Till another king arose which knew not Joseph 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred and evil entreated our fathers so that they cast out their young children to the end they might not live 20 * Exod. 2.2 In which time Moses was born and * Hebr. 11.23 was ‖ Or fair to God exceeding fair and nourished up in his fathers house three moneths 21 And when he was cast out Pharaohs daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds 23 And when he was full fourty years old it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel 24 * Exod. 2.11 And seeing one of them suffer wrong he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them but they understood not 26 * Exod. 2.13 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove and would have set them at one again saying Sirs ye are brethren why do ye wrong one to another 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away saying Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us 28 Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday 29 Then fled Moses at this saying and was a stranger in the land of Madian where he begat two sons 30 * Exod. 3.2 And when fourty years were expired there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a busn 31 When Moses saw it he wondred at the fight and as he drew near to behold it the voice of the Lord came unto him 32 Saying I am the God of thy fathers the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and durst not behold 33 Then said the Lord to him Put off thy shoes from thy feet for the place where thou standest is holy ground 34 I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them And now come I will send thee into Egypt 35 This Moses whom they refused saying Who made the a ruler and a judged the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hands of the angel which appeared to him in the bush 36 He brought them out after that he had * Exod. â— 9 shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea * Exod. 16.1 and in the wilderness fourty years 37 ¶ This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel * Deut. 18 1â— A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren ‖ Or as mâ—self like unto me him shall ye hear 38 * Exod. 19.3 This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina and with our fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us 39 To whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from them and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt 40 * Exod 32.1 Saying unto Aaron Make us gods to go before us for as for this Moses which brought us out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him 41 And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoyced in the works of their own hands 42 Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven as it is written in the book of the prophets * Amos 5.25 O ye house of Israel have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of fourty years in the wilderness 43 Yea ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan figures which ye made to worship them and I will carry you away beyond Babylon 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he had appointed speaking unto Moses * Exod. 25.40 that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles whom God drave out before the face of our fathers unto the days of David 46 Who found favour before God and desired to finde a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 * 1 Chr. 17.12 But Solomon built him an house 48 Howbeit * Chap. 17.24 the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the prophet 49 * Isa 66.1 2. Heaven is
them 21 And they gathered it every morning every man according to his eating and when the sun waxed hot it melted 22 ¶ And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread two omers for one man and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses 23 And he said unto them This is that which the LORD hath said To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD bake that which ye will bake to day and seethe that ye will seethe and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning 24 And they laid it up tâ—ll the morning as Moses bade and it did not stink neither was there any worm therein 25 And Moses said Eat that to day for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD to day ye shall not finde it in the field 26 Six days ye shall gather it but on the seventh day which is the sabbath in it there shall be none 27 ¶ And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather and they found none 28 And the LORD said unto Moses How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws 29 See for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days abide ye every man in his place let no man go out of his place on the seventh day 30 So the people rested on the seventh day 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna and it was like coriander-seed white and the taste of it was like wasers made with honey 32 ¶ And Moses said This is the thing which the LORD commandeth Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt 33 And Moses said unto Aaron Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein and lay it up before the LORD to be kept for your generations 34 As the LORD commanded Moses so Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna fourty years * Jos 5.12 Neh. 9.15 until they came to a land inhabited they did eat manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah CHAP. XVII 1 The people murmure for water at Rephidim 5 God sendeth them for water to the rock in Horeb. 8 Awalek is overcome by the holding up of Moses hands 15 Moses buildeth the altar JEHOVAH-nissi ANd all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin after their journeys according to the commandment of the LORD and pitched in Rephidim and there was no water for the people to drink 2 * Numb 20.4 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said Give us water that we may drink And Moses said unto them Why chide you with me wherefore do ye tempt the LORD 3 And the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against Moses and said Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children our cattel with thirst 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD saying What shall I do unto this people they be almost ready to stone me 5 And the LORD said unto Moses Go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel and thy rod wherewith * Chap. 7.20 thou smotest the river take in thine hand and go 6 * Numb 20.9 Psa 78.15 105.41 Wis 11.4 1 Cor. 10.4 Behold I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel 7 And he called the name of the place ‖ That is tentation Massah and ‖ That is â—biding or strife Meribah because of the chiding of the children of Israel and because they tempted the LORD saying Is the LORD among us or not 8 ¶ * Deut. 25.17 Wis 11.3 Then came Amalek and sought with Israel in Rephidim 9 And Moses said unto * Called Jesus Acts 7.45 Joshua Choose us out men and go out fight with Amalek to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek and Moses Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill 11 And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed and when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed 12 But Moses hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat thereon and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword 14 And the LORD said unto Moses Write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua for * Numb 24 20. 1 Sam. 15.3 I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it ‖ That is the LORD my banner JEHOVAH-niâ—li 16 For he said ‖ Or Because the hand of Amalek is against the throne of the LORD therefore c. Because †Heb. the hand upon the throne of the LORD the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation CHAP. XVIII 1 Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and two sons 7 Moses entertaineth him 13 Jethro's counsel is accepted 27 Jethro departeth WHen * Chap. 2.16 Jethro the priest of Midian Moses father in law heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt 2 Then Jethro Moses father in law took Zipporah Moses wife after he had sent her back 3 And her two sons of which the * Chap. 2.22 name of the one was ‖ That is a stranger there Gerihom for he said I have been an alien in a strange land 4 And the name of the other was ‖ That is my God is an help Eliezer for the God of my father said be was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh 5 And Jethro Moses father in law came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he encamped at the mount of God 6 And he said unto Moses I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee and thy wife and her two sons with her 7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet his father in
And it came to pass assoon as he came nigh unto the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing and Moses anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount 20 * Deut. 9.21 And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and strawed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it 21 And Moses said unto Aaron What did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them 22 And Aaron said Let not the anger of my lord wax hot thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief 23 For they said unto me Make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him 24 And I said unto them Whosoever hath any gold let them break it off So they gave it me then I cast it into the fire and there came out this calf 25 ¶ And when Moses saw that the people were naked for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame amongst †Heb. those that rose up against them their enemies 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said Who is on the LORDS side let him come unto me And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him 27 And he said unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Put every man his sword by his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbour 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men 29 ‖ Or And Moses said Consecrate your selves to day to the LORD because every man hath been against his son and against his brother c. For Moses had said †Heb. Fill your hands Consecrate your selves to day to the LORD even every man upon his son and upon his brother that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day 30 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the people Ye have sinned a great sin and now I will go up unto the LORD peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD and said Oh this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold 32 Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written 33 And the LORD said unto Moses Whosoever hath sinned against me him will I blot out of my book 34 Therefore now go lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee Behold mine Angel shall go before thee Nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them 35 And the LORD plagued the people because they made the calf which Aaron made CHAP. XXXIII 1 The Lord refuseth to go as he had promised with the people 4 The people mourn thereat 7 The tabernacle is removed out of the camp 9 The Lord talketh familiarly with Moses 12 Moses desireth to see the glory of God ANd the LORD said unto Moses Depart and go up hence thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt unto the land which I sware unto Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob saying * Gen. 12.7 Unto thy seed will I give it 2 * Deut. 7.22 Josh 24.11 And I will send an Angel before thee and I will drive out the Canaanite the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite the Hivite and the Jebusite 3 Unto a land flowing with milk honey for I will not go up in the midst of thee for thou art a * Chap. 32.9 Deut. 9.13 stiff-necked people lest I consume thee in the way 4 ¶ And when the people heard these evil tidings they mourned and no man did put on him his ornaments 5 For the LORD had said unto Moses Say unto the children of Israel Ye are a stiff-necked people I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee 6 And the children of Israel stript themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. 7 And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp afar off from the camp and called it the tabernacle of the congregation And it came to pass that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation which was without the camp 8 And it came to pass when Moses went out unto the tabernacle that all the people rose up and stood every man at his tent-door and looked after Moses until he was gone into the tabernacle 9 And it came to pass as Moses entred into the tabernacle the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the LORD talked with Moses 10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle-door all the people rose up worshipped every man in his tent-door 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend And he tuâ—ned again into the camp but his servant Joshua the son of Nun a young man departed not out of the tabernacle 12 ¶ And Moses said unto the LORD See thou sayest unto me Bring up this people and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me Yet thou hast said I know thee by name and thou hast also found grace in my sight 13 Now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight shew me now thy way that I may know thee that I may finde grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people 14 And he said My presence shall go with thee I will give thee rest 15 And he said unto him If thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight Is it not in that thou goest with us So shall we be separated I and thy people from all the people that are upon the face of the earth 17 And the LORD said unto Moses I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken for thou hast found grace in my sight I know thee by name 18 And he said I beseech thee shew me thy glory 19 And he said I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee * Rom. 9.15 and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy 20 And he said Thou canst not see my face
commanded Moses CHAP. V. 1 The anclean are removed out of the camp 5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses 11 The trial of jealousie ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every * Lev. 13.3 leper and every one that hath an * Lev. 15.2 issue and whosoever is defiled by the * Lev. 21.1 dead 3 Both male and female shall ye put out without the camp shall ye put them that they defile not their camps in the midst whereof I dwell 4 And the children of Israel did so and put them out without the camp as the LORD spake unto Moses so did the children of Israel 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Speak unto the children of Israel * Levit. 6.3 When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the LORD and that person be guilty 7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompense his trespass * Levit. 6.5 with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth part thereof and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed 8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto set the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD even to the priest beside the ram of the atonement whereby an atonement shall be made for him 9 And every ‖ Or leave-offering offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel which they bring unto the priest shall be his 10 And every mans hallowed things shall be his whatsoever any man giveth the priest it shall be * Levit. 10.13 his 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them If any mans wife go aside and commit a trespass against him 13 And a man lie with her carnally and it he hid from the eyes of her husband and be kept close and she be defiled and there be no witness against her neither she be taken with the manner 14 And the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be defiled or if the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be not defiled 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest and he shall bring her offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barly-meal he shall pour no oyl upon it nor put frankincense thereon for it is an offering of jealousie an offering of memorial bringing iniquity to remembrance 16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and uncover the womans head and put the offering of memorial in her hands which is the jealousie-offering and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman If no man have lien with thee and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness ‖ Or being in the power of thy husband †Heb. under thy husband with another in stead of thy husband be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another in stead of thy husband and if thou be defiled and some man hath lien with thee beside thine husband 21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing and the priest shall say unto the woman The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD doth make thy thigh to †Heb. fall rot and thy belly to swell 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot And the woman shall say Amen amen 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book and he shall blot them out with the bitter water 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousie-offering out of the womans hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD and offer it upon the altar 26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering even the memorial thereof and burn it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water then it shall come to pass that if she be defiled and have done trespass against her husband that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter and her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot and the woman shall be a curse among her people 28 And if the woman be not defiled but be clean then she shall be free and shall conceive seed 29 This is the law of jealousies when a wise goeth aside to another in stead of her husband and is defiled 30 Or when the spirit of jealousie cometh upon him and he be jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before the LORD and the priest shall execute upon her all this law 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity and this woman shall bear her iniquity CHAP. VI. 1 The law of the Nazarices 22 The form of blessing the people ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When either man or woman shall ‖ Or make themselves Nazarites separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the LORD 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vineger of wine or vineger of strong drink neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes or dried 4 All the days of his ‖ Or Nazariteship separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the †Heb. vine of the wine vine-tree from the kernels even to the husk 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no * Judg. 13.5 1 Sam. 1.11 rasour come upon his head until the days be fulfilled in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother for his brother or for his sister when they die because the †Heb. separation consecration of his God is upon his head 8 All the days of his separation
land cannot be cleansed of the bloud that is shed therein but by the bloud of him that shed it 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit wherein I dwell for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel CHAP. XXXVI 1 The inconvenience of the inheritance of daughters 5 is remedied by marrying in their own tribes 7 lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe 10 The daughters of Zelophehad marry their fathers brothers sons ANd the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of the sons of Joseph came near and spake before Moses and before the princes the chief fathers of the children of Israel 2 And they said * Ch 27 â— Jâ—â—h 17.3 The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe †Heb. unto whom they shall be whereunto they are received so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance 4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD saying The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad saying let them †Heb. be wiveâ— marry to whom they think best * Tob. 1.9 onely to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe for every one of the children of Israel shall †Heb. cleaâ—e to the c. keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers 8 And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers 9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses so did the daughters of Zelophehad 11 * Chap. 27.1 For Mahlah Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah the daughters of Zelophehad were married unto their fathers brothers sons 12 And they were married †Heb. to some that were of the families into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father 13 These are the commandments and the judgements which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho The fifth book of Moses called DEUTERONOMY CHAP. I. 1 Moses speech in the end of the fourtieth year briefly rehearsing the story 6 of Gods promise 9 of giving them officers 19 of sending the spies to search the land 34 of Gods anger for their incredulity 4â— and disobedience THese be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness in the plain over against ‖ Or Zupâ— the Red sea between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab 2 There are eleven days journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea 3 And it came to pass in the fourtieth year in the eleventh moneth on the first day of the moneth that Moses spake unto the children of Israel according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them 4 * Numb 21.24 After he had slain Sâ—hon the king of the Amorites which dwelt in Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei 5 On this side Jordan in the land of Moab began Moses to declare this law saying 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb saying Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount 7 Turn you and take your journey and go to the mount of the Amorites and unto †Heb. all his neighbouâ—s all the places nigh thereunto in the plain in the hills and in the vale and in the south and by the sea-side to the land of the Canaanites and unto Lâ—banon unto the great river the river Euphrates 8 Behold I have †Heb. given let the land before you go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers * Gen. 15.18 17.7.8 Abraham Isaac and Jacob to give unto them and to their seed after them 9 ¶ And I spake unto you at that time saying I am not able to bear you myself alone 10 The LORD our God hath multiplyed you and behold you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude 11 The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many mo as ye are and bless you as he hath promised you 12 How can I my self alone bear your cumbrance and your burden and your strife 13 †Heb. Give Take ye wise men and understanding and known among your tribes and I will make them rulers over you 14 And ye answered me and said The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do 15 So I took the chief of your tribes wise men and known and †Heb. gave made them heads over you captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains ever tens and officers among your tribes 16 And I charged your judges at that time saying Hear the causes between your brethren and * Joh. 7.24 judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him 17 * Lev. 19.15 Ch. 16.19 1 Sam. 16.7 Prov. 24.23 Ye shall not †Heb. acknowledge faces respect persons in judgement but you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgement is Gods and the cause that is too hard for you bring it unto me and I will hear it 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do 19 ¶ And when we departed from Horeb we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites as the LORD our God commanded us and we came to Kadesh-barnea 20 And I said unto you Ye are come unto the mountain of the
before the LORD empty 17 Every man shall give †Heb. according to the gift of his hand as he is able according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee 18 ¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes and they shall judge the people with just judgement 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgement thou shalt not respect persons * Exod. 23.8 neither take a gift for a gift doth blinde the eyes of the wise and pervert the ‖ Or matters words of the righteous 20 †Heb. justice justice That which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee 21 ¶ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God which thou shalt make thee 22 * Lev. 26.1 Neither shalt thou set thee up any ‖ Or statue or pillar image which the LORD thy God hateth CHAP. XVII 1 The things sacrificed must be sound 2 Idolaters must be slain 8 Hard controversies are to be determined by the priests and judges 12 The contemner of that determination must die 14 The election 16 and duty of a king THou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock or ‖ Or goat sheep wherein is blemish or any evil-savouredness for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God 2 ¶ If there be found among you within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God in transgressing his covenant 3 And hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them either the sun or mooâ— or any of the host of heaven which I have not commanded 4 And it be told thee and thou hast heard of it and enquired diligently and behold it be true and the thing certain that such abomination is wrought in Israel 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman which have committed that wicked thing unto thy gates even that man or that woman and shalt stone them with stones till they die 6 * Numb â—5 3â— Ch. 19.15 Mat. 18.16 Joh. 8.17 2 Cor. 13.1 Heb. 10.28 At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterward the hands of all the people so thou shalt put the evil away from among you 8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgement between bloud and bloud between plea and plea and between stroke and stroke being matters of controversie within thy gates then shalt thou arise and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites and unto the judge that shall be in those days and enquire and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgement 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee and according to the judgement which they shall tell thee thou shalt do thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand nor to the left 12 And the man that will do presumptuously †Heb. not to hearken and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God or unto the judge even that man shall die and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel 13 And all the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously 14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee and shalt possess it and shalt dwell therein and shalt say I well set a king over me like as all the nations that are about me 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the LORD thy God shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself nor cause the people to return to Egypt to the end that he should multiply horses forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you Ye shall henceforth return no more that way 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself that his heart turn not away neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold 18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites 19 And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of Israel CHAP. XVIII 1 The Lord is the priests and Levites inheritance 3 The priests due 6 The Levites portion 9 The abominations of the nations are to be avoided 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard 20 The presumptuous prophet is to die THe priests the Levites and all the tribe of Levi * Numb 18.20 Chap. 10.9 shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel they * 1 Cor. 9.13 shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire and his inheritance 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren the LORD is their inheritance as he hath said unto them 3 ¶ And this shall be the priests due from the people from them that offer a sacrifice whether it be ox or sheep and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder and the two cheeâ—s and the maw 4 The first-fruit also of thy corn of thy wine and of thy oyl and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shalt thou give him 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the name of the LORD him and his sons for ever 6 ¶ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel where he sojourned and come with all the desire of his minde unto the place which the LORD shall choose 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do which stand there before the LORD 8 They shall
bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known and there shalt thou serve other gods word and stone 37 And thou shalt become * 1 Kin. 9.7 Jer. 24.9 and 25.9 an astonishment a proverb and a by-word among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee 38 * Mic. 6.15 Hag. 1.6 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in for the locust shall consume it 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them but shalt neither drink of the wine nor gather the â—rapes for the worms shall eat them 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts but thou shalt not anoint thy self with the oyl for thine olive shall cast his fruit 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters but †Heb. they shall not be thine thou shalt not enjoy them for they shall go into captivity 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust ‖ Or possess consume 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high and thou shalt come down very low 44 He shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him he shall be the head and thou shalt be the tail 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee till thou be destroyed because thou hearknedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee 46 And they shall be upon thee for a signe and for a wonder and upon thy seed for ever 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all thinâ—s and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have deâ—troyed thee 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far from the end of the earth as swift as the eagle flieth a nation whose tongue thou shalt not †Heb. bear understand 50 A nation †Heb. strong of face of fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattel and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed which also shall not leave thee either corn wine or oyl or the increase of thy kine or flocks of thy sheep until he have destroyed thee 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down wherein thou trustedst throughout all the land and he shall besiege tâ—â—e in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee 53 And * Lev. 26.29 2 Kin. 6.29 Lam. 4.10 Bar. â— 3 thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own †Heb. bâ—lly body the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee 54 So that the man that is tender among you and very delicate his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and towards the remnant of his children which he shall leave 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat because he hath nothing lest him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates 56 The tender and delicate woman among you which would not adventure to for the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom and towards her son and towards her daughter 57 And towards her †Heb. after-birth young one that cometh out from between her feet and towards her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them for want of all things secrâ—tly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall diâ—â—â—ess thee in thy gates 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this 〈◊〉 that thou mayest fear this glorious and â—earful name THE LORD THY GOD 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed even great plagues and of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long continuance 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou wast afraid of and they shall cleave unto thee 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law them will the LORD †Heb. cause to ascend bring upon thee until thou be destroyed 62 And ye shall be left few in number whereas ye were * Chap. 10.22 as the stars of heaven for multitude because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God 63 And it shall come to pass that as the LORD rejoyced over you to do you good and to multiply you so the LORD will rejoyce over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other and there thou shalt serve other gods which neither thou nor thy fathers have known even wood and stone 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of minde 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day and night and shalt have none assurance of thy life 67 In the morning thou shalt say Would God it were even and at even thou shalt say Would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships by the way whereof I spake unto thee Thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women and no man shall buy you CHAP. XXIX 2 Moses exhorteth them to obedience by the memory of the works they have seen 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant 18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himself in his wickedness 29 Secret things belong unto God THese are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them * Exod. 19.4 Ye have seen all that the
LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto all his land 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signs and those great miracles 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day 5 And I have led you fourty years in the wilderness your clothes are not waxen old upon you and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot 6 Ye have not eaten bread neither have you drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God 7 And when ye came unto this place Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us unto battel and we smote them 8 And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh 9 * Ch. 4.6 Josh 1.7 1 King 2 3. Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that ye may prosper in all that ye do 10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God your captains of your tribes your elders and your officers with all the men of Israel 11 Your little ones your wives and thy stranger that is in thy camp from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water 12 That thou shouldest †Heb pass enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hatâ— sworn unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you onely do I make this covenant and this oath 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God and also with him that is not here with us this day 16 For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we came through the nations which ye passed by 17 And ye have seen their abominations and their †Heb. dungy gods idols wood and stone silver and gold which were among them 18 Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations lest there should be among you a root that heareth ‖ Or a poysonful herb †Heb. râ—sk gall and wormwood 19 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination or mine heart to add †Heb. the drunken to the thirsty drunkenness to thirst 20 The LORD will not spare him but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that †Heb. is wriâ—ten are written in this book of the law 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up aftâ—r you and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses †Heb. wherewith the LORD hath made it sick which the LORD hath laid upon it 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning that it is not sown nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein * Gen. 19.24 25. like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah Admah and Zeboim which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath 24 Even all nations shall say * 1 Kin. 9.8 Jer. 22.8 Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land what meaneth the heat of this great anger 25 Then men shall say Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt 26 For they went and served other gods and worshipped them gods whom they knew not and ‖ Or who had not given to them any portion whom he had not †Heb. divided given unto them 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land as it is this day 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law CHAP. XXX 1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant 11 The commandment is manifest 15 Death and life are set before them 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 minde among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day thou and thy children with all thine heart and with all thy soul 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee 4 * Neh. 1 9â— If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all-thy soul that thou mayest live 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that hate thee which persecuted thee 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day 9 * Chap. 28.11 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattel and in the fruit of thy land for good for the LORD will again rejoyce over thee for good as he rejoyced over thy fathers 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to
therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge and said * Jos 1.6 Be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them and I will be with thee 24 ¶ And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book until they were finished 25 That Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD saying 26 Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God that it may be there for a witness against thee 27 For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck behold while I am yet alive with you this day ye have been rebellious against the LORD and how much more after my death 28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt your selves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you and evil will befal you in the latter days because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended CHAP. XXXII 1 Moses song which setteth forth Gods mercy and vengeance 46 He exhorteth them to set their hearts upon it 48 God sendeth him up to mount Nebo to see the land and die GIve ear O ye heavens and I will speak and hear O earth the words of my mouth 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain my speech shall distil as the dew as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD ascribe ye greatness unto our God 4 He is the Rock his work is perfect for all his ways are judgement a God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he 5 †Heb. he hath corrupted to himself They have corrupted themselves ‖ Or that they are not his children that is their blot their spot is not the spot of his children they are a perverse and crooked generation 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD O foolish people and unwise is not he thy father that hath bought thee hath he not made thee and established thee 7 ¶ Remember the days of old consider the years of †Heb. generation and generation many generations ask thy father and he will shew thee thy elders and they will tell thee 8 When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance when he separated the sons of Adam he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel 9 For the LORDs portion is his people Jacob is the †Heb. cord lot of his inheritance 10 He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness he ‖ Or compassed him about led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings 12 So the LORD alone did lead him and there was no strange god with him 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth that he might eat the increase of the fields and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oyl out of the flinty rock 14 Butter of kine and milk of sheep with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats with the fat of kidneys of wheat and thou didst drink the pure bloud of the grape 15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked thou art waxen fat thou art grown thick thou art covered with fatness then he forsook God which made him lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation 16 They provoked him to jealousie with strange gods with abominations provoked they him to anger 17 They sacrificed unto devils ‖ Or which were not God not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods that came newly up whom your fathers feared not 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten God that formed thee 19 And when the LORD saw it he ‖ Or despised abhorred them because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters 20 And he said I will hide my face from them I will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward generation children in whom is no faith 21 They have moved me to jealousie with that which is not god they have provoked me to anger with their vanities and * Rom. 10.19 I will move them to jealousie with those which are not a people I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger and ‖ Or hath burned shall burn unto the lowest hell and ‖ Or hath consumed shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the mountains 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them I will spend mine arrows upon them 24 They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with †Heb. burning â—oals burning heat and wâ—th bitter destruction I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them with the poyson of serpents of the dust 25 The sword without and terrour †Heb. from the chambers within shall †Heb. bereave destroy both the young man and the virgin the suckling also with the man of gray hairs 26 I said I would scatter them into corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely and lest they should say ‖ Or Our high hand and not the LORD hath done all this Our hand is high and the LORD hath not done all this 28 For they are a nation void of counsel neither is there any understanding in them 29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end 30 How should * Jos 23.10 one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up 31 For their rock is not as our Rock even our enemies themselves being judges 32 For their vine ‖ Or is worse then the vine of Sodom c. is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter 33 Their wine is the poyson of dragons and the cruel venome of asps 34 Is not this laid up in store with
the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had and they brought them unto the valley of Achor 25 And Joshua said Why hast thou troubled us the LORD shall trouble thee this day And all Israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fiâ—â— after they had stoned them with stones 26 And they raised over him a great heaâ— of stones unto this day So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger wherefore the name of that place was called The valley of ‖ That is trouble Achor unto this day CHAP. VIII 1 God encourageth Joshua 3 The stratagem whereby Ai was taken 29 The king thereof is hanged 30 Joshua buildeth an altar 32 writeth the law on stones 33 propoundeth blessings and cursings ANd the LORD said unto Joshua * Deu. 1.21 7.18 Fear not neither be thou dismayed take all the people of war with thee and arise go up to Ai see I have given into thy hand the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto * Ch. 6.21 Jericho and her king onely * Deu. 2â— 14 the spoil thereof and the cattel thereof shall ye take for a prey unto your selves lay thee an ambush for the city behind it 3 ¶ So Joshua arose and all the people of war to go up against Ai and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour and sent them away by night 4 And he commanded them saying Behold ye shall lie in wait against the city even behinde the city go not very far from the city but be ye all ready 5 And I and all the people that are with me will approach unto the city and it shall come to pass when they come out against us as at the first that we will flee before them 6 For they will come out after us till we have †Heb. â—ullâ—d drawn them from the city for they will say They flee before us as at the first therefore we will fâ—â—e before them 7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush and seise upon the city for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand 8 And it shall be when ye have taken the city that ye shall set the city on fire according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do See I have commanded you 9 ¶ Joshua therefore sent them forth and they went to lie in ambush and abode between Beth-el and Ai on the west-side of Ai but Joshua lodged that night among the people 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning and numbred the people and went up he and the elders of Israel before the people to Ai. 11 And all the people even the people of war that were with him went up and drew nigh and came before the city and pitched on the north-side of Ai now there was a valley between them and Ai. 12 And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai on the west-side ‖ Or of Ai. of the city 13 And when they had set the people even all the host that was on the north of the city and †Heb. their lying in wait their liers in wait on the west of the city Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley 14 ¶ And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw it that they hasted and rose up early and the men of the city went out against Israel to battel he and all his people at a time appointed before the plain but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behinde the city 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city 17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el that went not out after Israel and they left the city open and pursued after Israel 18 And the LORD said unto Joshua Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai for I will give it into thine hand And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place and they ran assoon as he had stretched out his hand and they entred into the city and took it and hasted and set the city on fire 20 And when the men of Ai looked behinde them they saw and behold the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven and they had no †Heb. hand power to flee this way or that way and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended then they turned again and slew the men of Ai. 22 And the other issued out of the city against them so they were in the midst of Israel some on this side and some on that side and they smote them so that they * Deut. 7.2 let none of them remain or escape 23 And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua 24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness wherein they chased them and when they were all â—aln on the edge of the sword until they were consumed that all the Israelites returned unto Ai and smote it with the edge of the sword 25 And so it was that all that fell that day both of men and women were twelve thousand even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 * Num. 31.22.26 Onely the cattel and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves according unto the word of the LORD which he * Vers 2. commanded Joshua 28 And Joshua burnt Ai and made it an heap for ever even a desolation unto this day 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until even-tide and assoon as the sun was down Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree and cast it at the entring of the gate of the city and * Chap. 7.26 raise thereon a great heap of stones that remaineth unto this day 30 ¶ Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal 31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel as it is written in the * Exod. 20.25 Deut. 27.5 book of the law of Moses an altar of whole stones over which no man
hath lift up any iron and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD and sacrificed peace-offerings 32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel 33 And all Israel and their elders and officers and their judges stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD as well the stranger as he that was born among them half of them over against mount Gerizim and half of them over against mount Ebal * Deut 11.29 27.12 as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before that they should bless the people of Israel 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law the blessings and cursings according to all that is written in the book of the law 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel * Deut. 31.12 with the women and the little ones and the strangers that †Heb. walked were conversant among them CHAP. IX 1 The kings combine against Israel 3 The Gibeonites by craft obtain a league 16 for which they are condemned to perpetual bondage ANd it came to pass when all the kings which were on this side Jordan in the hills and in the valleys and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon the Hittite and the Amorite the Canaanite the Perizzite the Hivite and the Jebusite heard thereof 2 That they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel with one †Heb. mouth accord 3 ¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai 4 They did work wilily and went and made as if they had been embassadours and took old sacks upon their asses and wine â—ottles old and rent and bound up 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet and old garments upon them and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal and said unto him and to the men of Israel We be come from a far countrey now therefore make ye a league with us 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites Peradventure ye dwell among us and how shall we make a league with you 8 And they said unto Joshua We are thy servants And Joshua said unto them Who are ye and from whence come ye 9 And they said unto him From a very far countrey thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt 10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan which was at Ashtaroth 11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our countrey spake to us saying Take victuals †Heb. in your 〈◊〉 with you for the journey and go to meet them and say unto them We are your servants therefore now make ye a league with us 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you but now behold it is dry and it is mouldy 13 And these bottles of wine which we filled were new and behold they be rent and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey 14 And ‖ Or ther reâ—eiâ—â—â— the men bâ— reason of their victuals the men took of their victuals and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD 15 And Joshua made peace with them and made a league with them to let them live and the princes of the congregation sware unto them 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them that they heard that they were their neighbours and that they dwelt among them 17 And the children of Israel journeyed and came unto their cities on the third day now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kirjath-jearim 18 And the children of Israel smote them not because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto chem by the LORD God of Israel and all the congregation murmured against the princes 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel now therefore we may not touch them 20 This we will do to them we will even let them live lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we sware unto them 21 And the princes said unto them Let them live but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation as the princes had * Vers 15. promised them 22 ¶ And Joshua called for them and he spake unto them saying Wherefore have ye beguiled us saying We are very far from you when ye dwell among us 23 Now therefore ye are cursed and there shall †Heb. not be cut off from you none of you be freed from being bond-men and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God 24 And they answered Joshua and said Because it was certainly told thy servants how that the LORD thy God * Deu. 7.1 2. commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you and have done this thing 25 And now behold we are in thine hand as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us do 26 And so did he unto them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel that they slew them not 27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD even unto this day in the place which he should choose CHAP. X. 1 Five kings war against Gibeon 6 Joshua rescueth it 10 God fighteth against them with bâ—l-stones 12 The sun and moon stand still at the word of Joshua 16 The five kings are mured in a cave 22 They are brought forth 24 scornfully used 26 and banged 28 Seven kings more are conquered 43 Joshua returneth to Gilgal NOw it came to pass when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it * Ch. 6.15 as he had done to Jericho and her king so he had done to * Ch. 8.3 Ai and her king and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them 2 That they feared greatly because Gibeon was a great city as one of the †Heb. cities of the kingdom royal cities and because it was greater then Ai and all the men thereof were mighty 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king
of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron and unto Piram king of Jarmuth and unto Japhia king of Lâ—â—â—â—â—h and unto Debir king of Eglon saying 4 Come up unto me and help me that we may smite Gibeon for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites the king of Jerusalem the king of Hebron the king of Jarmuth the king of Lachish the king of Eglon gathered themselves together and went up they and all their hosts and encamped before Gibeon and made war against it 6 ¶ And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal saying Slack not thy hand from thy servants come up to us quickly and save us and help us for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valour 8 ¶ And the LORD said unto Joshua Fear them not for I have delivered them into thine hand there shall not a man of them stand before thee 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly and went up from Gilgal all night 10 And the LORD disâ—omfited them before Israel and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon and smote them to Azekah and unto Mâ—kkedah 11 And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel and were in the going down to Beth-horon that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah and they died they were mo which died with hailstones then they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword 12 ¶ Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel and he said in the sight of Israel * Isa 28.21 Ecclus 46.4 Sun †Heb. be silent stand thou still upon Gibeon and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon 13 And the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies Is not this written in the book of ‖ Or the uprigâ—â— Jasher so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it that the LORD hearkned unto the voice of a man for the LORD fought for Israel 15 ¶ And Joshua returned and all Israel with him unto the camp to Gilgal 16 But these five kings fled and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah 17 And it was told Joshua saying The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah 18 And Joshua said Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave and set men by it for to keep them 19 And stay you not but pursue after your enemies and †Heb. cut oâ— thâ— taâ— smite the hindmost of them suffer them not to enter into their cities for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand 20 And it came to pass when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter till they were consumed that the rest which remained of them entred into fenced cities 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel 22 Then said Joshua Open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave 23 And they did so and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave the king of Jerusalem the king of Hebron the king of Jarmuth the king of Lachish and the king of Eglon. 24 And it came to pass when they brought out those kings unto Joshua that Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him Come near put your feet upon the necks of these kings And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them 25 And Joshua said unto them Fear not nor be dismayed be strong and of good courage for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight 26 And afterward Joshua smote them and slew them and hanged them on five trees and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening 27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded and they * Deu. 21.23 Chap. 8 2â— took them down off the trees and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid and laid great stones in the caves mouth which remain until this very day 28 ¶ And that day Joshua took Makkedah and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof the utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein he let none remain and he did to the king of Makkedah * Chap. 6.21 as he did unto the king of Jericho 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah and all Israel with him unto Libnah and fought against Libnah 30 And the LORD delivered it also and the king thereof into the hand of Israel and he smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein he let none remain in it but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho 31 ¶ And Joshua passed from Libnah and all Israel with him unto Lachish and encamped against it and fought against it 32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel which took it on the second day and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein according to all that he had done to Libnah 33 ¶ Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish and Joshua smote him and his people until he had left him none remaining 34 ¶ And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon and all Israel with him and they encamped against it and fought against it 35 And they took it on that day and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day according to all that he had done to Lachish 36 And Joshua went up from Eglon and all Israel with him unto Hebron and they fought against it 37 And they took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof and all the cities thereof and all the souls that were therein he left none remaining according to all that he had done to Eglon but deâ—troyed it utterly and all the souls that were therein 38 ¶ And Joshua returned and all Israel with him to Debir and fought against it 39 And he took it and the king thereof and all the cities thereof and they smote them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein he left none remaining as he
of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle 30 ¶ And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake †Heb. it was good in their eyes it pleased them 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the children of Manasseh This day we perceive that the LORD is among us because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD †Heb. then now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD 32 ¶ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest and the princes returned from the children of Reuben and from the children of Gad out of the land of Gilead unto the land of Canaan to the children of Israel and brought them word again 33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel and the children of Israel blessed God and did not intend to go up against them in battel to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt 34 And the chiâ—dren of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar ‖ That is A witness Ed for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God CHAP. XXIII 1 Joshua's exhortation before his death 3 by former benâ—fits 5 by promises 11 and by threatnings ANd it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about that Joshua waxed old and †Heb. come into days stricken in age 2 And Joshua called for all Israel and for their elders and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and said unto them I am old and stricken in age 3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you for the * Exod. 14.14 LORD your God is he that hath fought for you 4 Behold I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes from Jordan with all the nations that I have cut off even unto the great sea †Heb. at the sunsâ—â— west-ward 5 And the LORD your God he shall expel them from before you and drive them from out of your sight and ye shall possess their land as the LORD your God hath promised unto you 6 Be ye therefore very couragious to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses * Deu. 5. â—2 28.14 that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left 7 That ye come not among these nations these that remain amongst you neither * Ps 16.4 make mention of the name of their gods nor cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow your selves unto them 8 ‖ Or for if you will cleave c. But cleave unto the LORD your God as ye have done unto this day 9 ‖ Or then the LORD will drive For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong but as for you no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day 10 * Lev. 26.8 Deu. 32.30 One man of you shall chase a thousand for the LORD your God he it is that fighteth for you as he hath promised you 11 Take good heed therefore unto your †Heb souls selves that ye love the LORD your God 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these nations even these that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in unto them and they to you 13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you * Exod. 23.33 Num. 33.55 Deu. â— 16 but they shall be snares and traps unto you aâ—â— scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you 14 And behold this day I am going the way of all the earth and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls that * Ch. 21.45 not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof 15 Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are comâ— upon you which the LORD your God promised you so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you 16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God which he commanded you and have gone and served other gods and bowed your selves to them then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you CHAP. XXIV 1 Joshua assembleth the tribes at Shechem 2 A brief history of Gods benifits from Terah 14 He reneweth a covenant between them and God 26 A stone the witness of the covenant 29 Jâ—shua's age death and burial 32 Josephs bonâ—s are buried 33 Eleazar dieth ANd Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and they presented themselves before God 2 And Joshua said unto all the people Thus saith the LORD God of Israel * Geâ— 11.31 Judith 5.6 7. Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the floud in old time even Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nachor and they served other gods 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the floud and led him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and * Gen. 21.2 gave him Isaac 4 And I gave unto Isaac * Gen. 25.26 Jacob and Esau and I gave unto * Gen. 36.8 Esau mount Seir to possess it * Gen. 46.6 but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt 5 * Ex. â— 10 I sent Moses also and Aaron and I plagued Egypt according to that which I did amongst them and afterward I brought you out 6 And I * Ex. 12.37 brought your fathers out of Egypt and you came unto the sea and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and hors-men unto * Ex. 14.9 the Red sea 7 And when they cried unto the LORD he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites which dwelt on the other side
Jordan * Numb 21.33 and they fought with you and I gave them into your hand that ye might possess their land and I destroyed them from before you 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab arose and warred against Israel and * Numb 22.5 Deu. 23.4 sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you 10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam therefore he blessed you still so I delivered you out of his hand 11 And ye went over Jordan and came unto Jericho and the men of Jericho fought against you the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites the Hivites and the Jebusites and I delivered them into your hand 12 And * Ex. 23.28 Deut. 7.20 I sent the hornet before you which drave them out from before you even the two kings of the Amorites but not with thy sword nor with thy bowe 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour and cities which ye built not and ye dwell in them of the vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat 14 ¶ Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the floud and in Egypt and serve ye the LORD 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD choose you this day whom you will serve whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the floud or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell but as for me and my house we will serve the LORD 16 And the people answered and said God forbid that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods 17 For the LORD our God he it is that brougt us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage and which did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way wherein we went and among all the people through whom we passed 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people even the Amorites which dweâ—t in the land therefore will we also serve the LORD for he is our God 19 And Joshua said unto the people Ye cannot serve the LORD for he is an holy God he is a jealous God he will not forgive your transgresâ—â—ons nor your sins 20 If ye forsake the LORD and serve strange gods * Chap. 23.15 then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after that he hath done you good 21 And the people said unto Joshua Nay but we will serve the LORD 22 And Joshua said unto the people Ye are witnesses against your selves that ye have chosen you the LORD to serve him And they said We are witnesses 23 Now therefore put away said be the strange gods which are among you and encline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel 24 And the people said unto Joshua The LORD our God will we serve and his voice will we obey 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem 26 ¶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God and took a great stone and set it up there under an oke that was by the sanctuary of the LORD 27 And Joshua said unto all the people Behold this stone shall be a witness unto us for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us it shall be therefore a witness unto you lest ye deny your God 28 So Joshua let the people depart every man unto his inheritance 29 ¶ And it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died being an hundred and ten years old 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in * Ch. 19.50 Judg. 2.9 Timnath-serah which is in mount Ephraim on the north-side of the hill of Gaash 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders that †Heb. prolonged their days after Joshua overlived Joshua and which had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel 32 ¶ And * Gen. 50.25 Ex. 13.19 the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt buried they in Shechem in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of * Gen. 33.19 the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred ‖ Or lambe pieces of silver and it became the â—nheritance of the children of Joseph 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son which was given him in mount Ephraim ¶ The book of JUDGES CHAP. 1. 1 The acts of Judab and Simeon 4 Adoni-bezek justly requited 8 Jerusalem taken 10 Hebron taken 11 Othniel hath Aebsab to wife for taking of Debir 16 The Kenites dwell in Judab 17 Hormab Gaza Askelon and Ekron taken 21 The acts of Benjamin 22 Of the house of Joseph who take Bethâ—el 30 Of Zebulun 31 of Asher 33 Of Naphtali 34 Of Dan. NOw after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the LORD saying Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight against them 2 And the LORD said Judah shall go up behold I have delivered the land into his hand 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother Come up with me into my lot that we may fight against the Canaanites and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot So Simeon went with him 4 And Judah went up and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men 5 And they sound Adoni-bezek in Bezek and they sought against him and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites 6 But Adoni-bezek fled and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes 7 And Adoni-bezek said Threescore and ten kings having †Heb. the thumbs of their bands and of their seet their thumbs and their great toes cut off ‖ Or gleaned gathered their meat under my table as I have done so God hath requited me And they brought him to Jerusalem and there he died 8 Now the children of Judah had sought against Jerusalem and had taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire 9 ¶ * Jos 10.36 11.21 15.13 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the mountain and in the south and in the ‖ Or low â—ountrâ—y valley 10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron now the name of Hebron before was * Jos 15.13 Kirjath-arba and they slew Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai 11 And from thence
to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings * Ch. 13.8 seven days shalt thou tarry till I come to thee and shew thee what thou shalt do 9 ¶ And it was so that when he had turned his †Heb. shoulder back to go from Samuel God †Heb. turned gave him another heart and all those signs came to pass that day 10 And when they came thither to the hill behold a company of prophets met him and the spirit of God came upon him and he prophesied among them 11 And it came to pass when all that knew him before time saw that behould he prophesied among the prophets then the people said †Heb. a man to his neighbour one to another What is this that is come unto the son of Kish * Ch. 19.24 Is Saul also among the prophets 12 And one †Heb. from thence of the same place answered and said But who is their father Therefore it became a proverb Is Saul also among the prophets 13 And when he had made an end of prophesying he came to the high place 14 ¶ And Sauls uncle said unto him and to his servant Whither went ye And he said To seek the asses and when we saw that they were no where we came to Samuel 15 And Sauls uncle said Tell me I pray thee what Samuel said unto you 16 And Saul said unto his uncle He told us plainly that the asses were found But of the matter of the kingdom whereof Samuel spake he told him not 17 ¶ And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh 18 And said unto the children of Israel Thus saith the LORD God of Israel I brought up Israel out of Egypt and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all kingdoms and of them that oppressed you 19 And ye have this day rejected your God who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations and ye have said unto him Nay but set a king over us Now therefore present your selves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands 20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near the tribe of Benjamin was taken 21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families the family of Matri was taken and Saul the son of Kish was taken and when they sought him he could not be found 22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD further if the man should yet come thither and the LORD answered Behold he hath hid himself among the stuff 23 And they ran an fetched him thence and when he stood among the people he was higher then any of the people from his shoulders and upward 24 And Samuel said to all the people See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people And all the people shouted and said †Heb. Let the king live God save the king 25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom and wrote it in a book and said it up before the LORD and Samuel sent all the people away every man to his house 26 ¶ And Saul also went home to Gibeah and there went with him a band of men whose hearts God had touched 27 But the children of Belial said How shall this man save us And they despised him and brought him no presents but ‖ Or he was as thouth he had been deaf he held his peace CHAP. XI 1 Nahash offereth them of Jabesh-giâ—ead a reproachful condition 4 They send messengers and are delivered by Saul 12 Sual thereby is confirmed and his kingdom renewed THen Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh-gilead and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash Make a covenant with us and we will serve thee 2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them On this condition will I make a covenant with you that I may thrust out all your right eyes and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel 3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him †Heb. Forbear us Give us seven days respite that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel and then if there be no man to save us we will come out to thee 4 ¶ Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul and told the tidings in the ears of the people and all the people lift up their voices and wept 5 And behold Saul came after the herd out of the field and Saul said What aileth the people that they weep and they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh 6 And the spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings and his anger was kind led greatly 7 And he took a yoke of oxen and hewed them in pieces and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers saying Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel so shall it be done unto his oxen and the fear of the LORD fell on the people and they came out †Heb. as one man with one consent 8 And when he numbred them in Bezek the children of Israel were three hundred thousand and the men of Judah thirty thousand 9 And they said unto the messengers that came Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead To morrow by that time the sun be hot ye shall have †Or deliverance help And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh and they were glad 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said To morrow we will come out unto you and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you 11 And it was so on the morrow that Saul put the people in three companies and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day and it came to pass that they which remained were scattered so that two of them were not left together 12 ¶ And the people said unto Samuel Who is he that said Shall Saul reign over us bring the men that we may put them to death 13 And Saul said There shall not a man be put to death this day for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel 14 Then said Samuel to the people Come and let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there 15 And all the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoyced greatly CHAP. XII 1 Samuel testifieth his integrity 6 He reproveth the people of ingratitude 16 He terrifieth them with thunder in harvest-time 20 He comforteth them in Gods mercy ANd Samuel said unto all Israel Behold I have hearkned unto your voice in all that ye said unto me and have made a king over you 2 And now behold the king walketh
are dead also 5 And David said unto the young man that told him How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead 6 And the young man that told him said As I hapned by chance upon mount Gilboa behold Saul leaned upon his spear and lo the chariots and hors-men followed hard after him 7 And when he looked behinde him he saw me and called unto me and I answered †Heb. Behold me Here am I. 8 And he said unto me Who art thou And I answered him I am an Amalekite 9 He said unto me again Stand I pray thee upon me and slay me for ‖ Or my coat of mail or my embroidered coat hindreth me that my c. anguish is come upon me because my life is yet whole in me 10 So I stood upon him and slew him because I was sure that he could not live after that he was faln and I took the crown that was upon his head and the bracelet that was on his arm and have brought them hither unto my lord 11 Then David took hold on his clothes and * Ch. 3 3â— 13 3â— rent them and likewise all the men that were with him 12 And they mourned and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel because they were faln by the sword 13 ¶ And David said unto the young man that told him Whence art thou And he answered I am the son of a stranger an Amalekite 14 And David said unto him * Psal 105.35 How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORDS anointed 15 And David called one of the young men and said Go near and fall upon him And he smote him that he died 16 And David said unto him Thy bloud be upon thy head for thy mouth hath testified against thee saying I have slain the LORDS anointed 17 ¶ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son 18 Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bowâ— behold it is written * Josh 10.13 in the book ‖ Or of the upricâ—e of Jasher 19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the mighty faln 20 * Mieah 2.10 Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa let there be no dew neither let there be rain upon you nor fields of offerings for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oyl 22 From the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bowe of Jonathan turned not back and the sword of Saul returned not empty 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and ‖ Or sweet pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided they were swifter then eagles they were stronger then lions 24 Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel 25 How are the mighty faln in the midst of the battel O Jonathan thou wast slain in thine high places 26 I am distressed for thee my brother Jonathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women 27 How are the mighty faln and the weapons of war perished CHAP. II. 1 David by Gods direction with his company goeth up to Hebron where he is made king of Judah 5 He commendeth them of Jabesh-gilead for their kindness to Saul 8 Abner maketh Ish-bosheth king of Israel 12 A mortal skirmish between twelve of Abners and twelve of Joabs men 18 Asahel is slain 25 At Abners motion Joab soundeth a retreat 32 Asahels burial ANd it came to pass after this that David enquired of the LORD saying Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah And the LORD said unto him Go up And David said Whither shall I go up And he said Unto Hebron 2 So David went up thither and his two wives also Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail Nabals wife the Carmelite 3 And his men that were with him did David bring up every man with his houshold and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron 4 * 1 Mac. 1.57 And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah and they told David saying That * 1 Sam. 31.13 the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul 5 ¶ And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead and said unto them Blessed be ye of the LORD that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord even unto Saul and have buried him 6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you and I also will requite you this kindness because ye have done this thing 7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthned and †Heb. be ye the sons of valour be ye valiant for your master Saul is dead and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them 8 ¶ But Abner the son of Ner captain of †Heb. the host which was Sauls Sauls host took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim 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 10 Ish-bosheth Sauls son was fourty years old when he began to reign over Israel and reigned two years but the house of Judah followed David 11 And the †Heb. number of days time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six moneths 12 ¶ And Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon 13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met †Heb. them together together by the pool of Gibeon and they sat down the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool 14 And Abner said to Joab Let the young men now arise and play before us And Joab said Let them arise 15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and twelve of the servants of David 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head and thrust his sword in his fellows side so they fell down together wherefore that place was called ‖ That is The field of strong men Helkath-hazzurim which is in Gibeon 17 And there was a very sore battel that day and Abner was beaten and the men of Israel before the servants of David 18 ¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there Joab and Abishai and Asahel and Asahel was as
concubines and his wives turned away his heart 4 For it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God as was the heart of David his father 5 For Solomon went after * Judg. 2.13 Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD and †Heb. fulfilled not after went not fully after the LORD as did David his father 7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab in the hill that is before Jerusalem and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods 9 ¶ And the LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel * Ch. 3.5 9.2 which had appeared unto him twice 10 And * Ch. 6.12 had commanded him concerning this thing that he should not go after other gods but he kept not that which the LORD commanded 11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon Forasmuch as this †Heb. is with thee is done of thee and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded thee * Ch. 12.15 I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy fathers sake but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servants sake and for Jerusalems sake which I have chosen 14 ¶ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon Hadad the Edomite he was of the kings seed in Edom. 15 * 2 Sam. 8.14 For it came to pass when David was in Edom and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain after he had smitten every male in Edom 16 For six moneths did Joab remain there with all Israel until he had cut off every male in Edom 17 That Hadad fled he and certain Edomites of his fathers servants with him to go into Egypt Hadad being yet a little childe 18 And they arose out of Midian and came to Paran and they took men with them out of Paran and they came to Egypt unto Pharaoh king of Egypt which gave him an house and appointed him victuals and gave him land 19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife the sister of Tahpenes the queen 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaohs house and Genubath was in Pharaohs houshold among the sons of Pharaoh 21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the captain of the host was dead Hadad said to Pharaoh †Heb. Send me away Let me depart that I may go to mine own countrey 22 Then Pharaoh said unto him But what hast thou lacked with me that behold thou seekest to go to thine own countrey And he answered †Heb. Not. Nothing howbeit let me go in any wise 23 ¶ And God stirred him up another adversary Rezon the son of Eliadah which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah 24 And he gathered men unto him and became captain over a band * 2 Sam. 8.3 10.18 when David slew them of Zobah and they went to Damascus and dwelt therein and reigned in Damascus 25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon beside the mischief that Hadad did and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Syria 26 ¶ And * 2 Chr. 13.6 Jeroboam the son of Nebat an Ephrathite of Zereda Solomons servant whose mothers name was Zeruiah a widow woman even he lift up his hand against the king 27 And this was the cause that he lift up his hand against the king Solomon built Millo and †Heb. â—losed repaired the breaches of the city of David his father 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour and Solomon seeing the young man that he †Heb. did work was industrious he made him ruler over all the †Heb. burden charge of the house of Joseph 29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way and he had clad himself with a new garment and they two were alone in the fieâ—d 30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him and rent it in twelve pieces 31 And he said to Jeroboam Take thee ten pieces for thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to thee 32 But he shall have one tribe for my servant Davids sake and for Jerusalems sake the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel 33 Because that they have forsaken me and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidoniaâ—s Chemoâ—h the god of the Moabites and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon and have not walked in my ways to do that which is right in mine eyes and to keep my statutes and my judgements as did David his father 34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servants sake whom I chose because he kept my commandments and my statutes 35 But * Chap. 12.15 I will take the kingdom out of his sons hand and will give it unto thee even ten tribes 36 And unto his son will I give one tribe that David my servant may have a †Heb. â—amp or â—â—â—dle light alway before me in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen me to put my name tâ—ere 37 And I will take thee and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth and shalt be king over Israel 38 And it shall be it thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee and wilt walk in my ways and do that is right in my sight to keep my statutes and my commandments as David my servant did that I will be with thee and build thee a sure house as I built for David and will give Israel unto thee 39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David but not for ever 40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam and Jerâ—â—oam arose and fled into Egypt unto Shishak king of Egypt and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon 41 ¶ And the rest of the ‖ Or words or things acts of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom are they not written in the book of the acts of
Why are ye now turned back 6 And they said unto him There came a man up to meet us and said unto us Go turn again unto the king that sent you and say unto him Thus saith the LORD Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that thou sendest to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die 7 And he said unto them †Heb. What was the manner of the man What manner of man was he which came up to meet you and told you these words 8 And they answered him He was an hairy man and girt with a girdle of leather about his loyns And he said It is Elijah the Tishbite 9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty and and he went up to him and behold he sat on the top of an hill and he spake unto him Thou man of God the king hath said Come down 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty If I be a man of God then let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty 11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty and he answered and said unto him O man of God thus hath the king said Come down quickly 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them If I be a man of God let fire come down from heaven consume thee and thy fifty And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty 13 ¶ And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty and the third captain of fifty went up and came and †Heb. tâ—â—â—ed fell on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said unto him O man of God I pray thee let my life and the life of these fifty thy servants be precious in thy sight 14 Behold there came fire down from heaven and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight 15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah Go down with him be not afraid of him And he arose and went down with him unto the king 16 And he said unto him Thus saith the LORD Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die 17 ¶ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken and Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah because he had no son 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 CHAP. II. 1 Elijah taking his leave of Elisha with his mantle divideth Jordan 9 and granting Elisha his request is taken up by a fiery chariot into heaven 12 Elisha dividing Jordan with Elijahs mantle is as knowledged his successour 16 The young prophets hardly obtaining leave to seek Elijah could not finde him 19 Elisha with salt healeth the unwholesome waters 23 Bears destroy the children that mocked Elisha ANd it came to pass when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal 2 And Elijah said unto Elisha Tarry here I pray thee for the LORD hath sent me to Beth-el And Elisha said unto him As the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee So they went down to Beth-el 3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha and said unto him Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day And he said Yea I know it hold you your peace 4 And Elijah said unto him Elisha tarry here I pray thee for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho And he said As the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee So they came to Jericho 5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha and said unto him Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day And he answered Yea I know it hold you your peace 6 And Elijah said unto him Tarry I pray thee here for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan And he said As the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee And they two went on 7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood †Heb. in sight or over against to view afar off and they two stood by Jordan 8 And Elijah took his mantle and wrapt it together and smote the waters and they were divided hither and thither so that they two went over on dry ground 9 ¶ And it came to pass when they were gone over that Elijah said unto Elisha Ask what I shall do for thee before I be taken away from thee And Elisha said I pray thee let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me 10 And he said †Heb. Thou hast done hard in asking Thou hast asked a hard thing nevertheless if thou see me when I am taken from thee it shall be so unto thee but if not it shall not be so 11 And it came to pass as they still went on and talked that behold there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire and parted them both asunder and * Ecclus 48.9 1 Mac. 2.58 Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven 12 ¶ And Elisha saw it and he cried * Chap. 13.14 My father my father the chariot of Israel and the hors-men thereof And he saw him no more and he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the †Heb. lip bank of Jordan 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and smote the waters and said Where is the LORD God of Elijah and when he also had smitten the waters they parted hither and thither and Elisha went over 15 And when the sons of the prophets which were * verse 7. to view at Jericho saw him they said The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha And they came to meet him bowed themselves to the ground before him 16 ¶ And they said unto him Behold now there be with thy servants fifty †Heb. sons of strength strong men let them go we pray thee and seek thy master lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up and cast him upon †Heb. one of the mountains some
¶ And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria and saw an altar that was at Damascus and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar and the pattern of it according to all the workmanship thereof 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus 12 And when the king was come from Damascus the king saw the altar and the king approached to the altar and offered thereon 13 And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meat-offering and poured his drink-offering and sprinkled the bloud of †Heb. which were his his peace-offerings upon the altar 14 And he brought also the brasen altar which was before the LORD from the forefront of the house from between the altar and the house of the LORD and put it on the north-side of the altar 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest saying Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering and the evening meat-offering and the kings burnt-sacrifice and his meat-offering with the burnt-offering of all the people of the land and their meat-offering and their dring-offerings and sprinkle upon it all the bloud of the burnt-offering and all the bloud of the sacrifice and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by 16 Thus did Urijah the priest according to all that king Ahaz commanded 17 ¶ And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases and removed the laver from off them and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it and put it upon a pavement of stones 18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house and the kings entry without turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria 19 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XVII 1 Hoshea his wicked reign 3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser he conspireth against him with So king of Egypt 5 Samaria for their sins is captivated 24 The strange nations which were transplanted in Samaria being plagued with lions make a mixture of religions IN the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD but not as the kings of Israel that were before him 3 ¶ Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria and Hoshea became his servant and †Heb. rendres gave him a presents 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt ‖ Or tribute and brought no present to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison 5 ¶ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years 6 ¶ * Chap. 18.10 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away into Assyria and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes 7 For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Paraoh king of Egypt and had feared other gods 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel which they had made 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God and they built them high places in all their cities from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city 10 And they set them up †Heb. statute images and groves in every high hill and under every green tree 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger 12 For they served idols whereof the LORD had said unto them * Deut. 4.10 Ye shall not do this thing 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah †Heb. be the hand of all by all the prophets and by all the seers saying * Jer. 18.11 and 25.5 and 35.15 Turn ye from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear but * Deut. 31.27 hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers that did not beleeve in the LORD their God 15 And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified against them and they followed vanity and became vain and went after the heathen that were round about them concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God and * Exod. 32.8 1 King 12.28 made them molten images even two calves and made a grove and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight there was none left but the tribe of Judah onely 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers until he had cast them out of his sight 21 For the rent Israel from the house of David and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD and made them sin a great sin 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight as he had said by all his servants the prophets So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day 24 ¶ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Ava and from Hamath and from Sepharvaim and placed them in the cities of Samaria in stead of the children of Israel and they possessed Samaria and dwelt
degrees backward by which it had gone down in the †Heb. degrees dâ—al of Ahaz 12 ¶ * Isa 39. â— At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick 13 And Hezekiah hearkned unto them and shewed them all the house of his ‖ Or spiâ—â—y precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oâ—ntment and all the house of his ‖ Or â—eâ—eâ—s †Heb. 〈◊〉 armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah shewed tâ—em not 14 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said unto him What said these men and from whence came they unto thee And Hezekiah said They are come from a far countrey even from Babylon 15 And he said What have they seen in thine house And Hezekiah answered All the things that are in mine house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD 17 Behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day * Chap. 24 13. and 25.13 Jer. 27.22 shall be carried into Babylon nothing shall be left saith the LORD 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken And he said ‖ Or shall there not be peace and truth c. Is it not good if peace and truth be in my days 20 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water into the city are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXI 1 Manasseh his reign 3 His great idolatry 10 His wickedness causeth prophesies against Judah 17 Amon succeedeth him 19 Amons wicked reign 23 He being slain by his servants and those murderers slain by the people Josiah is made king MAnasseh * 2 Chr. 33.1 was twelve years old when he began to reign and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Hephzi-bah 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel 3 For he built up again the high places * Chap. 18.4 which Hezekiah his father had destroyed and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove as did Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them 4 And * Jer 3â— 34 he built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD said * 2 Sam. 7.13 In Jerusalem will I put my name 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD 6 And he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used enchantments and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house or which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son * 1 King 8.29 and 9.3 Chap. 23.27 In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever 8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers onely if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them 9 But they hearkned not and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil then did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel 10 ¶ And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets saying 11 * Jeâ—em 15.4 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did which were before him and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel Behold I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it both * 1 Sam. 3.11 his ears shall tingle 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab and I will wipe Jerulalem as a man wipeth a dish †Heb. be wipâ—th and turneth it upon the face thereof wiping it and turning it upside down 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even unto this day 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent bloud very much till he had filled Jerusalem †Heb. from mouth to mouth from one end to another beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD 17 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he sinned are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 18 And * 2 Chr. 33. â—0 Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house in the garden of Uzza and Amon his son reigned in his stead 19 ¶ Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign and he reigned two years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD as his father Manasseh did 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in and served the idols that his father served and worshipped them 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers and walked not in the way of the LORD 23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him and slew the king in his own house 24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzzah and * Matth. 1.10
taxation to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh 36 ¶ Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD according to all that his fathers had done CHAP. XXIV 1 Jehoiakim first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar then rebelling against him procureth his own ruine 6 Jehoiachin succeedeth him 7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon 8 Jehoiachin his evil reign 10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon 17 Zedekiah is made king and reigneth ill unto the utter destruction of Judah IN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up Jehoiakim became his servant three years then he turned rebelled against him 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Caldees 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 * Chap. 20.17 23.27 according to the word of the LORD which he spake †Heb. by the hand of by his servants the prophets 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh according to all that he did 4 And also for the innocent bloud that he shed for he filled Jerusalem with innocent bloud which the LORD would not pardon 5 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt 8 ¶ Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem three moneths and his mothers name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD according to all that his father had done 10 ¶ * Dan. 1.1 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem and the city †Heb. came into siege was besieged 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city and his servants did besiege it 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon he and his mother and his servants and his princes and his ‖ Or. eunuchs officers and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign 13 * Chap. 20.17 Isa 39 6. And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the kings house and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD as the LORD had said 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem and all the princes and all the mighty men of valour even ten thousand captives and all the crafts-men and smiths none remained save the poorest sort of the people of the land 15 And * 2 Chron. 36.10 Esth 2.6 he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon and the kings mother and the kings wives and his ‖ Or eunuchs officers and the mighty of the land those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon 16 And all the men of might even seven thousand and crafts-men and smiths a thousand all that were strong and apt for war even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon 17 ¶ And * Jer. 37.1 the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his fathers brother king in his stead and changed his name to Zedekiah 18 * Jer. 52.1 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD according to all that Jehoiakim had done 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah until he had cast them out from his presence that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon CHAP. XXV 1 Jerusalem is besieged 4 Zedekiah taken his sons slain his eyes put out 8 Nebuzar-adan defaceth the city carrieth the remnant except a jew poor labourers into captivity 13 spoileth and carrieth away the treasures 18 The nobles are slain at Biblab 22 Gedaliah who was set over them that remained being slain the rest flee into Egypt 27 Evil merodath advanceth Jehoiachin in his court ANd it came to pass * Jer. 39.1 and 52.4 in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth moneth in the tenth day of the moneth that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came he and all his host against Jerusalem and pitched against it and they built forts against it round about 2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah 3 And on the ninth day of the * Jer. 52.6 fourth moneth the famine prevailed in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land 4 ¶ And the city was broken up and all the men of war fied by night by the way of the gate between two walls which is by the kings garden now the Caldees were against the city round about and the king went the way toward the plain 5 And the army of the Caldees pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army were scattered from him 6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah and they †Heb. spake judgement with him gave judgement upon him 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and †Heb. made blind◠put out the eyes of Zedckiah and bound him with fetters of brass and carried him to Babylon 8 ¶ And in the fifth moneth on the seventh day of the moneth which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came Nebuzar-adan ‖ Or chief marshal captain of the guard a servant of the king of Babylon unto Jerusalem 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD and the kings house and all the houses of Jerusalem and every great mans house burnt he with fire 10 And all the army of the Caldees that were with the captain of the guard brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city and the †Heb. faln away fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon with the remnant of the multitude did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen
son and Tahath his son and Eladah his son and Tahath his son 21 ¶ And Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son and Ezer and Elead whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew because they came down to take away their cattel 22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days and his brethren came to comfort him 23 ¶ And when he went in to his wife she conceived and bare a son and he called his name Beriah because it went evil with his house 24 And his daughter was Sherah who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper and Uzzen sherah 25 And Rephah was his son also resheph and Tela his son and Tahan his son 26 Laadan his son Ammihud his son Elishama his son 27 ‖ Or Nun Num. 13.8 Non his son Jehoshua his son 28 ¶ And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof and east-ward * Josh 16.7 Naanan and west-ward Gezer with the †Heb. daughters towns thereof Shechem also and the towns thereof unto ‖ Or Adasa 1 Mac. 7.45 Gaza and the towns thereof 29 And by the borders of the children of * Josh 17.7 Manasseh Beth-shean and her towns Taanach and her towns * Josh 17.11 Megiddo and her son of Israel 30 ¶ * Gen. 46.17 The sons of Asher Imnah and Isuah and Beriah and Serah their sister 31 And the sons of Beriah Heber and Malchiel who is the father of Birzavith 32 And Heber begat Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua their sister 33 And the sons of Japhlet Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath these are the children of Jâ—phlet 34 And the sons of Shamer Ahi and Rohgah Jehubbah and Aram. 35 And the son of his brother Helem Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal. 36 The sons of Zophah Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah 37 Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera 38 And the sons of Jether Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. 39 And the sons of Ulla Arah and Haniel and Rezia 40 All these were the children of Asher heads of their fathers house choice and mighty men of valour chief of the princes And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battel was twenty and six thousand men CHAP. VIII 1 The sons and chief men of Benjamin 23 The stock of Saul and Jonathan NOw Benjamin begat * Gen. 46.21 Num. 26.38 Bela his first-born Ashbel the second and Aharah the third 2 Nohah the fourth and Rapha the fifth 3 And the sons of Bela were ‖ Or Ard Gen. 46 2â— Addar and Gera and Abihud 4 And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah 5 And Gera and ‖ Or Shuâ—ham Num. 26.39 Sephuphan and Huram 6 And these are the sons of Ehud these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba and they removed them to * Chap. â— 52 Manahath 7 And Naaman and Ahiah and Gera he removed them and begat Uzzah and Ahihud 8 And Shaharaim begat children in the countrey of Moab after he had sent them away Hushim and Baara were his wives 9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcham 10 And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirma These were his sons heads of the fathers 11 And of Hushim he begat Ahitub and Elpaal 12 The sons of Elpaal Eber and Misham and Shamed who built Ono and Lod with the towns thereof 13 Beriah also and Shema who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon who drove away the inhabitants of Gath 14 And Ahio Shashak and Jerimoth 15 And Zebadiah and Arad and Ader 16 And Michael and Ispah and Joha the sons of Beriah 17 And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hezeki and Heber 18 Ishmerai also and Jezliah and Jobab the sons of Elpaal 19 And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi 20 And Elienai and Zilthai and Eliel 21 And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath the sons of ‖ Or Shâ—ms vers 13. Shimhi 22 And Ishpan and Heber and Eliel 23 And Abdon and Zichri and Hanan 24 And Hananiah and Elam and Antothijah 25 And Iphedeiah and Penuel the sons of Shashak 26 And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah 27 And Jaresiah and Eliah and Zichri the sons of Jeroham 28 These were heads of the fathers by their generations chief men these dwelt in Jerusalem 29 And at Gibeon dwelt the ‖ Called Jebiel Chap. 9.35 father of Gibeon whose * Chap. 9.35 wives name was Maachah 30 And his first-born son Abdon and Zur and Kish and Baal and Nadab 31 And Gedor and Ahio and ‖ Or Zechariah Chap. 9.37 Zacher 32 And Mikloth begat ‖ Or Shimeam Chap. 9.38 Shimeth And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem over against them 33 ¶ And * 1 Sam. 14.51 Nerbegat Kish and Kish begat Saul and Saul begat Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and ‖ Or Ishbosheth 2 Sam. 2.8 Esh-baal 34 And the son of Jonathan was ‖ Or Mephibâ—sheth 2 Sam. 4.4 Merib-baal and Merib-baal begat Micah 35 And the sons of Micah were Pithon and Melech and ‖ Or Taâ—rea Chap. 9.41 Tarea and Ahaz 36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah and Jehoadah begat Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri and Zimri begat Moza 37 And Moza begat Binea Rapha was his son Eleasah his son Azel his son 38 And Azel had six sons whose names are these Azrikam Bocheru and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan All these were the sons of Azel 39 And the sons of Eshek his brother were Ulam his first-born Jehush the second and Eliphelet the third 40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour archers and had many sons and sons sons an hundred and fifty All these are of the sons of Benjamin CHAP. IX 1 The original of Israels and Judahs genealogies 2 The Israelites 10 the priests 14 and the Levites with Nethinims which dwelt in Jerusalem 27 The charge of certain Levites 35 The stock of Saul and Jonathan SO all Israel were reckoned by genealogies and behold they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression 2 ¶ Now the firâ—t inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were the Israelites the priests Levites and the Nethinims 3 And in * Neh. â—1 1 Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud the son of Omri the son of Imri the son of Bani of the children of Pharez the son of Judah 5 And of the Shilonites Asaiah the first-born and his sons 6 And of the sons of Zerah Jeuel and their brethren six hundred and ninety 7 And of the sons of Benjamin Sallu the son of Meshullam the son of Hodaviah the son of Hasenuah 8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham and Elah the son of Uzzi
the LORD 6 ¶ Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds with the rulers over the kings work offered willingly 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams and of silver ten thousand talents and of brass eighteen thousand talents and one hundred thousand talents of iron 8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite 9 Then the people rejoyced for that they offered willingly because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD and David the king also rejoyced with great joy 10 ¶ Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation and David said Blessed be thou LORD God of Israel our father for ever and ever 11 * â—â—â—t 6.13 1 Tim. 1 1â— Rev. 5.13 Thine O LORD is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine thine is the kingdom O LORD and thou art exalted as head above all 12 Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all 13 Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name 14 But who am I and what is my people that we should †Heb. retain or obtain strength be able to offer so willingly after this sort for all things come of thee and †Heb. of thine hand of thine own have we given thee 15 For * Ps 39.12 Heb. 11.13 1 Pet. 2.11 we are strangers before thee and sojourners as were all our fathers * Ps 90.9 our days on the earth are as a shadow and there is none †Heb. expectation abiding 16 O LORD our God all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand and is all thine own 17 I know also my God that thou * 1 Sam. 16.7 Ch. 28.9 triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness As for me in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things and now have I seen with joy thy people which are ‖ Or found present here to offer willingly unto thee 18 O LORD God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our fathers keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people and ‖ Or. stablish prepare their heart unto thee 19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart to keep thy commandments thy testimonies and thy statutes and to do all these things and to build the palace for the which I have made provision 20 ¶ And David said to all the congregation Now bless the LORD your God And all the congregation blessed the LORD God or their fathers and bowed down their heads and worshipped the LORD and the king 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD and offered burnt-offerings unto the LORD on the morrow after that day even a thousand bullocks a thousand rams and a thousand lambs with their drink-offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel 22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness and they made Solomon the son of David king the second time and * 1 Kin. 1.39 anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governour and Zadok to be priest 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in stead of David his father and prospered and all Israel obeyed him 24 And all the princes and the mighty men and all the sons likewise of king David †Heb. gave the hand under Solomon submitted themselves unto Solomon the king 25 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel and * 1 Kin. 3.13 2 Chr. 1.12 Eccles 2.9 bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel 26 ¶ Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel 27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was fourty years seven years reigned he in Hebron and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem 28 And he died in a good old age full of days riches and honour and Solomon his son reigned in his stead 29 Now the acts of David the king first and last behold they are written in the ‖ Or history †Heb. words book of Samuel the seer and in the book of Nathan the prophet and in the book of Gad the seer 30 With all his reign and his might and the times that went over him and over Israel and over all the kingdoms of the countreys ¶ The second book of the CHRONICLES CHAP. I. 1 The solemn offering of Solomon at Gibeon 7 Solomons choice of wisdom is blessed by God 13 Solomons strength and wealth ANd * 1 King 1.46 Solomon the son of David was strengthned in his kingdom and the LORD his God was with him and magnified him exceedingly 2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every governour in all Israel the chief of the fathers 3 So Solomon and all the congregation with him went to the high place that was at * 1 Kin. 3.4 1 Chr. 16.39 21.29 Gibeon for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness 4 * 2 Sam. 6.2 â—â— But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem 5 Moreover * Ex. 38.1 the brasen altar that Bezaleel the son of Uri the son of Hur had made ‖ Or â—â—s there he put before the tabernacle of the LORD and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it 6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD which was at the tabernacle of the congregation and offered a thousand burnt-offerings upon it 7 ¶ In that night did God appear unto Solomon and said unto him Ask what I shall give thee 8 And Solomon said unto God Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father and hast made me * 1 Chr. 28. â— to reign in his stead 9 Now O LORD God let thy promise unto David my father be established * 1 King 3. â— for thou hast made me king over a people †Heb. much as the dust of the â—â—â—th like the dust of the earth in multitude 10 * 1 King 3.9 Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may * Numb 27.17 go out and come in before this people for who can judge this thy people that is
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and they said The LORD is righteous 7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah saying They have humbled themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant them ‖ Or a little wâ—ile some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak 8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countreys 9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the kings house he took all he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had * Chap. â— 15 made 10 In stead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept the entrance of the kings house 11 And when the king entred into the house of the LORD the guard came and fet them and brought them again into the guard-chamber 12 And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him that he would not destroy him altogether ‖ Or and yet â—is Judah there were good things and also in Judah things went well 13 ¶ So king Rehoboam strengthned himself in Jerusalem and reigned for * 1 Kin. 14.21 Rehoboam was one and fourty years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitess 14 And he did evil because he ‖ Or fixed prepared not his heart to seek the LORD 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam first and last are they not written in the †Heb. words book of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually 16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David and Abijah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XIII 1 Abijah succeeding maketh war against Jeroboam 4 He declareth the right of his cause 13 Trusting in God he overcometh Jeroboam 21 The wives and children of Abijah NOw * 1 Kin. 15.1 c. in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem his mothers name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah and there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam 3 And Abijah †Heb. bound together set the battel in aray with an army of valiant men of war even four hundred thousand chosen men Jeroboam also set the battel in aray against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men being mighty men of valour 4 ¶ And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim which is in mount Ephraim and said Hear me thou Jeroboam and all Israel 5 Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt 6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the son of David is risen up and hath * 1 Kin. 11.26 rebelled against his lord 7 And there are gathered unto him vain men the children of Belial and have strengthned themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted and could not withstand them 8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David and ye be a great multitude and there are with you golden calves which Jeroboam * 1 Kin. 12.28 made you for gods 9 * Ch. 11.14 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD the sons of Aaron and the Levites and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands so that whosoever cometh †Heb. to fill his hand to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams the same may be a priest of them that are no gods 10 But as for us the LORD is our God and we have not forsaken him and the priests which minister unto the LORD are the sons of Aaron and the Levites wait upon their business 11 * Ch. 2.4 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt-sacrifices and sweet incense the * Lev. 24.6 shew-bread also set they in order upon the pure table and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof to burn every evening for we keep the charge of the LORD our God but ye have forsaken him 12 And behold God himself is with us for our captain and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you O children of Israel fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers for you shall not prosper 13 ¶ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behinde them so they were before Judah the ambushment was behinde them 14 And when Judah looked back behold the battel was before and behinde and they cried unto the LORD and the priests sounded with the trumpets 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout and as the men of Judah shouted it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah and God delivered them into their hand 17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men 18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time and the children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers 19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him Beth-el with the towns thereof and Jeshanah with the towns thereof and Ephrain with the towns thereof 20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah and the LORD strook him and he died 21 ¶ But Abijah waxed mighty and married fourteen wives and begat twenty and two sons and sixteen daughters 22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah and his ways and his sayings are written in the ‖ Or commentary story of the prophet * Ch. 12.15 Iddo CHAP. XIV 1 Asa succeeding destroyeth idolatry 6 Having peace he strengthneth his kingdom with forts and armies 9 Calling on God he overthroweth Zerah and spoileth the Ethiopians SO Abijah slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David and * 1 Kin. 15.8 c. Asa his son reigned in his stead in his days the land was quiet ten years 2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places and brake down the †Heb. statues images and cut down the groves 4 And
for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat first and last behold they are written in the †Heb. words book of Jehu the son of Hanani * 1 Kin. 16.1 who †Heb. was made to ascend is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel 35 ¶ And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah joyn himself with Ahaziah king of Israel who did very wickedly 36 And he joyned himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish and they made the ships in Ezion-gaber 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat saying Because thou hast joyned thy self with Ahaziah the LORD hath broken thy works And the ships were broken that they were not able to go to Tarshish CHAP. XXI 1 Jehoram succeeding Jehoshaphat slayeth his brethren 5 His wicked raign 8 Edom and Libnah revolt 12 The prophesie of Elijah against him in writing 16 Philistines and Arabians oppress him 18 His incurable disease infamous death and burial NOw * 1 Kin. 22.50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead 2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat Azariah and Jehiel and Zechariah and Azariah and Michael and Shephatiah all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel 3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things with fenced cities in Judah but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram because he was the first-born 4 Now * 2 Kin. 8.16 17. when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father he strengthned himself and slew all his brethren with the sword and divers also of the princes of Israel 5 ¶ Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem 6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel like as did the house of Ahab for he had the daughter of * Chap. 22.2 Ahab to wife and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD 7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant that he had made with David and as he promised to give a †Heb. lamp or candle light to him and to his * 2 Sam. 7.12 1 Kin. 11.36 2 Kin. 8.19 Psal 132.11 c. sons for ever 8 ¶ In his days the Edomites revolted from under the †Heb. hand dominion of Judah and made themselves a king 9 Then Jehoram * 2 Kin. 8.21 went forth with his princes and all his chariots with him and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites which compassed him in and the captains of the chariots 10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers 11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication and compelled Judah thereto 12 ¶ And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet saying Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab and also hast slain thy brethren of thy fathers house which were better then thy self 14 Behold with †Heb. a great stroke a great plague will the LORD smite thy people and thy children and thy wives and all thy goods 15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day 16 ¶ Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jenoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians that were near the Ethiopians 17 And they came up into Judah and brake into it and †Heb. carried captive carried away all the substance that was found in the kings house and his sons also and his wives so that there was never a son left him save ‖ Or Abaziab Ch. 22.1 or Azariab Ch. 22.6 Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons 18 ¶ And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease 19 And it came to pass that in process of time after the end of two years his bowels fell out by reason of his â—â—â—kness so he died of sore diseases And has people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers 20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years and departed †Heb. 〈◊〉 â—â—sice without being desired howbeit they buried him in the city of David but not in the sepulchres of the kings CHAP. XXII 1 Ahaziah succeeding reigneth wickedly 5 In his confederacy with Joram the son of Ahab he is slain by Jehu 10 Athaliah destroying all the seed royal save Joash whom Jehoshabeath his aunt hid usurpeth the kingdom ANd the inhabitants of Jerusalem made * 2 Kin. 8.24 c. 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 * Ch. 21.17 eldest So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned 2 Fourty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign and he reigned one year in Jerusalem his mothers name also was * Ch. 23.6 Athaliah the daughter of Omri 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab for his mother was his counsellour to do wickedly 4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab for they were his counsellours after the death of his father to his destruction 5 ¶ He walked also after their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead and the Syrians smote Joram 6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds †Heb. â—â—erewith they â—ounded him which were given him at Ramah when he sought with Hazael king of Syria And ‖ Otherwise called Ahaziah ver 1. and Jehoahaz ch 21.17 Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel because he was sick 7 And the †Heb. treading down destruction of Ahoziah was of God by coming to Joram for when he was come he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi whom the LORD had anointed * 2 Kin. 9.7 to cut off the house of Ahab 8 And it came to pass that when Jehu was executing judgement upon the house
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 haste the matter howbeit the Levites hastned it not 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief and said unto him Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection according to the commandment of * Ex. 30 12.13 14. Moses the servant of the LORD and of the congregation of Israel for the tabernacle of witness 7 For the sons of Athaliah that wicked woman had broken up the house of God and also all the dedicate things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim 8 And at the kings commandment they made a chest and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD 9 And they made †Heb. a voice a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness 10 And all the princes and all the people rejoyced and brought in and cast into the chest until they had made an end 11 Now it came to pass that at what time the chest was brought unto the kings office by the hand of the Levites and when they saw that there was much money the kings scribe and the high priests officer came and emptied the chest and took it and carried it to his place again Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance 12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD 13 So the workmen wrought and †Heb. the healing went upon the work the work was perfected by them and they set the house of God in his state and strengthned it 14 And when they had finished it they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD even vessels to minister and ‖ Or pesâ—â—â—s to offer withal and spoons and vessels of gold and silver and they offered burnt-offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada 15 ¶ But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days when he died an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel both towards God and towards his house 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah and made obeysance to the king then the king hearkned unto them 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers and served groves and idols and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass 19 Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the LORD and they testified against them but they would not give ear 20 And the spirit of God ‡ Heb. clothed came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest which stood above the people and said unto them Thus saith God Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD that ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the LORD he hath also forsaken you 21 And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD 22 Thus Joash the king remembred not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him but slew his son and when he died he said The LORD look upon it and require it 23 ¶ And it came to pass †Heb in the revolution of the Jur. at the end of the year that the host of Syria came up against him and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of †Heb. Darmesek Damascus 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers so they executed judgement against Joain 25 And when they were departed from him for they left him in great diseases his own servants conspired against him for the bloud of the sons of Jehoiada the priest and slew him on his bed and he died and they buried him in the city of David but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings 26 And these are they that conspired against him ‖ Or Jozachar 2 King 12.21 Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of ‖ Or Sâ—omer Shimrith a Moabitess 27 ¶ Now concerning his sons and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him and the †Heb. sâ—unding repairing of the house behold they are written in the ‖ Or commentery story of the book of the kings And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXV 1 Amaziah beginneth to reign well 3 He executeth justice on the traitours 5 Having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites at the word of a prophet he loseth the hundred talents and dismisseth them 11 He overthroweth the Edomites 10 13 The Israelites discontented with their dismission spoil as they return home 14 Amaziah proud of his victory serveth the gods of Edom and despiseth the admonitions of the prophet 17 He provoketh Joash to his overthrow 25 His reign 27 He is slain by conspiracy AMaziah * Kin. 14.1 c. was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD but not with a perfect heart 3 ¶ Now it came to pass when the kingdom was †Heb. confirmed upon him established to him that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father 4 But he slew not their children but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses where the LORD commanded saying * Deut. 24.16 2 Kin. 14.6 Jer. 31.30 Ezek 18.20 The fathers shall not die for the children neither shall the children die for the fathers but every man shall die for his own sin 5 ¶ Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and made them captains over thousands and captains over hundreds according to the houses of their fathers throughout all Judah and Benjamin and he numbred them from twenty years old and above and found them three hundred thousand choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield 6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for
an hundred talents of silver 7 But there came a man of God to him saying O king let not the army of Israel go with thee for the LORD is not with Israel to wit with all the children of Ephraim 8 But if thou wilt go do it be strong for the battel God shall make thee sall before the enemy for God hath power to help and to cast down 9 And Amaziah said to the man of God But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the †Heb. cand army of Israel And the man of God answered The LORD is able to give thee much more then this 10 Then Amaziah separated them to wit the army that was come to him out of Ephraim to go †Heb. to their place home again wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah and they returned home †Heb. in â—eat of anger in great anger 11 ¶ And Amaziah strengthned himself and led forth his people and went to the valley of salt and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand 12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive brought them unto the top of the rock and cast them down from the top of the rock that they were broken all in pieces 13 ¶ But †Heb. the sons of the band the souldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back that they should not go with him to battel fell upon the cities of Judah from Samaria even unto Beth-horon and smote three thousand of them and took much spoil 14 ¶ Now it came to pass after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites that he brought the gods of the children of Seir and set them up to be his gods and bowed down himself before them and burned incense unto them 15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah and he sent unto him a prophet which said unto him Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand 15 And it came to pass as he talked with him that the kine said unto him Art thou made of the kings counsel forbear why shouldest thou be imitten Then the prophet forbare and said I know that God hath †Heb. counselled determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not hearkened unto my counsel 17 ¶ Then * 2 King 14.9 Amaziah king of Judah took advice and sent to Jeash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel saying Come let us see one another in the sace 18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah saying The ‖ Or furâ—ush or thern 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 †Heb. a beest of the field a wilde beast that was in Lebanon and rod down the thistle 19 Thou sayest Lo thou hast smitten the Edomites and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast abide now at home why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and Judah with thee 20 But Amaziah would not hear for it came of God that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies because they sought after the gods of Edom. 21 So Joash the king of Israel went up and they saw one another in the face both he and Amaziah king of Judah at Beth-shemesh which belonceth to Judah 22 And Judah was †Heb. smitten put to the worse before Israel and they fled every man to his tent 23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz at Beth-shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to †Heb. the gate of it that looketh the corner-gate four hundred cubits 24 And be took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom and the treasures of the kings house the hostages also and returned to Samaria 25 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years 26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah first and last behold are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel 27 ¶ Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away †Heb. from after from following the LORD they †Heb. conspired a conspiracy made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish but they sent to Lachish after him and slew him there 28 And they brought him upon horses and buried him with his fathers in the city of ‖ That is the city of David as it is 2 Kin. 14 20 Judah CHAP. XXVI 1Vzziah succeeding and reigning well in the days of Zechariah prospereth 16 Waxing proud be invadeth the priests office and is smitten with leprosie 22 He dieth and Jotham succeedeth him THen all the people of Judah took * 2 King 14.21 and 15.1 ‖ Or â—zariah Uzziah who was sixteen years old and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah 2 He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after that the king slept with his fathers 3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem his mothers name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem 4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD accerding to all that his father Amaziah did 5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah who had understanding †Heb. in the seeing of God in the visions of God and as long as he sought the LORD God made him to prosper 6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines and brake down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod and built cities ‖ Or in the countrey of Ashdod about Ashdod and among the Philistines 7 And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal and the Mehunims 8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah and his name †Heb. went spead abroad even to the entring in of Egypt for he strenthned himself exceedingly 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner-gate and at the valley gate and at the turning of the wall and ‖ Or repaired fortified them 10 Also he built towers in the desert and ‖ Or cut out many cisterns digged many wells for he had much cattel both in the low-countrey and in the plains husbandmen also and vine-dressers in the mountains and in ‖ Or fruitful fields Carmel for he loved †Heb. ground husbandry 11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men that went out to war by bands according to the number
brethren for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you 12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim Azariah the son of Johanan Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum and Amasa the son of Hadlai stood up against them that came from the war 13 And said unto them Ye shall not bring in the captives hither for whereas we have offended against the LORD already ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass for our trespass is great and there is fierce wrath against Israel 14 So the armed men lest the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation 15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up and took the captives and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them and arayed them and shod them and gave them to eat and to drink and anâ—inted them and carried all the feeble of them upon asses and brought them to Jericho * Deut. 34.8 the city of palm-trees to their brethren then they returned to Samaria 16 ¶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him 17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah and carried away †Heb. captivity captives 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low-countrey and of the south of Judah and had taken Both shemesh and Ajalon and Gederoth and Shocho with the villages thereof and Timnah with the villages thereof Gimzo also and the villages thereof and they dwelt there 19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel for he made Judah naked and transgressed fore against the LORD 20 And Tilgath pilneser king of Assyria came unto him and distressed him but strengthned him not 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD and out of the house of the king and of the princes and gave it unto the king of Assyria but he helped him not 22 ¶ And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD this is that king Ahaz 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of †Heb. Darmesek Damascus which smote him and he said Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them therefore will I sacrifice to them that they may help me but they were the ruine of him and of all Israel 24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem 25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places ‖ Or to offer to burn incense unto other gods and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers 26 ¶ Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways first and last behold they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel 27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city even in Jerusalem but they brought him not into the sepulâ—hres of the kings of Israel and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXIX 1 Hezekiah his good reign 3 He restoreth religion 5 He exhorteth the Levites 12 They sanctifiâ— themselves â—od cleanse the house of God 20 Hezekiah offereth solemn sacrifices wherein the Levites were more forward then the priests HEzekiah * 2 King 18.1 began to reign when he was five and twenty years old and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD according to all that David his father had done 3 ¶ He in the first year of his reign in the first moneth opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the east-street 5 And said unto them Hear me ye Levites sanctifie now your selves and sanctifie the house of the LORD God of your fathers and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place 6 For our fathers have trespassed and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God and have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and †Heb. given the neck turned their backs 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch and put out the lamps and have not burnt incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel 8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem and he hath delivered them to †Heb. commotion trouble to astonishment and to hissing as ye see with your eyes 9 For so our fathers have fain by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this 10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel that his fierce wrath may turn away from us 11 My sons ‖ Or be not now deceived be not now negligent for the LORD hath * Numb 8.14 18 2 6. chosen you to stand before him to serve him and that you should minister unto him and ‖ Or offer sacrifice burn incense 12 ¶ Then the Levites arose Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah of the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of Merari Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehalelel and of the Gershonites Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah 13 And of the sons of Elizaphan Shimri and Jeiel and of the sons of Asaph Zechariah and Mattaniah 14 And of the sons of Heman Jehiel and Shimei and of the sons of Jeduthun Shemaiah and Uzziel 15 And they gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves and came according to the commandment of the king ‖ Or in the business of the LORD by the words of the LORD to cleanse the house of the LORD 16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD And the Levites took it to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron 17 Now they began on the first day of the first moneth to sanctifie and on the eighth day of the moneth came they to the Porch of the LORD so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days and in the sixteenth day of the first moneth they made an end 18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said We have cleansed all the house of the LORD and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels thereof and the shew-bread table with all the vessels thereof 19 Moreover all the vessels which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away
herds in abundance for God had given him substance very much 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water-course of Gihon and brought it straight down to the west-side of the city of David And Hezekiah prospered in all his works 31 ¶ Howbeit in the business of the †Heb. interpreters embassadours of the princes of Babylon who * 2 Kin. 20.12 Isa 39.1 sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land God left him to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 32 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his †Heb. kindnesses goodness behold they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel 33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and they buried him in the ‖ Or. highest chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXXIII 1 Manasseh his wicked reign 3 He setteth up idolatry and wâ—ulâ— not be admonished 11 He is carried into Babylon 12Vpon his prayer to God he is released and putteth down idolatry 18 His acts 20 He dying Amon succeedeth him 21 Amon reigning wickâ—â—ly is slain by his servants 25 The murderers being slain Josiah succeedeth him MAnasseh * 2 Kin. 21.1 c. was twelve years old when he began to reign and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem 2 But did that which was evil in the â—iâ—â—t of the LORD like unto the * Deut. 23.9 abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel 3 ¶ For †Heb. he returned and built â—e built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had * 2 Kin. 18.4 broken down and he reared up altars for Baalim and made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them 4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD whereof the LORD had said * Deut. 12.11 1 Kin. 8.29 9.3 Chap. 6.6 and 7.16 In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom also he observed times and used enchantments and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger 7 And he set a carved image the idol which he had made in the house of God of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son In * Psal 132.14 this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever 8 * 2 Sam. 7.10 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses 9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err and to do worse then the heathen whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel 10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh and to his people but they would not hearken 11 ¶ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host †Heb. which were the kings of the king of Assyria which took Manasseh among the thorns and bound him with ‖ Or chains fetters and carried him to Babylon 12 And when he was in affliction he besought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers 13 And 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 the LORD he was God 14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David on the west-side of Gihon in the valley even to the entring in at the fish-gate and compassed about ‖ Or the tower Ophel and raised it up a very great height and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah 15 And he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the LORD and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem and cast them out of the city 16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD and sacrificed thereon peace-offerings and thank-offerings and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel 17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high-places yet unto the LORD their God onely 18 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh his prayer unto his God and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel behold thâ—y are written in the book of the kings of Israel 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 groves and graven images before he was humbled behold they are written among the sayings of ‖ Or Hosai the seers 20 ¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers and they buried him in his own house and Amon his son reigned in his stead 21 ¶ * 2 Kin. 21.19 c Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned two years in Jerusalem 22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD as did Manasseh his father for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made and served them 23 And humbled not himself before the LORD as Manasseh his father had humbled himself but Amon †Heb. multiplied trespass trespassed more and more 24 And his servants conspired against him and slew him in his own house 25 ¶ Buâ— 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 CHAP. XXXIV 1 Josiah his good reign 3 He destroyeth idolatry 8 He taketh order for the repair of the temple 14 Hilkiah having found a book of the law Josiah sendeth to Huldah to enquire of the Lord. 23 Huldah prophesieth the destruction of Jerusalem but respite thereof in Josiahs time 29 Josiah causing it to be read in a solemn assembly râ—neweth the covenant with God JOsiah * 2 Kin. 21.1 c was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of David his father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left 3
¶ For in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his father and in the twelfth year he began * 1 Kin. 13.2 to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the carved images and the molten images 4 * Levit. 26.30 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence and the ‖ Or suâ—-images images that were on high above them he cut down and the groves and the carved images and the molten images he brake in pieces and made dust of them and strowed it upon the †Heb. face of the graves graves of them that had sacrificed unto them 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem 6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon even unto Naphtali with their ‖ Or mauls mattocks round about 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves and had beaten the graven images †Heb. to make powder into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel he returned to Jerusalem 8 ¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign when he had purged the land and the house he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the governour of the city and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder to repair the house of the LORD his God 9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim and of all the remnant of Israel and of all Judah and Benjamin and they returned to Jerusalem 10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD to repair and mend the house 11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it to buy hewn stonâ— and timber for couplings and ‖ Or to rafter to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed 12 And the men did the work faithfully and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites of the sons of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites to set it forward and other of the Levites all that could skill of instruments of muâ—ick 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service and of the Levites there were scribes and officers and porters 14 ¶ And when they â—rought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD Hilkiah the priest * 2 Kin. 22.8 c. found a book of the law of the LORD given †Heb. by the hand of by Moses 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan 15 And Shaphan carried the book to the king and brought the king word back again saying All that was committed †Heb. to the hand of to thy servants they do it 17 And they have †Heb. poured out or melted gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workmen 18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king saying Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book And Shaphan read †Heb. â—â—it it before the king 19 And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the law that he rent his clothes 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah and Ahikam the son of Shaphan and ‖ Or Athbor 2 King 2â— 12 Abdon the son of Micah and Shaphan the scribe and Asaiah a servant of the kings saying 21 Go enquire of the LORD for me and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah concerning the words of the book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD to do after all that is written in this book 22 And Hilkiah and they that the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath the son of ‖ Or Hâ—rbaâ— 2 King 22.14 Hasrah keeper of the †Heb. â—â—â—ments wardrobe now she dwelt in Jerusalem ‖ Or in the sâ—â—â—ol or in the second part in the colledge and they spake to her to that effect 23 ¶ And she answered them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Tell ye the man that sent you to me 24 Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah 25 Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place and shall not be quenched 26 And as for the king of Judah who sent you to enquire of the LORD so shall ye say unto him Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard 27 Because thine heart was tendâ—r and thou didst humble thy self before God when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof and humbledst thy self beâ—ore me and didst rend thy clothes and weep before me I have even heard thee also saith the LORD 28 Behold I will gather thee to thy fathers and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same So they brought the king word again 29 ¶ * 2 King 23.1 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem 30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites and all the people †Heb. som â—reat can to â—â—ull great and small and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD 31 And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book 32 And he caused all that were †Heb. â—â—und present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God
the God of their fathers 33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countreys that pertained to the children of Israel and made all that were present in Israel to serve even to serve the LORD their God And all his days they departed not †Heb. from after from following the LORD the God of their fathers CHAP. XXXV 1 Josiah keepeth a most solemn pass-over 20 He provoking Pharaoh-necho is slain at Megiddo 25 Lamentations for Josiah MOreover * 2 King 23.21 22. Josiah kept a pass-over unto the LORD in Jerusalem and they killed the pass-over on the * Ex. 12.6 fourteenth day of the first moneth 2 And he set the priests in their charges and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD 3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel which were holy unto the LORD Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders serve now the LORD your God and his people Israel 4 And prepare your selves by the * 1 Chr. 9.10 houses of your fathers after your courses according to the * 1 Chr. 23. and 24. and 25. and 2â— writing of David king of Israel and according to the * Chap. â— 14 writing of Solomon his son 5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of †Heb. the house of the fathers the families of the fathers of your brethren †Heb. the sons of the people the people and after the division of the families of the Levites 6 So kill the pass-over and sanctifie your selves and prepare your brethren that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses 7 And Josiah †Heb. â—ffered gave to the people of the flock lambs and kids all for the pass-over-offerings for all that were present to the number of thirty thousand and three thousand bullocks these were of the kings substance 8 And his princes †Heb. â—ffered gave willingly unto the people to the priests and to the Levites Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel rulers of the house of God gave unto the priests for the pass-over-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattel and three hundred oxen 9 Conaniah also and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his brethren and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad chief of the Levites †Heb. â—ffered gave unto the Levites for pass over-offerings five thousand small cattel and five hundred oxen 10 So the service was prepared and the priests stood in their place and the Levites in their courses according to the kings commandment 11 And they killed the pass over and the priests sprinkled the bloud from their hands and the Levites * See chap. 29.34 fleyed them 12 And they removed the burnt offerings that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people to offer unto the LORD as it is written in the book of Moses and so did they with the oxen 13 And they * Exod. 12.8 9. rosted the pass-over with fire according to the ordinance but the other holy offerings sod they in pots and in caldrons and in pans and †Heb. made them run divided them speedily among all the people 14 And afterward they made ready for themselves and for the priests because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron 15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their †Heb. station place according to the * 1 Chr. 25.1 c. commandment of David and Asaph and Hâ—man and Jeduthun the kings seer and the porters * 1 Chr. 9.17.18 and 26.14 c. waited at every gate they might not depart from their service for their brethren the Levites prepared for them 16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day to keep the pass-over and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of the LORD according to the commandment of king Josiah 17 And the children of Israel that wâ—re †Heb. found present kept the pass-over at that time and the feast of unleavened bread seven days 18 And there was no pass-over like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a pass-over as Josiah kept and the priests and the Levites and all Judah and Israel that were present and the inhabitants of Jerusalem 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this pass-over kept 20 ¶ * 2 Kin. 23.29 After all this when Josiah had prepared the †Heb. house temple Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates and Josiah went out against him 21 But he sent embassadours to him saying What have I to do with thee thou king of Judah I come not against thee this day but against †Heb. the house of my war the house wherewith I have war for God commanded me to make haste forbear thee from medling with God who is with me that he destroy thee not 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him but disguised himself that he might fight with him and hearkned not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo 23 And the archers shot at king Josiah and the king said to his servants Have me away for I am sore †Heb. made sick wounded 24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had and they brought him to Jerusalem and he died and was buried ‖ Or among the the sepulchres in one of the sepulchres of his fathers and * Zech. 12.11 all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah 25 ¶ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing-men and the singing-women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the lamentations 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his †Heb. kindnesses goodness according to that which was written in the law of the LORD 27 And his deeds first and last behold they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah CHAP. XXXVI 1 Jehoahaz succeeding is deposed by Pharaoh and carried into Egypt 5 Jehoiakim reigning ill is carried bound into Babylon 9 Jehoiachin succeeding reigneth ill and is brought into Babylon 11 Zedekiah succeeding reigneth ill and despiseth the prophets and rebelleth against Nebuchadnezzar 14 Jerusalem for the sins of the priests and people is wholly destroyed 22 The proclamation of Cyrus THen * 2 Kin. 23.30 c. the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his fathers stead in Jerusalem 2
where the treasures were †Cald. made to descend laid up in Babylon 2 And there was found at ‖ Or Echatana or in a coffer Achmetha in the palace that is in the province of the Medes a roll and therein was a record thus written 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem Let the house be builded the place where they offered sacrifices and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid the height thereof threescore cubits and the breadth thereof threescore cubits 4 With three rows of great stones and a row of new timber and let the expences be given out of the kings house 5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem and brought unto Babylon be restored and †Cald. go brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem every one to his place and place them in the house of God 6 Now therefore Tatnai governour beyond the river Shethar-boznai and †Cald. their societies your companions the Apharsachites which are beyond the river be ye far from thence 7 Let the work of this house of God alone let the governour of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place 8 Moreover †Cald. by me a decree is made I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God that of the kings goods even of the tribute beyond the river forthwith expences be given unto these men that they be not †Cald. made to cease hindred 9 And that which they have need of both young bullocks and rams and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven wheat salt wine and oyl according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem let it be given them day by day without fail 10 That they may offer sacrifices †Cald. â—f rest of sweet savours unto the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and of his sons 11 Also I have made a decree that whosoever shall alter this word let timber be pulled down from his house and being set up †Cald. let him be destroyed let him be hanged thereon and let his house be made a dunghil for this 12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem I Darius have made a decree let it be done with speed 13 ¶ Then Tatnai governour on this side the river Shethar-boznai and their companions according to that which Darius the king had sent so they did speedily 14 And the elders of the Jews builded and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo and they builded and finished it according to the commandment of the God of Israel and according to the †Cald. â—â—â—ree commandment of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia 15 And this house was finished on the third day of the moneth Adar which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king 16 ¶ And the children of Israel the priests and the Levites and the rest of †Cald. the sons of the transportation the children of the captivity kept the dedication of this house of God with joy 17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks two hundred rams four hundred lambs and for a sin-offering for all Israel twelve he-goats according to the number of the tribes of Israel 18 And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses for the service of God which is at Jerusalem †Cald. according to the writâ—nâ— * Râ—m 3.6 â— 9 as it is written in the book of Moles 19 And the children of the captivity kept the pass-over upon the fourteenth day of the first moneth 20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together all of them were pure and killed the pass-over for all the children of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and for themselves 21 And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land to seek the LORD God of Israel did eat 22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy for the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God the God of Israel CHAP. VII 1 Ezra goeth up to Jerusalem 11 The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra 27 Ezra blesseth God for his savour NOw after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia Ezra the son of Seraiah the son of Azariah the son of Hilkiah 2 The son of Shallum the son of Zadok the son of Ahitub 3 The son of Amariah the son of Azariah the son of Meraioth 4 The son of Zerahiah the son of Uzzi the son of Bukki 5 The son of Abishua the son of Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the chief priest 6 This Ezra went up from Babylon and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses which the LORD God of Israel had given and the king granted him all his request according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him 7 And there went up some of the children of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the porters and the Nethinims unto Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king 8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth moneth which was in the seventh year of the king 9 For upon the first day of the first moneth †Heb. was the foundation of the going up began he to go up from Babylon and on the first day of the fifth moneth came he to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God upon him 10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgements 11 ¶ Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest the scribe even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD and of his statutes to Israel 12 Artaxerxes king of kings ‖ Or To Ezra the priest a perfect scribe of the law of the God of heaven peace c. Unto Ezra the priest a scribe of the law of the God of heaven perfect peace and at such a time 13 I make a decree that all they of the people of Israel and of his priests and Levites in my realm which are minded of their own
wept very sore 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel one of the sons of Elam answered and said unto Ezra We have trespassed against our God and have taken strange wives of the people of the land yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing 3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God †Heb. to bring forthâ— to put away all the wives and such as are born of them according to the counsel of my lord and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God and let it be done according to the law 4 Arise for this matter belongâ—th unto thee we also will be with thee be of good courage and do it 5 Then arose Ezra and made the chief priests the Levites and all Israel to swear that they should do according to this word And they sware 6 ¶ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib and when he came thither he did eat no bread nor drink water for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away 7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem 8 And that whosoever would not come within three days according to the counsel of the princes and the elders all his substance should be †Heb. devoted forfeited and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away 9 ¶ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days it was the ninth moneth and the twentieth day of the moneth and all the people sat in the street of the house of God trembling because of this matter and for †Heb. the showers the great rain 10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said unto them Ye have transgressed and †Heb. have caused to dwell or have brought back have taken strange wives to increase the trespass of Israel 11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers and do his pleasure and separate your selves from the people of the land and from the strange wives 12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice As thou hast said so must we do 13 But the people are many and it is a time of much rain and we are not able to stand without neither is this a work of one day or two for ‖ Or we have greatly offended in this thing we are many that have transgressed in this thing 14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times and with them the elders of every city and the judges thereof until the fierce wrath of our God ‖ Or till this matter â—e dispatched for this matter be turned from us 15 ¶ Onely Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah †Heb. stood were employed about this matter and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them 16 And the children of the captivity did so and Ezra the priest with certain chief of the fathers after the house of their fathers and all of them by their names were separated and sat down in the first day of the tenth moneth to examine the matter 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first moneth 18 ¶ And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives namely of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah 19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives and being guilty they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass 20 And of the sons of Immer Hanani and Zebadiah 21 And of the sons of Harim Maaseiah and Elijah and Shemaiah and Jehiel and Uzziah 22 And of the sons of Pashur Elioenai Maaseiah Ishmael Nethaneel Jozabad and Elasah 23 Also of the Levites Jozabad and Shimei and Kelaiah the same is Kelita Pethahiah Judah and Eliezer 24 Of the singers also Eliashib and of the porters Shallum and Telem and Uri 25 Moreover of Israel of the sons of Parosh Ramiah and Jeziah and Malchiah and Miamin and Eleazar and Malchijah and Benaiah 26 And of the sons of Elam Mattaniah Zechariah and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Eliah 27 And of the sons of Zattu Elioenai Eliashib Mattaniah and Jeremoth and Zabad and Aziza 28 Of the sons also of Bebai Jehohanan Hananiah Zabbai and Athlai 29 And of the sons of Bani Meshullam Malluch and Adaiah Jashub and Sheal and Ramoth 30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab Adna and Chelal Benaiah Maaseiah Mattaniah Bezaleel and Binnui and Manasseh 31 And of the sons of Harim Eliezer Ishijah Malchiah Shemaiah Shimeon 32 Benjamin Malluch and Shemariah 33 Of the sons of Hashum Mattenai Mattathah Zabad Eliphelet Jeremai Manasseh and Shimei 34 Of the sons of Bani Maadai Amram and Uel 35 Benaiah Bedeiah Chelluh 36 Vaniah Meremoth Eliashib 37 Mattaniah Mattenai and Jaasau 38 And Bani and Binnui Shimei 39 And Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah 40 ‖ Or Mabnadebai according to some copies Machnadebai Shashai Sharai 41 Azarcel and Shelemiah Shemariah 42 Shallum Amariah and Joseph 43 Of the sons of Nebo Jeiel Mattithiah Zabad Zebina Jadau and Joel Benaiah 44 All these had taken strange wives and some of them had wives by whom they had children ¶ The book of NEHEMIAH CHAP. I. 1 Nehemiah understanding by Hanani the miser of Jerusalem mourneth faâ—â—eth and prayeth 5 His prayer THe words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah And it came to pass in the moneth Chiâ—leâ— in the twentieth year as I was in Shushan the palace 2 That Hanani one of my brethren came he and certain men of Judah and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped which were left of the captivity and concerning Jerusalem 3 And they said unto me The remnant that are lest of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach the wall of Jerusalem also * 2 Kings 25.10 is broken down and the gates thereof are burnt with fire 4 ¶ And it came to pass when I heard these words that I set down and wept and mourned certain days and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven 5 And said I beseech thee * Daniel 9.4 O LORD God of heaven the great and terrible God that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments 6 Lâ—t taine ear now be attentive and thine eyes open that thou mayeâ—t hear the prayer of thy servant which I pray before thee now day and nighâ— for the children of Israel thy servants and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned againâ— thee both I. and my
Helkai 16 Of Idd◠Zechariah of Ginnethon Meshullam 17 Of Abijah Zichri of Miniamin of Moadiah Piltai 18 Of Bilgah Shammua of Shemaiah Jehonathan 19 And of Joiarib Mattenai of Jedaiah Uzzi 20 Of Sallai Kallai of Amok Eher 21 Of Hilkiah Hathabiah of Jedaiah Nethaneel 22 ¶ The Levites in the days of Eliashib Joiada and Johanan and Jaddua were recorded chief of the fathers also the priests to the reign of Darius the Persian 23 The sons of Levi the chief of the fathers were written in the book of the * 1 Chr. 9.14 c. Chronicles even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib 24 And the chief of the Levites Hashabiah Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel with their brethren over against them to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God ward over against ward 25 Mattaniah and Bakbukiah Obadiah Meshullam Talmon Akkub were porters keeping the ward at the ‖ Or treasuries or assemblies thresholds of the gates 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and in the days of Nehemiah the governour and of Ezra the priest the scribe 27 ¶ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they fought the Levites out of all their places to bring them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness both with thanksgivings and with singing with cymbals psalteries and with harps 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together both out of the plain countrey round about Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathi 29 Also from the house of Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people and the gates and the wall 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung-gate 32 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the princes of Judah 33 And Azariah Ezra and Meshullam 34 Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah 35 And certain of the priests sons with trumpets namely Zechariah the son of Jonathan the son of Shemaiah the son of Mattaniah the son of Michaiah the son of Zaccur the son of Asaph 36 And his brethren Shemaiah and Azarael Milalai Gilalai Maai Nethaneel and Judah Hanani with the musical instruments of David the man of God and Ezra the scribe before them 37 And at the fountain-gate which was over against them they went up by the stairs of the city of David at the going up of the wall above the house of David even unto the water-gate east-ward 38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them and I after them and the half of the people upon the wall from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall 39 And from above the gate of Ephraim and above the old gate and above the fish-gate and the tower of Hananeel and the tower of Meah even unto the sheep gate and they stood still in the prison gate 40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God and I and the hall of the rulers with me 41 And the priests Eliakim Maaseiah Miniamin Michaiah Elioenai Zechariah and Hananiah with trumpets 42 And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer and the singers †Heb. made their voice to be beard sang loud with Jezrahiah their overseer 43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoyced for God had made them rejoyce with great joy the wives also and the children rejoyced so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off 44 ¶ And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures for the offerings for the first-fruits and for the tithes to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions ‖ That is appointed by the law of the law for the priests and Levites †Heb. for the joy of Judah for Judah rejoyced for the priests and for the Levites †Heb. that stood that waited 45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God and the ward of the purification * 1 Chr. 25. 26. according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son 46 For in the days of David * 1 Chr. 25.1 c. and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God 47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the portions of the singers and the porters every day his portion and they ‖ That is set apart sanctified holy things unto the Levites * Nu. 18.25 and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron CHAP. XIII 1Vpon the reading of the law separation is made from the mixed multitude 4 Nehemiah at his return causeth the chambers to be cleansed 10 Hereformeth the offices in the house of God 15 the violation of the sabbath 23 and the marriages with strange wives ON that day †Heb. there was read they read in the book of Moses in the †Heb. ears audience of the people and therein was found writter * Deu. 23.3 that the Ammonite the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water but * Nu. 22. ◠Jos 24.9 hired Balaam against them that he should curse them howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing 3 Now it came to pass when they had heard the law that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude 4 ¶ And before this Eliashib the priest †Heb. being set over having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God was allied unto Tobiah 5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber where aforetime they laid the meat-offerings the frankincense and the vessels and the tithes of the corn the new wine and the oyl †Heb. the commandment of the Levites which was commanded to be given to the Levites and the singers and the porters and the offerings of the priests 6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king and †Heb. at the end of days after certain days ‖ Or I earnestly requested obtained I leave of the king 7 And I came to Jerusalem understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God 8 And it grieved me sore therefore I cast forth all the houshold-stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber 9 Then I
a great feast unto all his princes and his servants even Esthers feast and he made a †Heb. rest release to the provinces and gave gifts according to the state of the king 19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time then Mordecai sat in the kings gate 20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people as Mordecai had charged her for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai like as when she was brought up with him 21 ¶ In those days while Mordecai sat in the kings gate two of the kings chamberlains ‖ Or Bigthana ch 6.2 Bigthan and Teresh of those which kept †Heb. the threshold the door were wroth and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus 22 And the thing was known to Mordecai who told it unto Esther the queen and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name 23 And when inquisition was made of the matter it was found out therefore they were both hanged on a tree and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king CHAP. III. 1 Haman advanced by the king and despised by Mordecai seeketh revenge upon all the Jews 7 He casteth lots 8 He obtaineth by calumniation a decree of the king to put the Jews to death AFter these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes that were with him 2 And all the kings servants that were in the kings gate bowed and reverenced Haman for the king had so commanded concerning him but Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence 3 Then the kings servants which were in the kings gate said unto Mordecai Why transgressest thou the kings commandment 4 Now it came to pass when they spake daily unto him and he hearkned not unto them that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai his maâ—ters would stand for he had told them that he was a Jew 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence then was Haman full of wrath 6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus even the people of Mordecai 7 ¶ In the first moneth that is the moneth Nisan in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus they cast Pur that is the lot before Haman from day to day and from moneth to moneth to the twelfth moneth that is the moneth Adar 8 ¶ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the province of thy kingdom and their laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the kings laws therefore it is not †Heb. meet or eâ—uâ—l for the kings profit to suffer them 9 If it please the king let it be written †Heb. to destroy them that they may be destroyed and I will †Heb. weigh pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business to bring it into the kings treasuries 10 And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite the Jews ‖ Or oppressour enemy 11 And the king said unto Haman The silver is given to thee the people also to do with them as it seemeth good to thee 12 Then were the kings ‖ Or secretariâ—s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the kings lieutenants and to the governours that were over every province and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written and sealed with the kings ring 13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the kings provinces to destroy to kill and to cause to perish all Jews both young and old little children and women in one day even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth which is the moneth Adar and to take the spoil of them for a prey 14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people that they should be ready against that day 15 The posts went out being hastned by the kings commandment and the decree was given in Shushan the palace and the king and Haman sat down to drink but the city Shushan was perplexed CHAP. IV. 1 The great mourning of Mordecai and the Jews 4 Esther understanding it sendeth to Mordecai who sheweth the cause and adviseth her to undertake the suit 10 She excusing her self is threatned by Mordecai 15 She appointing a fast undertaketh the suit WHen Mordecai perceived all that was done Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry 2 And came even before the kings gate for none miâ—ht enter into the kings gate clothed with sackcloth 3 And in every province whithersoever the kings commandment and his decree came there was great mourning among the Jews and fasting and weeping and wailing and †Heb. sackcloth and ashes were laid under many many lay in sackcloth ashes 4 ¶ So Esthers maids and her †Heb. â—â—muchs chamberlains came told it her then was the queen exceedingly grieved she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai and to take away his sackcloth from him but he received it not 5 Then called Esther for Hatach one of the kings chamberlains †Heb. whom he had set before her whom he had appointed to attend upon her and gave him a commandment to Mordecai to know what it was and why it was 6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city which was before the kings gate 7 And Mordecai told him of all that had hapned unto him and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the kings treasuries for the Jews to destroy them 8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them to shew it unto Esther and to declare it unto her and to charge her that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him and to make request before him for her people 9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai 10 ¶ Again Esther spake unto Hatach and gave him commandment unto Mordecai 11 All the kings servants and the people of the kings 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 saw of his to put him to death except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre that he may live
and joy and honour 17 And in every province and in every city whithersoever the kings commandment and his decree came the Jews had joy and gladness a â—east and a good day and many of the people of the land became Jews for the fear of the Jews fell upon them CHAP. IX 1 The Jews the rulers for fear of Mordecai helping them slay their enemies with the ten sons of Haman 12 Ahasuerus at the request of Esther granteth another day of slaughter and Hamans sons to be hanged 20 The two days of Purim are made festival NOw in the twelfth moneth that is the moneth Adar on the thirteenth day of the lame when the kings commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them though it was turned to the contrary that the Jews had rule over them that hated them 2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus to lay hand on such as sought their hurt and no man could withstand them for the fear of them fell upon all people 3 And all the rulers of the provinces and the lieutenants and the deputies and †Heb. those which did the business that belonged to the king officers of the king helped the Jews because the fear of Mordecai â—ell upon them 4 For Mordecai was great in the kings house and his fame went out throughout all the provinces for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater 5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword slaughter destruction and did †Heb. according to their will with they would unto those that hated them 6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew destroyed five hundred men 7 And Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha 8 And Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha 9 And Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vajezatha 10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha the enemy of the Jews slew they but on the spoil laid they not their hand 11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace †Heb. came was brought before the king 12 ¶ And the king said unto Esther the queen The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace and the ten sons of Haman what have they done in the rest of the kings provinces now what is thy petition and it shall be granted thee or what is thy request further and it shall be done 13 Then said Esther If it please the king let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this days decree and †Heb. let men hang. let Hamans ten sons be hanged upon the gallows 14 And the king commanded it so to be done and the decree was given at Shushan and they hanged Hamans ten sons 15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar and slew three hundred men at Shushan but on the prey they laid not their hand 16 But the other Jews that were in the kings provinces gathered themselves together and stood for their lives and had rest from their enemies and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand but they laid not their hands on the prey 17 On the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar and on the fourteenth day †Heb. in it of the same rested they and made it a day of feasting and gladness 18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof and on the fourteenth thereof and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested made it a day of feasting gladness 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwelt in the unwalled towns made the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar a day of gladness and feasting and a good day and of sending portions one to another 20 ¶ And Mordecai wrote these things sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus both nigh and far 21 To stablish this among them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar and the fifteenth day of the same yearly 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies and the moneth which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a good day that they should make them days of feasting and joy of sending portions one to another gifts to the poor 23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun and as Mordecai had written unto them 24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite the enemy of all the Jews had devised against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur that is the lot to †Heb. crush consume them and to destroy them 25 But †Heb. when she came when Esther came before the king he commanded by letters that his wicked device which he devised against the Jews should return upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows 26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of ‖ That is lot Pur therefore for all the words of this letter and of that which they had seen concerning this matter and which had come unto them 27 The Jews ordained and took upon them and upon their seed and upon all such as joyned themselves unto them so as it should not †Heb. pass fail that they would keep those two days according to their writing and according to their appointed time every year 28 And that these days should be remembred and kept throughout every generation every family every province and every city and that these days of Purim should not †Heb. pass fail from among the Jews nor the memorial of them †Heb. be ended perish from their seed 29 Then Esther the queen the daughter of Abihail Mordecai the Jew wrote with †Heb. all strength all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim 30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words of peace and truth 31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoyned them and as they had decreed †Heb. for their souls for themselves and for their seed the matters of the fastings and their crie 32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim and it was written in the book CHAP. X. 1 Ahasuerus his greatness 3 Mordecai's advancement ANd the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and upon the tiles of the sea 2 And all the acts of his power of his might the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai whereunto the king †Heb. made him great advanced him
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media Persia 3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus and great among the Jews and accepted of the multitude of his brethren seeking the wealth of his people and speaking peace to all his seed ¶ The book of JOB CHAP. I. 1 The holiness â—â—icheâ— and religious care of Job for his children 6 Satan appearing before God by calumâ—iation obtaineth leave to tempt Job 3Vnderstanding of the loss of his goods and children in his mourning â—e blesseth God THere was a man in the land of Uâ— whose name was Job and that man was * Ch. 2.3 perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil 2 And there were born unto him seven sons three daughters â— His ‖ Or â—attel substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand â—â—nielâ— and five hundred yoke of oâ—en and five hundred she-asses and a very great ‖ Or husbandry houshold so that this man was the greatest of all the †Heb. sons of the east men of the east 4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them 5 And it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned and * 1 Kin. 21.10 13. cursed God in their hearts Thus did Job †Heb. all the days continually 6 ¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD and †Heb. the adversary Satan came also †Heb. in the midst of them among them 7 And the LORD said unto Satan Whence comest thou Then Satan answered the LORD and said From * 1 Pet. 5.8 going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it 8 And the LORD said unto Satan †Heb. Hast thou â—â—t thy heart on Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil 9 Then Satan answered the LORD and said Doth Job fear God for nought 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his ‖ Or cattel substance is increased in the land 11 But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath †Heb. if he curse thee not to thy face and he will curse thee to thy face 12 And the LORD said unto Satan Behold all that he hath is in thy †Heb. hand power onely upon himself put not forth thine hand So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD 13 ¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house 14 And there came a messenger unto Job and said The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away yea they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword and I onely am escapee alone to tell thee 16 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said ‖ Or a treat fire The fire of God is faln from heaven and hath burnt up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee 17 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said The Caldeans made out three bands and †Heb. rushed fell upon the camels and have carried them away yea and slain the servants with the edge of the sword and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee 18 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house 19 And behold there came a great wind †Heb. from aside c. from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young men and they are dead and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee 20 Then Job arose and rent his ‖ Or robe mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped 21 And said * Eccses 5.15 1 Tim. 6.7 Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away blessed be the name of the LORD 22 In all this Job sinned not nor ‖ Or attributed foller to God charged God foolishly CHAP. II. 1 Satan appearing again before God obtaineth further leave to tempt Job 7 He smiteth him with sore boyls 9 Job reproveth his wife moving him to curse God 11 His three friends condole with him in silence AGain there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD 2 And the LORD said unto Satan From whence comest thou And * Chap. 1.7 Satan answered the LORD and said From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it 3 And the LORD said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth * Chap. 1.1 8. a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil and still he heldeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him †Heb. to swallow him up to destroy him without cause 4 And Satan answered the LORD and said Skin for skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his life 5 But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face 6 And the LORD said unto Satan Behold he is in thine hand ‖ Or onely but save his life 7 ¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boyls from the sole of his foot unto his crown 8 And he took him a potsheard to scrape himself withal and he sat down among the ashes 9 ¶ Then said his wife unto him Dost thou still retain thine integrity curse God and die 10 But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh what shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil In all this did not Job sin with his lips 11 ¶ Now when Jobs three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him they came every one from his own place Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him 12 And when they lift
my secret my inward friends abhorred me and they whom I loved are turned against me 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin ‖ Or as and to my flesh and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth 21 Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me 22 Why do ye persecute me as God are not satisfied with my flesh 23 †Heb. who will give c. Oh that my words were now written Oh that they were printed in a book 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth 26 ‖ Or after 〈◊〉 st all awake â—â—ough this body â—e destroyed yâ—â— out of my flesh shall I seâ— God And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God 27 Whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not †Heb. a â—â—anger another though my reins be consumed †Heb. in 〈◊〉 besom within me 28 But ye should say Why persecute we him ‖ Or and what rooâ— of matter is found in me seeing the root of the matter is found in me 29 Be ye afraid of the sword for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword that ye may know there is a judgement CHAP. XX. 1 Zophar shâ—â—eth the state and pâ—rtion of thâ— wicked THen answered Zophar the Naamathâ—tâ— and said 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer and for this †Heb. my haste is in me I make haste 3 I have heard the check of my reproach and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer 4 Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon earth 5 * Psal 3â— 35 36. That the triumphing of the wicked is †Heb. from â—â—ar shoâ—t and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the †Heb. cloud clouds 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung they which have seen him shall say Where is he 8 He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found yea he shall be chased away as a vision of the night 9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his place any more behold him 10 ‖ Or the poor shall oppress his children His children shall seek to please the poor and his hands shall restore their goods 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth which shall lie down with him in the dust 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth though he hide it under his tongue 13 Though he spare it and forsake it not but keep it still †Heb. in the wiâ—â— of his palate within his mouth 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned it is the gall of asps within him 15 He hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up again God shall caâ—t them out of his belly 16 He shall such the povâ—on of asps the vipers tongue shall slay him 17 He shall not see the rivers ‖ Or streaming brooâ—â— the flouds the brooks of honey and butter 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore and shall not swallow it down †Heb. according to the suâ—stâ—nce of his exchanâ—e according to his substance shall the restitution he and he shall not rejoyce therein 19 Because he hath †Heb. câ—uâ—hed oppressed and hath forsaken the poor because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not 20 †â—â—ccies 5.13 14. Surely he shall not †Heb. know feel quietness in his belly he shall not save of that which he desired 21 ‖ Or there shall be none lefâ— for his meat There shall none of his meat be left therefore shall no man look for his goods 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits every hand of the ‖ Or troubâ—some wicked shall come upon him 23 When he it about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain it upon him whilâ— he is eating 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bowe of steel shall strike him through 25 It is drawn and cometh out of the body yea the glittering sword cometh out of his gall terrours are upon him 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places a fire not blown shall consume him it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him 28 The increase of his house shall depart and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage †Heb. of his deâ—â—eâ— from God appointed unto him by God CHAP. XXI 1 Job sheweth that even in the judgement of man be hath reason to be â—â—â—â—ted â— Sometimes the wicked do so prosâ—er as they despise God 16 Sometime their destruction is manifest 22 The happy anâ— unhappy are alike in death 27 The judgement of the wicked is in another world But Job answered and said 2 Hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations 3 Suffer me that I may speak and after that I have spoken mock on 4 As for me is my complaint to man and if it were so why should not my spirit be †Heb. sroâ—â—â—â—â— troubled 5 †Heb. Look unto me Mark me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth 6 Even when I remember I am afraid and trembling taketh hold on my flesh 7 * Ps â—â— 1â— â—2 â— 12. Jer. 12.1 Hab. 1.16 Wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them and their offsâ—ring before their eyes 9 Their houses †Heb. are peace from stâ—r are safe from fear neither is the rod of God upon them 10 Their bull gendreth and faileth not their cow calveth and casteth not her calf 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance 12 They take the timbrel and harp and rejoyce at the sound of the organ 13 They spend their days ‖ Or in mâ—â—th in wealth and in a moment go down to the grave 14 * Ch. 22.7 Therefore they say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways 15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him 16 Lo their good is not in their hand the counsel of the wicked is far from me 17 How oft is the ‖ Or lamp candle of the wicked put outâ— and how oft cometh their destruction upon them God distributeth sorrows in
†Heb. my hand hath kissed my mouth my mouth hath kissed my hand 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge for I should have denied the God that is above 29 If I rejoyced at the destruction of him that hated me or lift up my self when evil found him 30 Neither have I suffered †Heb. my palace my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not Oh that we had of his flesh we cannot be satisfied 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street but I opened my doors ‖ Or to the way to the traveller 33 If I covered my transgressions ‖ Or after the manner of men as Adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom 34 Did I fear a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrifie me that I kept silence and went not out of the door 35 O that one would hear me ‖ Or behold my sign is that the Almighty will answer me behold my desire is that the Almighty would answer me and that mine adversary had written a book 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and binde it as a crown to me 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps as a prince would I go near unto him 38 If my land cry against me or that the furrows likewise thereof †Heb. weep complain 39 If I have eaten †Heb. the strength thereof the fruits thereof without money or have †Heb. caused the soul of the owners thereof to expire or breathe out caused the owners thereof to lose their life 40 Let thistles grow in stead of wheat and ‖ Or nâ—isom weeds cockle in stead of barley The words of Job are ended CHAP. XXXII 1 Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends 6 Because wisdom cometh not from age he excuseth the boldness of his youth 11 He reproveth them for not satisfying of Job 16 His zeal to speak SO these three men ceased †Heb. from answering to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes 2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Bâ—zite of the kindred of Ram against Job was his wrath kindled because he justified †Heb. his soul himself rather then God 3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer and yet had condemned Job 4 Now Elihu had †Heb. expected Job in wards waited till Job had spoken because they were †Heb. elder for days elder then he 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men then his wrath was kindled 6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said I am †Heb. few of days young and ye are very old wherefore I was afraid and †Heb. feared durst not shew you mine opinion 7 I said Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom 8 But there is a spirit in a man and * Ch. 38.36 Pro. 2.6 Eccles 2.26 Dan. 1.17 2.21 the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding 9 Great men are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgement 10 Therefore I said Hearken to me I also will shew mine opinion 11 Behold I waited for your words I gave ear to your †Heb. understandings reasons whilst you searched out †Heb. words what to say 12 Yea I attended unto you and behold there was none of you that convinced Job or that answered his words 13 Lest ye should say We have found out wisdom God thrusteth him down not man 14 Now he hath not ‖ Or ordered his words directed his words against me neither will I answer him with your speeches 15 They were amazed they answered no more †Heb. they removed speeches from themselves they left off speaking 16 When I had waited for they spâ—ke not but stood still and answered no more 17 I said I will answer also my part I also will shew mine opinion 18 For I am full of †Heb. words mattâ—r †Heb. the spirit of my belly the spirit within me constraineth me 19 Behold my belly is as wine which †Heb. is not opened hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles 20 I will speak †Heb. that I may breathe that I may be refreshed I will open my lipâ— and answer 21 Let me not I pray you accept any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man 22 For I know not to give flattering titles in so doing my maker would soon take me away CHAP. XXXIII 1 Elihu offereth himself in stead of God with sincerity and meekness to reason with Job 8 He excuseth God from giving man an account of his ways by his greatness 14 God calleth man to repentance by visions 19 by afflictions 23 and by his ministry 31 He inciteth Job to attention WHerefore Job I pray thee hear my speeches and hearken to all my words 2 Behold now I have opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken †Heb. in my palate in my mouth 3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart and my lips shall uâ—ter knowledge clearly 4 The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life 5 If thou canst answer me set thy words in order before me sland up 6 * Ch. 9.35 13.20 21. Behold I am †Heb. according to thy mouth according to thy wish in Gods stead I also am †Heb. cut out of the clay formed out of the clay 7 Behold my terrour shall not make thee afraid neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee 8 Surely thou hast spoken †Heb. â—n mine â—ars in mine hearing and I have heard the voice of thy words saying 9 I am clean without transgression I am innocent neither is there iniquity in me 10 Behold he sindeth occasions against me he counteth me for his enemy 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks he marketh all my paths 12 Behold in this thou art not just I will answer thee that God is greater then man 13 Why dost thou strive against him for †Heb. he answereth not he giveth not account of any of his matters 14 For God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not 15 In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumbrings upon the bed 16 Then †Heb. he revealeth or uncovereth he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction 17 That he may withdraw man from his †Heb. work purpose and hide pride from man 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life †Heb. from passâ—â—â— by the sword from perishing by the sword 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed and the multitude of his
strength but wisdom is profitable to direct 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment and †Heb. the master of the tongue a babbler is no better 12 * Pr. 10.32 12.13 The words of a wise mans mouth are †Heb. grace gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness and the end of †Heb. his mouth his talk is mischievous madness 14 * Pr. 15.2 A fool also †Heb. multiplieth words is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be and * Ch. 3.22 6.12 what shall be after him who can tell him 15 The labour of the foolish wearteth every one of them because he knoweth not how to go to the city 16 ¶ * Is 3.3 4. Wo to thee O land when thy king is a childe and thy princes eat in the morning 17 Blessed art thou O land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season for strength not for drunkenness 18 ¶ By much flothfulness the building decayeth and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through 19 ¶ A feast is made for laughter and * Ps 104.15 wine †Heb. maketh glad the life maketh merry but money answereth all things 20 ¶ * Ex. 22.28 Curse not the king no not in thy ‖ Or conscience thought and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter CHAP. XI 1 Directions for charity 7 Death in life 9 and the day of judgement in the days of youth are to be thought on CAst thy bread †Heb. upon the face of the waters upon the waters for thou shalt finde it after * Deu. 15.10 Pr. 19.17 Mat. 10.42 many days 2 Give a portion to seven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth 3 If the clouds be full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth and if the tree fall toward the south or toward the north in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sowe and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with childe even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all 6 In the morning sowe thy seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand for thou knowest not whether †Heb. shall be right shall prosper either this or that or whether they both shall be alike good 7 ¶ Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun 8 But if a man live many years and rejoyce in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many All that cometh is vanity 9 ¶ Rejoyce 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 judgement 10 Therefore remove ‖ Or anger sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity CHAP. XII 1 The Creatour is to be remembred in due time 8 The preachers care to edifie 13 The fear of God is the chief antidote of vanity * Pr. 22.6 REmember now thy Creatour in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them 2 While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned not the clouds return after the rain 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and ‖ Or the grinders fail because they grinde little the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought sow 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and fears shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets 6 Or ever the â—ilver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern 7 * Gen. 3.19 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it 8 ¶ * Ch. 1.2 Vanity of vanities saith the preacher all is vanity 9 And ‖ Or the more wise the preacher was c. moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge yea he gave good heed and sought out and * 1 Kin. 4.32 set in order many proverbs 10 The preacher sought to finde out †Heb. words of delight acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth 11 The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastned by the masters of assemblies which are given from one shepherd 12 And further by these my son be admonished of making many books there is no end and much ‖ Or reading study is a weariness of the flesh 13 ¶ ‖ Or The end of the matter even all that hath-been heard is Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man 14 For * Ro. 2.16 14.20 2 Cor. â— 10 God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil ¶ The SONG of SOLOMON CHAP. I. 1 The churches lovâ— unto Christ 5 She confesseth her deformity 7 and prayeth to be â—irested to his flock 8 Christ directeth her to the shepherds tents 9 and shewing his love to her 11 giveth her gracious promises 12 The church and Christ congratulate one another THe song of songs which is Solomons 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth * Ch. 4.10 for †Heb. thy loves thy love is better then wine 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth therefore do the virgins love thee 4 * Joh. 6.44 Draw me we will run after thee the king hath brought me into his chambers we will be glad and rejoyce in thee we will remember thy love more then wine ‖ Or they love thee uprightly the upright love thee 5 I am
but not of my spirit that they may add sin to sin 2 That walk to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion 4 For his princes were at Zoan and his ambassadours came to Hanes 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them nor be an help nor profit but a shame and also a reproach 6 The burden of the beasts of the south into the land of trouble and anguish from whence come the young and old lion the viper and fiery slying serpent they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not profit them 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cried ‖ Or to her concerning this Their strength is to sit still 8 ¶ Now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book that it may be for †Heb. the latter â—ay the time to come for ever and ever 9 That this is a rebellious people lying children children that will not hear the law of the LORD 10 Which say to the seers See not and to the prophets Prophesie not unto us right things speak unto us smooth things prophesie deceits 11 Get you out of the way turn aside out of the path cause the holy One of Israel to cease from before us 12 Wherefore thus saith the holy One of Israel Because ye despise this word and trust in ‖ Or fraud oppression and perversness and stay thereon 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of †Heb. the bottle of potters the potters vessel that is broken in pieces he shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth or to take water withal out of the pit 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD the holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in considence shall be your strength and ye would not 16 But ye said No for we will flee upon horses therefore shall ye flee and we will ride upon the swift therefore shall they that pursue you be swift 17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one at the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be left as ‖ Or a tree bereft of branches or boughs or a mast a beacon upon the top of a mountain and as an ensigne on an hill 18 ¶ And therefore will the LORD wait that he may be gracious unto you and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the LORD is a God of judgement * Psal 2.12 and 24.8 Prov. 16.20 Jer. 17.7 blessed are all they that wait for him 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem thou shalt weep no more he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of ‖ Or oppression affliction yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of †Heb. the graven images of thy silver thy graven images of silver and the ornament of thy molten images of gold thou shalt †Heb. seatter cast them away as a menstruous cloth thou shalt say unto it Get thee hence 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed that thou shalt sowe the ground withal and bread of the increase of the earth and it shall be fat and plenteous in that day shall thy cattel feed in large pastures 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that eare the ground shall eat ‖ Or savoury †Heb. leavened clean provender which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every †Heb. lifted up high hill rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold as the light of seven days in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth the stroke of their wound 27 ¶ Behold the name of the LORD cometh from far burning with his anger ‖ Or and the grievousness of fame and the burden thereof is †Heb. heaviness heavy his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire 28 And his breath as an overflowing stream shall reach to the midst of the neck to sift the nations with the live of vanity and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people causing them to err 29 Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD to the †Heb. rock mighty One of Israel 30 And the LORD shall cause †Heb. the glory his voice his glorious voice to be heard and shall shew the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire with scattering and tempest and hailstones 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down which smote with the rod. 32 And †Heb. every passing of the rod founded in every place where the grounded staff shall pass which the LORD shall †Heb. cause to rest upon him lay upon him it shall be with tabrets and harps and in battels of shaking will he fight ‖ Or against them with it 33 For Tophet is ordained †Heb. from yesterday of old yea for the king it is prepared he hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it CHAP. XXXI 1 The prophet sheweth the cursed folly in trusting to Egypt and forsaking of God 6 He exhorteth to conversion 8 He sheweth the fall of Assyria WO to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in hors-men because they are very strong but they look not unto the holy One of
for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia He is come forth to make war with thee and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah saying 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah saying Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee saying Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria 11 Behold thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Telassar 13 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim Hena and Ivah 14 ¶ And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD saying 16 O LORD of hosts God of Israel that dwellest between the cherubims thou art the God even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth 17 Incline thine ear O LORD and hear open thine eyes O LORD and see and hear all the words of Sennacherib which hath sent to reproach the living God 18 Of a truth LORD the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the †Heb. lands nations and their countreys 19 And have †Heb. given cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods but the work of mens hands wood and stone therefore they have destroyed them 20 Now therefore O LORD our God save us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD even thou onely 21 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amòz sent unto Hezekiah saying Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high even against the holy One of Israel 24 †Heb. By the hand of thy servants By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord and hast said By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains to the sides of Lebanon and I will cut down †Heb. the talness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof the tall cedars thereof and the choice fir-trees thereof and I will enter into the height of his border and ‖ Or the forest and his fruitful field the forest of his Carmel 25 I have dâ—gged and drunk water and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the ‖ Or fineed and closed besieged places 26 ‖ Or Hast thou not beard how I have made it long ago and formed it of ancient times should I now bring it to be laid waste and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it and of ancient times that I have formed it now have I brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps 27 Therefore their inhabitants were †Heb. short of hand 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 hous-tops and as corn blasted before it be grown up 28 But I know thy ‖ Or sitting abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me 29 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore will I put my book in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest 30 And this shall be a signe unto thee Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself and the second year that which springeth of the same and in the third year sowe ye and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof 31 And †Heb. the escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and †Heb. the escaping they that escape out of mount Zion the * 2 Kin. 19.31 Ch. 9.7 zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shields nor cast a bank against it 34 By the way that he came by the same shall he return and shall not come into this city saith the LORD 35 For I will * 2 Kin. 20.6 defend this city to save it for mine own sake and for my servant Davids sake 36 Then the * 2 Kin 19.35 angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred and fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning behold they were all dead corpses 37 ¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh 38 And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of †Heb. Ararat Armenia and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXXVIII 1 Hezekiah having received a messave of death by prayer hath his life lengthned 8 The sun goeth ten degrees backward for a signe of that promise 9 His song of thanksgiving IN * 2 Kin. 20.1 2 Chr. 32.24 those days was Hezekiah sick unto death and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him and said unto him Thus saith the LORD †Heb. Give charge concerning thy house Set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the LORD 3 And said Remember now O LORD I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight and Hezekiah wept †Heb. with great weeping sore 4 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD to Isaian saying 5 Go and say to Hezekiah Thus saith the LORD the God of David thy father I have heard thy prayer I have seen thy tears behold I will add unto thy days fifteen years 6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of
I will build them and not pull them down and I will plant them and not pluck them up 7 And I will give them * Deu. 30.6 Ch. 32.39 Ezek. 1â— 19 and 35.25.27 an heart to know me that I am the LORD and they shall be * Ch. 30.12 and 31.33 and 32.38 my people and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart 8 ¶ And as the evil * Ch. 29.17 figs which cannot be eaten they are so evil surely thus saith the LORD So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remain in this land and them that dwell in the land of Egypt 9 And I will deliver them †Heb. for removing or vexation to * Deu. 28.25 Ch. 11. â— be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt to be a reproach and a proverb a taunt and a curse in all places whither I shall drive them 10 And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers CHAP. XXV 1 Jeremiah reproving the Jews disobedience to the prophets 8 foretelleth the seventy years captivity 12 and after that the destruction of Babylon 15Vnder the type of a cup of wine be foresheweth the destruction of all nations 34 The howling of the shepherds THe word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah even unto this day that is the three and twentieth year the word of the LORD hath come unto me and I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye have not hearkned 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets * Ch. 29.19 rising early and sending them but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear to hear 5 They said * 2 Kin. 17.13 Ch. 18.11 and 35.15 Jon. 3.8 Turn ye again now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever 6 And go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands and I will do you no hurt 7 Yet ye have not hearkned unto me saith the LORD that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt 8 ¶ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Because ye have not heard my words 9 Behold I will send and take all the families of the north saith the LORD and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and an hissing and perpetual desolations 10 Moreover †Heb. I will cause to perish from them I will take from them the * Gâ—l 7.34 and 16.9 Ezek. 26.13 Hos 2.11 voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the sound of the milstones and the light of the candle 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years 12 And it shall come to pass * 2 Chr. 36.21.22 Ezt. 1.1 Ch. 29.10 Dan. 9.2 when seventy years are accomplished that I will †Heb. visit upon punish the king of Babylon and that nation saith the LORD for their iniquity and the land of the Caldeans and will make it perpetual desolations 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it even all that is written in this book which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations 14 For many nations and great kings shall * Ch. 27.7 serve themselves of them also and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands 15 ¶ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me Take the * Job 21.20 Ps 75.8 Is 51.17 wine-cup of this fury at my hand and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it 16 And they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of the sword that I will send among them 17 Then took I the cup at the LORDS hand and made all the nations to drink unto whom the LORD had sent me 18 To wit Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings thereof and the princes thereof to make them a desolation an astonishment an hissing and a curse as it is this day 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants and his princes and all his people 20 And all the mingled people and all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines and Ashkelon and Azzah and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod 21 * Ch. 49.7 c. Edom and * Ch. 48. Moah and the children of * Ch. 49.1 Ammon 22 And all the kings of * Ch. 47.4 Tyrus and all the kings of Zidon and the kings of the ‖ Or region by the sea-side isles which are beyond the * Ch. 49.23 sea 23 * Ch. 49.28 Dedan and Tema and Buz and all †Heb. cut off into corners or having the corners of the hair polled Ch. 9.26 that are in the utmost corners 24 And all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the * Ch. 49.31 mingled people that dwell in the desert 25 And all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of * Ch. 49.34 Elam and all the kings of the Medes 26 And all the kings of the north far and near one with another and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them 27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Drink ye and be drunken and spue and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you 28 And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink then shalt thou say unto them Thus saith the LORD of hosts Ye shall certainly drink 29 For lo I begin to bring evil on the * 1 Pet. 4.17 city †Heb. upon which my name is called which is called by my name and should ye be utterly unpunished ye shall not be unpunished for I will call for a sword
speaketh the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest and to all the priests saying 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jeholada the priest that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD for every man that is * 2 Kin. 9.11 Act. 26.24 mad and maketh himself a prophet that thou shouldest put him in prison and in the stocks 27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth which maketh himself a prophet to you 28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon saying This captivity is long build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet 30 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying 31 Send to all them of the captivity saying Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you and I sent him not and he caused you to trust in a lie 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed he shall not have a man to dwell among this people neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people saith the LORD * Ch. 28.16 because he hath taught †Heb. revolt rebellion against the LORD CHAP. XXX 1 God sheweth Jeremiah the return of the Jews 4 After their trouble they shall have deliverance 10 He comforteth Jacob. 18 Their return shall be â—racious 20 Wrath shall fall on the wicked THe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying 2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel saying Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book 3 For so the days come saith the LORD that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah saith the LORD and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they shall possess it 4 ¶ And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah 5 For thus saith the LORD We have heard a voice of trembling ‖ Or there is fear and not peace of fear and not of peace 6 Ask ye now and see whether †Heb. a male a man doth travail with childe wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loyns as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness 7 * â—oâ—i 2.1 1. Am 5.18 Zeph. 1.14 c. Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be saved out of it 8 For it shall come to pass in that day saith the LORD of hosts that I will break his yoke from off thy neck and will burst thy bonds and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God and * Ezek. 24.28 â—7 24 Hos 3.5 David their king whom I will raise up unto them 10 ¶ Therefore * Isa 41.13 43.5 44.2 Ch 46.28 fear thou not O my servant Jacob saith the LORD neither be dismayed O Israel for so I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return and shall be in rest and quiet and none shall make him afraid 11 For I am with thee saith the LORD to save thee though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee yet will I not make a full end of thee but I will correct thee * Ps 6.1 Ch. 10.24 and 46.28 in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished 12 For thus saith the LORD Thy bruise is incurable and thy wound is grievous 13 There is none to plead thy cause †Heb. for binding up or pressing that thou mayest be bound up thou hast no healing medicines 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee they seek thee not for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased 15 Why * Ch. 15.18 criest thou for thine affliction thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee 16 Therefore all they that devour thee * Ex 22.22 〈◊〉 41.11 shall be devoured and all thine adversaries every one of them shall go into captivity and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey 17 For I will restore health unto thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds saith the LORD because they called thee an outcast saying This is Zion whom no man seeketh after 18 ¶ Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacobs tents and have mercy on his dwelling-places and the city shall be builded upon her own ‖ Or â—ittle hill heap and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry and I will multiply them and they shall not be few I will also glorifie them and they shall not be small 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime and their congregation shall be established before me and I will punish all that oppress them 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves and their governour shall proceed from the midst of them and I will cause him to draw near and he shall approach unto me for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me saith the LORD 22 And ye shall be * Ch. 24.7 and 31.22 and 32.38 my people and I will be your God 23 Behold the * Ch. 23.19 20. whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury a †Heb. cutting continuing whirlwind it shall ‖ Or remain fall with pain upon the head of the wicked 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until he have done it and until he have performed the intents of his heart in the latter days ye shall consider it CHAP. XXXI 1 The restauration of Israel 10 The publication thereof 15 Rahel mourning is comforted 18 Ephraim repenting is brought home again 22 Christ is promised 27 His careover the church 31 His new covenant 35 The stability 38 and amplitude of the church AT the same time saith the LORD will I be the God of all the families of Israel and they shall be my people 2 Thus saith the LORD The people which were lest of the sword found grace in the wilderness even Israel when I went to cause him to rest 3 The LORD hath appeared †Heb. from afar of old unto me saying Yea I have loved thee with an
off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done saith the LORD 38 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that the city shall be built to the LORD from the towre of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner 39 And the measuring-line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron unto the corner of the hors-gate towards the east shall be holy unto the LORD it shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever CHAP. XXXII 1 Jeremiah being imprisoned by Zedekiah for his prophesie 6 buyeth Hanameels field 13 Baruch must preserve the evidences as tokens of the peoples return 16 Jeremiah in his prayer complaineth to God 26 God confirmeth the captivity for their sins 36 and promiseth a gracious return THe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar 2 For then the king of Babylons army besieged Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison which was in the king of Judahs house 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up saying Wherefore dost thou prophesie and say Thus saith the LORD * Ch. 34.2 Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon he shall take it 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Caldeans but shall surely * Chap. 34.3 be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him mouth to mouth and his eyes shall behold his eyes 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon and there shall he be until I visit him saith the LORD though ye fight with the Caldeans ye shall not prosper 6 ¶ And Jeremiah said The word of the LORD came unto me saying 7 Behold Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying Buy thee my field that is in Anathoâ—h for the * Levit. 25.24 Ruth 4.4 right of redemption is thine to buy it 8 So Hanameel mine uncles son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD and said unto me Buy my field I pray thee that is in Anathoth which is in the countrey of Benjamin for the right of inheritance is thine and the redemption is thine buy it for thy self then I knew that this was the word of the LORD 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even ‖ Or seven shekels and ten pieces of silver seventeen shekels of silver 10 And I †Heb. wrote in the book subscribed the evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase both that which was sealed according to the law and custom and that which was open 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah the son of Maaseiah in the sight of Hanameel mine uncles son and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison 13 ¶ And I charged Baruch before them saying 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Take these evidences this evidence of the purchase both which is sealed and this evidence which is open and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land 16 ¶ Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah I prayed unto the LORD saying 17 Ah Lord GOD behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm and there is nothing ‖ Or hid from thee too hard for thee 18 Thou shewest * Exod. 34.7 Deut. 5.10 loving kindness unto thousands and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the great the mighty God the LORD of hosts is his name 19 Great in counsel and mighty in †Heb. doing work for thine * Job 34.21 Prov. 5.21 Chap. 16.17 eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even unto this day and in Israel and amongst other men and hast made thee a name as at this day 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel * Exod. 6.6 2 Sam. 7.23 1 Chron. 17.21 out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terrour 22 And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey 23 And they came in and possessed it but they obeyed not thy voice neither walked in thy law they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them 24 Behold the ‖ Or engines of shot mounts they are come unto the city to take it and the city is given into the hand of the Caldeans that fight against it because of the sword and of the famine and of the pestilence and what thou hast spoken is come to pass and behold thou seest it 25 And thou hast said unto me O Lord GOD Buy thee the field for money and take witnesses for the city is given into the hand of the Caldeans 26 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying 27 Behold I am the LORD the * Numb 16.22 God of all flesh Is there any thing too hard for me 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will give this city into the hand of the Caldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he shall take it 29 And the Caldeans that fight against this city shall come and set fire on this city and burn it with the houses * Chap. 19.13 upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have onely done evil before me from their youth for the children of Israel have onely provoked me to anger with the work of their hands saith the LORD 31 For this city hath been to me as †Heb. for my anger a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day that I should remove it from before my face 32
the ears of the people 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah the son of Shelemiah the son of Cushi unto Baruch saying Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people and come So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came unto them 15 And they said unto him Sit down now and read it in our ears So Baruch read it in their ears 16 Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words they were afraid both one and other and said unto Baruch We will surely tell the king of all these words 17 And they asked Baruch saying Tell us now How didst thou write all these words at his mouth 18 Then Baruch answered them He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth and I wrote them with ink in the book 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch Go hide thee thou and Jeremiah and let no man know where ye be 20 ¶ And they went in to the king into the court but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and told all the words in the ears of the king 21 So the king sent Jehudi to set the roll and he took it out of Elishama the scribes chamber and Jehudi read it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king 21 So the king sent Jehudi to set the roll and he took it out of Elishama the scribes chamber and Jehudi read it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king 22 Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth moneth and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him 23 And it came to pass that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves he cut it with the pen-knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth 24 Yet they were not afraid nor rent their garments neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words 25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll but he would not heat them 26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son ‖ Or oâ—tiâ— king of Hammelech and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet but the LORD hid them 27 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after that the king had burnt the roll and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah saying 28 Take thee again another roll and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehorakim king of Judah hath burnt 29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah Thus saith the LORD Thou hast burnt this roll saying Why hast thou written therein saying The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast 30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David and his dead body shall be * Chap. 22.19 cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost 31 And I will †Heb. visit upon punish him and his seed 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 hearkned not 32 ¶ Then took Jeremiah another roll and gave it to Baruch the scribe the son of Neriah who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burnt in the fire and there were added besides unto them many †Heb. 〈◊〉 they like words CHAP. XXXVII 1 The Egyptians having raised the siege of the Caldeans king Zedekiah sendeth to Jeremiah to pray for the people 6 Jeremiah prophesieth the Caldeans certain return and victory 11 He is taken for a fugitive beaten and put in prison 16 He assureth Zedekiah of the captivity 18 Intreating for his liberty he obtaineth some favour ANd king * 2 Kin. 24.17 2 Chr. 36.10 Chap. 22.24 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned in stead of Coniah the son of Jehoikim whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah 2 But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land did hearken unto the words of the LORD which he spake †Heb. by the hand of the prophet by the prophet Jeremiah 3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah saying Pray now unto the LORD our God for us 4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people for they had not put him into prison 5 Then Pharaohs army was come forth out of Egypt and when the Caldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them they departed from Jerusalem 6 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying 7 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah that sent you unto me to enquire of me Behold Pharaohs army which is come forth to help you shall return to Egypt into their own land 8 And the Caldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire 9 Thus saith the LORD Deceive not your †Heb. soult selves saying The Caldeans shall surely depart from us for they shall not depart 10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Caldeans that fight against you and there remained but †Heb. thrust through wounded men among them yet should they rise up every man in his tent and burn this city with fire 11 ¶ And it came to pass that when the army of the Caldeans was †Heb. made to osâ—end broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaohs army 12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin ‖ Or to slip away from thence in the midst of the people to separate himself thence in the mids of the people 13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin a captain of the ward was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah and he took Jeremiah the prophet saying Thou fallest away to the Caldeans 14 Then said Jeremiah It is †Heb. falshood or a lie false I fall not away to the Caldeans but he hearkned not to him so Irijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the princes 15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe for they
they went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they knew not neither they you nor your fathers 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets rising eâ—â—ly and sending them saying Oh do not this abominable thing that I hate 5 But they hearkned not nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness to burn no incense unto other gods 6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem and they are wasted and desolate as at this day 7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls to cut off from you man and woman childe and suckling †Heb. out of the midst of Juâ—â—â— out of Judah to leave you none to remain 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt whither ye be gone to dwell that ye might cut your selves off and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth 9 Have ye forgotten the †Heb. wickednesses or â—â—nishments c. wickedness of your fathers and the wickedneâ—s of the kings of Judah and the wickedness of their wives and your own wickedness and the wickedness of your wives which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem 10 They are not †Heb. contrite humbled even unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers 11 ¶ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold * Auâ—â—s 9.4 I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine they shall die from the least even unto the greatest by the sword and by the famine and they shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach 13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt as I havâ— punished Jerusalem by the sword by the famine and by the pentilence 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah which are gone into the land or Egypt to so journ there shall escape or remain that they should return into the land of Judah to the which they †Heb. â—ift up their soul have a desire to return to dwell there for none shall return but such as shall escape 15 ¶ Then all the men which knew that their wives had burnt incense unto other gods and all the women that stood by a great multitude even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Pathies answered Jeremiah saying 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD we will not hearken unto thee 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the ‖ Or. frame of heaâ—en * Chap. 7.18 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 †Heb. bread victuals and were well and saw no evil 18 But since we lest off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink-offerings unto her we have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine 19 * Chap. â— 18 And when we burnt 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 ‖ Or husbandâ— men 20 ¶ Then Jeremiah said unto all the people to the men and to the women and to all the people which had given him that answer saying 21 The incense that ye burnt in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ye and your fathers your kings and your princes and the people of the land did not the LORD remember them and came it not into his minde 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which ye have committed therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse without an inhabitant as at this day 23 Because you have burnt incense and because ye have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD not walked in his law nor in his statutes nor in his testimomes therefore this evil is hapned unto you as at this day 24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people and to all the women Hear the word of the LORD all Judah that are in the land of Egypt 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouthes and fulfilled with your hand saying We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink-offering unto her ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows 26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt Behold I have sworn by my great name saith the LORD that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt saying The Lord GOD liveth 27 Behold I will watch over them for evil and not for good and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until there be an end of them 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah and all the remnant of Judah that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there shall know whore words shall stand †Heb. from 〈◊〉 or from them mine or theirs 29 ¶ And this shall be a signe unto you saith the LORD that I will punâ—â—â— you in this place that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil 30 Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of them that seek his life as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon his enemy and that sought his life CHAP. XLV 1 Baruch being dismâ—â—ed 4 Jeremiah instructeth and comforteth him THe word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah when he had written these words in a book at
her saith the LORD 54 A found of a cry cometh from Babylon and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon and destroyed out of her the great voice when her waves do roar like great waters a noise of their voice is uttered 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her even upon Babylon and her mighty men are taken every one of their bows is broken for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite 57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men her captains and her rulers and her mighty men and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the King whose name is the LORD of hosts 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts ‖ Or The walls of broad Babylon The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly ‖ Or made naked broken and her high gates shall be burnt with fire and the people shall labour in vain and the folk in the fire and they shall be weary 59 ¶ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah the son of Maaseiah when he went ‖ Or on the behalf of with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign and this Seraiah was a ‖ Or prince of Menucha or chief chamberlain quiet prince 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon even all these words that are written against Babylon 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these words 62 Then shalt thou say O LORD thou hast spoken against this place to cut it off that none shall remain in it neither man nor beast but that it shall be †Heb. desolations desolate for ever 63 And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this book that thou shalt binde a stone to it cast it into the midst of Euphrates 64 And thou shalt say Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her and they shall be weary Thus far are the words of Jeremiah CHAP. LII 1 Zedekiah rebelleth 4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken 8 Zedekiahs sons killed and his own eyes put out 12 Nebuzar-adan burneth and spoileth the city 24 He carrieth away the captives 31 Evil-merodach advanceth Jehoiachin ZEdekiah was * 2 Kin. 24.18 one and twenty year old when he †Heb. reigned began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD according to all that Jehoiakim had done 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah till he had cast them out from his presence that Zedekiah revelled against the king of Babylon 4 ¶ And it came to pass in the * 2 Kin. 25.1 Ch. 39.1 ninth year of his reign in the the moneth in the tenth day of the moneth that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came he and all his army against Jerusalem and pitched against it and built forts against it round about 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah 6 And in the fourth moneth in the ninth day of the moneth the famine was fore in the city so that there was no bread for the people of the land 7 Then the city was broken up and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls which was by the kings garden now the Caldeans were by the city round about and they went by the way of the plain 8 ¶ But the army of the Caldeans pursued after the king and overtook 9 Then they took the king and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he gave judgement upon him 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah 11 Then he †Heb. blinded put out the eyes of Zedekiah and the king of Babylon bound him in ‖ Or fetters chains and carried him to Babylon and put him in †Heb. house of the wards prison till the day of his death 12 ¶ Now in the fifth moneth in the tenth day of the moneth which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came Nebuzar-adam ‖ Or chief marshal †Heb. chief of the executioners or slaughter-men And so v. ◠14. c. captain of the guard which †Heb. stood before served the king of Babylon into Jerusalem 13 And burnt the house of the LORD and the kings house and all the houses of Jerusalem and all the houses of the great men burnt he with fire 14 And all the army of the Caldeans that were with the captain of the guard brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people and the residue of the people that remained in the city and those that fell away that fell to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and for husbandmen 17 Also the * Ch. 27.19 pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD and the bases and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD the Caldeans brake and carried all the brass of them to Babylon 18 The caldrons also and the ‖ Or instruments to remove the ashes shovels and the snuffers and the ‖ Or basons bowls and the spoons and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministred took they away 19 And the basons and the ‖ Or censers fire-pans and the bowls and the caldrons and the candlesticks and the spoons and the cups that which was of gold in gold and that which was of silver in silver took the captain of the guard away 20 The two pillars one sea and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD †Heb. their brass the brass of all these vessels was without weight 21 And concerning the * 1 Kin. 7.15 2 Kin. 25.17 2 Chr. 3.15 pillars the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits and a †Heb. threed fillet of twelve cubits did compass it and the thickness thereof was four singers it was hollow 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it and the height of one chapiter was five cubits with net-work and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about all of brass the second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side and all the
the inhabitants of the world would not have beleeved that the adversary and the enemy should have entred into the gates of Jerusalem 13 ¶ * Jer. 5.31 and 23.21 For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests that have shed the bloud of the just in the midst of her 14 They have wandred as blinde men in the streets they have polluted themselves with bloud ‖ Or in that they could not but touch so that men could not touch their garments 15 They cried unto them Depart ye ‖ Or ye polluted it is unclean depart depart touch not when they fled away and wandred they said among the heathen They shall no more sojourn there 16 The ‖ Or faâ—â— anger of the LORD hath divided them he will no more regard them they respected not the persons of the priests they favoured not the elders 17 As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain help in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us 18 They hunt out steps that we cannot go in our streets our end is near our days are fulfilled for our end is come 19 Our persecutours are swifter then the eagles of the heaven they pursued us upon the mountains they said wait for us in the wilderness 20 The * Gen. 2.7 breath of our nostrils the anointed of the LORD was taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen 21 Rejoyce and be glad O daughter of Edom that dwellest in the land of Uz the cup also shall pass through unto thee thou shalt be drunken and shalt make thy self naked 22 ¶ ‖ Or Thine iniquity 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 ‖ Or carry thee captive for thy sins discover thy sins CHAP. V. A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God REmember O LORD what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers our houses to aliens 3 We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows 4 We have drunken our water for money our wood †Heb. cometh for price is sold unto us 5 †Heb. on our necks are we persecuted Our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread 7 * Jer. 31.29 Ezek. 18.2 Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have born their iniquities 8 Servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness 10 Our * Ps 119.83 skin was black like an oven because of the ‖ Or terrours or storms terrible famine 11 They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the cities of Judah 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of elders were not honoured 13 They took the young men to grinde and the children fell under the wood 14 The elders have ceased from the gate the young men from their musick 15 The joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning 16 †Heb. the crown of our head is fallen The crown is faln from our head wo unto us that we have sinned 17 For this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are dim 18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate the foxes walk upon it 19 Thou O LORD * Ps 9.7 c 29.10 and 102.12 and 145.13 remainest for ever thy throne from generation to generation 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us †Heb. for â—ength of days so long time 21 * Jer. 31.18 Turn thou us unto thee O LORD and we shall be turned renew our days as of old 22 ‖ Or For wilt thou utterly reject uâ—â— But thou hast utterly rejected us thou art very wroth against us ¶ The book of the Prophet EZEKIEL CHAP. I. 1 The time of Ezekiels prophesie at Chebar 4 His vision of four therubims 15 of the four wheels 2â— and of the glory of GOD. NOw it came to pass in the thirtieth year in the fourth moneth in the fifth day of the moneth as I was among the †Heb. captivity captives by the river of Chebar that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God 2 In the fifth day of the moneth which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachins captivity 3 The word of the LORD came expresly unto †Heb. Jekezkel Ezekiel the priest the son of Buzi in the land of the Caldeans by the river Chebar and the hand of the LORD was there upon him 4 ¶ And I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north a great cloud and a fire †Heb. catching it self infolding it self and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber out of the midst of the fire 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures And this was their appearance They had the likeness of a man 6 And every one had four faces and every one had four wings 7 And their feet were †Heb. a strait foot strait feet and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calves foot and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides and they four had their faces and their wings 9 Their wings were joyned one to another they turned not when they went they went every one strait forward 10 As for the likeness of their faces they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they four had the face or an ox on the left side they four also had the face of an eagle 11 Thus were their faces and their wings were ‖ Or artâ—â—â— aâ—â—â— stretched upward two wings of every one were joyned one to another and two covered their bodies 12 And they went every one strait forward whither the spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures their appearance was like burning coals of fire and like the appearance of lamps it went up and down among the living creatures and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning 15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with his four faces 16 The apâ—earance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl and they four had one
border of Reuben from the east-side unto the west-side a portion for Judah 8 ¶ And by the border of Judah from the east-side unto the west-side shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth and in length as one of the other parts from the east-side unto the west-side and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it 9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length and of ten thousand in breadth 10 And for them even for the priests shall be this holy oblation toward the north five and twenty thousand in length and toward the west ten thousand in breadth and toward the east ten thousand in breadth and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof 11 ‖ Or the sanctified portion shall be for the priests It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok which have kept my ‖ Or ward or ordinance charge which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray 12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites 13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth all the length shall be five and twenty thousand and the breadth ten thousand 14 And they shall not sell of it neither exchange nor alienate the first-fruits of the land for it is holy unto the LORD 15 ¶ And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand shall be a profane place for the city for dwelling and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof 16 And these shall be the measures thereof the north side four thousand and five hundred and the south-side four thousand and five hundred and on the east-side four thousand and five hundred and the west-side four thousand and five hundred 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two hundred and fifty 18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand east-ward and ten thousand west-ward and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city 19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel 20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation four-square with the possession of the city 21 ¶ And the residue shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east-border and west-ward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west-border over against the portions for the prince and it shall be the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof 22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites and from the possession of the city being in the midst of that which is the princes between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince 23 As for the rest of the tribes from the east-side unto the west-side Benjamin shall have †Heb. one portion a portion 24 And by the border of Benjamin from the east-side unto the west-side Simeon shall have a portion 25 And by the border of Simeon from the east-side unto the west-side Issachar a portion 26 And by the border of Issachar from the east-side unto the west-side Zebulun a portion 27 And by the border of Zebulun from the east-side unto the west-side Gad a portion 28 And by the border of Gad at the south-side south-ward the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of †Heb. Meribah-kadesh strife in Kadesh and to the river toward the great sea 29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance and these are their portions saith the Lord GOD. 30 ¶ And these are the goings out of the city on the north-side four thousand and five hundred measures 31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel three gates north-ward one gate of Reuben one gate of Judah one gate of Levi. 32 And at the east-side four thousand and five hundred and three gates and one gate of Joseph one gate of Benjamin one gate of Dan. 33 And at the south-side four thousand and five hundred measures and three gates one gate of Simeon one gate of Issachar one gate of Zebulun 34 At the west-side four thousand and five hundred with their three gates one gate of Gad one gate of Asher one gate of Naphtali 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures and the name of the city from that day shall be †Heb. Jebovah-shammah The LORD is there ¶ The book of DANIEL CHAP. I. 1 Jehoiakims captivity 3 Ashpenaz taketh Daniel Hananiah Misharl and Azariab 8 They refusing the kings portion do prosper with pulse and water 17 Their excellency in wisdom IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah * 2 Kin. 24.2 ◠Chr. 36.6 came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem and besieged it 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of God which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god 3 ¶ And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs that he should bring certain of the children of Israel and of the kings feed and of the princes 4 Children in whom was no blemish but well-favoured and skilful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge and understanding science and such as had ability in them to stand in the kings palace and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Caldeans 5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the kings meat and of †Heb. 〈◊〉 wine of 〈◊〉 drink the wine which he drank so nourishing them three years that at the end thereof they might stand before the king 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah 7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar and to Hananiah of Shadrach and to Mishael of Meshach and to Azariah of Abed-nego 8 ¶ But Daniel purposed in his
face but he said unto me Understand O son of man for at the time of the end shall be the vision 18 Now as he was speaking with me I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground but he touched me and †Heb. made me stand upon 〈◊〉 standing set me upright 19 And he said Behold I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be 20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia 21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king 22 Now that being broken whereas four stood up for it four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation but not in his power 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom when the transgressours †Heb. are accomplished are come to the full a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up 24 And his power shall be mighty but not by his own power and he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the †Heb. people of the holy ones holy people 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand and he shall magnifie himself in his heart and by ‖ Or prosperitâ— peace shall destroy many he shall also stand up against the prince of princes but he shall be * 2 Maâ— 9.9 broken without hand 26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true wherefore shut thou up the vision for it shall be for many days 27 And I Daniel fainted and was sick certain days afterward I rose up and did the kings business and I was astonished at the vision but none understood it CHAP. IX 1 Daniel considâ—ring the time of the captivity 3 maketh confession of sins 16 and prayeth for the restauration of Jerusalem 2â— Gaâ—riel informeth him of the seventy weeks IN the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus of the seed of the Medes ‖ Or in which he c. which was made king over the realm of the Caldeans 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years whereof the word of the LORD came to * Jer. 25 12 2â— 1â— Jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem 3 ¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes 4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God and made my confession and said O * Deut â—â— Neh. 1.5 Lord the great and dreadful God keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments 5 * Baruch 1.17 We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgements 6 Neither have we hearkned unto thy servants the prophets which spake in thy name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land 7 O Lord righteousness ‖ Or thou hast c. belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of faces as at this day to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and unto all Israel that are near and that are far off through all the countreys whither thou hast driven them because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee 8 O Lord * Baruch 1.15 to us belongeth confusion of face to our kings to our princes and to our fathers because we have sinned against thee 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him 10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in his laws which he set before us by his servants the prophets 11 Yea all Israel have transgressed thy law even by departing that they might not obey thy voice therefore the curse is poured upon us and the oath that is written in the * Lev. 26.14 c. Deut. 28.15 c. 29.20 c. 30.17 18 3â— 17 c. 32.19 c. law of Moses the servant of God because we have sinned against him 12 And he hath confirmed his words which he spake against us and against our judges that judged us by bringing upon us a great evil for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem 13 As * Lev 26.14 c. Deut. 23.15 Lam. 2.17 it is written in the law of Moses all this evil is come upon us yet †Heb. intreated we not the face of the c. made we not our prayer before the LORD our God that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy truth 14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil and brought it upon us for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth for we obeyed not his voice 15 And now O Lord our God that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and hast †Heb. made thee a name gotten thee * Exod. 14 18. renown as at this day we have sinned we have done wickedly 16 ¶ O Lord according to all thy righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem thy holy mountain because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us 17 Now therefore O our God hear the prayer of thy servant and his supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the Lords sake 18 O my God incline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our desolations and the city †Heb. whereupon thy name is callâ—â— which is called by thy name for we do not †Heb. cause to fall present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great mercies 19 O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do defer not for thine own sake O my God for thy city and thy people are called by thy name 20 ¶ And whiles I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God 21 Yea whiles I was speaking in prayer even the man * Ch. 8.16 Gabriel whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning being caused to flie †Heb with weaâ—â—â—ess or flight swiftly touched me about the time of the evening oblation 22 And he informed me and talked with me and said O Daniel I am now come forth †Heb. to make thee skilful of understanding to give thee skill
shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done 37 Neither shall he regard the god of his fathers nor the desire of women nor regard any god for he shall magnifie himself above all 38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of ‖ Or munitions †Heb. Mauzzim or as for the almighty God in his seat he shall honour yea he shall honour a god c. forces and a God whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold and silver and with precious stones and †Heb. things desired pleasant things 39 Thus shall he do in the †Heb. fortresses of munitions most strong holds with a strange God whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for †Heb. a price gain 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots and with hors men and with many ships and he shall enter into the countreys and shall overflow and pass over 41 He shall enter also into the ‖ Or goodly land †Heb. land of delight or ornament glorious land and many countreys shall be overthrown but these shall escape out of his hand even Edom and Moaâ— and the chief of the children of Ammon 42 He shall †Heb. send forth stretch forth his hand also upon the countreys and the land of Egypt shall not escape 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him therefore he sâ—â—ll go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the ‖ Or goodly †Heb. mountain of delicht of holiness glorious holy mountain yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him CHAP. XII 1 Michael shall deliver Israel from their troubles 5 Daniel is informed of the times ANd at that time shall Michael stand up the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake * Matth. 25.46 Joh. 5.29 some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt 3 And they that be ‖ Or teachers wise shall * Matth. 13.43 shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever 4 But thou O Daniel shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased 5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked and behold there stood other two the one on this side of the †Heb. lip bank of the river and the other on that side of the bank of the river 6 And one said to the man clothed in * Ch. 10. â— linen which was ‖ Or from above upon the waters of the river How long shall it be to the end of these wonders 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river when he * Rev. 10. â— 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 ‖ Or part an half and when he shall have accompâ—â—â—hed to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished 8 And I heard but I understood not then said I O my Lord what shall be the end of these things 9 And he said Go thy way Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end 10 Many shall be purified and made white and tried but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and †Heb. to set up the abomination c. the abomination that ‖ Or astonisheth maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two handred and ninety days 12 Bressed is he that waâ—tâ—th and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days 13 But go thou thy way till the and be ‖ Or and thou c. for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lâ—t at the end of the days ¶ HOSEA CHAP. I. 1 Hosea to shew Gods judgement for spiritual wheredom taketh Gomer 〈◊〉 and hath by her Jezreel 6 Lo-ruhamah 8 and Lo-ammi 10 The restauration of Judah and Israel THe word of the LORD that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea and the LORD said to Hosea Go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms for the land hath committed great whoredom departing from the LORD 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim which conceived and bare him a son 4 And the LORD said unto him Call his name Jezreel for yet a little while and I will †Heb. visit avenge the bloud of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel 5 And it shall come to pass at that day that I will break the bowe of Israel in the valley of Jezreel 6 ¶ And she conceived again and bare a daughter and God said unto him Call her name ‖ That is not having obtained mercy Lo-ruhamah for †Heb. I will not and any more to I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel ‖ Or that I should altogâ—ther pardon them but I will utterly take them away 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them by the LORD their God and will not save them by bowe nor by sword nor by battel by horses nor by hors-men 8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah she conceived and bare a son 9 Then said God Call his name ‖ That is Not my people Lo-ammi for ye are not my people and I will not be your God 10 ¶ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor numbred * Rom. 9.25 26.
of your ground neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field saith the LORD of hosts 12 And all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a delightsom land saith the LORD of hosts 13 ¶ Your words have been * Job 21.14 stout against me saith the LORD yet ye say What have we spoken so much against thee 14 Ye have said It is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept †Heb. his observation his ordinance and that we have walked †Heb. in black mournfully before the LORD of hosts 15 And now we call the proud happy yea they that work wickedness †Heb. are built are set up yea they that * Ps 95.9 tempt God are even delivered 16 ¶ Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another and the LORD hearkned and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD and that thought upon his name 17 And they shall be mine saith the LORD of hosts in that day when I make up my ‖ Or special treasure jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him 18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not CHAP. IV. 1 Gods judgement on the wicked 2 and his blessing on the good 4 He exhorteth to the study of the law 5 and telleth of Elijahs coming and office FOr behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the LORD of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch 2 ¶ But unto you that fear my name shall the * Luk. 1.78 sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the LORD of hosts 4 ¶ Remember ye the * Exod. 20.3 law of Moses my servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and judgements 5 ¶ Behold I will send you * Mat. 11.14 Mar. 9.11 Luk. 1.17 Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse The end of the Prophets APOCRYPHA I. ESDRAS CHAP. I. 1 Josias his charge to the priests and Levites 7 A great pass-over is kept 32 His death is much lamented 34 His successours 53 The temple eity and people are destroyed 56 Therest are carried unto Babylon ANd Josias held the * 2 Kings 23.21 2 Chr. 35.1 feast of the pass-over in Jerusalem unto his Lord and offered the pass-over the fourteenth day of the first moneth 2 Having set the priests according to their daily courses being arayed in long garments in the temple of the Lord. 3 And he spake unto the Levites the holy ministers of Israel that they should hallow themselves unto the Lord to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that king Solomon the son of David had built 4 And said Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders now therefore serve the Lord your God and minister unto his people Israel and prepare you after your families and kindreds 5 According as David the king of Israel prescribed and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son and standing in the temple according to the several dignity of the families of you the Levites who minister in the presence of your brethren the children of Israel 6 Offer the pass-over in order and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren and keep the pass-over according to the commandment of the Lord which was given unto Moses 7 And unto the people that was found there Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids and three thousand calves these things were given of the kings allowance according as he promised to the people to the priests and to the Levites 8 And Helkias Zacharias and ‖ Or Jâ—â—iâ—l Syelus the governours of the temple gave to the priests for the pass-over two thousand and six hundred sheep and three hundred calves 9 And Jeconias and Samaias and Nathanael his brother and Assabias and Ochiel and Joram captains over thousands gave to the Levites for the pass-over five thousand sheep and ‖ Or fâ—â—e hundred calves 2 Chr. 35.9 seven hundred calves 10 And when these things were done the priests and Levites having the unleavened bread stood in very comely order according to the kindreds 11 And according to the several dignities of the fathers before the people to offer to the Lord as it is written in the book of Moses * 2 Chr. 35.13 and so of the â—â—â—locks and thus did they in the morning 12 And they rosted the pass-over with fire as appertaineth as for the sacrifices they sod them in brass pots and pans ‖ Or with good sâ—â—d or willingly 2 Chr. 35.13 with a good savour 13 And set them before all the people and afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests their brethren the sons of Aaron 14 For the priests offered the fat until night and the Levites prepared for themselves and the priests their brethren the sons of Aaron 15 The holy singers also the sons of Asaph were in their order according to the appointment * 2. Chr. 35.15 of David and Asaph of David to wit Asaph Zacharias and Jeduthun who was * 2 Chr. 35.15 the kings stâ—â— of the kings retinue 16 Moreover the porters were at every gate it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service for their brethren the Levites prepared for them 17 Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day that they might hold the pass-over 18 And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the LORD according to the commandment of king Josias 19 So the children of Israel which were present held the pass-over at that time and the feast of sweet bread seven days 20 And such a pass-over was not kept in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel 21 Yea all the kings of Israel held not such a pass-over as Josias and the priests and the Levites and the Jews held with all Israel that were found dwelling at Jerusalem 22 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this pass-over kept 23 And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with an heart full of godliness 24 As for the things that came to pass in his time they were written in former times concerning those
of Israel which is in heaven he gave them over into the power of Nebuchodonosor king of Babylon of the Caldees 16 Who pulled down the house and burnt it and carried away the people captives unto Babylon 17 But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the countrey of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem and had set them in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple at Babylon and they were delivered to ‖ Or Zorobabel which is also Sanabassar the ruler so as Zorobabel seemeth to be added to the text Ezra 1.8 Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the ruler 19 With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels and put them in the temple at Jerusalem and that the temple of the Lord should be built in his place 20 Then the same Sanabassarus being come hither laid the foundations of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem and from that time to this being still a building it is not yet fully ended 21 Now therefore if it seem good unto the king let search be made among the ‖ Or rolls records of king Cyrus 22 And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus and if our lord the king be so minded let him signifie unto us thereof 23 Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon and so at Echatana the palace which is in the countrey of Media there was found a ‖ Or place roll wherein these things were recorded 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again where they do sacrifice with continual fire 25 Whos 's height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits with three rowes of hewn stones and one row of new wood of that countrey and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus 26 And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord both of gold and silver that Nebuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon should be restored to the house at Jerusalem and be set in the place where they were before 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governour of Syria and Phenice and Sathrabuzanes and their companions and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice should be careful not to meddle with the place but suffer Zorobabel the servant of the Lord and governour of Judea and the elders of the Jews to build the house of the Lord in that place 28 I have commanded also to have it built up whole again and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the Jews till the house of the Lord be finished 29 And out of the tribute of Celosyria and Phenice a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord that is to Zorobabel the governour for bullocks and rams and lambs 30 And also corn salt wine and oyl and that continually every year without further question according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signifie to be daily spent 31 That ‖ Or drink-offerings offerings may be made to the most high God for the king and for his children and that they may pray for their lives 32 And he commanded that whosoever should transgress yea or make light of any thing afore spoken or written out of his own house should a tree be taken and he thereon be hanged and all his goods seised for the king 33 The Lord therefore whose name is there called upon utterly destroy every king and nation that stretcheth out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according unto these things it be done with diligence CHAP. VII 1 Sisinnes and others help forward the building 5 The temple is finished and dedicated 10 The pass-over is kept THen * Ezra 6.13 Sisinnes the governour of Celosyria and Phenice and Sathrabuzanes with their companions following the commandments of king Darius 2 Did very carefully oversee the holy works assisting the ancients of the Jews and governours of the temple 3 And so the holy works prospered when Aggeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied 4 And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord God of Israel and with ‖ Or the decrâ—â— the consent of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes kings of Persia 5 And thus was the holy house finished in †Heb. the third day Ezra 6.15 the three and twentieth day of the moneth Adar in the sixth year of Darius king of the Persians 6 And the children of Israel the priests and the Levites and other that were of the captivity that were added unto them did according to the things written in the book of Moses 7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams four hundred lambs 8 And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel according to the number of the ‖ Or tribes chief of the tribes of Israel 9 The priests also and the Levites stood arayed in their vestments according to their †Heb. divisions Ezra 6.18 kindreds in the services of the Lord God of Israel according to the book of Moses and the porters at every gate 10 And the children of Israel ‖ Or with those that c. that were of the captivity held the pass-over the fourteenth day of the first moneth after that the priests and the Levites were sanctified 11 They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together but the Levites were all sanctified together 12 And so they offered the pass-over for all them of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and for themselves 13 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations of the people of the land and sought the Lord. 14 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days making merry before the Lord 15 For that he had turned the ‖ Or minde counsel of the king of Assyria towards them to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord God of Israel CHAP. VIII 1 Esdras bringeth the kings commistion to build 8 The copy of it 28 He declareth the names and number of those that came with him 61 and his journey 71 He lamenteth the sins of his people 96 and sweareth the priests to put away their strange wives ANd after these things when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned came Esdras the son of Saraias the son of ‖ Aâ—ariat Ezerias the son of Helchiah the son of Salum 2 The son of
alone and through none other by me also they shall be ended and by none other 7 Then answered I and said What shall be the parting asunder of the times or when shall be the end of the first and the beginning of it that followeth 8 And he said unto me From Abraham unto Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born of him * Gen. 25.26 Jacobs hand held ‖ Or from the beginning first the heel of Esau 9 For Esau is the end of the world and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth 10 The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand other question Esdras ask thou not 11 ¶ I answered then and said O Lord that bearest rule if I have found favour in thy sight 12 I beseech thee shew thy servant the end of thy tokens whereof thou shewedst me part the last night 13 So he answered and said unto me Stand up upon thy feet and hear a mighty sounding voice 14 And it shall be as it were a great ‖ Or earthquake motion but the place where thou standest shall not be moved 15 And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid for the word is of the end and the foundation of the earth is understood 16 And way because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed 17 And it hapned that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet and hearkned and behold there was a voice that spake and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters 18 And it said Behold the days come that I will begin to draw nigh and to vnit them that dwell upon the earth 19 And will begin to make inquisition of them what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled 20 And when the world that shall begin to vanish away shall be ‖ Ot â—â—aâ—â—d finished then will I shew these tokens the books shall be opened before the firmament and they shall see all together 21 And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices the women with childe shall bring forth untimely children of three or four moneths old and they shall live and be raised up 22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown the full store-houses shall suddenly be found empty 23 And the trumpet shall give a sound which when every man heareth they shall be suddenly afraid 24 At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein the springs of the fountains shall stand still and in three hours they shall not run 25 Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee shall escape and see my salvation and the end of your world 26 And the men that are received shall see it who have not tasted death from their birth and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed and turned into another meaning 27 For evil shall be put out and deceit shall be quenched 28 As for faith it shall flourish corruption shall be overcome and the truth which hath been so long without fruit shall be declared 29 And when he talked with me behold I looked by little and little upon him before whom I stood 30 And these words said he unto me I am come to shew thee the time of the night to come 31 If thou wilt pray yet more and fast seven days again I shall tell thee greater things ‖ See ch 13. vers 52. by day then I have heard 32 For thy voice is heard before the most High for the Mighty hath seen thy righteous dealing he hath seen also thy chastity which thou hast had ever since thy youth 33 And therefore hath he sent me to shew thee all these things and to say unto thee Be of good comfort and fear not 34 And hasten not with the times that are past to think vain things that thou mayest not hasten from the latter times 35 And it came to pass after this that I wept again and fasted seven days in like manner that I might fulfiâ— the three weeks which he told me 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again and I began to speak before the most High 37 For my spirit was greatly set on fire and my soul was in distress 38 And I said O Lord thou speakest from the beginning of the creation even the first day and saidest thus * Gen. â— 1 Let heaven and earth be made and thy word was a perfect work 39 And then was the spirit and darknesses and silence were on every side the sound of mans voice was not yet formed 40 Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy treasures that thy work might appear 41 Upon the second day thou madest the spirit of the firmament and commandedst it to part asunder and to make a division betwixt the waters that the one part might go up and the other remain beneath 42 Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth six parts hast thou died up and kept them to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve thee 43 For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made 44 For immediately there weâ— great and innumerable fruit and many and divers pleasures for the taste and flowers of unchangeable colour and odours of wonderful smell and this was done the third day 45 * Gen. 1.14 Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine and the moon give her light and the stars should be in order 46 And gavest them a charge to do * Gen. 1.15 Deut. 4.19 service unto man that was to be made 47 Upon the fifth day thou saidest unto the seventh part * Gen. 1.20 where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures fowls and fishes and so it came to pass 48 For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God that all people might praise thy wondrous works 49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures the one thou calledâ—t ‖ Bebemoth Enoch and the other Leviathan 50 And didst separate the one from the other for the seventh part namely where the water was gathered together might not hold them both 51 Unto Enoch thou gavest one part which was dried up the third day that he should dwell in the same part wherein are a thousand hills 52 But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part namely the moist and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt and when 53 Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth that before thee it should bring forth beasts cattel and creeping things 54 And after these Adam also whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures
my spirit and little strength is there in me for the great fear wherewith I was affrighted this night 6 Therefore will I now beseech the Highest that he will comfort me unto the end 7 And I said Lord that bearest rule if I have found grace before thy sight and if I am justified with thee before many others and if my prayer indeed be come up before thy face 8 Comfort me then and shew me thy servant the interpretation and plain difference of this fearful vision that thou mayest perfecty comfors my soul 9 For thou hast judged me worthy to shew me the last times 10 And he said unto me This is the interpretation of the vision 11 The eagle whom thou sawest come up from the sea is the kingdom which was seen in the * Dan. 7.7 vision of thy brother Daniel 12 But it was not expounded unto him therefore now I declare it unto thee 13 Behold the days will come that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it 14 In the same shall twelve kings reign one after another 15 Whereof the second shall begin to reign and shall have more time then any of the twelve 16 And this do the twelve wings signifie which thou sawest 17 As for the voice which thou heardest speak and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the mids of the body thereof this is the interpretation 18 That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings and it shall stand in peril of falling nevertheless it shall not then fall but shall be restored again to his beginning 19 And whereas thou sawest the eight small under-feathers sticking to her wings this is the interpretation 20 That in him there shall arise eight kings whose time shall be but small and their years swift 21 And two of them shall perish the middle time approaching four shall be kept until their end begin to approach but two shall be kept unto the end 22 And whereas thou sawest three heads resting this is the interpretation 23 In his last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms and renew many things therein they shall have the dominion of the earth 24 And of those that dwell therein with much oppression above all those that were before them therefore are they called the heads of the eagle 25 For these are they that shall accomplish his wickedness and that shall finish his last end 26 And whereas thou sawest that the great head appeared no more it signifieth that one of them shall die upon his bed and yet with pain 27 For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword 28 For the sword of the one shall devour the other but at the last shall he fall through the sword himself 29 And whereas thou sawest two feathers under the wings passing over the head that is on the right side 30 It signifieth that these are they whom the Highest hath kept unto their end this is the small kingdom and full of trouble as thou sawest 31 And the lion whom thou sawest rising up out of the wood and roaring and speaking to the eagle and rebuking her for her unrighteousness with all the words which thou hast heard 32 This is the anointed which the Highest hath kept for them and for their wickedness unto the end he shall reprove them and shall upbraind them with their cruelty 33 For he shall set them before him alive in judgement and shall rebuke them and correct them 34 For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy those that have be in preserved upon my borders and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the day of judgement whereof I have spoken unto thee from the beginning 35 This is the dream that thou sawest and these are the interpretations 36 Thou onely hast been meet to know this secret of the Highest 37 Therefore write all these things that thou hast seen in a book and hide them 38 And teach them to the wise of the people whose hearts thou knowest may comprehend and keep these secrets 39 But wait thou here thy self yet seven days more that it may be shewed thee whatsoever it pleaseth the Highest to declare unto thee And with that he went his way 40 And it came to pass when all the people saw that the seven days were past and I not come again into the city they gathered them all together from the least unto the greatest and came unto me and said 41 What have we offended thee and what evil have we done against thee that thou forsakest us and sittest here in this place 42 For of all the | Oâ— people prophets thou onely art left us as a cluster of the vintage and as a candle in a dark place and as a haven or ship preserved from the tempest 43 Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient 44 If thou shalt forsake us how much better had it been for us if we also had been burnt in the midst of Sion 45 For we are not better then they that died there And they wept with a load voice Then answered I them and said 46 Be of good comfort O Israel and be not heavie thou house of Jacob 47 For the Highest hath you in remembrance and the Mighty hath not forgotten you in temptation 48 As for me I have not forsaken you neither am I departed from you but am come into this place to pray for the desolation of Sion and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary 49 And now go your way home every man and after these days will I come unto you 50 So the people went their way into the city like as I commanded them 51 But I remained still in the field seven days as the angel commanded me and did eat onely in those days of the flowers of the field and had my meat of the herbs CHAP. XIII 1 He seethin bis dream a man coming out of the sea 25 The declaration of â—is dream 54 He is praised and promised to see more ANd it came to pass after seven days I dreamed a dream by night 2 And so there arose | 〈◊〉 man as the wind Junius a wind from the sea that it moved all the waves thereof 3 And I beheld and so that man waxed strong with the | clouâ—s thousands of heaven and when he turned his countenance to look all the things trembled that were seen under him 4 And whensoever the voice went out of his mouth all they burnt that heard his voice like as the earth faileth when it feeleth the fire 5 And after this I beheld and so there was gathered together a multitude of men out of number from the four winds of the heaven to subdue the man that came out of the sea 6 But I beheld and so he had graved himself a great
three days I will speak other things unto thee and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things 57 Then went I forth into the field giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time 58 And because he governeth the same and such things as fall in their seasons and there I sat three days CHAP. XIV 1 A voice out of a bush â—aâ—eth Esdras 10 and telleth him that the world waxeth old 22 He desireth because the law was burnt to write all aâ—ain 24 and is bid to get swift writers 39 He and they are filled with understanding 45 But he is charged not to publish all that is written ANd it came to pass upon the third day I sat under an oak and behold there came a voice out of a bush over against me and said Esdras Esdras 2 And I said Here am I Lord and I stood up upon my feet 3 Then said he unto me * Exed 3.2 8. In the bush I did manifestly reveal my self unto Moses and talked with him when my people served in Egypt 4 And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt and brought him up to the mount of Sinai where I held him by me a long season 5 And told him many wondrous things and shewed him the secrets of the times and the end and commanded him saying 6 These words shalt thou declare and these shalt thou hide 7 And now I say unto thee 8 That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed and the dreams that thou hast seen and the interpretations which thou hast heard 9 For thou shalt be taken away from all and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my son and with such as be like thee until the times be ended 10 For the world hath lost his youth and the times begin to was old 11 For the world is divided into twelve parts and the ten parts of it are gone already and half of a tenth part 12 And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part 13 Now therefore set thine house in order and reprove thy people comfort such of them as be in trouble and 〈◊〉 renounce corruption 14 Let go from thee mortal thoughts cast away the burdens of man put off now the weak nature 15 And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee and haste thee to flee from there times 16 For * Matth. 4.7 yet greater evils then those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter 17 For look how much the world shall be weaker through age so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein 18 For the truth is fled far away and leasing is hard at hand for now hasteth the vision to come which thou hast seen 19 Then answered I before thee and said 20 Behold Lord I will go as thou hast commanded me and reprove the people which are present but they that shall be born afterward who shall admonish them thus the world is set in darkness and they that dwell therein are without light 21 For thy law is hurnt therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee or the works that shall begin 22 But if I have found grace before thee send the holy Ghost into me and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning which were written in thy law that men may finde thy path and that they which will live in the latter days may live 23 And he answered me saying Go thy way gather the people together and say unto them that they seek thee not for fourty days 24 But look thou prepare thee many ‖ Or â—â—tâ—â—â—es to write on Seever 44. box trees and take with thee Sarea Dabria Selemia ‖ Or 〈◊〉 Ecanus and Asiel these five which are ready to write swiftly 25 And come hither and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart which shall not be put out till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write 26 And when thou hast done some things shalt thou publish and some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise to morrow this hour shalt thou begin to write 27 Then went I forth as he commanded and gathered all the people together and said 28 Hear these words O Israel 29 * Gen. 47.4 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt from whence they were delivered 30 * Act. 7.53 And received the law of life which they kept not which ye also have transgressed after them 31 Then was the land even the land of Sion parted among you by lot but your fathers and ye your selves have done unrighteousness and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you 32 And for as much as he is a righteous judge he took from you in time the thing that he had given you 33 And now are you here and your brethren amongst you 34 Therefore if so be that you will subdue your own understanding and reform your hearts ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy 35 For after death shall the judgement come when we shall live again and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest and the works of the ungodly shall be declared 36 Let no man therefore come unto me now nor seek after me these fourty days 37 So I took the five men as he commanded me and we went into the field and remained there 38 And the next day behold a voice called me saying Esdras * Ezek. 3.2 open thy mouth and drink that I give thee to drink 39 Then opened I my mouth and behold he reached me a full cup which was full as it were with water but the colour of it was like fire 40 And I took it and drank and when I had drunk of it my heart uttered understanding and wisdom grew in my breast for my spirit strengthned my memory 41 And my mouth was opened and shut no more 42 The Highest gave understanding unto the five men and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told which they knew not and they sat fourty days and they wrote in the day and at night they are bread 43 As for me I spake in the day and I held not my tongue by night 44 In fourty days they wrote ‖ Or 〈◊〉 hundred and four two hundred and four books 45 And it came to pass when the fourty days were fulfilled that the Highest spake saying The first that thou hast written publish openly that the worthy and unworthy may read it 46 But keep the seventy last that thou mayest deliver them onely to such as be wise among the people 47 For in them is the spring of understanding the fountain of wisdom and ‖ Or the 〈◊〉 of knowledge the stream of knowledge 48 And I did so CHAP. XV. 1 This prophesie is certain 5 God will take vengeance
these days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a vision 20 Now therefore give God thanks for I go up to him that sent me but write all things which are done in a book 21 And when they arose they saw him no more 22 Then they confessed the great and wonderful works of God and how the angel of the Lord had appeared unto them CHAP. XIII The thanksgiving unto God which Tobit wrote THen Tobit wrote a prayer of rejoycing and said Blessed be God that liveth for ever and blessed be his kingdom 2 * Deut. 32.39 1 Sam. 2.6 Wisd 16.13 For he doth scourge and hath mercy he leadeth down to hell and bringeth up again neither is there any that can avoid his hand 3 Confess him before the Gentiles ye children of Israel for he hath scattered us among them 4 There declare his greatness and extol him before all the living for he is our Lord and he is the God our father for ever 5 And he will scourge us for our iniquities and will have mercy again and will gather us out of all nations among whom he hath scattered us 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole minde and deal uprightly before him then will he turn unto you and will not hide his face from you Therefore see what he will do with you and confess him with your whole mouth and praise the Lord of might and extol the everlasting King In the land of my captivity do I praise him and declare his might and majesty to a sinful ration O ye sinners turn and do justice before him who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you 7 I will extol my God and my soul shall praise the king of heaven and shall rejoyce in his greatness 8 Let all men speak and let all praise him for his righteousness 9 O Jerusalem the holy city ‖ Or he will lay a scourge upon the works of thy children he will scourge thee for thy childrens works and will have mercy again on the sons of the righteous 10 Give praise to the Lord for he is good and praise the everlasting King that his tabernacle may be builded in thee again with joy and ‖ Or to make let him make joyful there in thee those that are captives and love in thee for ever those that are miserable 11 Many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands even gifts to the King of heaven all generations shall praise thee with great joy 12 Cursed are all they which hate thee and blessed shall all be which love thee for ever 13 Rejoâ—ce and be glad for the children of the just for they shall be gathered together and shall bless the Lord of the just 14 O blessed are they which love thee for they shall rejoyce in thy ‖ Or prosperity peace blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all thy scourges for they shall rejoyce for thee when they have seen all thy glory and shall be glad for ever 15 Let my soul bless God the great King 16 For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds and precious stone thy walls and towers and battlements with pure gold 17 And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir 18 And all her streets shall say Alleluja and they shall praise him saying Blessed be God which hath extolled it for ever CHAP. XIV 3 Tobit giveth instructions to his son 8 specially to leave Nineve 11 He and his wise die and are buried 12 Tobias removeth to Ecbatane 14 and there died after he had heard of the destruction of Nineve SO Tobit made an end of praising God 2 And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight which was restored to him after eight years and he gave alms and he ‖ Or did more and more fâ—â—r increased in the fear of the Lord God and praised him 3 And when he was very aged he called his son and the six sons of his son and said to him My son take thy children for behold I am aged and am ready to depart out of this life 4 Go into Media my son for I surely beleeve those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve that it shall be overthrown and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land and Jerusalem shall be desolate and the house of God in it shall be burned and shall be desolate for a time 5 * Ezc. 3. â— 6.14 And that again God will have mercy on them and bring them again into the sand where they shall build a temple but not like to the first until the time of that age be fulfilled and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity and build up Jerusalem gloriously and the house of God shall be built in it ‖ For ever is not in the Romane copy for ever with a glorious building as the prophets have spoken thereof 6 And all nations shall turn and fear the Lord God truly and shall bury their idols 7 So shall all nations praise the Lord and his people shall confess God and the Lord shall exalt his people and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoyce shewing mercy to our brethren 8 And now my son depart out of Nineve because that those things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass 9 But keep thou the law and the commandments and shew thy self merciful and just that it may go well with thee 10 And bury me decently and thy mother with me but tarry no longer at Nineve Remember my son how Aman handled Achiacharuâ— that brought him up how out of light he brought him into darkness and how he rewarded him again yet Achiacharus was ‖ Or preserved saved but the other had his reward for he went down into darkness ‖ Jutus readeth Nitzha Manasses gave alms and escaped the snares of death ‖ Rom. which he had set which they had set for him but Aman fell into the snare and perished 11 Wherefore now my son consider what alms doeth and how righteousness doth deliver When he had said these things he gave up the Ghost in the bed being an hundred and eight and fifty years old and ‖ Or. they he buried him honourably 12 And when Anna his mother was dead he buried her with his father but Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law 13 Where he became old with honour and he buried his father and mother in law honourably and he ‖ Or. possissed inherited their substance and his father Tobits 14 And he died at Ecbatane in Media being an hundred and seven and twenty years
temple 3 In his days the * 1 King 7.23 cistern to receive water being in compass as the sea was covered with plates of brass 4 He took care of the temple that it should not fall and fortified the city against besieging 5 How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of †Gr. the house of the â—â—il the sanctuary 6 He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud and as the moon at the full 7 As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High and as the rainbowe giving light in the bright clouds 8 And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year as lilies by the rivers of waters and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer 9 As fire and incense in the censer and as a vessel of beaten gold set with all manner of precious stones 10 And as a fair olive-tree budding forth fruit and as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds 11 When he put on the robe of honour and was clothed with the perfection of glory when he went up to the holy altar he made the garment of holiness honourable 12 When he took the portions out of the priests hands he himself stood by the hearth of the altar compassed with his brethren round about as a young cedar in Libanus and as palm-trees compassed they him round about 13 So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory and the oblations of the Lord in their hands before all the congregation of Israel 14 And finishing the service at the altar that he might adorn the offering of the most high Almighty 15 He stretched out his hand to the cup and poured of the bloud of the grape he poured out at the foot of the altar a sweet-smelling savour unto the most high King of all 16 Then shouted the sons of Aaron and sounded the ‖ Or trumpets beacon forth with the 〈◊〉 silver trumpets and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before the most High 17 Then all the people together hasted and fell down to the earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God almighty the most High 18 The singers also sang praises with their voices with great variety of sounds was there made sweet melody 19 And the people besought the Lord the most High by prayer before him that is merciful till the solemnity of the Lord was ended and they had finished his service 20 Then he went down and lifted up his hands over the whose congregation of the children of Israel to give the blessing of the Lord with his lips and to rejoyce in his name 21 And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time that they might receive a blessing from the most High 22 Now therefore bless ye the God of all which onely doth wondrous things every where which exalteth our days from the womb and dealeth with us according to his mercy 23 He grant us joyfulness of heart and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever 24 That he would confirm his mercy with us and deliver us at his time 25 There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth and the third is no nation 26 They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria and they that dwell amongst the Philistines and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem 27 Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge who out of his heart poured forth wisdom 28 Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things and he that sayeth them up in his heart shall become wise 20 For if he do them he shall be strong to all things for the light of the Lord leadeth him who giveth wisdom to the godly Blesses be the Lord forever Amen amen CHAP. LI. ¶ A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach I Will thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour I do give praise unto thy name 2 For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snare of the slandrous tongue and from the lips that forge lies and hast been mine helper against mine adversaries 3 And hast delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercies and greatness of thy name from †Gr. the gnashing of the teeth the teeth of them that were ready to devour me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life and from the manifold afflictions which I had 4 From the choking of fire on every side and from the mids of the fire which I kindled not 5 From the depth of the besly of hell from an unclean tongue and from sying words 6 By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my soul drew near even unto death my life was near to the hell beneath 7 They compassed me on every side and there was no man to help me I looked for the succour of men but there was none 8 Then thought I upon thy mercy O Lord and upon thy acts of old how thou deliverest such as wait for thee and savest them out of the hands of the enemies 9 Then lifted I up my supplication from the earth and prayed for deliverance from death 10 I called upon the Lord the Father of my Lord that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble and in the time of the proud when there was no help 11 I will praise thy name continually and will sing praise with thanksgiving and so my prayer was heard 12 For thou savedst me from destruction and deliveredst me from the evil time therefore will I give thanks and praise thee and bless thy name O Lord. 13 When I was yet young or ever I ‖ Or went astray went abroad I desired wisdom openly in my prayer 14 I prayed for her before the temple and will seek here out even to the end 15 Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her my foot went the right way from my youth up sought I after her 16 I howed down mine ear a little and received her and gat much learning 17 I profited therein therefore will I ascribe the glory unto him that giveth me wisdom 18 For I purposed to do after her and earnestly I followed that which is good so shall I not be confounded 19 My soul hath wrestled with her and in my doings I was exact I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above and bewailed my ignorances of her 20 ‖ Or I got understanding I directed my soul unto her and I found her in pureness I have had my heart joyned with her from the beginning therefore shall I not be forsaken 21 My ‖ Or bowâ—lâ— heart was troubled in seeking her therefore have I gotten a good possession 22 The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward and I will
killeth those that sought for him THen came up John from Gazara and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done 2 Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons Judas and John said unto them I my brethren and my fathers house have ever from our youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel things have prospered so well in our hands that we have delivered Israel oftentimes 3 But now I am old and ye by Gods mercy are of a sufficient age be ye in stead of me and my brother and go and fight for our nation and the help from heaven be with you 4 So he chose out of the countrey twenty thousand men of war with horsmen who went out against Cendebeus rested that night at Modin 5 And when as they rose in the morning and went into the plain behold a mighty great host both of footmen and hors-men came against them howbeit there was a water-brook betwixt them 6 So he and his people pitched over against them and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water-brook he went first over himself and then the men seeing him passed through after him 7 That done he divided his men and set the hors-men in the midst of the footmen for the enemies hors-men were very many 8 Then sounded they with the holy trumpets whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight so that many of them were slain and the remnant gat them to the strong hold 9 At that time was Judas Johns brother wounded but John still followed after them until he came to Cedron which Cendebeus had built 10 ‖ Or Which when be bad set on fire they fled unto the towres in the fields of Azotus and there were slain c. So they fled even unto the towres in the fields of Azotus wherefore he burnt it with fire so that there were slain of them about two thousand men Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace 11 Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of Abubus made captain and he had abundance of silver and gold 12 For he was the high priests son in law 13 Wherefore his heart being lifted up he thought to get the countrey to himself and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them 14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the countrey and taking care for the good ordering of them at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons Mattathias and Judas in the hundred threescore and seventh year in the eleventh moneth called Sabat 15 Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a little hold called Ducus which he had built made them a great banquet howbeit he had hid men there 16 So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely Ptolemee and his men rose up and took their weapons and came upon Simon into the banqueting-place and slew him and his two sons and certain of his servants 17 In which doing he committed a great treachery and recompensed evil for good 18 Then Ptolemee wrote these things and sent to the king that he should send him an host to aid him and he would deliver him the countrey and cities 19 He sent others also to Gazara to kill John and unto the †Gr. captains of thousands tribunes he sent letters to come unto him that he might give them silver and gold and rewards 20 And others he sent to take Jerusalem and the mountain of the temple 21 Now one had run afore to Gazara and told John that his father brethren were slain quoth he Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also 22 Hereof when he heard he was sore astonished So he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him and slew them for he knew that they sought to make him away 23 As concerning the rest of the acts of John and his wars and worthy deeds which he did and the building of the walls which he made and his doings 24 Behold these are written in the Chronicles of his priesthood from the time he was made high priest after his father ¶ The second Book of MACCABEES CHAP. I. 1 A letter of the Jews from Jerusalem to them of Egypt to thank God for the death of Antiochus 19 Of the fire that was bidden in the pit 24 The trayer of Neemias THe brethren the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of Judea wish unto the brethren the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace 2 God be gracious unto you and remember his covenant that he made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob his faithful servants 3 And give you all an heart to serve him and to do his will with a good courage and a willing minde 4 And open your hearts in his law and commandments and send you peace 5 And hear your prayers and he at one with you and never forsake you in time of trouble 6 And now we be here praying for you 7 What time as Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and ninth year we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom 8 And burnt the porch and shed innocent bloud then we prayed unto the Lord and were heard we offered also sacrifices and fine flour and lighted the lamps and set forth the loaves 9 And now see that ye keep the feast of * Lev. 23. â—â— tabernacles in the moneth Casleu 10 In the hundred fourscore and eighth year the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea and the council and Judas sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus king Ptolemeus master who was of the stock of the anointed priests and to the Jews that were in Egypt 11 Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils we thank him highly as having been in battel against a king 12 For he cast them out that fought within the holy city 13 For when the leader was come into Persia and the army with him that seemed invincible they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Naneas priests 14 For Antiochus as though he would marry her came into the place and his friends that were with him to receive money in name of a dowry 15 Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth and he was entred with a small company into the compass of the temple they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in 16 And opening a privie door of the roof they threw stones like thunderbolts and stroke down the captain hewed them in pieces smote off their heads and cast them to those that were without 17 Blessed be our God in all things who hath delivered up the ungodly 18 Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the moneth * Lev.
23. Num. 29. Casleu we though it necessary to certifie you thereof that ye also might keep it as the feast of the tabernacles and of the fire which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice after that he had builded the temple the altar 19 For when our fathers were led into Persia the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily and hid it in a hollow place of a pit without water where they kept it sure so that the place was unknown to all men 20 Now after many years when it pleased God Neemias being sent from the king of Persia did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire But when they told us they found no fire but thick water 21 Then commanded he them to draw it up and to bring it and when the sacrifices were laid on Neemias commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water 22 When this was done and the time came that the sun shone which afore was hid in the cloud there was a great fire kindled so that every man marvelled 23 And the priests made a prayer whilest the sacrifice was consuming I say both the priests and all the rest Jonathan beginning and the rest answering thereunto as Neemias did 24 And the prayer was after this manner O Lord Lord God Creatour of all things who art fearful and strong and righteous and merciful and the onely and gracious King 25 The onely giver of all things the onely just almighty and everlasting thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble and didst choose the fathers and sanctifie them 26 Receive the sacrifice for thy whole people Israel and preserve thine own portion and sanctifie it 27 Gather those together that are scattered from us deliver them that serve among the heathen look upon them that are despised and abhorred and let the heathen know that thou art our God 28 Punish them that oppress us and with pride do us wrong 29 Plant thy people again in thy holy place as Moses hath spoken 30 And the Priests sung psalms of thanksgiving 31 Now when the sacrifice was consumed Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones 32 When this was done there was kindled a flame but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar 33 So when this matter was known it was told the king of Persia that in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire there appeared water and that ‖ Or Neemias his company Neemias had purified the sacrifices therewith 34 Then tâ—â— king inclosing the place made it holy after he had tried the matter 35 And the king took many gifts and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratifie 36 And Neemias called this thing Naphthat which is as much as to say a cleansing but many men call it Nephi CHAP. II. 1 What Jeremy the prophet did 5 How be bid the tabernacle the ark and the altar 13 What Neemias and Judas wrote 20 What fason wrote in five books 25 And how those were abridged by the authour of this book IT is also found in the records that Jeremy the prophet commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire as it hath been signified 2 And how that the prophet having given them the law charged them not to forget the commandments of the Lord and that they should not err in their minds when they see images of silver and gold with their ornaments 3 And with other such speeches exhorted he them that the law should not depart from their hearts 4 It was also contained in the same writing that the prophet being warned of God commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him as he went forth into the mountain where Moses climbed up and saw the heritage of God 5 And when Jeremy came thither he found an hollow cave wherein he laid the tabernacle and the ark and the altar of incense and so stopped the door 6 And some of those that followed him came to mark the way but they could not finde it 7 Which when Jeremy perceived he blamed them saying As for that place it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together and receive them unto mercy 8 Then shall the Lord shew them these things and the glory of the Lord shall appear and the cloud also as it was shewed under Moses and as when Solomon delired that the place might be honourably sanctified 9 It was also declared that he being wise offered the sacrifice of dedication and of the finishing of the temple 10 And as when Moses prayed unto the Lord the fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifices even so prayed Solomon also and the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt-offerings 11 And Moses said Because the sin-offering was not to be eaten it was consumed 12 So Solomon kept those eight days 13 The same things also were reported in the writings and commentaries of Neemias and how he founding a library gathered together the acts of the kings and the prophets and of David and the epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts 14 In like manner also Judas gathered together all those things that were lost by reason of the war we had and they remain with us 15 Wherefore if ye have need thereof send some to fetch them unto you 16 Whereas we then are about to celebrate the purification we have written unto you and ye shall do well if ye keep the same days 17 †Gr. Now God it is that saved all his people and rendred the heritage and the kingdom and the priesthood and the sanctuary as he promised in the law for we hope in God that he will shortly c. We hope also that the God that delivered all his people gave them all an heritage the kingdom and the priesthood the sanctuary 18 As he promised in the law will shortly have mercy upon us and gather us together out of every land under heaven into the holy place for he hath delivered us out of great troubles hath purified the place 19 Now as concerning Judas Maccabeus and his brethren and the purification of the great temple and the dedication of the altar 20 And the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and Eupator his son 21 And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism so that being but a sew they overcame the whole countrey and chased barbarous multitudes 22 And recovered again the temple renowned all the world over and freed the city and upheld the laws which were going down the Lord being gracious unto them with all favour 23 All these things I say being declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books we will assay to abridge in one volume 24 For considering the infinite number and the
understood not the saying which he spake unto them 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and ‖ Or agâ— stature and in favour with God and man CHAP. III. 1 The preaching and baptism of John 15 His testimony of Christ 20 Herod imprisoneth John 21 Christ baptized receiveth testimony from heaven 23 The age and genealogie of Christ from Joseph upwards NOw in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar Pontius Pilate being governour of Judea and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene 2 Annas and Caiphas being the high priests the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness 3 * Mat. 3.7 And he came into all the countrey about Jordan preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet saying * Isa 42.3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths straight 5 Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be brought low and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough ways shall be made smooth 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God 7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him * Mat. 3.7 O generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come 8 Bring forth therefore fruits ‖ Or meet for worthy of repentance and begin not to say within your selves We have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham 9 And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire 10 And the people asked him saying What shall we do then 11 He answereth and saith unto them * Jam 2.15 1 Joh. 3.17 He that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him do likewise 12 Then came also publicans to be baptized and said unto him Master what shall we do 13 And he said unto them Exact no more then that with is appointed you 14 And the souldiers likewise demanded of him saying And what shall we do And he said unto them ‖ Or Put no man in fear Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your ‖ Or allowance wages 15 And as the people were ‖ Or in suspence in expectation and all men ‖ Or reasoned or debated mused in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or not 16 John answered saying unto them all * Mat. 3 11 I indeed baptize you with water but one mightier then I cometh the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost with fire 17 Whos 's fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable 18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people 19 * Mat. 14.3 But Herod the tetrarch being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philips wife and for all the evils which Herod had done 20 Added yet this above all that he shut up John in prison 21 Now when all the people were baptized * Mat. 3. â—3 it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying the heaven was opened 22 And the holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him and a voice came from heaven which said Thou art my beloved Son in thee I am well pleased 23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age being as was supposed the son of Joseph which was the son of Heli 24 Which was the son of Matthat which was the son of Levi which was the son of Melchi which was the son of Janna which was the son of Joseph 25 Which was the son of Mattathias which was the son of Amos which was the son of Naum which was the son of Esli which was the son of Nagge 26 Which was the son of Maath which was the son of Mattathias which was the son of Semei which was the son of Joseph which was the son of Juda 27 Which was the son of Joanna which was the son of Rhesa which was the son of Zorobabel which was the son of Salathiel which was the son of Neri 28 Which was the son of Melchi which was the son of Addi which was the son of Cosam which was the son of Elmodam which was the son of Er 29 Which was the son of Jose which was the son of Eliezer which was the son of Jorim which was the son of Matthat which was the son of Levi 30 Which was the son of Simeon which was the son of Juda which was the son of Joseph which was the son of Jonan which was the son of Eliakim 31 Which was the son of Melea which was the son of Menan which was the son of Mattatha which was the son of Nathan which was the son of David 32 Which was the son of Jesse which was the son of Obed which was the son of Booz which was the son of Salmon which was the son of Naasson 33 Which was the son of Aminadab which was the son of Aram which was the son of Esrom which was the son of Phares which was the son of Juda 34 Which was the son of Jacob which was the son of Isaac which was the son of Abraham which was the son of Thara which was the son of Nachor 35 Which was the son of Saruch which was the son of Ragau which was the son of Phalec which was the son of Heber which was the son of Sala 36 Which was the son of Cainan which was the son of Arphaxad which was the son or Sem which was the son of Noe which was the son of Lamech 37 Which was the son of Mathusala which was the son of Enoch which was the son of Jared which was the son of Maleleel which was the son of Cainan 38 Which was the son of Enos which was the son of Seth which was the son of Adam which was the son of God CHAP. IV. 1 The temptation and fasting of Christ 13 He overcometh the devil 14 beginneth to preach 16 The people of Nazareth admire his gracious words 33 He cureth one possessed of a devil 38 Peters mother in law 40 and divers other sick persons 41 The devils acknowledge Christ and are reproved for it 43 He preacheth through the cities ANd * Mat. 4 1. Jesus being
9.12 Psa 34.29 that the scripture should be fulfilled A bone of him shall not be broken 37 And again another scripture saith * Zec. 12.10 They shall look on him whom they pierced 38 ¶ * Mat. 27.57 And after this Joseph of Arimathea being a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus and Pilate gave him leave He came therefore and took the body of Jesus 39 And there came also Nicodemus which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound weight 40 Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new sepulchre wherein was never man yet laid 42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews preparation day for the sepulchre was night at hand CHAP. XX. 1 Mary cometh to the sepulchre 3 so do Peter and John ignorant of the resurrection 11 Jesus appeareth to Mary Magdalene 19 and to his disciples 24 The incredulity and confession of Thomas 30 The scripture is sufficient to salvation THe * Mat. 28.1 Mar. 16.1 first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark unto the sepulchre and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre 2 Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter and to the * Chr. 13.23 21.20 other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith unto them They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre and we know not where they have laid him 3 Peter therefore went forth and that other disciple and came to the sepulchre 4 So they ran both together and the other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre 5 And he stooping down and looking in saw the linen clothes lying yet went he not in 6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him and went into the sepulchre and seeth the linen clothes lie 7 And the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen clothes but wrapped together in a place by it self 8 Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre and he saw and beleeved 9 For as yet they knew not the scripture that he must rise again from the dead 10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home 11 ¶ But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre 12 And seeth two angels in white sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had layen 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 said him 14 And when she had thus said she turned her self back and saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus 15 Jesus saith unto her Woman why weepest thou whom seekest thou she supposing him to be the gardener saith unto him Sir if thou have born him hence tell me where thou hast â—aid him and I will take him away 16 Jesus saith unto her Mary She turned her self and saith unto him Rabboni which is to say Master 17 Jesus saith unto her Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father but go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her 19 ¶ * Mar. 16.14 Then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews came Jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them Peace be unto you 20 And when he had so said he shewed unto them his hands and his side Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Then said Jesus to them again Peace be unto you as my Father hath sent me even so send I you 22 And when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the holy Ghost 23 * Mat. 18.18 Whos 's soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained 24 ¶ But Thomas one of the twelve called Didymus was not with them when Jesus came 25 The other disciples therefore said unto him We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side I will not beleeve 26 ¶ And after eight days again his disciples were within and Thomas with them then came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst and said Peace be unto you 27 Then saith he to Thomas Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but beleeving 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him My Lord and my God 29 Jesus saith unto him Thomas because thou hast seen me thou hast beleeved blessed are they that have not seen and yet have beleeved 30 ¶ * Chap. 21.25 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book 31 But these are written that ye might beleeve that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that beleeving ye might have life through his name CHAP. XXI 1 christ appearing again to his disciples was known of them by the great draught of fishes 12 He dineth with them 15 earnestly commandeth Peter to seed his lambs and sheep 18 foretelleth him of his death 32 rebuketh his curiosity touching John 25 The conclusion AFter these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias and on this wife shewed he himself 2 There were together Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and two other of his disciples 3 Simon Peter saith unto them I go a fishing They say unto him We also go with thee They went forth and entred into a ship immediately and that night they caught nothing 4 But when the morning was now come Jesus stood on the shore but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus 5 Then Jesus saith unto them ‖ Or Sâ—rs Children have ye any meat They answered him No. 6 And he said unto them Cast the net on the right side of the ship and ye shall finde They cast therefore and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes 7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter It is the Lord. Now when Simon
Peter heard that it was the Lord he girt his fishers coat unto him for he was naked and did cast himself into the sea 8 And the other disciples came in a little ship for they were not far from land but as it were two hundred cubits dragging the net with fishes 9 Assoon then as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals there and fish laid thereon and bread 10 Jesus saith unto them Bring of the fish which ye have now caught 11 Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land full of great fishes an hundred and fifty and three and for all there were so many yet was not the net broken 12 Jesus saith unto them Come and dine And none of the disciples durst ask him Who art thou knowing that it was the Lord. 13 Jesus then cometh and taketh bread and giveth them and fish likewise 14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples after that he was risen from the dead 15 ¶ So when they had dined Jesus saith to Simon Peter Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me more then these He saith unto him Yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee He saith unto him Feed my lambs 16 He saith to him again the second time Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me He saith unto him Yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee He saith unto him Feed my sheep 17 He saith unto him the third time Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time Lovest thou me And he said unto him Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee Jesus saith unto him Feed my sheep 18 Verily verily I say unto thee when thou wast young thou girdedst thy self and walkedst whither thou wouldest but when thou shalt be old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldest not 19 This spake he signifying by what death he should glorifie God And when he had spoken this he saith unto him Follow me 20 Then Peterturning about seeth the disciple * Chap. 13.23 20.2 whom Jesus loved following which also leaned on his breast at supper and said Lord which is he that betrayeth thee 21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus Lord and what shall this man do 22 Jesus saith unto him If I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee Follow thou me 23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren that that disciple should not die yet Jesus said not unto him He shall not die but If I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee 24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things and wrote these things and we know that his testimony is true 25 * Chaâ— 20.30 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 it self could not contain the books that should be written Amen ¶ The ACTS of the Apostles CHAP. I. Christ preparing his apostles to the bebolding of his ascension gathereth them together into the mount Olivet commandeth them to expect in Jerusalem the sending down of the boly Ghost promiseth after few days to send it by vertue whereof they should be witnesses unto him even to the utmost parts of the earth 9 After his ascension they are warned by two angels to depart and to set their minds upon his second coming 12 They accordingly return and giving themselves to prayer choose Matthias aposile in the place of Judas THe former treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach 2 Until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen 3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them fourty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God 4 And ‖ Or â—â—ting together with them being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father * Luk. 24.49 which saith heâ— ye have heard of me 5 * Mat. 3.11 For John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost not many days hence 6 When they therefore were come together they asked of him saying Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel 7 And he said unto them It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power 8 * Chap. 2.1 But ye shall receive ‖ Or the power of the holy Ghost coming upon you power after that the holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth 9 * Luk. 24.51 And when he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel 11 Which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven 12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Oliver which is from Jerusalem a sabbath-days journey 13 And when they were come in they went up into an upper room where abode both Peter and James and John and Andrew Philip and Thomas Bartholomew and Matthew James the son of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Judas the brother of â—ames 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren 15 ¶ And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number of the names together were about an hundred and twenty 16 Men and brethren This scripture must needs have been fulfilled * Psal 41.9 which the holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas which was guide to them that took Jesus 17 For he was numbred with us had obtained part of this ministery 18 * Mat. 27. â— Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity and falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out 19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue Aceldama that is to say The field of bloud 20 For it is written in the book of psalms * Ps 69.23 Let his habitation be desolate and set no man dwell therein and * Ps 109.8 His ‖ Or office or charge bishoprick let
justified 17 But if while we seek to be justified by Christ we our selves also are found sinners is therefore Christ the minister of sin God forbid 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed I make my self a transgressour 19 For I through the law am dead to the law that I might live unto God 20 I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain CHAP. III. 1 He asketh what moved them to leave the faith and hang upon the law 6 They that believe are justified 9 and blessed with Abraham 10 And this he sheweth by many reasons O Foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you 2 This onely would I learn of you Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith 3 Are ye so foolish having begun in the Spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh 4 Have ye suffered ‖ Or so great so many things in vain if it be yet in vain 5 He therefore that ministreth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith 6 Even as * Gen. 15.6 Abraham beleeved God and it was ‖ Or imputed accounted to him for righteousness 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham 8 And the scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying * Gen. 12.3 In thee shall all nations be blessed 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written * Deu. 27.26 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God it is evident for * Hab. 2.4 Rom. 1.17 Heb. 10. 38. The just shall live by faith 12 And the law is not of faith but * Lev. 18.5 the man that doeth them shall live in them 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written * Deu. 21.23 Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith 15 Brethren I speak after the manner of men Though it be but a mans ‖ Or testament covenant yet if it be confirmed no man disanulleth or addeth thereto 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made He saith not And to seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed which is Christ 17 And this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disanul that it should make the promise of none effect 18 For if the inheritance be of the law it is no more of promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise 19 Wherefore then serveth the law It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediatour 20 Now a mediatour is not a mediatour of one but God is one 21 Is the law then against the promises of God God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law 22 But the scripture hath concluded * Rom. 3.9 all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that beleeve 23 But before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed 24 Wherefore the law was our school-master to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith 25 But after that faith is come we are no longer under a school-master 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus 27 For * Rom. 6. ◠as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus 29 And if ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise CHAP. IV. 1 We were under the law till Christ came as the heir is under his guardian till he be of are 5 But Christ freed us from the law 7 therefore we are servants no longer to it 14 He remembreth their good will to him and his to them 22 and sheweth that we are the sons of Abraham by the free-woman NOw I say that the heir as long as he is a childe differeth nothing from a servant though he be lord of all 2 But is under tutours and governours until the time appointed of the father 3 Even so we when we were children were in bondage under the ‖ Or rudiments elements of the world 4 But when the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law 5 To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons 6 And because ye are sons God hath sent forth * Rom. 8.15 the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son then an heir of God through Christ 8 Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods 9 But now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn ye ‖ Or back again to the weak and beggerly ‖ Or rudiments elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage 10 Ye observe days and moneths and times and years 11 I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain 12 Brethren I beseech you be as I am for I am as ye are ye have not injured me at all 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not nor rejected but received me as an angel of God even as Christ Jesus 15 ‖ Or What was thou Where is then the blessedness you spake of for I bear you record that if it had been
into lasciviousness and denying the onely Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance though ye once knew this how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt afterward * Num. 14.37 destroyed them that beleeved not 6 And * 2 Pet. 2.4 the angels which kept not their ‖ Or principality first eslate but lest their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day 7 Even as * Gen. 19.24 Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after †Gr. other strange flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire 8 * 2 Pet. 2.10 11. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities 9 Yet Michael the archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said * Zech. 3.2 The Lord rebuke thee 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not but what they know naturally as brute beasts in those things they corrupt themselves 11 Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and * 2 Pet. 2.15 ran greedily after the errour of Balaam for reward and perished in the gain-saying of Core 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you seeding themselves without fear * 2 Pet. 2.17 clouds they are without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots 13 Raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever 14 And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints 15 To execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him 16 These are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage 17 But beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ 18 How that they told you * 1 Tim. 4.1 2 Tim. 3.1 2 Pet. 3.3 there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts 19 These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit 20 But ye beloved building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying in the holy Ghost 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life 22 And of some have compassion making a difference 23 And others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy 25 To the onely wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty dominion and power both now and ever Amen ¶ The REVELATION of S. JOHN the Divine CHAP. I. 4 John writeth his revelation to the seven churches of Asia signified by the seven golden candlesticks 7 The coming of Christ 14 His glorious power and majesty THe revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John 2 Who bare record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all things that he saw 3 Blessâ—d is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophesie and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand 4 JOhn to the seven churches which are in Asia-Grace be unto you and peace from him * Exod. 4.14 which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven spirits which are before his throne 5 And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the * 1 Cor. 15.20 Col. 1.18 first-begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth Unto him that loved us * Heb. 9.14 1 Joh. 1.7 and washed us from our sins in his own bloud 6 And hath * 1 Pet. 2.5 made us kings and priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen 7 * Dan. 7.13 Mat. 24.30 Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and * Zec. 12.10 they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him even so Amen 8 * Chap. 21.6 and 22.13 I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty 9 I John who also am your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and heard behinde me a great voice as of a trumpet 11 Saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last and What thou seest write in a book and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me And being turned I law seven golden candlesticks 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man * Dan. 10. â—â— 6. clothed with a garment down to the foot and girt about the paps with a golden girdle 14 His head and his hairs were white like wooll as white as snow and his eyes were as a flame of fire 15 And his feet like unto fine brass as if they burned in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength 17 And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon me saying unto me Fear not * Is 41.4 44.6 I am the first and the last 18 I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keys of hell and of death 19 Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which shall be hereafter 20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the
my name 9 Behold I will make them of the synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but do lie behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth 11 Behold I come quickly hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God which it new Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new name 13 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write ‖ Or in Laodius These things saith the Amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God 15 I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot I would thou wert cold or hot 16 So then because thou art luke-warm and neither cold nor hot I will spue thee out of my mouth 17 Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blinde and naked 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see 19 * Pr. 2. â—â— Heb. 12. â— As many as I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent 20 Behold I stand at the door and knock If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne 22 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches CHAP. IV. 2 John seeth the throne of God in heaven 4 The four and twenty elders 6 The four beasts full of eves before and behinde 10 The elders lay down their crowns and worship him that sat on the throne AFter this I looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said Come up hither and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter 2 And immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper a sardine stone there was a rainbowe round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold 5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thundrings and voices And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven Spirits of God 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal And in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behinde 7 And the first beast was like a lion and the second beast like a calf and the third beast had a face as a man and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle 8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and †Gr. they have no rest they rest not day and night saying * Isa 6.3 Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is is to come 9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne who liveth for ever and ever 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worship him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying 11 * Ch. 5.12 Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created CHAP. V. 1 The book sealed with seven seals 9 which onely the Lamb that was slain is worthy to open 12 Therefore the elders praise him 9 and confess that he redeemed them with his blood ANd I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof 3 And no man in heaven nor in earth neither under the earth was able to open the book neither to look thereon 4 And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book neither to look thereon 5 And one of the elders saith unto me Weep not behold * Gen. 19.9 the Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof 6 And I behold and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a Lamb as it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth 7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne 8 And when he had taken the book the four beasts and four and twenty eiders fell down before the Lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full of ‖ Or inâ—nse odours which are the prayers of saints 9 And they sung a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloud out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation 10 * 1 Pet. 2.9 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth 11 And I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was * Dan. 7.10 ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands 12 Saying with a loud voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing 13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under
old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night 11 And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death 12 Therefore rejoyce ye heavens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man childe 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might flie into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood 16 And the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ CHAP. XIII 1 A beast riseth out of the sea with seven heads and ten borns to whom the dragon giveth his power 11 Another beast cometh up out of the earth 14 causeth an image to be made of the former beast 15 and that men should worship it 16 and receive his mark ANd I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the ‖ Or names name of blasphemy 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were †Gr slain wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondred after the beast 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying Who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him ‖ Or to make war to continue fourty and two moneths 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world 9 If any man have an ear let him hear 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity * Matth. 16.52 He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword Here is the patience and the faith of the saints 11 And I behold another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed 13 And he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live 15 And he had power to give †Gr. treath life unto the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed 16 And he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond †Gr. to give to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads 17 And that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name 18 Here is wisdom Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred threescore and six CHAP. XIV 1 The Lamb standing on mount Sion with his company 6 an angel preacheth the gospel 8 The fall of Babylon 15 The harvest of the world and putting in of the sickle 20 The vintage and winepress of the wrath of God ANd I looked and lo a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred fourty and four thousand having his Fathers name written in their foreheads 2 And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps 3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders and no man could learn that song but the hundred and fourty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth 4 These are they which were not defiled with women for they are virgins these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth these †Gr. were bought were redeemed from among men being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of God 6 And I saw another angel flie in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people 7 Saying with a loud voice Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgement is come * Psal 146.5.6 Act. 14.15 and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters 8 And there followed another angel saying * Isa 21.9 Jer. 51.8 Chap. 18.2 Babylon is faln is faln that great city because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication 9 And the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice
Babylon came in remembrane before God * Jer. 25.15 to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath 20 And every island fled away and the moutains were not found 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven every stone about the weight of a talent and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail for the plague thereof was exceeding great CHAP. XVII 3 4 A woman arayed in purple and scarlet with a golden cup in her band sitteth upon the beast 5 which is great Babylon the mother of all abominations 9 The interpretation of the seven heads 12 and the ten horns 14 The victory of the Lamb. 16 The punishment of the whore ANd there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked with me saying unto me Come hither I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns 4 And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour †Gr. guilded decked with gold and precious stone and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full or abominations and silthiness of her fornication 5 And upon her forehead was a name written MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF ‖ Or fornications HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the bloud of the saints and with the bloud of the martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondred with great admitation 7 And the angel said unto me Wherefore didst thou marvel I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her which hath the seven heads and ten horns 8 The beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottom less pit and go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is 9 And here is the minde which hath wisdom The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth 10 And there are seven kings five are fain and one is and the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a short space 11 And the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into perdition 12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast 13 These have one minde and shall give their power and strength unto the beast 14 These shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them * 1 Tim. 6.15 Chap. 19 16 for he is Lord of lords and King of kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful 15 And he saith unto me The waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth CHAP. XVIII 2 Babylon is faln 4 The people of God commanded to depart out of her 9 The kings of the earth 11 with the merchants and mariners lament over her 20 The saints rejoyce for the judgements of God upon her ANd after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightned with his glory 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice saying * Cha. 14.8 Babylon the great is fain is fain and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the ‖ Or power abundance of her delicacies 4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying * Jer. 51.6 Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven and God hath remembred her iniquities 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double 7 How much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously so much torment and sorrow give her for she saith in her heart I sit a * Isa 47.8 queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and mourning and samine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her 9 And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her * Ezek. 26. â—7 shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment saying Alas alas that great city Babylon that mighty city for in one hour is thy judgement come 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her for no man buyeth * Ezek. 27.27 her merchandise any more 12 The merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and all ‖ Or sweet thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory and all manner vessels of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble 13 And cinnamon and odours and ointments and frankincense and wine and oyl and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots and ‖ Or. bodies slaves and souls of men 14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee and all things which were dainty and goodly are dâ—parted from thee and thou shalt finde them no more at all 15 The merchants of these things which were made rich by her shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment weeping and wailing 16 And saying Alas alas that great city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and searlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls 17 For in one
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth * Ezek. 3â— 2 39.1 Gog and Magog to gather them together to battel the number of whom is as the sand of the sea 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them 10 And the devil that deceived thâ—m was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever 11 And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them 12 And I saw the dead small and great stand before God * Dan. 7.10 and the books were opened and another * Chap. 3.5 book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and ‖ Or the grave hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire This is the second death 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire CHAP. XXI 1 A new heaven and a new earth 10 The heavenly Jerusalem with a full description thereof 23 She needeth no sun the glory of God is her light 24 The kings of the earth bring their riches unto her ANd * Isa 65.17 2 Pet. 3.13 I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea 2 And I John saw the holy city new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God 4 * Chap. 7.17 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away 5 And he that sat upon the throne said * Isa 43.19 2 Cor. 5.17 Behold I make all things new And he said unto me Write for these words are true and faithful 6 And he said unto me It is done * Chap. 1.8 22.13 I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end * Isa 55.1 I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son 8 But the fearful and unbeleeving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me saying Come hither I will shew thee the bride the Lambs wife 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me that great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God 11 Having the glory of God and her light was like unto a stone most precious even like a jasper stone clear as crystal 12 And had a wall great and high and had twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels and names written thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel 13 On the east three gates on the north three gates on the south three gates and on the west three gates 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall thereof 16 And the city lieth four-square and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal 17 And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and fourty and four cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the angel 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper and the city was pure gold like unto clear glass 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones The first foundation was jasper the second sapphire the third a chalcedony the fourth an emerald 20 The fifth sardonyx the sixth sardius the seventh chrysolite the eighth beryl the ninth a topaz the tenth a chrysoprasus the eleventh a jacinct the twelfth an amethyst 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls every several gate was of one pearl and the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass 22 And I saw no temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it 23 * Isa 60 â—â— And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof 24 * Isa 60. â— And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it 25 * Isa 60.11 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie but they which are written in the Lambs * Phil. 4.3 Chap. 3.5 and 20.12 book of life CHAP. XXII 1 The river of the water of life 2 The tree of life 5 The light of the city of God is himself 9 The angel will not be worshipped 18 Nothing may be added to the word of God nor taken therefrom ANd he shewed me a pure river of water of life clear as erystal proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it and of either side of the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yeelded her fruit every moneth and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations 3 And there shall be no more curse but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him 4 And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads 5 * Chap. 2â— 23 And there shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever 6 And he said unto me These sayings are faithful and true And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done 7 Behold I come quickly blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophesie of this book 8 And I John saw these things and heard them And when I had heard and seen I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things 9 Then saith he unto me * Chap. 19.10 See thou do it not for I am thy fellow-servant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book worship God 10 And he saith unto me Seal not the sayings of the prophesie of this book for the time is at hand 11 He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he which is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still 12 And behold I come quickly and my reward is with me * Rom. 2.6 to give every man according as his work shall be 13 I am Alpha and Omega * Isa 41.4 and 44.6 Chap. 1.8 and 21.6 the beginning and the end the first and the last 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city 15 For without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testifie unto you these things in the churches I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star 17 And the Spirit and the Bride say Come And let him that heareth say Come * Isa 55.1 And let him that is athirst come And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely 18 For I testifie unto every man that heareth the words of the prophesie of this book * Deut. 4.2 Prov. 30 6. If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophesie God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book 20 He which testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so Come Lord Jesus 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen FINIS
Solomon 42 And the †Heb. days time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was * 2 Chr. 9.30 fourty years 43 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father and * Mat. 1.7 called Hoboam Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XII 1 The Israelites assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him 6 Rehoboam refusing the old mens counsel by the advice of young men answereth them roughly 16 Ten tribes revolting kill Adoram and make Rehoboam to flee 21 Rehoboam raising an army is forbidden by Shemaiah 25 Jeroboam strengthneth himself by cities 26 and by the idolatry of the two calves ANd * 2 Chr. 10.1 Rehoboam went to Shechem for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king 2 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat who was yet in * Chap. 21.40 Egypt heard of it for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt 3 That they sent and called him and Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came and spake unto Rehoboam saying 4 Thy father made our * Chap. 4.7 yoke grievous now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us lighter and we will serve thee 5 And he said unto them Depart yet for three days then come again so me And the people departed 6 ¶ And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived and said How do you advise that I may answer this people 7 And they spake unto him saying If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day and wilt serve them and answer them and speak good words to them then they will be thy servants for ever 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him and which stood before him 9 And he said unto them What counsel give ye that we may answer this people who have spoken to me saying Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him saying Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee saying Thy father made our yoke heavy but make thou it lighter unto us thus shalt thou say unto them My little finger shall be thicker then my fathers loyns 11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke I will add to your yoke my father hath chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions 12 ¶ So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day as the king had appointed saying Come to me again the third day 13 And the king answered the people †Heb. hardly roughly and forsook the old mens counsel that they gave him 14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men saying My father made your yoke heavy and I will add to your yoke my father also chastised you with whâ—pâ— but I will chaâ—tise you with scorpions 15 Wherefore the king hearkned not unto the people for the cause was from the LORD that he might perform his saying which the LORD * Chap. â—â— 31 spake by Ahâ—jah the Shilonâ—te unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat 16 ¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkned not unto them the people answered the king saying What portion have we in David neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse to your tents O Israel now see to thine own house David So Israel departed unto their tents 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah Rehoboam reigned over them 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the tribute and all Israel stoned him with stones that he died therefore king Rehoboam †Heb. strengtâ—â—â— himself made speed to get him up to his chariot to flee to Jerusalem 19 So Israel ‖ Or fell away rebelled against the house of David unto this day 20 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again that they sent and called him unto the congregation and made him king over all Israel there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah * Chap. 11.13 onely 21 ¶ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriours to fight against the house of Israel to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon 22 But * 2 Chr. 11.2 the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God saying 23 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the remnant of the people saying 24 Thus saith the LORD Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel return every man to his house for this thing is from me They hearkned therefore to the word of the LORD and returned to depart according to the word of the LORD 25 ¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim and dwelt therein and went out from thence and built Penuel 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord even unto Rehoboam king of Judah and they shall kill me and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah 28 Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold and said unto them It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem * Exod. 32.8 behold thy gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 29 And he set the one in Beth-el and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin for the people went to worship before the one even unto Dan. 31 And he made an house of high places and made priests of the lowest of the people which were not of the sons of Levi. 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth moneth on the fifteenth day of the moneth like unto the feast that is in Judah and he ‖ Or went up to the altar c. offered upon the altar so did he in Beth-el ‖ Or to sacrifice sacrificing unto the calves that he had made and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made 33 So he ‖ Or went up to the altar c. offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth moneth even in the moneth which he had devised of his own heart and ordained a feast
the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judan saying 2 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel unto thee O Baruch 3 Thou didst say Wo is me now for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow I fainted in my sighing and I finde no rest 4 ¶ Thus shalt thou say unto him The LORD saith thus Behold that which I have built will I break down and that which I have planted I will pluck up even this whole land 5 And seekest thou great things for thy self seek them not for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh saith the LORD but thy life will I give unto thee * Ch. 39 1â— for a prey in all places whither thou goest CHAP. XLVI 1 Jeremiah prophesieth the overthrow of Pharaohs army at Euphrates 13 and the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadrezzar 27 He comforteth Jacob in their chastisement THe word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles 2 Against Egypt against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Joâ—iah king of Judah 3 Order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battel 4 Harness the horses and get up ye hors-men and stand forth with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back and their mighty ones are †Heb. broken in pieces beaten down and are †Heb. â—eâ— a flight fled apace and look not back for fear was round about saith the LORD 6 Let not the swift flee away nor the mighty man escape they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates 7 Who is this that cometh up as a floud whose waters are moved as the rivers 8 Egypt riseth up like a floud and his waters are moved like the rivers and he saith I will go up and will cover the earth I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof 9 Come up ye horses and rage ye chariots and let the mighty men come forth †Heb. Cuâ—h the Ethiopians and †Heb. Put. the Libyans that handle the shield and the Lydians that handle and bend the bowe 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts a day of vengeance that he may avenge him of his adversaries and the sword shall devour and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their bloud for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north-countrey by the river Euphrates 11 Go up into Gilead and take balm O virgin the daughter of Egypt in vain shalt thou use many medicines for †Heb. no cure shall be â—nto thee thou shalt not be cured 12 The nations have heard of thy shame and thy cry hath filled the land for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty and they are faln both together 13 ¶ The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt 14 Declare ye in Egypt and publish in Migdol and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes say ye Stand fast and prepare thee for the sword shall devour round about thee 15 Why are thy valiant men swept away they stood not because the LORD did drive them 16 He †Heb. multiplied the faller made many to fall yea one fell upon another and they said Arise and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our nativity from the oppressing sword 17 They did cry there Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise he hath passed the time appointed 18 As I live saith the King whose name is the LORD of hosts Surely as Tabor is among the mountains and as Carmel by the sea so shall he come 19 Oh thou daughter dwelling in Egypt †Heb. â—akâ— thee instruments of captivity furnish thy self to go into captivity for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer but destruction cometh it cometh out of the north 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like †Heb. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 shall fatted bullocks for they also are turned back and are fled away together they did not stand because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their visitation 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent for they shall march with an army and come against her with axes as hewers of wood 23 They shall cut down her forest saith the LORD though it cannot be searched because they are more then the grashoppers and are innumerable 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north 25 The LORD of hosts the God of Israel saith Behold I will punish the ‖ Or nourisher †Heb. Amen multitude of No and Pharaoh and Egypt with their gods and their kings even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants and afterwards it shall be inhabited as in the days of old saith the LORD 27 ¶ * Isa 41. â—3 43 5. 44.2 Chap. 30.10 But fear not thou O my servant Jacob and be not dismayed O Israel for behold I will save thee from afar off and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return and be in reâ—â— and at ease and none shall make him afraid 28 Fear thou not O Jacob my servant saith the LORD for I am with thee for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee but I will not make * Chap. 10.24 30.11 a full end of thee but correct thee in measure yet will I ‖ Or not utterly â—ut thee off not leave thee wholly unpunished CHAP. XLVII The destruction of the Philistines THe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines before that Pharaoh smote †Heb. Azzaâ— Gaza 2 Thus saith the LORD Behold * Isa 8.7 water rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing floud and shall overflow the land and †Heb. the fulness â—â—ereof all that is therein the city and them that dwell therein then the men shall cry and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hooâ—s of his strong horses at the rushing of his chariots and at the rumbling of his wheels the father shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth for the LORD will