him that †Heb. doeth sinneth through ignorance both for him that is born amongst the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them 30 ¶ But the soul that doeth ought †Heb. with an high hand presumptuously whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from among his people 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD and hath broken his commandment that soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him 32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation 34 And they put him * Lev. 24.12 in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him 35 And the LORD said unto Moses The man shall be surely put to death all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones and he died as the LORD commanded Moses 37 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 38 Speak unto the children of Israel and bid * Deut. 22.12 Mat. 23.5 them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which ye use to go a whoring 40 That ye may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God 41 I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am the LORD your God CHAP. XVI 1 The rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram 23 Moses separateth the people from the rebels tents 31 The earth swalloweth up Korah and a fire consumeth others 36 The censers are reserved to holy use 41 Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague for murmuring against Moses and Aaron 46 Aaron by incense stayeth the plague NOw * Ch. 27.3 Ecclus 45.18 Jude 11. Korah the son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab and On the son of Peleth sons of Reuben took men 2 And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly * Ch. 26.9 famous in the congregation men of renown 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them †Heb. It is much for you Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy everyone of them and the LORD is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the congregation of the LORD 4 And when Moses heard it he fell upon his face 5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company saying Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him 6 This do take you censers Korah and all his company 7 And put fire therein and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi. 8 And Moses said unto Korah Hear I pray you ye sons of Levi 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them 10 And he hath brought thee near to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek ye the priesthood also 11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD and what is Aaron that ye murmure against him 12 ¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab which said We will not come up 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a prince over us 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards wilt thou †Heb. here out put out the eyes of these men we will not come up 15 And Moses was very wroth and said unto the LORD * Gen. 4 4. Respect not thou their offering I have not taken one ass from them neither have I hurt one of them 16 And Moses said unto Korah Be thou and all thy company before the LORD thou and they and Aaron to morrow 17 And take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer two hundred and fifty censers thou also and Aaron each of you his censer 18 And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and said incense thereon and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation 20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 21 Separate your selves from among this congregation that I may consume them in a moment 22 And they fell upon their faces and said O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 24 Speak unto the congregation saying Get you up from about the taberlacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram and the elders of Israel followed him 26 And he spake unto the congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents and their wives and their sons and their little children 28 And Moses said Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works for I have not done them of mine own minde 29 If these men die †Heb. as every man dieth the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then
the mouth of the LORD that the minde of the LORD might be shewed them 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp and let all that heard him * Deu. 13.9 and 17.7 lay their hands upon his head and let all the congregation stone him 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD he shall surely be put to death and all the congregation shall certainly stone him as well the stranger as he that is born in the land when he blasphemeth the Name of the LORD shall be put to death 17 ¶ * Exod. 21.12 Deu. 19.21 And he that †Heb. smiteth the life of a man killeth any man shall surely be put to death 18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good †Heb. life for life beast for beast 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour as * Ex. 21.24 Deu. 19 21. Mat. 5.38 he hath done so shall it be done unto him 20 Breach for breach eye for eye tooth for tooth as he hath caused a blemish in a man so shall it be done to him again 21 And he that killeth a beast he shall restore it and he that killeth a man he shall be put to death 22 Ye shall have * Ex. 12.49 one manner of law as well for the stranger as for one of your own countrey for I am the LORD your God 23 ¶ And Moses spake unto the children of Israel that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp and stone him with stones and the children of Israel did aâ— the LORD commanded Moses CHAP. XXV 1 The sabbath of the seventh year 8 The jubile in the fiftieth year 14 Of Oppression 18 A blessing of obedience 23 The redemption of land 29 of houses 35 Compassion of the poor 39 The usage of bond-men 47 〈◊〉 redemptâ—on of servants ANd the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When ye come into the land which I give you then shall the land †Heb. rest keep * Ex. 23.10 a sabbath unto the LORD 3 Six years thou shalt sowe thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather in the fruit thereof 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land a sabbath for the LORD thou shalt neither sowe thy field nor prune thy vineyard 5 That which groweth of it own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap neither gather the grapes †Heb. of thy seâ—aration of thy vine undressed for it is a year of rest unto the land 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you for thee and for thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee 7 And for thy cattel and for the beast that are in thy land shall all the increase thereof be meat 8 ¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee seven times seven years and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee fourty and nine years 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet †Heb. loud of sound of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh moneth in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a jubile unto you and ye shall return every man unto his possession and ye shall return every man unto his family 11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you ye shall not sowe neither reap that which groweth of it self in it nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed 12 For it is the jubile it shall be holy unto you ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field 13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand ye shall not oppress one another 15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another but thou shalt fear thy God For I am the LORD your God 18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall do my statutes and keep my judgements and do them and ye shall dwell in the land in safety 19 And the land shall yeeld her fruit and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety 20 And if ye shall say What shall we eat the seventh year behold we shall not sowe nor gather in our increase 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year and it shall bring forth fruit for three years 22 And ye shall sowe the eighth year and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store 23 ¶ The land shall not be sold ‖ Or to be quite cut off †Heb. for cutting off for ever for the land is mine for ye are strangers and sojourners with me 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land 25 ¶ If thy brother be waxen poor and hath sold away some of his possession and if any of his kin come to redeem it then shall he redeem that which his brother sold 26 And if the man have none to redeem it and †Heb. his hand hath attained and found sufficiency himself be able to redeem it 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it that he may return unto his possession 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile and in the jubile it shall go out and he shall return unto his possession 29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold within a â—ull year may he redeem it 30 And if it be not redemed within the space of a full year then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations it shall not go out in the jubile 31 But the houses of
shall first set forth 10 ¶ On the south-side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur 11 And his host and those that were numbred thereof were fourty and six thousand and five hundred 12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simâ—on and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai 13 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fifty and â—ine thousand and three hundred 14 Then the tribe of Gad and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel 15 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fourty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty 16 All that were numbred in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty throughout their armies and they shall set forth in the second rank 17 ¶ Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp as they encamp so shall they set forward every man in his place by their standards 18 ¶ On the west-side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud 19 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fourty thousand and five hundred 20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur 21 And his host and those that were numbred of them were thirty and two thousand and two hundred 22 Then the tribe of Benjamin and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni 23 And his host and those that were numbred of them were thirty and five thousand and four hundred 24 All that were numbred of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred throughout their armies and they shall go forward in the third rank 25 ¶ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north-side by their armies and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai 26 And his host and those that were numbred of them were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred 27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran 28 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fourty and one thousand and five hundred 29 Then the tribe of Naphtali and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan 30 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fifty and three thousand and four hundred 31 All they that were numbred in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred they shall go hindmost with their standards 32 ¶ These are those which were numbred of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers all those that were numbred of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty 33 But the Levites were not numbred among the children of Israel as the LORD commanded Moses 34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses so they pitched by their standards and so they set forward every one after their families according to the house of their fathers CHAP. III. 1 The sons of Aaron 5 The Levites are given to the priests for the service of the tabernacleâ— 11 in stead of the first-born 14 The Levites are numbred by their families 21 The families number and charge of the Gershonites 27 of the Koâ—athites 33 of the Merarites 38 The place and charge of Moses and Aaron 40 The first-born are freed by the Levites 44 The overplus are redeemed THese also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron Nadab the * Exod. 6.23 first-born and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron the priests which were anointed †Heb. whose hand be filled whom he consecrated to minister in the priests office 4 * Lev. 10.1 Ch. 26.61 1 Chr. 24.2 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai and they had no children and Eleazar and Ithamar ministred in the priests office in the sight of Aaron their father 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them before Aaron the priest that they may minister unto him 7 And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation to do the service of the tabernacle 8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the children of Israel to do the service of the tabernacle 9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons and they shall wait on their priests office and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unte Moses saying 12 And I behold I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in stead of all the first-born that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel therefore the Levites shall be mine 13 Because all the first-born are mine * Exod. 13.2 Lev. 27.26 Chap. 8.16 Luk. 2.23 for on the day that I smote all the first born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel both man and beast mine they shall be I am the LORD 14 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai saying 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers by their families every male from a moneth old and upward shalt thou number them 16 And Moses numbred them according to the †Heb. mouth word of the LORD as he was commanded 17 * Gen. 46.11 Exod. 6.16 Ch. 26.57 1 Chro. 6.1 And these were the sons of Levi by their names Gershon and Kohath and Merari 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families Libni and Shimei 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families Amram and Izehar Hebron and Uzziel 20 And the sons of Merari by their families Mahli and Mushi these are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family
is of low degree and * Gen. 41.40 Dan. 6 3â— maketh him to sit among great men 2 Commend not a man for his beauty neither abhor a man for his outward appearance 3 The hee is little among such as flie but her Fruit is the chief of sweet things 4 * Acts 12. â—1 Boast not of thy clothing and raiment and exalt not thy self in the day of honour for the works of the Lord are wonderful and his works among men are hidden 5 Many †Gr. tâ—rants kings have sat down upon the ground and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown 6 * 1 Sam. 15.28 Hith 6.10 Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced and the honourable delivered into other mens hands 7 * Deut. 12.14 17.6 7 Blame not before thou hast examined the truth understand first and then rebuke 8 * Prov. 18 1â— Answer not before thou hast heard the cause neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk 9 Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not and sit not ‖ Or in the judgement of sinners in judgement with sinners 10 My son meddle not with many matters for if thou meddle much thou shalt not be innocent and if thou follow after thou shalt not obtain neither shalt thou ‖ Or escape hurt escape by fleeing 11 * Pro. 10.3 Mat. 19.22 There is one that laboureth and taketh pains and maketh haste and is so much the more behinde 12 Again there is another that is slow and hath need of help wanting ability and full of poverty * Jol 42.10 yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good and set him up from his low estate 13 And lilted up his head from misery so that many that saw it marvelled at him 14 * Job 1.21 Fzek. 28.4 c. Prosperity and adversity life and death poverty and riches come of the Lord. 15 Wisdom knowledge and understanding of the law are of the Lord love and the way of good works are from him 16 Errour and darkness had their beginning together with sinners and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein 17 The gilt of the Lord remaineth with the godly and his favour bringeth prosperity for ever 18 There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching and this is the portion of his reward 19 Whereas he saith * Luke 12.19 I have found rest and now will eat continually of my goods and yet he knoweth not what time shall ‖ Or pass come upon him and that he must leave those things to others and die 20 * Matth. 10.22 Be stedfast in thy covenant and be conversant therein and wax old in thy work 21 Marvel not at the works of sinners but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour for it is an easie thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich 22 The blesling of the Lord is ‖ Or for a reward in the reward of the godly and suddenly he maketh his blessing to flourish 23 Say not * Mal. 3.14 What prosit is there of my service and what good things shall I have hereafter 24 Again say not I have enough and possess many things and what evil can come to me hereafter 25 In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity 26 For it is an easie thing unto the Lord in the day of death to reward a man according to his ways 27 The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure and in his end his deeds shall be discovered 28 Judge none blessed before his death for a man shall be known in his children 29 Bring not every man into thine house for the deceitful man hath many trains 30 Like as a partride taken and kept in a cage so is the heart of the proud and like as a spie watcheth he for thy sall 31 For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil and in things worthy praise will say blame upon thee 32 Of a spark of fire a heap of coals is kindled and a sinful man layeth wait for bloud 33 Take heed of a mischievous man for he worketh wickedness lest he bring upon thee a perpetual blot 34 Receive a stranger into thine house and he will disturb thee and turn thee out of thine own CHAP. XII 2 Be not liberal to the ungodly 10 Trust not thine enemy nor the wicked WHen thou wilt do good know to whom thou doest it so shalt thou be thanked for thy benefits 2 Do good to the godly man and thou shalt finde 2 recompence and if not from him yet from the most High 3 There can no good come to him that is always occupied in evil nor to him that giveth no alms 4 Give to the godly man and help not a sinner 5 Do well unto him that is lowly but give not to the ungodly hold back thy bread and give it not unto him self he over-master thee thereby For else thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done unto him 6 For the most High hateth sinners and will repay vengeance unto the ungodly and keepeth them against the mighty day of their punishment 7 Give unto the good and help not the sinner 8 A friend cannot be known in prosperity and an enemy cannot be bidden in adversity 9 In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved but in his adversity even a friend will depart 10 Never trust thine enemy for like as ‖ Or brasâ— iron rusteth so is his wickedness 11 Though he humble himself and go crouching yet take good heed and beware of him and thou shalt be unto him as it thou hadst wiped a looking-glass and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away 12 Set him not by thee lest when he hath overthrown thee he stand up in thy place neither let him sit at thy right hand self he seek to take thy seat and thou at the last remember my words and be pricked therewith 13 Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent or any such as come nigh wilde beasis 14 So one that goeth to a sinner and is ‖ Or mâ—â—gled desiled with him in his sins who will pity 15 For a while he will abide with thee but if thou begin to fall he will not tarry 16 An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips but in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit he will * Jer. 41.6 weep with his eyes but if he sinde opportunity he will not be satisfied with bloud 17 If adversity come upon thee thou shalt sinde him there first and though he pretend to help thee yet shall he ‖ Or supplant undermine thee 18 He will shake his head and clap his hands and whisper much and change his
and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place he gave them away 17 And so haughty was Antiochus in minde that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city and therefore his eye was not upon the place 18 For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins this man assoon as he had come had forthwith been scourged and put back from his presumption as Heliodorus was whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury 19 Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the places sake but the place for the peoples sake 20 And therefore the place it self that was partaker with them of the adversity that hapned to the nation did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty so again the great Lord being reconciled it was set up with all glory 21 So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents he departed in all haste unto Antiochia weening in his pride to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot such was the haughtiness of his minde 22 And he left governours to vâ—x the nation at Jerusalem Philip for his countrey a Phrygian and for manners more barbarous then he that set him there 23 And at Garizim Andronicus and besides Menelaus who worse then all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens having a malicious minde against his countreymen the Jews 24 He sent also that detestable ring-leader Apollonius with an army of two twenty thousand commanding him to slay all those that were in their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort 25 Who coming to Jerusalem and pretending pâ—â—â—â— dâ—â—â—orbear till the holy-day of the sabbath when taking the Jews keeping holy-day he commanded his men to arm themselves 26 And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of the sabbath and running through the city with weapons â—lâ—w great multitudes 27 But Judas Maccabeus †Gr who was the tenth with nine others or thereabout withdrew himself into the wilderness and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts with his company who fed on herbs continually lest they should be partakers of the pollution CHAP. VI. 1 The Jews are compelled to leave the law of God 4 The temple is defiled 8 Cruelty upon the people and the nomâ— 12 〈◊〉 exhorâ—â— ion 〈◊〉 bear affliction by the example of the valiaâ—â—â—ouâ—aâ—e of E. 〈◊〉 cruelly tâ—rtured NOt long after this the king sent an old man of ‖ Antioâ—b the Laune interpreters Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live after the laws of God 2 And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius and that in Garizun of Jupiter the defender of strangers ‖ Out of Joseph 1.12 cap. 7. or as they werâ— as they did desire that dwelt in the place 3 The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people 4 For the temple was filled with not and revelling by the Gentiles who dallied with harlots and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places and besides that brought in things that were not lawful 5 The altar also was filled with profane things which the law forbiddeth 6 Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath-days or ancient feasts or to profess himself at all to be a Jew 7 And in the day of the kings birth every moneth they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices and when the feast of Bacchus was kept the Jews were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus carrying ivie 8 Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the †Gr Grecians heathen by the suggestion of Ptolemee against the Jews that they should observe the same fashions be partakers of their sacrifices 9 And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death Then might a man have seen the present misery 10 For there were two women brought who had circumcised their children whom when they had openly led round about the city the babes hanging at their breasts they cast them down headlong from the wall 11 And others that had run together into caves near by to keep the sabbath-day secretly being discovered to Philip were all burnt together because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day 12 Now I beseech those that read this book that they be not discouraged for these calamities but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction but for a chastning of our nation 13 For it is a token of his great goodness when wicked doers are not suffered any long time but forthwith punished 14 For not as with other nations whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish till they be come to the fulness of their sins so dealeth he with us 15 Lest that being come to the height of sin afterwards he should take vengeance of us 16 And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us And though he punish with adversity yet doth he never forsake his people 17 But let this that we have spoken be for a warning unto us And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in few words 18 Eleazar one of the principal scribes an aged man and of a well-savoured countenance was constrained to open his mouth and to eat swines flesh 19 But he choosing rather to die gloriously then to live stained with such an abomination spirit it forth and came of his own accord to the torment 20 As it behoved them to come that are resolute to stand out against such things as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted 21 But they that had the charge of that wicked feast for the old acquaintance they had with the man taking him aside besought him to bring flesh of his own provision such as was lawful for him to use and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king 22 That in so doing he might he delivered from death and for the old friendship with them finde favour 23 But he began to consider discreetly and as became his age and the excellency of his ancient years and the honour of his gray head whereunto he was come and his most honest education from a childe or rather the holy law made and given by God therefore he answered accordingly and willed them straightways to send him to the grave 24 For it becometh not our age said he in any wise to dissemble whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar being fourscore years old and ten were now gone to a strange religion 25
4.2 day-spring from on high hath visited us 79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace 80 And the childe grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel CHAP. II. 1 Augustus taxeth all the Roman empire 6 The nativity of Christ. 8 One angel relateth it to the shepherds 13 Many sing praises to God for it 21 Christ is circumcised 22 Mary purified 28 Simeon and Anna prophesie of Christ 40 who increaseth in wisdom 46 questioneth in the temple with the doctours 51 and is obedient to his parents ANd it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus that all the world should be ‖ Or â—â—elled taxed 2 And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governour of Syria 3 And all went to be taxed every one into his own city 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea unto * Joh. 7.42 the city of David which is called Bethlehem because he was of the house and linage of David 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife being great with childe 6 And so it was that while they were there the days were accomplished that she should be delivered 7 And she brought forth her first-born son and wrapped him in swadling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn 8 And there were in the same countrey shepherds abiding in the field keeping ‖ Or the night-watches watch over their flock by night 9 And lo the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were sore afraid 10 And the angel said unto them Fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a signe unto you Ye shall finde the babe wrapped in swadling clothes lying in a manger 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying 14 Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men 15 And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven the shepherds said one to another Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass which the Lord hath made known unto us 16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger 17 And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this childe 18 And all they that heard it wondred at those things which were told them by the shepherds 19 But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart 20 And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them 21 * Gen. 17.12 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the childe his name was called * Mat. 1.21 JESUS which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb 22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 As it is written in the law of the Lord * Ex. 1â— 2 Num. 18.15 Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord 24 And to offer a sacrifice according to * Lev. 12. â— 6. that which is said in the law of the Lord A pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons 25 And behold there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon and the same man was just and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel and the holy Ghost was upon him 26 And it was revealed unto him by the holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lords Christ 27 And he came by the spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the childe Jesus to do for him after the custom of the law 28 Then took he him up in his arms and blessed God and said 29 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation 31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel 33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him 34 And Simeon blessed them and said unto Mary his mother Behold this childe is set for the * Isa 8 1â— Rom. 9.31 fall and rising again of many in Israel and for a signe which shall be spoken against 35 Yea a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed 36 And there was one Anna a prophetess the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser she was of a great age and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years which departed not from the temple but served God with fastings and prayers night and day 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in ‖ Or Israâ—â— Jerusalem 39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord they returned into Galilee to their own city Nazareth 40 And the childe grew and waxed strong in spirit filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem * Deâ— 16.1 every year at the feast of the pass-over 42 And when he was twelve year old they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast 43 And when they had fulfilled the days as they returned the childe Jesus tarried behinde in Jerusalem and Joseph and his mother knew not of it 44 But they supposing him to have been in the company went a days journey and they sought him among their kinsfolk and among their acquaintance 45 And when they found him not they turned back again to Jerusalem seeking him 46 And it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctours both hearing them and asking them questions 47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers 48 And when they saw him they were amazed and his mother said vnto him Son why hast thou thus dealt with us behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing 49 And he said unto them How is it that ye sought me wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers business 50 And they
hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him 6 ¶ And Sarah said God hath made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me 7 And she said Who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck for I have born him a son in his old age 8 And the childe grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned 9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which she had born unto Abraham mocking 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham * Gal. 4.30 Cast out this bond-woman and her son for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son even with Isaac 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abrahams sight because of his son 12 ¶ And God said unto Abraham Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy bond-woman in all that Sarah hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice for in Isaac shall thy seed be called 13 And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation because he is thy seed 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar putting it on her shoulder and the childe and sent her away and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba 15 And the water was spent in the bottle and she cast the childe under one of the shrubs 16 And she went and sat her down over against him a good way off as it were a bowe-shot for she said Let me not see the death of the childe And she sat over against him and lift up her voice and wept 17 And God heard the voice of the lad and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her What aileth thee Hagar fear not for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is 18 Arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand for I will make him a great nation 19 And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the lad drink 20 And God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt 22 ¶ And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phicol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham saying God is with thee in all that thou doest 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God †Heb. if thou shalt lie unto 〈◊〉 that thou wilt not deal falsly with me nor with my son nor with my sons son but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee thou shalt do unto me and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned 24 And Abraham said I will swear 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelechs servants had violently taken away 26 And Abimelech said I wot not who hath done this thing neither didst thou tell me neither yet heard I of it but to day 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech and both of them made a covenant 28 And Abraham set seven ew-lambs of the flock by themselves 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham What mean these seven ew-lambs which thou hast set by themselves 30 And he said For these seven ew-lambs shalt thou take of my hand that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well 31 Wherefore he called that place ‖ That is the well of the oath Beer-sheba because there they sware both of them 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba then Abimelech rose up and Phicol the chief captain of his host and they returned into the land of the Philistines 33 ¶ And Abraham planted a ‖ Or tree grove in Beer-sheba and called there on the name of the LORD the everlasting God 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines land many days CHAP. XXII 1 Abraham is tempted to offer Isaac 3 He giveth proof of his faith and obedience 11 The angel stayeth him 13 Isaac is exchanged with a ram 14 The place is called Jehovah jireh 15 Abraham is blessed again 20 The generation of Nahor unto Rebekah ANd it came to pass after these things that * Heb. 11.17 God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham And he said †Heb. Behold me Behold here I am 2 And he said Take now thy son thine onely son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of Morâ—ah and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountain which I will tell thee of 3 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and sadled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and clave the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him 4 Then on the third day Abraham lift up his eyes and saw the place afar off 5 And Abraham said unto his young men Abide you here with the ass â—nd I and the lad will go yonder and worship come again to you 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering and said it upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they went both of them together 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said My father and he said †Heb. Behold me Here am I my son And he said Behold the fire and the wood but where is the ‖ Or kid lamb for a burnt offering 8 And Abraham said My son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering so they went both of them together 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of and Abraham built an altar there and said the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and * â—ames 2 21. said him on the altar upon the wood 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son 11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham And he said Here am I. 12 And he said Lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou any thing unto him for now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thine onely son from me 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behinde him a ram caught in a thicket by his horne And Abraham went and took the rain and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son 14 And Abraham called the name of the place ‖ That is the LORD will see or provide Jehovah-jireh as it is said to this day In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen 15 ¶ And the angel of the
brother and her mother said Let the damsel abide with us ‖ Or a full year or ten moneths a few days at the least ten after that she shall go 56 And he said unto them Hinder me not seeing the LORD hath prospered my way send me away that I may go to my master 57 And they said We will call the damsel enquire at her mouth 58 And they called Rebekah and said unto her Wilt thou go with this man And she said I will go 59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse and Abrahams servant and his men 60 And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her Thou art our sister be thou the mother of thousands of millions and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them 61 ¶ And Rebekah arose and her damsels and they rode upon the camels and followed the man and the servant took Rebekah and went his way 62 And Isaac came from the way of the * Chap. 1â— 14. and 25.11 well Lahai-roi for he dwelt in the south-countrey 63 And Isaac went out ‖ Or to pray to meditate in the field at the even tide and he lift up his eyes and saw and behold the camels were coming 64 And Rebekah lift up her eyes and when she saw Isaac she lighted off the camel 65 For she had said unto the servant What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us And the servant had said It is my master therefore she took a vail and covered her self 66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarahs tent and took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac was comforted after his mothers death CHAP. XXV 1 The sons of Abraham by Keturah 5 The division of his goods 7 His age and death 9 His burial 12 The generations of Ishmael 17 His age and death 21 Isaac prayeth for Rebekah being barren 22 The children strive in her womb 24 The birth of Esau and Jacob. 27 Their difference 29 Esau selleth his birth-right THen again Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah 2 And she bare him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah 3 And * 1 Chroâ— 1.32 Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim 4 And the sons of Midian Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abidah and Eldaah All these were the children of Keturah 5 ¶ And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac 6 But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son while he yet lived east-ward unto the east-countrey 7 And these are the days of the years of Abrahams life which he lived an hundred threescore and fifteen years 8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age an old man and full of â—ears and was gathered to his people 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field or Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite which is before Mamre 10 * Chap. 23.16 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth there was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife 11 ¶ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac and Isaac dwelt by the * Chap. 1â— 14 and 24 62. well Lahai-roi 12 ¶ Now these are the generations of Ishmael Abrahams son whom Hagar the Egyptian Sarahs handmaid bare unto Abraham 13 And * 1 Chron. 1.29 these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names according to their generations The first-born of Ishmael Nebajoth and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam 14 And Mishma and Dumah and Massa 15 Hadar and Tema Jetur Naphish and Kedemah 16 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by their towns and by their castles twelve princes according to their nations 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael an hundred and thirty and seven years and he gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his people 18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt as thou goest towards Assyria and he †Heb. fâ—ll died in the presence of all his brethren 19 ¶ And these are the generations of Isaac Abrahams son Abraham begat Isaac 20 And Isaac was fourty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram the sister to Laban the Syrian 21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife because she was barren the LORD was intreated of him and Rebekah his wife conceived 22 And the children struggled together within her and she said If it be so why am I thus and she went to enquire of the LORD 23 And the LORD said unto her Two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and the one people shall be stronger then the other people and * Rom. 9. â—2 the elder shall serve the younger 24 ¶ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb 25 And the first came out red all over like an hairy garment and they called his name Esau 26 And after that came his brother out and * Hos 12.3 his hand took hold on Esau's heel and his name was called Jacob and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them 27 And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning hunter a man of the field and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents 28 And Isaac loved Esau because †Heb. venison was in his mouth he did eat of his venison but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 ¶ And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from the field and he was faint 30 And Esau said to Jacob Feed me I pray thee †Heb. with that red with that red pottage with that same red pottage for I am faint therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said Sell me this day thy birth-right 32 And Esau said Behold I am †Heb. going to die at the point to die and what profit shall this birth-right do to me 33 And Jacob said Swear to me this day and he sware unto him and * Heb. 12.16 he sold his birth-right unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus Esau despised his birth-right CHAP. XXVI 1 Isaac because of famine went to Gerar. 2 God instructeth and blesseth him 7 He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife 12 He groweth rich 18 He diggeth Esek Sitnab and Rehoboth 26 Abimelech maketh a covenant with him at Beer-sheba 34 Esaus wives ANd there was a famine in the land besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham And Isaac went unto
Joseph getteth leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him 7 The funeral 15 Joseph comforteth his brethren who craved his pardon 22 His age 23 He seeth the third generation of his sons 24 He prophesieth unto his brethren of their return 25 He taketh an oath of them for his bones 26 He dieth and is chested AND Joseph fell upon his fathers face and wept upon him and kissed him 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father and the physicians embalmed Israel 3 And fourty days were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed and the Egyptians †Heb. wept mourned for him threescore and ten days 4 And when the days of his mourning were pact Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying If now I have found grace in your eyes speak I pray yon in the ears of Pharaoh saying 5 * Ch. 47.29 My father made me swear saying Lo I die in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan there shalt thou bury me Now therefore let me go up I pray thee and bury my father and I will come again 6 And Pharaoh said Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear 7 ¶ And Joseph went up to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt 8 And all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his fathers house onely their little ones and their flocks and their herds they lest in the land of Goshen 9 And there went up with him both chariots and hors-men and it was a very great company 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad which is beyond Jordan and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his father seven days 11 And when the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites saw the mourning in the floor of Atad they said This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians wherefore the name of it was called ‖ That is the mourning of the Egyptians Abel-mizraim which is beyond Jordan 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them 13 For * Act. 7.16 his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham * Ch. 23.16 bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre 14 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt he and his brethren and all that went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his father 15 ¶ And when Josephs brethren saw that their father was dead they said Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly repute us all the evil which we did unto him 16 And they †Heb. charged sent messengers unto Joseph saying Thy father did command before he died saying 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph Forgive I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin for they did unto thee evil And now we pray thee forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father And Joseph wept when they spake unto him 18 And his brethren also went and tell down before his face and they said Behold we be thy servants 19 And Joseph said unto them * Ch. 45.5 Fear not for am I in the place of God 20 But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive 21 Now therefore fear ye not I will nourish you and your little ones And he comforted them and spake †Heb. to their hearts kindly unto them 22 ¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt he and his fathers house and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years 23 And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third generation * Numb 32.39 the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were †Heb. born brought up upon Josephs knees 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren I die and * Hebr. 11.22 God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob. 25 And * Exod. 13.19 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying God will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from hence 26 So Joseph died being an hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt ¶ The second book of Moses called EXODUS CHAP. I. 1 The children of Israel after Josephs death do multiply 8 The more they are oppressed by a new king the more they multiply 15 The godliness of the midwives in saving the man-men-children alive 22 Pharaoh commandeth the male children to be cast into the river NOw * Gen. 46.8 Ch. 6.14 these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt every man and his houshold came with Jacob. 2 Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah 3 Issachar Zebulun and Beniamin 4 Dan and Naphtali Gad and Ather 5 And all the souls that came out of the †Heb. thigb loyns of Jacob were * Gen. 46.27 Deut 10.22 seventy souls for Joseph was in Egypt already 6 And Joseph died and all his brethren and all that generation 7 ¶ * Act. 7.17 And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplyed and waxed exceeding mighty and the land was filled with them 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph 9 And he said unto his people Behold the people of the children of Israel are mo and mightier then we 10 Come on let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply and it come to pass that when there falleth out any war they joyn also unto our enemies and fight against us and so get them up out of the land 11 Therefore they did set over them task-masters to afflict them with their burdens And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities Pithom and Raamses 12 †Heb. and as they afflicted them so they multiplied c. But the more they afflicted them the more they multiplyed and grew And they were grieved because of the children of Israel 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in morter and in brick and in all manner of service in the field all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigour 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives of which the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah 16 And he said When ye do the office of a midwise to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools if it be a son then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live 17 But the
turned himself and went out from Pharaoh 7 And Pharaohs servants said unto him How long shall this man be a snare unto us Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God Knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed 8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh and he said unto them Go serve the LORD your God but †Heb. who and who c. who are they that shall go 9 And Moses said We will go with our young and with our old with our sons and with our daughters with our flocks and with our herds will we go for we must hold a feast unto the LORD 10 And he said unto them Let the LORD be so with you as I will let you go and your little ones look to it for evil is before you 11 Not so go now ye that are men and serve the LORD for that you did desire And they were driven out from Pharaohs presence 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land even all that the hail hath left 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt and the LORD brought an east-wind upon the land all that day and all that night and when it was morning the east-wind brought the locusts 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt very grievous were they before them there were no such locusts as they neither after them shall be such 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkned and they did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left and there remained not any green thing in the trees or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt 16 ¶ Then Pharaoh †Heb. hastned to call called for Moses and Aaron in haste and he he said I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you 17 Now therefore forgive I pray thee my sin onely this once and intreat the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death onely 18 And he went out from Pharaoh and intreated the LORD 19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west-wind which took away the locusts and †Heb. fastned cast them into the Red sea there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt 20 But the LORD hardned Pharaohs heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go 21 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Stretch out thine hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt †Heb. that one may feel darkness even darkness which may be felt 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days 23 They saw not one another neither rose any from his place for three days * Wisd 18.1 but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings 24 ¶ And Pharaoh called unto Moses and said Go ye serve the LORD onely let your flocks and your herds be stayed let your little ones also go with you 25 And Moses said Thou must give †Heb. into our hands us also sacrifices and burnt-offerings that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God 26 Our cattel also shall go with us there shall not an hoof be left behinde for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God and we know not with what we must serve the LORD until we come thither 27 ¶ But the LORD hardned Pharaohs heart and he would not let them go 28 And Pharaoh said unto him Get thee from me take heed to thy self see my face no more for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die 29 And Moses said Thou hast spoken well I will see thy face again no more CHAP. XI 1 Gods message to the Israelites to borrow jewels of their neighbours 4 Moses threatneth Pharaoh with the death of the first-born ANd the LORD said unto Moses Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaph and upon Egypt afterwards he will let you go hence when he shall let you go he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether 2 Speak now in the ears of the people and let every man borrow of his neighbour and every woman of her neighbour * Chap. â— 22 and 12 35. jewels of silver and jewels of gold 3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians Moreover the man * Eccluâ— 45.1 Moses was very great in the land of Egypt in the sight of Pharaohs servants and in the sight of the people 4 And Moses said Thus saith the LORD * Chap. 12.29 About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt 5 And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne even unto the first-born of the maid servant that is behinde the mill and all the first-born of beasts 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt such as there was none like it nor shall be like it any more 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel 8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me and bow down themselves unto me saying Get thee out and all the people †Heb. that is at thy feet that follow thee and after that I will go out and he went out from Pharaoh in †Heb. heat of anger a great anger 9 And the LORD said unto Moses Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh and the LORD hardned Pharaohs heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land CHAP. XII 1 The beginning of the year is changed 3 The pass-over is instituted 11 The rice of the pass-over 15Vnleavened bread 29 The first-born are slain 31 The Israelites are driven out of the land 37 They come to Succoth 43 The ordinance of the pass-over ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying 2 This moneth shall be unto you the beginning of moneths it shall be the first moneth of the year to you 3 ¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying In the tenth day of this moneth they shall take to them every man a ‖ Or kid lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for an house 4 And if the hoâ—â—hold be too little for the lamb let him his neighbour next unto his
that to smell thereto shall even be cut off from his people CHAP. XXXI 1 Bezaleel and Aholiab are called and made meet for the work of the tabernacle 12 The observation of the sabbath is again commanded 18 Moses receiveth the two tables ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 See I have called by name Bezaleel the * 1 Chr. â— 20. son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah 3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship 4 To devise cunning works to work in gold in silver and in brass 5 And in cutting of stones to set them and in carving of timber to work in all manner of workmanship 6 And I behold I have given with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan and in the hearts of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom that they may make all that I have commanded thee 7 The tabernacle of the congregation and the ark of the testimony and the mercy-seat that is thereupon and all the †Heb. vessels furniture of the tabernacle 8 And the table and his furniture and the pure candlestick with all his furniture and the altar of incense 9 And the altar of burnt-offering with all his furniture and the laver and his foot 10 And the clothes of service and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to minister in the priests office 11 And the anointing oyl and sweet incense for the holy place according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do 12 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel saying Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a signe between me and you throughout your generations that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctifie you 14 * Chap. 20.8 Deut. 5. â—2 Ezek. 20.12 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doeth any work therein that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people 15 Six days may work be done but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest †Heb. holiness holy to the LORD whosoever doth any work in the sabbath-day he shall surely be put to death 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant 17 It is a signe between me and the children of Israel for ever for * Gen. 1.31 2. â— in six days the LORD made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed 18 ¶ And he gave unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sâ—nai * Deut. 9.10 two tables of testimony tables of stone written with the finger of God CHAP. XXXII 1 The people in the absence of Moses cause Aaron to make a calf 7 God is angred thereby 11 At the entreaty of Moses he is appeased 15 Moses cometh down with the tables 19 He breaketh them 20 He destroyeth the calf 22 Aarons excuse for himself 25 Moses causeth the idolaters to be slain 30 He prayeth for the people ANd when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him * Act. â— 20 Up make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him 2 And Aaron said unto them Break off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives of your sons and of your daughters and bring them unto me 3 And all the people brake off the golden ear-rings which were in their ears and brought them unto Aaron 4 * 1 King 12 2â— Psal 1.6.19 And he received them at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made it a molten calf and they said These be thy gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 5 And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it and Aaron made proclamation and said To morrow is a feast to the LORD 6 And they rose up early on the morrow and offered burnt-offerings and brought peace-offerings and the * 1 Cor. 10.7 people â—at down to eat and to drink and rose up to play 7 ¶ And the LORD â—aid unto Moses * Deut. â— 1â— Go get thee down for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them they have made them a molten calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed thereunto and said These be thy gods O Israel which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 9 And the LORD said unto Moses * Chap. 32.3 Deut. 9.13 I have seen this people and behold it is a stiff-necked people 10 Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I will make of thee a great nation 11 * Psal 106.23 And Moses besought †Heb. the face of the LORD the LORD his God and said LORD why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand 12 * Numb 14.13 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say For mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people 13 Remember Abraham Isaac and Israel thy servants to whom thou swarest by thine own self and saidâ—t unto them * Gen. 12.7 and 15.7 48.16 I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed and they shall inherit it for ever 14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people 15 ¶ And Moses turned and went down from the mount and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand the tables were written on both their sides on the one side and on the other were they written 16 And the * Chap. 31.18 tables were the work of God and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said unto Moses There is a noise of war in the camp 18 And he said It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery neither is it the voice of them that cry for †Heb. â—â—akness being overcome but the noise of them that sing do I hear 19 ¶
that which he was commanded 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses that the skin of Moses face shone and Moses put the vail upon his face again until he went in to speak with him CHAP. XXXV 1 The sabbath 4 The free gifts for the tabernacle 20 The readiness of the people to offer 30 Bezaleel and Aholiab are called to the work ANd Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together and said unto them These are the words which the LORD hath commanded that ye should do them 2 * Chap. 20.9 Lev. 23.3 Deut. 5.12 Luke 13.14 Six days shall work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you †Heb. holiness an holy day a sabbath of rest to the LORD whosoever doth work therein shall be put to death 3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath-day 4 ¶ And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel saying This is the thing which the LORD commanded saying 5 Take ye from amongst you an offering unto the LORD * Chap 25.2 Whosoever is of a willing heart let him bring it an offering of the LORD gold and silver and brass 6 And blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair 7 And rams skins died red and badgers skins and shittim-wood 8 And oyl for the light and spices for anointing oyl and for the sweet incense 9 And onyx-stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breast-plate 10 And every wise-hearted among you shall come and make all that the LORD hath commanded 11 * Chap. 26.1 c. The tabernacle his tent and his covering his taches and his boards his bars his pillars and his sockets 12 The ark and the staves thereof with the mercy-seat and the vail of the covering 13 The table and his staves and all his vessels and the shew-bread 14 The candlestick also for the light and his furniture and his lamps with the oyl for the light 15 * Chap. 30.1 And the incense-altar and his staves and the anointing oyl and the sweet incense and the hanging for the door at the entring in of the tabernacle 16 * Chap. 27.1 The altar of burnt-offering with his brasen grate his staves and all his vessels the laver and his foot 17 The hangings of the court his pillars and their sockets and the hanging for the door of the court 18 The pins of the tabernacle the pins of the court and their cords 19 The clothes of service to do service in the holy place the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to minister in the priests office 20 ¶ And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses 21 And they came every one whose heart stirred him up and every one whom his spirit made willing and they brought the LORDS offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation and for all his service and for the holy garments 22 And they came both men and women as many as were willing-hearted and brought bracelets and ear-rings and rings and tablets all jewels of gold and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD 23 And every man with whom was found blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair and red skins of rams and badgers skins brought them 24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORDS offering and every man with whom was found shittim-wood for any work of the service brought it 25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands and brought that which they had spun both of blue and of purple and of scarlet and of fine linen 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats hair 27 And the rulers brought onyx-stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breast-plate 28 And * Chap 30.23 spice and oyl for the light and for the anointing oyl and for the sweet incense 29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses 30 ¶ And Moses said unto the children of Israel See * Chap. 31.2 the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah 31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship 32 And to devise curious works to work in gold and in silver and in brass 33 And in the cutting of stones to set them and in carving of wood to make any manner of cunning work 34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach both he and Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. 35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver and of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer in blue and in purple in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work CHAP. XXXVI 1 The offerings are delivered to the workmen 5 The liberality of the people is restrained 8 The curtains of cherubims 14 The curtains of goats hair 19 The covering of skins 20 The boards with their sockets 31 The bars 35 The vail 37 The hanging for the door THen wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab and every wise-hearted man in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary according to all that the LORD had commanded 2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab and every wise-hearted man in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it 3 And they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary to make it withal And they brought yet unto him free-offerings every morning 4 And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came every man from his work which they made 5 ¶ And they spake unto Moses saying The people bring much more then enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make 6 And Moses gave commandment and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp saying Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary so the people were restrained from bringing 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it and too much 8 ¶ * Chap. 26.3 4. And every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined
shalt not sowe thy field with mingled seed neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee 20 ¶ And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that is a bond-maid ‖ Or abused by any †Heb. reproached by or for man betrothed to an husband and not at all redeemed nor freedom given her ‖ Or they †Heb. there shall be a scourging she shall be scourged they shall not be put to death because she was not free 21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation even a ram for a trespass-offering 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him 23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the land and shall have planted all manner of trees for food then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you it shall not be eaten of 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be †Heb. holiness of praises to the LORD holy to praise the LORD withal 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof that it may yeeld unto you the increase thereof I am the LORD your God 26 ¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the bloud neither shall ye use inchantment nor observe times 27 * Chap. 21.5 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard 28 Ye shall not * Deu. 14. â— make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you I am the LORD 29 ¶ Do not †Heb. profane prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary I am the LORD 31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them I am the LORD your God 32 ¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoâ—ry head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God I am the LORD 33 ¶ And * Exod. 22.21 if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land ye shall not ‖ Or oppress vex him 34 * Exod. 23.9 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born amongst you and thou shalt love him as thy self for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt I am the LORD your God 35 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement in mete-yard in weight or in measure 36 * Prov. 11.1 16.11 20.10 Juâ—t balances just †Heb. stones weights a just ephah and a just hin shall ye have I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes and all my judgements and do them I am the LORD CHAP. XX. 1 Of him that giveth of his seed to Molech 4 Of him that favoureth such an one 6 Of going to wizards 7 Of sanctification 9 Of him that curseth his parents 10 Of adultery 11 14 17 19 Of incest 13 Of Sodomy 15 Of bestiality 18 Of uncleanness 22 Obedience is required with holiness 27 Wizards must be put to death ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 * Chap. 18.21 Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel Whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel that giveth any of his seeâ— unto Molech he shall surely be put to death the people of the land shall stone him with stones 3 And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he hath given of his seed unto Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man when he giveth of his seed unto Molech and kill him not 5 Then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech from among their people 6 ¶ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards to go a whoring after them I will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people 7 ¶ * Chap. 11.44 19.2 1 Pet. 1.16 Sanctifie your selves therefore and be ye holy for I am the LORD your God 8 And ye shall keep my statutes and do them I am the LORD which sanctifie you 9 ¶ * Ex. 21.17 Prov. 20.20 Mat. 15.4 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death he hath cursed his father or his mother his bloud shall be upon him 10 ¶ And * Deut. 22.22 Joh. 8.4 5. the man that committeth adultery with another mans wife even be that committeth adultery with his neighbours wife the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death 11 * Chap. 18.8 And the man that lieth with his fathers wife hath uncovered his fathers nakedness both of them shall surely be put to death their bloud shall be upon them 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law both of them shall surely be put to death they have wrought confusion their bloud shall be upon them 13 * Chap. 18.22 If a man also lie with mankinde as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their bloud shall be upon them 14 And if a man take a wife her mother it is wickedness they shall be burnt with fire both he and they that there be no wickedness among you 15 * Chap. 18.23 And if a man lie with a beast he shall surely be put to death and ye shall slay the beast 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast and lie down thereto thou shalt kill the woman and the beast they shall surely be put to death their bloud shall be upon them 17 * Chap. 18.9 And if a man shall take his sister his fathers daughter or his mothers daughter and see her nakedness and she see his nakedness it is a wicked thing and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people he hath uncovered his sisters nakedness he shall bear his iniquity 18 * Chap. 18 19. And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness and shall uncover her nakedness he hath †Heb. made naked discovered her fountain and she hath uncovered the fountain of her bloud and both of them shall be cut off from among their people 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mothers sister
numbred of them even of the tribe of Reuben were fourty and six thousand and five hundred 22 ¶ Of the children of Simeon by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers those that were numbred of them according to the number of the names by their polls every male from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 23 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Simeon were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred 24 ¶ Of the children of Gad by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 25 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Gad were fourty and five thousand six hundred and fifty 26 ¶ Of the children of Judah by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 27 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Judah were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred 28 ¶ Of the children of Issachar by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 29 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Issachar were fifty and four thousand and four hundred 30 ¶ Of the children of Zebulun by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 31 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Zebulun were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred 32 ¶ Of the children of Joseph namely of the children of Ephraim by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 33 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Ephraim were fourty thousand and five hundred 34 ¶ Of the children of Manasseh by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 35 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Manasseh were thirty and two thousand and two hundred 36 ¶ Of the children of Benjamin by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 37 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty and five thousand and four hundred 38 ¶ Of the children of Dan by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 39 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Dan were thereescore and two thousand and seven hundred 40 ¶ Of the children of Asher by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 41 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Asher were fourty and one thousand and five hundred 42 ¶ Of the children of Naphtali throughout their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 43 Those that were numbred of them even of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty and three thousand and four hundred 44 These are those that were numbred which Moses and Aaron numbred and the princes of Israel being twelve men each one was for the house of his fathers 45 So were all those that were numbred of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war in Israel 46 Even all they that were numbred were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbred among them 48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses saying 49 Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel 50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony and over all the vessels thereof and over all things that belong to it they shall bear the tabernacle and all the vessels thereof and they shall minister unto it and shall encamp round about the tabernacle 51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward the Levites shall take it down and when the tabernacle is to be pitched the Levites shall set it up and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard throughout their hosts 53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony 54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses so did they CHAP. II. 5 The order of the tribes in their tents ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard with the ensigne of their fathers house †Heb. over against far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch 3 ¶ And on the east-side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah 4 And his host and those that were numbred of them were threescore and fourteen thousand and fix hundred 5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar 6 And his host and those that were numbred thereof were fifty and four thousand and four hundred 7 Then the tribe of Zebulun and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun 8 And his host and those that were numbred thereof were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred 9 All that were numbred in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and sourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred throughout their armies these
of the Shimites these are the families of the Gershonites 22 Those that were numbred of them according to the number of all the males from a moneth old and upward even those that were numbred of them were seven thousand and five hundred 23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behinde the tabernacle west-ward 24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle and the tent the covering thereof and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 26 And the hangings of the court and the curtain for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about and the cords of it for all the service thereof 27 ¶ And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izeharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites these are the families of the Kohathites 28 In the number of all the males from a moneth old and uâ—ward were eight thousand six hundred keeping the charge of the sanctâ—ary 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle south-ward 30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel 31 And their charge shall be the ark and the table and the candlestick and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister and the hanging and all the service thereof 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary 33 ¶ Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites these are the families of Merari 34 And those that were numbred of them according to the number of all the males from a moneth old and upward were six thousand and two hundred 35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle north-ward 36 And †Heb. the office of the charge under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and all the vessels thereof and all that serveth thereto 37 And the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their pins and their cords 38 ¶ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east even before the tabernacle of the congregation east-ward shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 39 All that were numbred of the Levites which Moses and Aaron numbred at the commandment of the LORD throughout their families all the males from a moneth old and upward were twenty and two thousand 40 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel from a moneth old and upward and take the number of their names 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me I am the LORD in stead of all the first-born among the children of Israel and the cattel of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattel of the children of Israel 42 And Moses numbred as the LORD commanded him all the first-born among the children of Israel 43 And all the first-born males by the number of names from a moneth old and upward of those that were numbred of them were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 45 Take the Levites in stead of all the first-born among the children of Israel and the cattel of the Levites in stead of their cattel and the Levites shall be mine I am the LORD 46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel which are more then the Levites 47 Thou shalt even take five shekels a piece by the poll after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them * Exod. 30.13 Lev. 27.25 Ch. 18.16 Ezek. 45.12 the shekel is twenty gerahs 48 And thou shalt give the money wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons 49 And Moses took the redemption-money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites 50 Of the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary 51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons according to the word of the LORD as the LORD commanded Moses CHAP. IV. 1 The age and time of the Levites service 4 The carriage of the Kohathites when the priests have taken down the tabernacle 16 The charge of Eleazar 17 The office of the priests 21 The carriage of the Gershonites 29 The carriage of the Merarites 34 The number of the Kohathites 38 of the Gershonites 42 and of the Merarites ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi after their families by the house of their fathers 3 From thirty years old upward even until fifty years old all that enter into the host to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation about the most holy things 5 ¶ And when the camp setteth forward Aaron shall come and his sons and they shall take down the covering vail and cover the ark of testimony with it 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers skins and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue and shall put in the staves thereof 7 And upon the * Ex. 25.30 table of shew-bread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put thereon the dishes and the spoons and the bowls and covers to ‖ Or pour out withal cover withal and the continual bread shall be thereon 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of badgers skins and shall put in the staves thereof 9 And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the * Exod. 25.31 candlestick of the light * Exod. 25.37 38. and his lamps and his tongs and his snuff-dishes and all the oyl-vessels thereof wherewith they mâ—nister unto it 10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers skins and shall put it upon a bar 11 And
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priests office for every thing of the altar and within the vail and ye shall serve I have given your priests office unto you as a service of gift and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron Behold I also have given thee the charge of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing to thy sons by an ordinance for ever 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things reserved from the fire every oblation of theirs every meat-offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it every male shall eat it it shall be holy unto thee 11 And this is thine the heave offering of their gift with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel I have given them unto * Levi◠1◠14 thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it 12 All the †Heb. sat best of the oyl and all the best of the wine and of the wheat the first-fruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD them have I given thee 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land which they shall bring unto the LORD shall be thine every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it 14 * Levit. 27.28 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine 15 Everything that openeth * Ex. 13.2 22.29 Lev. 26.27 Chap. 3.12 the matrix in all flesh which they bring unto the LORD whether it be of men or beasts shall be thine nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a moneth old shalt thou redeem according to thine estimation for the money of five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary * Ex. 30.12 Lev. 27.25 Ch. 3.47 Ez. 45.12 which is twenty gerahs 17 But the firstling of a cow or the firstling of a sheep or the firstling of a goat thou shalt not redeem they are holy thou shalt sprinkle their bloud upon the altar and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a sweet savour unto the LORD 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine as the * Ex. 29.26 wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine 19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD have I given thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee 20 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land neither shalt thou have any part among them * Deut. 10.9 and 18.2 Jos 13.14 33. Ez 44.28 I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel 21 And behold I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance for their service which they serve even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation * Heb. to die lest they bear sin †and die 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and they shall bear their iniquity It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel which they offer as an heave-offering unto the LORD I have given to the Levites to inherit therefore I have said unto them Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance 25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 26 Thus speak unto the Levites and say unto them When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance then ye shall offer up an heave-offering of it for the LORD even a tenth part of the tithe 27 And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor and as the fulness of the wine-press 28 Thus you also shall offer an heave-offering unto the LORD of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel and ye shall give thereof the LORDs heave-offering to Aaron the priest 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD of all the †Heb. sat best thereof even the hallowed part thereof out of it 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them When ye have heaved the best thereof from it then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor and as the encrease of the wine press 31 And ye shall eat it in every place ye and your housholds for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it when ye have heaved from it the best of it neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel lest ye die CHAP. XIX 1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifr 11 The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded saying Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer without spot wherein is no blemish and upon which never came yoke 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest that he may bring her * Heb. 13.11 forth without the camp and one shall slay her before his face 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her bloud with his finger and * Heb. 9.13 sprinkle of her bloud directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times 5 And one shall burn the heifet in his sight * Ex. 29.14 Levit. 4.11 12. her skin and her flesh and her bloud with her dung shall he burn 6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and he shall bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp and the priest shall be unclean until the even 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and shall be unclean until the even 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up without
die and thou shalt put evil away from among you 8 ¶ Take heed in * Levit 13.2 the plague of leprosie that thou observe diligently and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you as I commanded them so ye shall observe to do 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did * Numb 12.10 unto Miriam by the way after that ye were come forth out of Egypt 10 ¶ When thou dost †Heb. lend the loan of any thing to c. lend thy brother any thing thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge 11 Thou shalt stand abroad and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee 12 And if the man be poor thou shalt not sleep with his pledge 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God 14 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy whether he be of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates 15 At his day * Levit. 19.13 Tob. 4.14 thou shalt give him his hire neither shall the sun go down upon it for he is poor and †Heb. lifteth his soul unto it setteth his heart upon it lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin unto thee 16 * 2 King 14.6 2 Chr. 25 4. Jer. 31.29 30. Ezek. 18.20 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers every man shall be put to death for his own sin 17 ¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgement of the stranger nor of the fatherless nor take a widows raiment to pledge 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in Egypt and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence therefore I command thee to do this thing 19 ¶ * Levit. 19.9 23.22 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands 20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree †Heb. thou shalt not bough it after thee thou shalt not go over the boughs again it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow 21 When thou gathereâ—t the grapes of thy vineyard thou shalt not glean it †Heb. after thee afterward it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt therefore I command thee to do this thing CHAP. XXV 1 Stripes must not exceed fourty 4 The ox is not to be muzzled 5 Of raising seed unto a brother 11 Of the immodest woman 13 Of unjust weights 17 The memory of Amalek is to be blotted out IF there be a controversie between men and they come unto judgement that the judges may judge them then they shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked 2 And it shall be if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his faâ—e according to his fault by a certain number 3 * 2 Cor. 11.24 Fourty stripes he may give him and not exceed lest if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes then thy brother should seem vile unto thee 4 ¶ * 1 Cor. 9.9 1 Tim. 5.18 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he †Heb. thrâ—sheth treadeth out the corn 5 ¶ * Mat. 22 24. Mark 12.19 Luk. 20.28 If brethren dwell together and one of them die and have no childe the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger her ‖ Or next kinsman husbands brother shall go in unto her and take her to him to wife and perform the duty of an husbands brother unto her 6 And it shall be that the first-born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead that his name be not put out of Israel 7 And if the man like not to take his ‖ Or next kinsman-wife brothers wife then let his brothers wife go up to the gate unto the elders and say * Ruth 4.7 My husbands brother refuâ—eth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel he will not perform the duty of my husbands brother 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him and if he stand to it and say I like not to take her 9 Then shall his brothers wife come unto him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer and say So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brothers house 10 And his name shall be called in Israel The house of him that hath his shoe loosed 11 ¶ When men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him and patteth forth her hand and taketh him by the secrets 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand thine eye shall not pity her 13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag †Heb. a stone and a stone divers weights a great a small 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house †Heb. an ephah and an ephah divers measures a great and a small 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight a perfect and just meaâ—ure shalt thou have that thy days may be lengthned in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee 16 For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the LORD thy God 17 ¶ * Exod. 17.8 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way when ye were come forth out of Egypt 18 How he met thee by the way and smote the hindmost of thee even all that were feeble behinde thee when thou wast faint and weary and he feared not God 19 Therefore it shall be when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven thou shalt not forget it CHAP. XXVI 1 The confession of him that â—ffereth thâ— basket of first-fruits 12 The prayer of him that giveth his third years tithes 1â— The covenant between God and the people ANd it shall be when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance and possessest it and dwellest therein
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
strengthned to go down unto the host Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the out-side of the ‖ Or 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 armed men that were in the host 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and * Ch. 6.33 and the children of the eaâ—t lay along in the valley like grashoppers for multitude and their camels were without number as the sand by the sea-side for multitude 13 And when Gideon was come behold there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow and said Behoâ—d I dreamed a dream and lo a cake of barley-bread tumbled into the bost of Midian and came unto a tent and smote it that it fell and overturned it that the tent lay along 14 And his fellow answered and said This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash a man of Israel for into his hand hath God delivered Midian and all the host 15 ¶ And it was sâ— when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and †Heb. the â—â—â—tâ—inâ— thâ—â—â—â—f the interpretation thereof that he worshipped and retained into the host of Israel and said Arise for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and he put †Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them a trumpet in every mans hand with empty pitchers and ‖ Or fire-bran is or torches lamps within the pitchers 17 And he said unto them Look on me do likewise behold when I come to the out-side of the camp it shall be that as I do so shall ye do 18 When I blow with a trumpet I and all that are with me then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and say The sword of the LORD and of Gideon 19 ¶ So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto the out-side of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch and they had but newly set the watch and they blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers that were in their hands 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal and they cryed The sword of the LORD and of Gideon 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp and all the host ran and cryed and fled 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets and * Isa 9.4 the LORD set every mans sword against his fellow even throughout all the hoâ—t and the host fled to Beth shittah ‖ Or towards in Zereroth and to the †Heb. lip border of Abel-meholah unto Tabbaâ—h 23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali and out of Asher and out of all Manasseh and pursued after the Midianites 24 ¶ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim saying Come down against the Midianites and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan Then all the men of Ephraâ—m gathered themselves together and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan 25 And they took * Psal 83.11 Isa 10.26 two princes of the Midianites Oreb and Zeeb and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb and Zeeb they slew at the wine-press of Zeeb and pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to gideon on the other side Jordan CHAP. VIII 1 Gideon pacifieth the Ephraimites 4 Succoth and Penuel refuse to relieve Gideon army 10 Zebah and Zalmunna are taken 13 Succoth and Penuel are destroyed 17 Gideon revengeth his brethrens death on Zebah and Zalmunna 22 He refuseth government 24 His ephod cause of idolatry 28 Midian subdued 29 Gideons children and death 33 The Israelites idolatry and ingratitude ANd the men of Ephraim said unto him †Heb. What thing is this thou hast done unto us Why hast thou served us thus that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites And they did chide with him †Heb. strongly sharply 2 And he said unto them What have I done now in comparison of you Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer 3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian Oreb and Zeeb and what was I able to do in comparison of you Then their †Heb. spirit anger was abated toward him when he had said that 4 ¶ And Gideon came to Jordan and passed over he and the three hundred men that were with him saint yet pursuing them 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth Give I pray you loaves of bread unto the people that follow me for they be faint and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian 6 ¶ And the princes of Succoth said Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand that we should give bread unto thine army 7 And Gideon said Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zulmunna into mine hand then I will †Heb. 〈◊〉 tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers 8 And he went up thence to Penuel and spake unto them likewise and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him 9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel saying When I come again in peace I will break down this tower 10 ¶ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their hosts with them about fifteen thousand men all that were lest of all the hosts of the children of the east for there fell ‖ Or an hundred and twenty thousand every one drewing a sword an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword 11 ¶ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah and smote the host for the host was secure 12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled he pursued after them and took the two kings of Midian Zebah and Zalmunna and †Heb. terrified discomfited all the host 13 ¶ And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battel before the sun was up 14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth and enquired of him and he †Heb. â—â—rit described unto him the princes of Succoth and the elders thereof even threescore and seventeen men 15 And he came unto the men of Succoth and said Behold Zebah and Zalmunna with whom ye did upbraid me saying Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary 16 And he took the elders of the city and thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them he †Heb. maâ—e to know taught the men of Succoth 17 and he beat down the tower of * 1 King 12.25 Penuel and slew the men of the city 18 ¶ Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna What manner of men were they whom ye
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines fourty years 2 ¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites whose name was Manoah and his wife was barren and bare not 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman and said unto her Behold now thou art barren and bearest not but thou shalt conceive and bear a son 4 Now therefore beware I pray thee and * Numb 6 2 3. drink not wine nor strong drink and eat not any unclean thing 5 For lo thou shalt conceive and bear a son and * Numb 6.5 1 Sam. 1.11 no rasour shall come on his head for the childe shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines 6 ¶ Then the woman came and told her husband saying A man of God came unto me and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God very terrible but I asked him not whence he was neither told he me his name 7 But he said unto me Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son and now drink no wine nor strong drink neither eat any unclean thing for the childe shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death 8 ¶ Then Manoah intreated the LORD and said O my Lord let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us and teach us what we shall do unto the childe that shall be born 9 And God hearkned to the voice of Manoah and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field but Manoah her husband was not with her 10 And the woman made haste and ran and shewed her husband and said unto him Behold the man hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day 11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said unto him Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman And he said I am 12 And Manoah said Now let thy words come to pass †Heb. What shall be the manner of the c. How shall we order the childe and ‖ Or what shall be do †Heb. what shall be his work how shall we do unto him 13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine neither let her drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing all that I commanded her let her observe 15 ¶ And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD I pray thee let us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid †Heb. before thee for thee 16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah Though thou detain me I will not eat of thy bread and it thou wilt offer a burnt-offering thou must offer it unto the LORD for Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD What is thy name that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him Why askest thou thus after my name seeing it is ‖ Or wonderful secret 19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat-offering and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD and the angel did wondrously and Manoah and his wife looked on 20 For it came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar and Manoah and his wife looked on it and fell on their faces to the ground 21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD 22 And Manoah said unto his wife * Exod. 33.20 Ch. 6.22 We shall surely die because we have seen God 23 But his wife said unto him If the LORD were pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would as at this time have told us such things as these 24 ¶ And the woman bare a son and called his name Samson and the childe grew and the LORD blessed him 25 And the spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol CHAP. XIV 1 Samson desireth a wife of the Philistines 5 In his journey he killeth a lion 8 In a second journey be findeth honey in the carcase 10 Samsons marriate-feast 12 His riddle by his wife is made known 19 He spoileth thirty Philistines 20 His wife is married to another ANd Samson went down to Timnath and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines 2 And he came up and told his father and his mother and said I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines now therefore get her for me to wife 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines And Samson said unto his father Get her for me for †Heb. she is right in mine eyes she pleaseth me well 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD that he sought an occasion against the Philistines for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel 5 Then went Samson down and his father and his mother to Timnath and came to the vineyards of Timnath and behold a young lion roared †Heb. in meeting him against him 6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him and he rent him as he would have rent a kid and he had nothing in his hand but he told not his father or his mother what he had done 7 And he went down and talked with the woman and she pleased Samson well 8 ¶ And after a time he returned to take her and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion 9 And he took thereof in his hands and went on eating and came to his father and mother and he gave them and they did eat but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion 10 ¶ So his father went down unto the woman and Samson made there a feast for so used the young men to do 11 And it came to pass when they saw him that they brought thirty companions to be with him 12 ¶ And Samson said unto them I will now put forth a riddle unto you if you can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast and finde it out then I will give
house went out unto them and said unto them Nay my brethren nay I pray you do not so wickedly seeing that this man is come into mine house do not this folly 24 Behold here is my daughter a maiden and his concubine them I will bring out now and humble ye them and do with them what seemeth good unto you but unto this man do not †Heb. the matter of this folly so vile a thing 25 But the men would not hearken to him so the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning and when the day began to spring they let her go 26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the mans house where her lord was till it was light 27 And her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way and behold the woman his concubine was falâ— down at the door of the house and her hands were upon the threshold 28 And he said unto her Up and let us be going but none answered Then the man took her up vpon an ass and the man rose up and gat him unto his place 29 ¶ And when he was come into his house he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel 30 And it was so that all that saw it said there was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day consider of it take advice and speak your minds CHAP. XX. 1 The Levite in a general assembly declareth his wrong 8 The decree of the assembly 12 The Benjamites being cited make head against the Israelites 18 The Israelites in two battels lose fourty thousand 26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites except six hundred THen all the children of Israel went out and the congregation was gathered together as one man from Dan even to Beer-sheba with the land of Gilead unto the LORD in Mizpeh 2 And the chief of all the people even of all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword 3 Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh Then said the children of Israel Tell us how was this wickedness 4 And †Heb. the man the Levite the Levite the husband of the woman that was slain answered and said I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin I and my concubine to lodge 5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me and beset the house round about upon me by night and thought to have slain me and my concubine have they †Heb. humbled forced that she is dead 6 And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the countrey of the inheritance of Israel for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel 7 Behold ye are all children of Israel give here your advice and counsel 8 ¶ And all the people arose as one man saying We will not any of us go to his tent neither will we any of us turn into his house 9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah we will go up by lot against it 10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel and an hundred of a thousand and a thousand out of ten thousand to fetch victual for the people that they may do when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city †Heb. fellows knit together as one man 12 ¶ And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying What wickedness is this that is done among you 13 Now therefore deliver us the men the children of Belial which are in Gibeah that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah to go out to battel against the children of Israel 15 And the children of Benjamin were numbred at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword beside the inhabitants of Gibeah which were numbred seven hundred chosen men 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men * Chap. 3.15 left-handed every one could sling stones at an hair breadth and not miss 17 And the men of Israel beside Benjamin were numbred four hundred thousand men that drew sword all these were men of war 18 ¶ And the children of Israel arose and went up to the house of God and asked counsel of God and said Which of us shall go up first to the battâ—l against the children of Benjamin And the LORD said Judah shall go up first 19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah 20 And the men of Israel went out to battel against Benjamin and the men of Israel put themselves in aray to fight against them at Gibeah 21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men 22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves and set their battel again in aray in the place where they put themselves in aray the first day 23 And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even and asked counsel of the LORD saying Shall I go up again to battel against the children of Benjamin my brother And the LORD said Go up against him 24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day 25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men all these drew the sword 26 ¶ Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up and came unto the house of God and wept and sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until even and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the LORD 27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days 28 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days saying Shall I yet again go out to battel against the children of Benjamin my brother or shall I cease And the LORD said Go up for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand 29 And Israel set liers in
wait round about Gibeah 30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day and put themselves in aray against Gibeah as at other times 31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city and they began †Heb. to smite of the people wounded as at c. to smite of the people and kill as at other times in the high-ways of which one goeth up to ‖ Or Bâ—th-el the house of God and the other to Gibeah in the field about thirty men of Israel 32 And the children of Benjamin said They are smitten down before us as at the first But the children of Israel said Let us flee and draw them from the city unto the high ways 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and put themselves in aray at Baal-tamar and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places even out of the medows of Gibeah 34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel and the battel was sore but they knew not that evil was near them 35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men all these drew the sword 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah 37 And the liers in wait hasted and rushed upon Gibeah and the liers in wait ‖ Or made a long sound with the trumpets drew themselves along and smote all the city with the edge of the sword 38 Now there was an appointed ‖ Or time signe between the men of Israel †Heb with and the liers in wait that they should make a great †Heb. elevation flame with smoke to rise up out of the city 39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battel Benjamin began †Heb. to smite the wounded to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons for they said Surely they are smitten down before us as in the first battel 40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke the Benjamites looked behinde them and behold †Heb. the whole consumption the flame of the city ascended up to heaven 41 And when the men of Israel turned again the men of Benjamin were amazed for they saw that evil †Heb. touched them was come upon them 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness but the battel overtook them and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them 43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about and chased them and trode them down ‖ Or from Minuchah c. with ease †Heb. unto over against over against Gibeah toward the sun-rising 44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men all these were men of valour 45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon and they gleaned of them in the high-ways five thousand men and pursued hard after them unto Gidom and slew two thousand men of them 46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword all these were men of valour 47 * Ch. 21.13 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon and abode in the rock Rimmon â—our moneths 48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin and smote them with the edge of the sword as well the men of every city as the beast and all that †Heb. was found came to hand also they set on fire all the cities that †Heb. were found they came to CHAP. XXI 1 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin 8 By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide them four hundred wives 16 They advise them to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh NOw the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh saying There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife 2 And the people came to the house of God and abode there till even before God and lift up their voices and went sore 3 And said O LORD God of Israel why is this come to pass in Israel that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel 4 And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings 5 And the children of Israel said Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD for they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh saying He shall surely be put to death 6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother and said There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day 7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives 8 ¶ And they said What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD and behold there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly 9 For the people were numbred and behold there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest and commanded them saying Go smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword with the women the children 11 And this is the thing that ye shall do * Numb 31.17 Ye shall utterly destroy every male and every woman that †Heb. knoweth the lying with man hath lien by man 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred †Heb. young women virgins young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan 13 And the whole congregation sent some †Heb. and spake and called to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon and to ‖ Or proclaim peace call peaceably unto them 14 And Benjamin came again at that time and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead and yet so they sufficed them not 15 And the people repented them for Benjamin because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel 16 ¶ Then the elders of the congregation said How shall we do for wives for them that remain seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin 17 And they said There must be an inheritance
I-chabod dieth ANd the word of Samuel ‖ Or came to pass †Heb. was came to all Israel Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battel and pitched beside Eben-ezer and the Philistines pitched in Aphek 2 And the Philistines put themselves in aray against Israel when †Heb. the battel way spread they joyned battel Israel was smitten before the Philistines and they slew of †Heb. the aray the army in the field about four thousand men 3 ¶ And when the people were come into the camp the elders of Israel said Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines Let us †Heb. take unto us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us that when it cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies 4 So the people sent to Shiloh that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts which dwelleth between the cherubims and the two sons of Eli Hophni and Phinehas were there with the ark of the covenant of God 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp all Israel shouted with a great shout so that the earth rang again 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout they said What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp 7 And the Philistines were afraid for they said God is come into the camp And they said Wo unto us for there hath not been such a thing †Heb. yesterday or the thirâ— day heretofore 8 Wo unto us who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness 9 Be strong and quit yourselves like men O ye Philistines that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews * Jud. 13.1 as they have been to you †Heb. be men quit your selves like men and fight 10 ¶ And the Philistines sought and Israel was smitten and they fled every man into his tent and there was a very great slaughter for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen 11 And the ark of God was taken and the two sons of Eli Hophni and Phinehas †Heb died were slain 12 ¶ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army and came to Shilon the same day with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head 13 And when he came lo Eli sat upon a seat by the way-side watching for his heart trembled for the ark of God And when the man came into the city and told it all the city cried out 14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying he said What meaneth the noise of this tumult And the man came in hastily and told Eli. 15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old and * Chap. 3.2 his eyes †Heb. stood were dim that he could not see 16 And the man said unto Eli I am he that came out of the army and I fled to day out of the army And he said What †Heb. is the thing is there done my son 17 And the messenger answered and said Israel is fled before the Philistines and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people and thy two sons also Hophni and Phinehas are dead and the ark of God is taken 18 And it came to pass when he made mention of the ark of God that he fell from off the feat backward by the side of the gate and his neck brake and he died for he was an old man and heavy And he had judged Israel fourty years 19 ¶ And his daughter in law Phinehas wife was with childe near ‖ Or to cry out to be delivered and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken and that her father in law and her husband were dead she bowed her self and travailed for her pains †Heb. were turned came upon her 20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her Fear not for thou hast born a son But she answered not †Heb. set not her heart neither did she regard it 21 And she named the childe ‖ That is Where is the glory or There is no glory I-chabod saying The glory is departed from Israel because the ark of God was taken and because of her father in law and her husband 22 And she said The glory is departed from Israel for the ark of God is taken CHAP. V. 1 The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod set it in the house of Dagon 3 Dagon is smitten down and cut in pieces and they of Ashaod smitten with emerods 8 So God dealeth with them of Gath when it was brought thither 10 and so with them of Ekron when it was brought thither ANd the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon 3 ¶ And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow behold Dagon was â—aln upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD they took Dagon and set him in his place again 4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning behold Dagon was â—aln upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold onely ‖ Or. the fish part the stump of Dagon was left to him 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any that come into Dagons house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod and he destroyed them and smote them with * Psal 78.60 emerods even Ashdod and the coasts thereof 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so they said The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us for his hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon our god 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them and said What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel And they answered Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel a-about thither 9 And it was so that after they had carried it about the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction and he smote the men of the city both small and great and they had emerods in their secret parts 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron and it came to pass as the ark of God came to Ekron that the Ekronites cried out saying They have
beside Esoth on the †Heb. lip shore of the Red sea in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants shipmen that had knowledge of the sea with the servants of Solomon 28 And they came to Ophir and fet from thence gold four hundred and twenty talents and brought it to king Solomon CHAP. X. 1 The queen of Sheba admireth the wisdom of Solomon 14 Solomons gold 16 His targets 18 The throne of ivory 21 His vessels 24 His presents 26 His chariots and horse 28 His tribute ANd when the * 2 Chr. 9.1 Mat. 12.42 Luk. 11.31 queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD she came to prove him with hard questions 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train with camels that bare spices and very much gold and precious stones and when she was come to Solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart 3 And Solomon told her all her †Heb. words questions there was not any thing hid from the king which he told her not 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomons wisdom and the house that he had built 5 And the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the †Heb. standing attendance of his ministers and their apparel and his ‖ Or butlers cup-bearers and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD there was no more spirit in her 6 And she said to the king It was a true †Heb. word report that I heard in mine own land of thy ‖ Or sayings acts and of thy wisdom 7 Howbeit I beleeved not the words until I came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the hall was not told me †Heb. thou hast added wisdom and goodness to the fame thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard 8 Happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom 9 Blessed be the LORD thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the LORD loved Israel for ever therefore made he thee king to do judgement and justice 10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold and of spices very great store and precious stones there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon 11 And the navy also of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug-trees precious stones 12 And the king made of the almug-trees ‖ Or rails †Heb. 〈◊〉 prop. pillars for the house of the LORD and for the kings house harps also and psalteries for singers there came no such * 2 Chr. 9.10 almug trees nor were seen unto this day 13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire whatsoever she asked besides that which Solomon gave her †Heb. according to the hand of king Solomon of his royal bounty so she turned and went to her own countrey she and her servants 14 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold 15 Besides that he had of the merchant-men and of the traffick of the spice-merchants and of all the kings of Arabia and of the ‖ Or captains governours of the countrey 16 ¶ And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold six hundred shekels of gold went to one target 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold three pound of gold went to one shield and the king put them in the * Chap. 7.2 house of the forrest of Lebanon 18 ¶ Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the best gold 19 The throne had six steps and the top of the throne was round †Heb. on the hinder paâ—e thereof behinde and there were †Heb. hands stays on either side on the place of the seat and two lions stood beside the stays 20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps there was not †Heb. sâ— the like made in any kingdom 21 ¶ And all king Solomons drinking-vessels were of gold and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold ‖ Or there was no silver in them none were of silver it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram once in three years came the navy of Tharshish bringing gold and silver ‖ Or elephantâ— tâ—eth ivory and apes and peacocks 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom 24 ¶ And all the earth †Heb. souâ—ht the faâ—e of sought to Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart 25 And they brought every man his present vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments and armour and spices horses and mules a rate year by year 26 ¶ * 2 Chr. 1.14 And Solomon gathered together chariots and hors-men and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand hors-men whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots and with the king at Jerusalem 27 And the king †Heb. gave made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the vale for abundance 28 ¶ * 1 Chr. 1.16 9.28 †Heb. And the going forth of the horses which was Solomons And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and linen yarn the kings merchants received the linen yarn at a price 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and an horse for an hundred and fifty and so for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria did they bring them out †Heb. by their hand by their means CHAP. XI 1 Solomons wives and concubines 4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry 9 God threatneth him 14 Solomons adversaries were Hadad who was entertained in Egypt 23 Bezon who reigned in Damascus 26 and feroboam to whom Ahijah prophesied 41 Solomons acts reign and death Rehoboam succeedeth him BUt king Solomon loved * Deut. 17.17 Ecclus 47.19 many strange women ‖ Or besides together with the daughter of Pharaoh women of the Moabites Ammonites Edomites Zidonians Hittites 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel * Exod. 34.16 Ye shall not go in to them neither shall they come in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods Solomon clave unto these in love 3 And he had seven hundred wives princesses and three hundred
mountain or into some valley And he said Ye shall not send 17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed he said Send They sent therefore fifty men and they sought three days but found him not 18 And when they came again to him for he tarried at Jericho he said unto them Did I not say unto you Go not 19 ¶ And the men of the city said unto Elisha Behold I pray thee the situation of this city is pleasant as my lord seeth but the water is naught and the ground †Heb. causing to miscarry barren 20 And he said Bring me a new cruse and put salt therein And they brought it to him 21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters and cast the salt in there and said Thus saith the LORD I have healed these waters there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land 22 So the waters were healed unto this day according to the saying of Elisha which he spake 23 ¶ And he went up from thence unto Beth-el and as he was going up by the way there came forth little children out of the city and mocked him and said unto him Go up thou bald-head go up thou bald-head 24 And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD and there came forth two she-bears out of the wood and tare fourty and two children of them 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he returned to Samaria CHAP. III. 1 Jehorams reign 4 Mesha rebelleth 6 Jehoram with Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom being distressed for want of water by Elisha obtaineth water and promise of victory 21 The Moabites deceived by the colour of the water coming to spoil are overcome 26 The king of Moah by sacrificing the king of Edoms son raiseth the siege NOw Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and reigned twelve years 2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD but not like his father and like his mother for he put away the †Heb. statue image of Baal that his father had made 3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom 4 ¶ And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master and rendred unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs and an hundred thousand rams with the wool 5 But it came to pass when * Chap 1.1 Ahab was dead that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel 6 ¶ And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time and numbred all Israel 7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah saying The king of Moab hath rebelled against me wilt thou go with me against Moab to battel And he said I will go up * 1 Kings 22.4 I am as thou art my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses 8 And he said Which way shall we go up And he answered The way through the wilderness of Edom. 9 So the king of Israel went and the king of Judah and the king of Edom and they fetcht a compass of seven days journey and there was no water for the host and for the cattel †Heb. at their feet that followed them 10 And the king of Israel said Alas that the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab 11 But Jehoshaphat said Is there not here a prophet of the LORD that we may enquire of the LORD by him And one of the king of Israels servants answered and said Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat which poured water on the hands of Elijah 12 And Jehoshaphat said The word of the LORD is with him So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him 13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel What have I to do with thee get thee to the prophets of thy father and to the prophets of thy mother And the king of Israel said unto him Nay for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab 14 And Elisha said As the LORD of hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look toward thee nor see thee 15 But now bring me a minstrel And it came to pass when the minstrel played that the hand of the LORD came upon him 16 And he said Thus saith the LORD Make this valley full of ditches 17 For thus saith the LORD Ye shall not see wind neither shall ye see rain yet that valley shall be filled with water that ye may drink both ye and your cattel and your beasts 18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand 19 And ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city and shall fell every good tree and stop all wells of water and †Heb. grieve mar every good piece of land with stones 20 And it came to pass in the morning when the meat-offering was offered that behold there came water by the way of Edom and the countrey was filled with water 21 ¶ And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them they †Heb. were cried together gathered all that were able to †Heb. gird himself with a girdle put on armour and upward and stood in the border 22 And they rose up early in the morning and the sun shone upon the water and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as bloud 23 And they said This is bloud the kings are surely †Heb. destroyed slain and they have smitten one another now therefore Moab to the spoil 24 And when they came to the camp of Israel the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites so that they fled before them but ‖ Or they smote in it even smiting they went forward smiting the Moabites even in their countrey 25 And they beat down the cities and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone and filled it and they stopped all the wells of water and felled all the good trees †Heb. until he left the stones thereof in Kirharaseth onely in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof howbeit the slingers went about it and smote it 26 ¶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battel was too sore for him he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords to break through even unto the king of Edom but they could not 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall and there was great indignation against Israel and they departed
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
about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them 4 * Psal 44 14. We are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us 5 * Psal 89.46 How long LORD wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousie burn like fire 6 * Jer 10.25 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name 7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling-place 8 * Isa 64.9 O remember not against us ‖ Or the iniquities of them that were before us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake 10 Wherefore should the heathen say Where is their God let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the †Heb. vengeance revenging of the bloud of thy servants which is shed 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee according to the greatness of †Heb. thine arm thy power †Heb. reserve the children of death preserve thou those that are appointed to die 12 And render unto our neighbours seven-fold into their bosom the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee O Lord. 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever we will shew forth thy praise †Heb. to generation and generation to all generations PSAL. LXXX 1 The psalmist in his praver complaineth of the miseries of the church 8 Gods former favours are turned into judgements 14 He prayeth for deliverance ¶ To the chief musician upon Shoshannim Eduth A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph GIve ear O shepherd of Israel thou that leadest Joseph like a flock thou that dwellest between the cherubims shine forth 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength and †Heb. come for salvation to us come and save us 3 Turn us again O God and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved 4 O LORD God of hosts how long †Heb. wilt thou smoke wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them tears to drink in great measure 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh among themselves 7 Turn us again O God of hosts and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou preparedst room before it and didst cause it to take deep root and it filled the land 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like †Heb. the cedars of God the goodly cedars 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea her branches unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her bedges so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it and the wilde beast of the field doth devour it 14 Return we beseech thee O God of hosts look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire it is cut down they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thy self 18 So will not we go back from thee quicken us and we will call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O LORD God of hosts cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved PSAL. LXXXI 1 An exhertation to a solemn praising of God 4 God challengeth that duty by reason of his benefits 8 God exhorting to obedience complaineth of their disobedience which proveth their own hurt ¶ To the chief musician upon Gittith A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph SIng aloud unto God our strength make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel the pleasant harp with the psaltery 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new-moon in the time appointed on our solemn feast-day 4 For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went out ‖ Or against through the land of Egypt where I heard a language that I understood not 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden his hands †Heb. passed away were delivered from the pots 7 Thou calledst in trouble and I delivered thee I answered thee in the secret place of thunder I * Exod. 17.6 proved thee at the waters of ‖ Or strife Meribah Selah 8 Hear O my people and I will testifie unto thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 9 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange god 10 I am the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I will fill it 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice and Israel would none of me 12 * Act 3 14.16 So I gave them up ‖ Or to the hardness of their hearts or imagmation unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels 13 O that my people had hearkned unto me and Israel had walked in my ways 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries 15 The haters of the LORD should haye ‖ Or yeelded feigned obedience †Heb. lied submitted themselves unto him but their time should have endured for ever 16 He should have fed them also †Heb. with the fat of wheat with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee PSAL. LXXXII 1 The psalmist having exhorted the judges 5 and reproved their negligence 8 prayeth God to judge ¶ A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph GOd standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods 2 How long will ye judge unjustly and * Deut. 1.17 accept the persons of the wicked Selah 3 †Heb. Judge Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted needy 4 * Prov. 24.11 Deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked 5 They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are †Heb. moved out of course 6 * John 10.34 I have said Ye are gods and all of you are children of the most High 7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes 8 Arise
deceit shall not dwell within my house he that telleth lies †Heb. shall not be established shall not tarry in my sight 8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD PSâ—L CII 1 The prophet in his prayer maketh a grievous complaint 12 He taketh comfort in the eternity and mercy of God 18 The mercies of God are to be recorded 23 He sustaineth his weakness by the unchangeableness of God ¶ A prayer ‖ Or for of the afflicted when he is over whelmed and poureth out his complaint before the LORD HEar my prayer O LORD and let my cry come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble incline thine ear unto me in the day when I call answer me speedily 3 For my days are consumed ‖ Or as some read into smoke like smoke and my bones are burnt as an hearth 4 My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my ‖ Or flesh skin 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness I am like an owl of the desert 7 I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day and they that are mad against me are sworn against me 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down 11 * Isa 40.6 Jam. 1.10 My days are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered like grass 12 But thou O LORD shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD and all the kings of the earth thy glory 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer 18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary from heaven did the LORD behold the earth 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose †Heb. the children of death those that are appointed to death 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve the LORD 23 He †Heb. afflicted weakned my strength in the way he shortned my days 24 I said O my God take me not away in the midst of my days thy years are throughout all generations 25 †Heb. 1.10 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt †Heb. stanâ— endure yea all of them shall wax old like a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed 27 But thou art the same and thy years shall have no end 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee PSAL. CIII 1 An exhortation to bless God for his mercy 15 and for the constancy thereof ¶ A psalm of David BLess the LORD O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name 2 Bless the LORD O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles 6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgement for all that are oppressed 7 He made known his ways unto Moses his acts unto the children of Israel 8 * Exod 34.6 7. Num. 14.18 Deut. 5.10 Neh. 9.17 Psal 86.15 Jer. 32.18 The LORD is merciful and gracious slow to anger and †Heb. great of mercy plenteous in mercy 9 He will not always chide neither will he keep his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities 11 For †Heb. according to the height of the heaven as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear him 12 As far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from us 13 Like as a father pitieth his children so the LORD pitieth them that fear him 14 For he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust 15 As for man his days are as grass as a flower of the field so he flourisheth 16 For the wind passeth over it and †Heb. it is not it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him his righteousness unto childrens children 18 * Deut. 7.9 To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them 19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all 20 Bless the LORD ye his angels †Heb. mighty in strength that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkning unto the voice of his word 21 Bless ye the LORD all ye his hosts ye ministers of his that do his pleasure 22 Bless the LORD all his works in all places of his dominion bless the LORD O my soul PSAL. CIV 1 A meditation upon the mighty power 7 and wonderful providence of God 31 Gods glory is eternal 33 The prophet voweth perpetually to praise God BLess the LORD O my soul O LORD my God thou art very great thou art clothed with honour and majesty 2 Who coverest thy self with light as with a garment who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters who maketh the clouds his chariot who walketh upon the wings of the wind 4 * Hebr. 1.7 Who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming fire 5 †Heb. he hath founded the earth upon her bases Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment the waters stood above the mountains 7 At thy rebuke they fled at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away 8 ‖ Or the mountains ascend the valleys descend They go up by the mountains they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them 9 Thou hast set a bound
〈◊〉 from the south 4 They wandred in the wilderness in a solitary way they found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soul sainted in them 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses 7 And he led them forth by the right way that they might go to a city of habitation 8 Oh that meâ— would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the most High 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and there was none to help 13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and brake their bands in sunder 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder 17 Fools because of their transgression and because of their iniquities are afflicted 18 * Job â—3 20. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw near unto the gates of death 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble he saveth them out of their distresses 20 He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions 21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with †Heb. singing rejoycing 23 They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters 24 These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep 25 For he commandeth and †Heb. maketh to stand raiseth the stormy wind which sitteth up the waves thereof 26 They mount up to the heaven they do down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and †Heb. act their wisdom is swallowed up are at their wits end 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses 29 He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their desired haven 31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into dry ground 34 A fruitful land into †Heb. saltness barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein 35 * Isa 41.18 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell that they may prepare a city for habitation 37 And sowe the fields and plant vineyards which may yeeld fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly and suffereth not their cattel to decrease 39 Again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow 40 * Job 12.21 He poureth contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the ‖ Or void place wilderness where there is no way 41 * 1 Sam. 2.8 Psal 113.7 8. Yet setteth he the poor on high ‖ Or after from affliction and maketh him families like a flock 42 * Job 22.19 The righteous shall see it and rejoyce and all * Job 5.16 iniquity shall stop her mouth 43 Whoso is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD PSAL. CVIII 1 David encourageth himself to praise God 5 He prayeth for Gods assistance according to his promise 11 His confidence in Gods help ¶ A song or psalm of David O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glory 2 Awake psaltery and harp I my self will awake early 3 I will praise thee O LORD among the people and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the ‖ Or skiâ—s clouds 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 * Psal 60 5. That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and answer me 7 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Judah is my law-giver 9 Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my shoe over Philistia will I triumph 10 Who will bring me into the strong city who will lead me into Edom 11 Wâ—lt not thou O God who hast cast us off and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies PSAL. CIX 1 David complaining of his slanderous enemies under the person of Judas devoteth them 16 He sheweth their sin 21 Complaining of his own misery he prayeth for help 30 He promiseth thankfulness ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David HOld not thy peace O God of my praise 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the †Heb. mouth of deceit mouth of the deceitful †Heb. have opened themselves are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred and sought against me without a cause 4 For my love they are my adversaries but I give my self unto prayer 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love 6 Set thou a wicked man over him and let ‖ Or an adversary Satan stand at his right hand 7 When he shall be judged let him †Heb. go out guilty or wicked be condemned and let his prayer become sin 8 Let his days be few and * Act. 1.20 let another take his ‖ Or charge office 9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him neither let there be any
not stumble 13 Take fast hold of instruction let her not go keep her for she is thy life 14 ¶ * Psal 1.1 Chap. 1.10 15. Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men 15 Avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away 16 For they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble 20 ¶ My son attend to my words incline thine ear unto my sayings 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart 22 For they are life unto those that finde them and †Heb. â—â—u licine health to all their flesh 23 ¶ Keep thy heart †Heb. above all keeping with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life 24 Put away from thee †Heb. forwardness of mouth and pereversness of lips a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee 25 Let thine eyes look right on and let thine eye-lids look straight before thee 26 Ponder the path of thy feet and ‖ Or all thâ— ways shall be ordered aright let all thy ways be established 27 * Deut. 5.32 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy foot from evil CHAP. V. 1 Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom 3 He sheweth the mischief of wheredom and riot 15 He exhorteth to contentedness liberality and chastity 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins MY son attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding 2 That thou mayest regard discretion and that thy lips may keep knowledge 3 ¶ * Chap. 2.16 and 6.24 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb and her †Heb. palate mouth is smoother then oyl 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood sharp as a two-edged sword 5 * Chap 7.27 Her feet go down to death her steps take hold on hell 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life her ways are moveable that thou canst not know them 7 Hear me now therefore O ye children and depart not from the words of my mouth 8 Remove thy way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel 10 Lest strangers be filled with †Heb. thy strength thy wealth and thy labours be in the house of a stranger 11 And thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed 12 And say How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets 17 Let them be onely thine own and not strangers with thee 18 Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoyce with the wife of thy youth 19 Let her be as the loving hinde and pleasant roe let her breasts †Heb. water thee satisfie thee at all times and †Heb. err thou always â—â—s her love be thou ravisht always with her love 20 And why wilt thou my son be ravisht with a strange woman and embrace the bosom of a stranger 21 * Job 31.4 34.21 Chap. 15.3 Jer. 16.17 32.19 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD and he pondereth all his goings 22 ¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself and he shall be holden with the cords of his †Heb. sin sins 23 He shall die without instruction and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray CHAP. VI. 1 Against suretiship 6 idleness 12 and mischievousness 16 Seven things hateful to God 20 The blessings of obedience 25 The mischiefs of whoredom MY son if thou be surety for thy friend if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth thou art taken with the words of thy mouth 3 Do this now my son and deliver thy self when thou art come into the hand of thy friend go humble thy self ‖ Or so shalt thou prevail with thy friend and make sure thy friend 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye-lids 5 Deliver thy self as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler 6 ¶ Go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise 7 Which having no guide overseer or ruler 8 Provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest 9 * Chap. 24.33 How long wilt thou sleep O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep 10 Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep 11 * Chap. 13.4 20.4 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy want as an armed man 12 ¶ A naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth 13 He winketh with his eyes he speaketh with his feet he teacheth with his fingers 14 Frowardness is in his heart he deviseth mischief continually he †Heb. casteth forth soweth discord 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without remedy 16 ¶ These six things doth the LORD hate yea seven are an abomination †Heb. of his soul unto him 17 †Heb. haughty eyes A proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent bloud 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations * Rom. 3.15 feet that be swift in running to mischief 19 A false witness that speaketh lies and him that soweth discord among brethren 20 ¶ * Chap. 1.8 My son keep thy fathers commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother 21 Binde them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck 22 When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee 23 * Psal 19.8 119.105 For the commandment is a ‖ Or candle lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life 24 * Chap. 2.16 5.3 7.5 To keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery ‖ Or of the strange tongue of the tongue of a strange woman 25 * Mat. 5.28 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eye-lids 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man
the king of Assyria and I will defend this city 7 And this shall be a signe unto thee from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken 8 Behold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the †Heb. degrees by or with the sun sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward So the sun returned ten degrees by which degrees it was gone down 9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness 10 I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years 11 I said I shall not see the LORD even the LORD in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world 12 Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherds tent I have cut off like a weaver my life he will cut me off ‖ Or from the thrum with pining sickness from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me 13 I reckoned till morning that as a lion so will he break all my bones from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me 14 Like a crane or a swallow so did I chatter I did mourn as a dove mine eyes fail with looking upward O LORD I am oppressed ‖ Or case me undertake for me 15 What shall I say he hath both spoken unto me and himself hath done it I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul 16 O Lord by these things men live and in all these things is the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover me and make me to live 17 Behold ‖ Or on my peace came great bitterness for peace I had great bitterness but †Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast all my sins behinde thy back 18 For the grave can not praise thee death cannot celebrate thee they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth 19 The living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day the father to the children shall make known thy truth 20 The LORD was ready to save me therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD 21 For Isaiah had said let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaister upon the boyl and he shall recover 22 Hezekiah also had said What is the signe that I shall go up to the house of the LORD CHAP. XXXIX 1 Merodath-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah because of the wonder bath notice of his treasures 3 Isaiah understanding thereof foretelleth the Babylonian captivity AT * 2 Kin. 20.12 c. that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them and shewed them the house of his ‖ Or spicery precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precions ointment and all the house of his ‖ Or jewels †Heb. verssels or instruments armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah shewed them not 3 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said unto him What said these men and from whence came they unto thee And Hezekiah said They are come from a far countrey unto me even from Babylon 4 Then said he What have they seen in thine house And Hezekiah answered All that is in mine house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD of hosts 6 Behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day shall be carried to Babylon nothing shall be left saith the LORD 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken he said moreover For there shall be peace and truth in my days CHAP. XL. 1 The promulgation of the gospel 3 The preaching of John Baptist 9 The preaching of the apostles 12 The prophet by the omnipotency of God 18 and his incomparableness 26 comforteth the people COmfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God 2 Speak ye †Heb. to the heare comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her ‖ Or appointed time warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received of the LORDs hand double for all her sins 3 ¶ * Mat. 3.3 Mar. 1.3 Lu. 3.4 Joh. 1.23 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the LORD make strait in the desert a high-way forour God 4 Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made ‖ Or a strait place strait and the rough places ‖ Or a plain place plain 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it 6 The voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry * Job 14.2 Ps 102.11 and 103.15 Jam. 1.10 1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field 7 The grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it surely the people is grass 8 The grass withereth the flower fadeth but the * Joh. 12.34 1 Pet. 1.25 word of our God shall stand for ever 9 ¶ ‖ Or O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion O Zion that bringest good tidings get thee up into the high mountain ‖ Or O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem O Jerusalem that bringest good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah Behold your God 10 Behold the Lord GOD will come ‖ Or against the strong with strong hand and his arm shall rule for him behold * Ch. 62.11 his reward is with him and ‖ Or recompence for his work his work before him 11 He shall * Ezek. 34.23 Joh. 10.11 feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those ‖ Or that give suck that are with young 12 ¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted
the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon †Heb. fair of branches with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and of an high stature and his top was among the thick boughs 4 The waters ‖ Or nourished made him great the deep ‖ Or brought him up set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants and sent out her ‖ Or conduits little rivers unto all the trees of the field 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters ‖ Or when it sent them forth when he shot forth 6 All the * Dan 4. fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young and under his shadow dwelt all great nations 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness in the longth of his branches for his root was by great waters 8 The cedars in the * Gen. â— garden of God could not hide him the fir-trees were not like his boughs and the cheâ—nut trees were not like his branches not any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty 9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches so that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied him 10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast lifted up thy self in height and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs and his heart is lifted up in his height 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen †Heb. in dâ—ink be shall aâ— unto kinâ— he shall surely deal with him I have driven him out for his wickedness 12 And strangers the terrible of the nations have cut him off and have left him upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are faln and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow and have left him 13 Upon his ruine shall all the fowls of the heaven remain and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs neither their tree ‖ Or stand upon themselves for their height stand up in their height all that drink water for they are all delivered unto death to the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men with them that go down to the pit 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning I covered the deep for him and I restrained the flouds thereof and the great waters were stayed and I caused Lebanon †Heb. to be black to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted for him 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit and all the trees of Eden the choice and best of Lebanon all that drink water shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword and they that were his arm that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen 18 ¶ To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden yet shall thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword this is Pharaoh and all his multitude saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXII 1 A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt 11 The sword of Babylon shall destroy it 17 It shall be brought down to hell among all the uncircumcised nations ANd it came to pass in the twelfth year in the twelfth moneth in the first day of the moneth that the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say unto him Thou art like a young lion of the nation and thou art aâ— a whale in the seas and thou camest forth with thy rivers ‖ Or â—eaâ—on and troubledst the waters with thy feet and fouledst their rivers 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will therefore * Chap. 12 13. 17.20 spread out my net over thee with a company of many people and they shall bring thee up in my net 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land I will cast thee forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with thy height 6 I will also water with thy bloud ‖ Or the land of thy swimming the land wherein thou swimmest even to the mountains and the river shall be full of thee 7 And when I shall ‖ Or extinâ—â—st put thee out * Isa 13.12 Joâ—l 2.21 and 3.15 Matth. 24 2â— I will cover the heaven and make the stars thereof dark I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light 8 All the †Heb. â—â—it of the light in heaven brought lights of heaven will I make †Heb. them dark dark over thee and set darkness upon thy land saith the Lord GOD. 9 I will also †Heb. provâ—ke to anger of grief vex the hearts of many people when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations into the countreys which thou haâ—t not known 10 Yea I will make many people amazed at thee and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when I shall brandish my sword before them and they shall tremble at every moment every man for his own life in the day of thy fall 11 ¶ For thus saith the Lord GOD The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall the terrible of the nations all of them and they shall spâ—â—l the pomp of Egypt and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from besides the great waters neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them 14 Then will I make their waters deep and cause their rivers to run like oyl saith the Lord GOD. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and the countrey shall be †Heb. desolate from 〈◊〉 fulness thereof destitute of that whereof it was full when I shall smite all them that dwell therein
then shall they know that I am the LORD 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her the daughters of the nations shall lament her they shall lament for her even for Egypt and for all her multitude saith the Lord GOD. 17 ¶ It came to pass aâ—so in the twelfth year in the fifteenth day of the moneth that the word of the LORD came unto me saying 18 Son of man wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast them down even her and the daughters of the famous nations unto the nether parts of the earth with them that go down into the pit 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty go down and be thou laid with the uncircumcised 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword ‖ Or the 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 she is del vered to the sword draw her and all her multitudes 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him they are gone down they lie uncircumcised slain by the sword 22 Asshur is there and all her company his graves are about him all of them slain faln by the sword 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit and her company is round about her grave all of them slain faln by the sword which caused ‖ Or dismaâ—â—â— terrour in the land of the living 24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave all of them slain faln by the sword which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth which caused their terrour in the land of the living yet have they born their shame with them that go down to the pit 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword though their terrour was caused in the land of the living yet have they born their shame with them that go down to the pit he is put in the midst of them that be slain 26 There is Meshech Tubal and all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword though they caused their terrour in the land of the living 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are faln of the uncircumcised which are gone down to hell †Heb. with weaponâ— of their 〈◊〉 with their weapons of war and they have said their swords under their heads but their iniquities shall be upon their bones though they were the terrour of the mighty in the land of the living 28 Yea thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and shalt he with them that are slain with the sword 29 There is Edom her kings and all her princes which with their might are †Heb. given or put laid by them that were slain by the sword they shall lie with the uncircumcised and with them that go down to the pit 30 There be the princes of the north all of them and all the Zidonians which are gone down with the slain with their terrour they are ashamed of their might and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit 31 Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all his multitude even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terrour in the land of the living and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword even Pharaoh and all his multitude saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXIII 1 According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people 7 Ezekiel is admonished of his duty 10 God sheweth the justice of his ways towards the penitent and towards revolters 17 He maintaineth his justice 21Vpon the news of the taking of Jerusalem he prophesieth the desolation of the land 30 Gods judgement upon the mockers of the prophets AGain the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man speak to the children of thy people and say unto them †Heb. A land when I bring a sword upon her When I bring the sword upon a land if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchman 3 It when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the trumpet and warn the people 4 Then †Heb. he that hearing heareth whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning it the sword come and take him away his bloud shall be upon his own head 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his bloud shall be upon him but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul 6 But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned it the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but his bloud will I require at the watchmans hand 7 ¶ * Chap. 3.17 c. So thou O son of man I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me 8 When I say unto the wicked O wicked man thou shalt surely die if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his bloud will I require at thine hand 9 Nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it If he do not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul 10 ¶ Therefore O thou son of man speak unto the house of Israel Thus ye speak saying If our transgressions and our sins be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live 11 Say unto them As I live saith the Lord GOD * 2 Sam. 14.14 Ch. 18.32 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for * Chap. 18.31 why will ye die O house of Israel 12 Therefore thou son of man say unto the children of thy people The * Chap. 18 2â— righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the wicked he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth 13 When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity all his righteousness shall not be remembred but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it 14 Again when I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die if he turn
to be made a spoil unto them then to die for thirst for we will be his servants that our souls may live and not see the death of our infants before our eyes nor our wives nor our children to die 28 We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth and our God and Lord of our fathers which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers ‖ Or leâ—t â—e do meaning Holofernes that he do not according as we have said this day 29 Then there was great weeping with one consent in the midst of the assembly and they cried unto the Lord God with a loud voice 30 Then said Ozias to them Brethren be of good courage let us yet endure five days in the which space the Lord our God may turn his mercy towards us for he will not forsake us utterly 31 And if these days pass and there come no help unto us I will do according to your word 32 And he dispersed the people every one to their own charge and they went unto the walls and towres of their city and sent the women and children into their houses and they were very low brought in the city CHAP. VIII 1 The state and behaviour of Judith a widow 12 She blameth the governours for their promise to yeeld 17 and adviseth them to trust in God 28 They excuse their promise 32 She promiseth to do something for them NOw at that time Judith heard thereof which was the daughter of Merari the son of Ox the son of Joseph the son of Oziel the son of Elcia the son of Ananias the son of Gedeon the son of Raphaim the son of Acitho the son of Eliu the son of Eliab the son of Nathanael the son of ‖ Or Samaâ—iel Samael the son of Salasadal the son of Israel 2 And Manasses was her husband of her tribe and kindred who died in the barley-harvest 3 For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the field the heat came upon his head and he fell on his bed and died in the city of Bethulia and they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothaim and Balamo 4 So Judith was a widow in her house three years and four moneths 5 And she made her a tent upon the top of her house and put on sackcloth upon her loyns and ware her widows apparel 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood save the eves of the sabbaths and the sabbaths and the eves of the new-moons and the new-moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel 7 She was also of a goodly countenance and very beautiful to behold and her husband Manasses had left her gold and silver and men-servants and maid-servants and cattle and lands ‖ Or and she kept them and she remained upon them 8 And there was none that gave her an ill word for she feared God greatly 9 Now when she heard the evil words of the people against the governour that they fainted for lack of water for Judith had heard all * Chap 7 30 31 the words that Ozias had spoken unto them and that he had sworn to deliver the city unto the Assyrians after five days 10 Then she sent her waiting-woman that had the government of all things that she had to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmis the ancients of the city 11 And they came unto her and she said unto them Hear me now O ye governours of the inhabitants of Bethulia for your words that you have spoken before the people this day are not right touching this oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies unless within these days the Lord turn to help you 12 And now who are you that have tempted God this day and stand in stead of God amongst the children of men 13 And now try the Lord Almighty but you shall never know any thing 14 For you cannot finde the depth of the heart of man neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh then how can you search out God that hath made all these things and know his minde or comprehend his purpose Nay my brethren provoke not the Lord our God to anger 15 For if he will not help us within these five days he hath power to defend us when he will even every day or to destroy us before our enemies 16 Do not ‖ Or enzaze binde the counsels of the Lord our God for * Num. 23.19 God is not as man that he may be threatned neither is he as the son of man that he should be wavering 17 Therefore let us wait for salvation of him and call upon him to help us and he will hear our voice if it please him 18 For there arose none in our age neither is there any now in these days neither tribe nor family nor ‖ Or town people nor city among us which worship gods made with hands * Judâ— 2.11 and 4 1 and 6.1 as hath been aforetime 19 For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword and for a spoil and had a great fall before our enemies 20 But we know none other God therefore we trust that he will not despise us nor any of our nation 21 For if we be taken so all Judea shall lie waste and our sanctuary shall be spoiled he will require the profanation thereof at our mouth 22 And the ‖ Or fear slaughter of our brethren and the captivity of the countrey and the desolation of our inheritance will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles wheresoever we shall be in bondage and we shall be an offence and a reproach to all them that possess us 23 For our servitude shall not be directed to favour but the Lord our God shall turn it to dishonour 24 Now therefore O brethren let us shew an example to our brethren because their hearts depend upon us and the sanctuary and the house and the altar rest upon us 25 Moreover let us give thanks to the Lord our God which trieth us even as he did our fathers 26 Remember what things he did to * Gen. 22.1 Abraham and how he tried Isaac and what hapned to * Gen. 28.7 Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria when he kept the sheep of Laban his mothers brother 27 For he hath not tried us in the fire as he did them for the examination of their hearts neither hath he taken vengeance on us but the Lord doth scourge them that come near unto him to admonish them 28 Then said Ozias to her All that thou hast spoken hast thou spoken with a good heart and there is none that may gainsay thy words 29 For this is not the first day wherein thy wisdom is manifested but from the beginning of thy days all the people have known thy understanding because the disposition of thine heart is good 30
9 Let none of us go without his part of our ‖ Or â—â—llity voluptuousness let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place for this is our portion and our lot is this 10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man let us not spare the widow nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged 11 Let our strength be the law of justice for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth 12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous because he is not for our turn and he is clean contrary to our doings he upbraideth us with our offending the law and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education 13 He professeth to have the knowledge of God and he calleth himself the childe of the Lord. 14 He was made * Joh. 7.7 Eph. 5.13 to reprove our thoughts 15 * Isa 53.3 He is grievous unto us even to behold for his life is not like other mens his ways are of another fashion 16 We are esteemed of him as ‖ Or false coin counterfeits he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed and maketh his boast that God is his father 17 Let us see if his words be true and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him 18 For if the just man be the * Ps 22.8.9 Mat. 27.43 son of God he will help him and deliver him from the hand of his enemies 19 Let us * Jer. 11.19 examine him with despitefulness and torture that we may know his meekness and prove his patience 20 Let us condemn him with a shameful death for by his own saying he shall be respected 21 Such things they did imagine and were deceived for their own wickedness hath blinded them 22 As for the mysteries of God they knew them not neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness nor †Gr. preferred or esteemed the reward discerned a reward for blameless souls 23 For God created man to be immortal and made him to be an * Gen. 1.26 27. c 5.1 Ecclus 17.3 image of his own eternity 24 * Gen. 3.13 Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world and they that do hold of his side do finde it CHAP. III. 1 The godly are happy in their death 5 and in their troubles 10 The wicked are not nor their children 13 But they that are pure are happy though they have no children 16 For the adulturer and his seed shall perish BUt * Deut. 33.3 the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God and there shall no torment touch them 2 * Chap. 5.4 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die and their departure is taken for misery 3 And their going from us to be utter destruction but they are in peace 4 For though they be punished in the sight of men yet is their * Rom. 8.24 2 Cor 5.1 1 Pet. 1.13 hope full of immortality 5 And having been a little chastised they shall be greatly ‖ Or benefited rewarded for God * Exod. 16.4 Deut. 8.2 proved them and found them ‖ Or meet worthy for himself 6 As gold in the furnace hath he tried them and received them as a burnt-offering 7 And in the time of their visitation * Matth. 13.43 they shall shine and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble 8 They * Matth. 19.28 1 Cor. 6.2 shall judge the nations and have dominion over the people and their Lord shall reign for ever 9 They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth ‖ Or and such as be faithful shall remain with him in love and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him for grace and mercy is to his saints and he hath care for his elect 10 But the * Matth. 25.41 ungodly shall be punished according to their own imaginations which have neglected the righteous and forsaken the Lord. 11 For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture he is miserable and their hope is vain their labours unfruitful and their works unprofitable 12 Their wives are ‖ Or light or unchaste foolish and their children wicked 13 Their offspring is cursed wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled which hath not known the sinful bed she * Is 56.5 shall have fruit in the visitation of souls 14 And blessed is the * Is 56.4 5. eunuch which with his hands hath wrought no iniquity nor imagined wicked things against God for unto him shall be given †Gr. the chosen the special gift of faith and an inheritance ‖ Or amongst the people in the temple of the Lord more acceptable to his minde 15 For glorious is the fruit of good labours and the root of wisdom shall never fall away 16 As for the children of adulterers they shall not ‖ Or be partakers of holy things come to their perfection and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out 17 For though they live long yet shall they be nothing regarded and their last age shall be without honour 18 Or if they die quickly they have no hope neither comfort in the day of ‖ Or hearing trial 19 For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation CHAP. IV. 1 The â—baste man shall be crowned 3 Bastard slips shall not thrive 6 They shall witness against their parents 7 The just die young and are happy 19 The miserable end of the wicked BEtter it is to have no children and to have vertue for the memorial thereof is immortal because it is ‖ Or approved known with God and with men 2 When it is present men take example at it and when it is gone they desire it it weareth a crown and triumpheth for ever having gotten the victory striving for undefiled rewards 3 But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive nor take deep rooting from bastard slips nor lay any fast foundation 4 For though they flourish in branches for a time * Matth. 7.19 yet standing not fast they shall be shaken with the wind and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out 5 The unperfect branches shall be broken off their fruit unprofitable not ripe to eat yea meet for nothing 6 For children begotten of unlawful †Gr. sleeps beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial 7 But though the righteous be prevented with death yet shall he be in rest 8 For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time nor that is measured by number of years 9 But wisdom is the gray hair unto men and an unspotted life is old age 10 * Gen. 5.24 Heb. 11.5 He pleased God and was beloved of him so that living amongst sinners he was translated 11 Yea speedily was he taken away lest that wickedness should alter his
we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks and at the day-spring pray unto thee 29 For the hope of the unthankfull shall melt away as the winters hoar-frost and shall run away as unprofitable water CHAP. XVII 1 Why the Egyptians were punished with darkness 4 The terrours of that darkness 11 The terrours of an ill conscience FOr great are thy judgements and cannot be expressed therefore ‖ Or souls that will not be reformed unnurtured souls have erred 2 For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation they being shut up ‖ Or under their roofs in their houses the prisoners of darkness and fettered with the bonds of a long night lay there ‖ Or fugitives exiled from the eternal providence 3 For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins they were scattered ‖ Or in undera dark vail of forgetfulness being horribly astonished and troubled with strange ‖ Or sights apparitions 4 For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear but noises as of waters falling down sounded about them and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances 5 No power of the fire might give them light neither could the bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible night 6 Onely there appeared unto them a fire kindled of it self very dreadful for being much terrified they thought the things which they saw to be worse then the sight they saw not 7 * Ex. 7.12 8.7 19. As for the illusions of art magick they were put down and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace 8 For they that promised to drive away terrours and troubles from a sick soul were sick themselves of fear worthy to be laughed at 9 For though no terrible thing did fear them yet being scared with beasts that passed by and hissing of serpents 10 They died for fear ‖ Or 〈◊〉 susing to look upon denying that they saw the air which could of no side be avoided 11 For wickedness condemned by her own witness is very timorous and being pressed with conscience always forecaâ—seth grievous things 12 For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth 13 And the expectation from within being less counteth the ignorance more then the cause which bringeth the torment 14 But they sleeping the same sleep that night ‖ Or wherein they could do nothing which was indeed intolerable and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell 15 Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions and partly fainted their heart failing them for a sudden fear and not looked for came upon them 16 So then whosoever there sell down was straitly kept shut up in a prison without iron bars 17 For whether he were husbandman or shepherd or a labourer in the ‖ Or desert field he was overtaken and endured that necessity which could not be avoided for they were all bound with one chain of darkness 18 Whether it were a whistling wind or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches or a pleasing fall of water running violently 19 Or a ‖ Or hideous terrible sound of stones cast down or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts or a roaring voice of most savage wilde beasts or a rebounding eccho from the hollow mountains these things made them to swoon for fear 20 For the whole world shined with clear light and none were hindred in their labour 21 Over them onely was spread an heavy night an image of that darkness which should afterward receive them but yet were they unto themselves more grievous then the darkness CHAP. XVIII 4 Why Egypt was punished with darkness 5 and with the death of their children 18 They themselves saw the cause thereof 20 God also plagued his own people 21 By what means that plague was stayed NEvertheless thy saints had a very great * Exod. 20.23 light whose voice they hearing and not seeing their shape because they also had not suffered the same things they counted them happy 2 But for that they did not hurt them now of whom they had been wronged before they thanked them and besought them pardon for that they had been enemies 3 * Ex. 13.21 14.24 Ps 78.14 105.39 In stead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire both to be a guide of the unknown journey and an harmless sun to entertain them honourably 4 For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness who had kept thy sons shut up by whom the ‖ Or incorruptible uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world 5 * Exod. 14 â—4 25. And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints one childe being cast forth and saved to reprove them thou tookest away the multitude of their children and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water 6 * Exod. 11.4 Of that night were our fathers certified afore that assuredly knowing unto what oaths they had given credence they might afterâ—ards be of good cheer 7 So of thy people was accepted both the salvation of the righteous and destruction of the enemies 8 For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries by the same thou didst glorify us whom thou hadst called 9 * Exod. 10. For the righteous children of good men did sacrifice secretly and with one consent made ‖ Or a covenant of God or league See Psal 50.5 a holy law that the saints should be like partakers of the same good and evil the fathers now singing out the songs of praise 10 But on the other side there sounded an ill-according cry of the enemies and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed 11 * Ex. 11.5 12.29 The master and the servant were punished after one manner and like as the king so suffered the common person 12 So they altogether had innumerable dead with one kinde of death neither were the living sufficient to bury them for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed 13 For whereas they would not beleeve any thing by reason of the inchantments upon the destruction of the first-born they acknowledged this people to be the sons of God 14 For while all things were in quiet silence and that night was in the midst of her swift course 15 Thine Almighty word leapt down from heaven out of thy royal throne as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction 16 And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword and standing up filled all things with death and it touched the heaven but it stood upon the earth 17 Then suddenly ‖ Or imaginations visions of horrible dreams troubled them fore and terrours came upon them unlooked for 18 And one thrown here and another there half-dead shewed the cause of his death 19 For the dreams that troubled them did
foreshew this lest they should perish and not know why they were afflicted 20 Yea the tasting of death touched the righteous also and there was a destruction of the * Num. 16.46 multitude in the wilderness but the wrath endured not long 21 For then the blameless man made haste and stood forth to defend them and bringing the shield of his proper ministery even prayer and the propitiation of incense set himself against the wrath and so brought the calamity to an end declaring that he was thy servant 22 So he overcame the destroyer not with strength of body nor force of arms but with a word subdued he him that punished alledging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers 23 For when the dead were now fain down by heaps one upon another standing between he ‖ Or out off stayed the wrath and parted the way to the living 24 * Ex. 28.6 9.36 For in the long garment was the whole world and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head 25 Unto these the destroyer gave place and was afraid of them for it was enough that they onely tasted of the wrath CHAP. XIX 1 Why God showed no mercy to the Egyptians 5 and how wonderfully be dealt with his people 14 The Egyptians were worst then the Sodomites 18 The wonderful agreement of the creatures to serve Gods people AS for the ungodly wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end for he knew before what they would do 2 How that having given them leave to depart and sent them hastily away they would repent and pursue them 3 For whilest they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead they added another foolish device and pursued them as fugitives whom they had ‖ Or cast out by intreaty intreated to be gone 4 For the destiny whereof they were worthy drew them unto this end and made them forget the things that had already hapned that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments 5 And that thy people might pass a wonderful way but they might finde a strange death 6 For the whole creature in his proper kinde was fashioned again anew serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them that thy children might be kept without hurt 7 As namely a cloud shadowing â—â—e camp and where water stood before dry land appeared and 〈◊〉 of the Red sea a way without impediment and out of the viâ—â—â—â—t stream a green field 8 Wherethrough all the people wâ—â—â— that were defended with thy hand seeing thy marvellous strange wonders 9 For they went at large like horses and leaped like lambs praising thee O Lord who hadst delivered them 10 For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land how the ground brought forth ‖ Or lice flies in stead of cattel and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs in stead of fishes 11 But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls when being led with their appetite they asked delicate meats 12 For quails came up unto them from the sea for their ‖ Or comfort contentment 13 And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour towards strangers 14 For the Sodomites did not receive those whom they knew not when they came but these brought friends into bondage that had well deserved of them 15 And not onely so but peradventure some respect shall be had of those because they used strangers not friendly 16 But these very grievously afflicted them whom they had received with feastings and were already made partakers of the same laws with them 17 Therefore even with blindness were these stricken as those were at the doors of the righteous man when being compassed about with horrible great darkness every one sought the passage of his own doors 18 For the elements were changed †Or. by themselves in themselves by a kinde of harmony like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune and yet are always sounds which may well be perceived by the sight of the things that have been done 19 For earthly things were turned into watery and the things that before swam in the water now went upon the ground 20 The fire had power in the water forgetting his own vertue and the water forgat his own quenching nature 21 On the other side the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things though they walked therein neither melted they the icie kinde of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt 22 For in all things O Lord thou didst magnify thy people and glorify them neither didst thou lightly regard them but didst assist them in every time and place The Wisdom of JESVS the son of SIRACH or ECCLESIASTICUS A prologue made by an uncertain Author Some reser this prologue to Athanasius because it is found in his Synopsis THis Jesus was the son of Sirach and grandchilde to Jesus of the same name with him this man therefore lived in the latter times after the people had been led away captive and called home again and almost after all he prophets Now his grandfather Jesus as he himself witnesseth was a man of great diligence and wisdom among the Hebrews who did not onely gather the grave and short sentences of wise men that had been before him but himself also uttered some of his own full of much understanding and wisdom When as therefore the first Jesus died leaving this book almost ‖ Or collected perfected Sirach his son receiving it after him left it to his own son Jesus who having gotten it into his hands compiled it all orderly into one volume and called it Wisdom intituling it both by his own name his fathers name and his grandfathers alluring the hearer by the very name of Wisdom to have a greater love to the study of this book It containeth therefore wise sayings dark sentences and parables and certain particular ancient godly stories of men that pleased God also his prayer and song moreover what benefits God had vouchsafed his people and what plagues he had heaped upon their enemies This Jesus did imitate Solomon and was no less famous for wisdom and learning both being indeed a man of great learning so reputed also The prologue of the Wisdom of JESUS the son of SIRACH WHereas many and great things have been delivered unto us by the law and the prophets and by others that have followed their steps for the which things Israel ought to be commended for learning and wisdom and whereof not onely the readers must needs become skilful themselves but also they that desire to learn be able to profit them which are ‖ Or of
a very fair woman and one that feared the Lord. 3 Her parents also were righteous and taught their daughter according to the law of Moses 4 Now Joacim was a great rich man and had a fair garden joyning unto his house and to him resorted the Jews because he was more honourable then all others 5 The same year were appointed two of the ancients of the people to be judges such as the Lord spake of that wickedness came from Babylon from ancient judges who seemed to govern the people 6 These kept much at Joacims house and all that had any suits in law came unto them 7 Now when the people departed away at noon Susanna went into her husbands garden to walk 8 And the two elders saw her going in every day and walking so that their lust was inflamed toward her 9 And they perverted their own minde and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven nor remember just judgements 10 And albeit they both were wounded with her love yet durst not one shew another his grief 11 For they were ashamed to declare their lust that they desired to have to do with her 12 Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her 13 And the one said to the other Let us now go home for it is dinner-time 14 So when they were gone out they parted the one from the other and turning back again they came to the same place and after they had asked one another the cause they acknowledged their lust then appointed they a time both together when they might finde her alone 15 And it fell out as they watched a fit time she went in †Gr. as yesterday and the day before as before with two maids onely and she was desirous to wash her self in the garden for it was hot 16 And there was no body there save the two elders that had hid themselves and watched her 17 Then she said to her maids Bring me oyl and washing-balls and shut the garden doors that I may wash me 18 And they did as she bade them and shut the garden-doors and went out themselves at ‖ Or side-doors privy doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them but they saw not the elders because they were hid 19 Now when the maids were gone forth the two elders rose up and ran unto her saying 20 Behold the garden-doors are shut that no man can see us and we are in love with thee therefore consent unto us and lie with us 21 If thou wilt not we will bear witness against thee that a young man was with thee and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee 22 Then Susanna sighed and said I am straighted on every side for if I do this thing it is death unto me and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands 23 It is better for me to fall into your hands and not to do it then to sin in the sight of the Lord. 24 With that Susanna cried with a loud voice and the two elders cried out against her 25 Then ran the one and opened the garden-door 26 So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden they rushed in at a privy door to see what was done unto her 27 But when the elders had declared their matter the servants were greatly ashamed for there was never such a report made of Susanna 28 And it came to pass the next day when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death 29 And said before the people Send for Susanna the daughter of Chelcias Joacims wife and so they sent 30 So she came with her father and mother her children and all her kindred 31 Now Susanna was a very delicate woman and beauteous to behold 32 And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face for she was covered that they might be filled with her beauty 33 Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept 34 Then the two elders stood up in the mids of the people and said their hands upon her head 35 And she weeping looked up towards heaven for her heart trusted in the Lord. 36 And the elders said As we walked in the garden alone this woman came in with two maids and shut the garden doors and sent the maids away 37 Then a young man who there was hid came unto her and lay with her 38 Then we that stood in a corner of the garden seeing this wickedness ran unto them 39 And when we saw them together the man we could not hold for he was stronger then we and opened the door and leaped out 40 But having taken this woman we asked who the young man was but she would not tell us these things do we testifie 41 Then the assembly beleeve them as those that were the elders and judges of the people so they condemned her to death 42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice and said O everlasting God that knowest the secrets and knowest all things before they be 43 Thou knowest that they have born false witness against me and behold I must die whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me 44 And the Lord heard her voice 45 Therefore when she was led to be put to death the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was Daniel 46 Who cried with a loud voice I am clear from the bloud of this woman 47 Then all the people turned them towards him and said What mean those words that thou hast spoken 48 So he standing in the midst of them said Are ye such fools ye sons of Israel that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel 49 Return again to the place of judgement for they have born false witness against her 50 Wherefore all the people turned again in haste and the elders said unto him Come sit down among us and shew it us seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder 51 Then said Daniel unto them Put these two aside one far from another and I will examine them 52 So when they were put asunder one from another he called one of them and said unto him O thou that art waxen old in wickedness now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light 53 For thou hast pronounced false judgement and hast condemned the innocent and hast let the guilty go free albeit the Lord saith * Exod. 23.7 The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay 54 Now then if thou hast seen her tell me Under what tree sawest thou them companying together Who answered Under a †Gr. lentiâ—k-trâ—â— mastick-tree 55 And Daniel said Very well thou hast lied against thine own head for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God to cut thee in two 56 So
of the shew-bread and the pouring vessels and the vials and the censers of gold and the veil and the crowns and the golden ornaments that were before the temple ‖ Or he pilled all things all which he pulled off 23 He took also the silver and the gold and the †Gr. desirable precious vessels also he took the hidden treasures which he found 24 And when he had taken all away he went into his own land having made a great massacre and spoken very proudly 25 Therefore there was great mourning in Israel in every place where they were 26 So that the princes and elders mourned the virgins and young men were made feeble and the beauty of women was changed 27 Every bridegroom took up lamentation and she that sat in the marriage-chamber was in heaviness 28 The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion 29 And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collectour of tribute unto the cities of Juda who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude 30 And spake peaceable words unto them but all was deceit for when they had given him credence he fell suddenly upon the city and smote it very sore and destroyed much people of Israel 31 And when he had taken the spoils of the city he set it on fire and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side 32 But the women and children took they captive and possessed the cattel 33 Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall and with mighty towres and made it a strong hold for them 34 And they put therein a sinful nation wicked men and fortified themselves therein 35 They stored it also with armour and victuals and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem they laid them up there and so they became a sore snare 36 For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary and an evil adversary to Israel 37 Thus they shed innocent bloud on every side of the sanctuary and defiled it 38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers and became strange to those that were born in her and her own children left her 39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness her feasts were turned into mourning her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt 40 As had been her glory so was her dishonour increased and her excellency was turned into mourning 41 Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people 42 And every one should leave his laws so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king 43 Yea many also of the Israelites consented to his religion and sacrificed unto idols and profaned the sabbath 44 For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow ‖ Or the laws and rites of the strangers of the land the strange laws of the land 45 And forbid burnt-offerings and sacrifice and drink-offerings in the temple and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days 46 And pollute the sanctuary and holy people 47 Set up altars and groves and chappels of idols and sacrifice swines flesh and unclean beasts 48 That they should also leave their children uncircumcised and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation 49 To the end they might forget the law and change all the ordinances 50 And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king he said he should die 51 In the self-same manner wrote he to his whole kingdom and appointed overseers over all the people commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice city by city 52 Then many of the people were gathered unto them to wit every one that forsook the law and so they committed evils in the land 53 ‖ Or And they made Israel hide themselves in holes in every place of succour And drove the Israelites into secret places even wheresoever they could flee for succour 54 Now the fifteenth day of the moneth Casleu in the hundred fourty and fifth year they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar and builded idol-altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side 55 And burnt incense at the doors of their houses and in the streets 56 And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found they burnt them with fire 57 And wheresoever was found with any the book of the testament or if any consented to the law †Gr. the kings commandment put him to death the kings commandment was that they should put him to death 58 Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every moneth to as many as were found in the cities 59 Now the five and twentieth day of the moneth they did sacrifice upon the idol-altar which was upon the altar of God 60 At which time according to the commandment they put to death certain women †Gr. that had circumcised their children that had caused their children to be circumcised 61 And they hanged the infants about their necks and rifled their houses and slew them that had circumcised them 62 Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing 63 Wherefore they chose rather to die that they might not be defiled with meats and that they might not profane the holy covenant so then they died 64 And there was very great wrath upon Israel CHAP. II. 6 Mattathias lamenteth the case of Jerusalem 24 He slayeth a Jew that did sacrifice to idols in his presence and the kings messenger also 34 He and his are assailed on the sabbath and make no resistance 50 He dieth and instrutieth his sons 66 and maketh their brother Judas Maccabeus general IN those days ‖ Or Mattathias the son of John c. arose from Jerusalem or out of Jerusalem arose Mattathias the son of John the son of Simeon a priest of the sons of Joarib from Jerusalem and dwelt in Modin 2 And he had five sons Joannan ‖ Or who was called and so aflterward in the rest called ‖ Gaddis Caddis 3 Simon called Thassi 4 Judas who was called Maccabeus 5 Eleazar called ‖ Or Avaron or Abaron Avaran and Jonathan whose surname was Apphus 6 And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda and Jerusalem 7 He said Wo is me wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people and of the holy city and to dwell there when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers 8 Her temple is become as a man without glory 9 Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity her infants are slain in the streets her young men with the sword of the enemy 10 What nation
hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils 11 All her ornaments are taken away of a fret-woman she is become a bond-slave 12 And behold our ‖ Or 〈◊〉 thing sanctuary even our beauty and our glory is laid waste and the Gentiles have profaned it 13 To what end therefore shall we live any longer 14 Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes and put on sackcloth and mourned very sore 15 In the mean while the kings officers such as compelled the people to revolt came into the city Modin to make them sacrifice 16 And when many of Israel came unto them Mattathias also and his sons came together 17 Then answered the kings officers and said to Mattathias on this wise Thou art a ruler and an honourable and great man in this city and strengthned with sons and brethren 18 Now therefore come thou first and fulfil the kings commandment like as all the heathen have done yea and the men of Juda also and such as remain at Jerusalem so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the kings friends and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold and many rewards 19 Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice Though all the nations that are under the kings dominion obey him and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers and give consent to his commandments 20 Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers 21 God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances 22 We will not hearken to the kings words to go from our religion either on the right hand or the left 23 Now when he had left speaking these words there came one of the Jews in the light of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin according to the kings commandment 24 Which thing when Mattathias saw he was inflamed with zeal and his reins trembled neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgement wherefore he ran and slew him upon the altar 25 Also the kings commissioner who compelled men to sacrifice he killed at that time and the altar he pulled down 26 Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as * Numb 25.7 Phinees did unto Zambri the son of Salom. 27 And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice saying Whosoever is Zealous of the law and maintaineth the covenant let him follow me 28 So he and his sons fled into the mountains and left all that ever they had in the city 29 Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness to †Gr. sit or abide dwell there 30 Both they and their children and their wives and their cattel because †Gr. evils were multiplied upon them afflictions increased sore upon them 31 Now when it was told the kings servants and the host that was at Jerusalem in the city of David that certain men who had broken the kings commandment were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness 32 They pursued after them a great number and having overtaken them they camped against them and made war against them on the sabbath-day 33 And they said unto them Let that which you have done hitherto suffice come forth and do according to the commandment of the king and you shall live 34 But they said We will not come forth neither will we do the kings commandment to profane the sabbath-day 35 So then they gave ‖ Of the Jews them the battel with all speed 36 Howbeit they answered them not neither cast they a stone at them nor stopped the places where they lay hid 37 But said Let us die all in our †Gr. simplicity innocency heaven and earth shall testifie for us that you put us to death wrongfully 38 So they rose up against them in battel on the sabbath and they slew them with their wives and children and their cattel to the number of a thousand †Gr. souls of men people 39 Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof they mourned for them right sore 40 And one of them said to another If we all do as our brethren have done and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen they will now quickly root us out of the earth 41 At that time therefore they decreed saying Whosoever shall come to make battel with us on the sabbath-day we will fight against him neither will we die all as our brethren that were murdered in the secret places 42 Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were mighty men of Israel even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto the law 43 Also all they that fled for persecution joyned themselves unto them and were a stay unto them 44 So they joyned their forces and smote sinful men in their anger and wicked men in their wrath but the rest fled to the heathen for succour 45 Then Mattathias and his friends went round about and pulled down the altars 46 And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised those they circumcised ‖ Or by force valiantly 47 They pursued also after the proud men and the work prospered in their hand 48 So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles and out of the hand of kings neither †Gr. gaâ—â— they the born to the finner suffered they the sinner to triumph 49 Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die he said unto his sons Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength and the time of destruction and the wrath of indignation 50 Now therefore my sons be ye zealous for the law and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers 51 Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their †Gr. generations time so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name 52 * Gen 22 9 10. Rom. 4.3 Was not Abraham found faithful in tentation and it was imputed unto him for righteousness 53 * Gr. 41 40. Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt 54 * Numb 25.13 Ecclus 45.23 24. Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood 55 * Josh 1.2 Jesus for fulfilling the word was made a judge in Israel 56 * Numb 14.6 7. Josh 14.13 Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land 57 * 2 Sam. 2.4 David for being merciful possessed the throne of an everlasting kingdom 58 * 2 King 2.11 Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven 59 * Dan. 3.16 17 18 26. Ananias Azarias and Misael by beleeving were saved out of the flame 60 * Dan. 6.22 Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lionâ— 61 And thus consider
in the ways 5 He shut them up therefore in the towres and encamped against them and destroyed them utterly and burnt the towres of that place with fire and all that were therein 6 Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon where he found a mighty power much people with Timotheus their captain 7 So he fought many battels with them till at length they were discomfited before him and he smote them 8 And when he had taken Jazar with the towns belonging thereto he returned into Judea 9 Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters to destroy them but they fled to the fortress of Dathema 10 And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us 11 And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled Timotheus being captain of their host 12 Come now therefore and deliver us from their hands for many of us are slain 13 Yea all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are put to death their wives and their children also they have carried away captives and born away their stuff and they have destroyed there about a thousand men 14 While these letters were yet reading behold there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent who reported on this wise 15 And said They of Ptolemais and of Tyrus and Sidon and all Galilee of the Gentiles are assembled together against us to consume us 16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words there assembled a great congregation together to consult what they should do for their brethren that were in trouble and assaulted of them 17 Then said Judas unto Simon his brother Choose thee out men and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee for I and Jonathan my brother will go into the countrey of Galaad 18 So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias and Azarias captains of the people with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it 19 Unto whom he gave commandment saying Take ye the charge of this people and see that you make not war against the heathen untill the time that we come again 20 Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee and unto Judas eight thousand men for the countrey of Galaad 21 Then went Simon into Galilee where he fought many battels with the heathen so that the heathen were discomfited by him 22 And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais and there were slain of the heathen about three thousand men whose spoils he took 23 And ‖ Or captive Jews those that were in Galilee and in Arbattis with their wives and their children and all that they had took he away with him and brought them into Judea with great joy 24 Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over Jordan and travelled three days journey in the wilderness 25 Where they met with the Nabathites who came unto them in peaceable manner and told them every thing that had hapned to their brethren in the land of Galaad 26 And how that many of them were shut up in ‖ Or Hasorra Bosora and Bosor and Alenâ—◠‖ Or Chascor Casphor Maked and Carnaim all these cities are strong and great 27 And that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the countrey of Galaad and that against to morrow ‖ Or the heathen they had appointed to bring their host against the sorts and to take them and to destroy them all in one day 28 Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto ‖ Or Bosor Bosora and when he had won the city he slew all the males with the edge of the sword and took all their spoils and burnt the city with fire 29 From whence he removed by night and went till he came to the fortress 30 And betimes in the morning they †Gr. lift up their 〈◊〉 looked up and behold there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war to take the fortress for ‖ Or the heathen assaulted the Jews they assaulted them 31 When Judas therefore saw that the battel was begun and that the cry of the city went up to heaven with trumpets and a great sound 32 He said unto his host Fight this day for your brethren 33 So he went forth behinde them in three companies who sounded their trumpets and cried with prayer 34 Then the host of Timotheus knowing that it was Maccabeus fled from him wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men 35 This done Judas turned aside to Maspha and after he had assaulted it he took it and slew all the males therein and received the spoils thereof and burnt it with fire 36 From thence went he and took Casphon Maged Bosor and the other cities of the countrey of Galaad 37 After these things gathered Timotheus another host and encamped against Raphon beyond the brook 38 So Judas sent men to espy the host who brought him word saying All the heathen that be round about us are assembled unto them even a very great host 39 He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have pitched their tents beyond the brook ready to come and fight against thee upon this Judas went to meet them 40 Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host When Judas and his host come near the brook if he pass over first unto us we shall not be able to withstand him for he will mightily prevail against us 41 But if he be afraid and camp beyond the river we shall go over unto him and prevail against him 42 Now when Judas came near the brook he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook unto whom he gave commandment saying Suffer no man to remain in the camp but let all come to the battel 43 So he went first over unto them and all the people after him then all the heathen being discomfited before him cast away their weapons and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim 44 But ‖ Judas and his company they took the city and burnt the temple with all that were therein Thus was Carnaim subdued neither could they stand any longer before Judas 45 Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the countrey of Galaad from the least unto the greatest even their wives and their children and their stuff a very great host to the end they might come into the land of Judea 46 Now when they came unto Ephron this was a great city in the way as they should go very well fortified they could not turn from it either on the right hand or the left but must needs pass through the midst of it 47 Then they of the city shut
sendeth out his twelve apostles enabling them with power to do miracles 5 giveth them their charge teacheth them 16 comforteth them against persecutionâ— 40 and promiseth a blessing to those that receive them ANd * Mâ—r. 3.14 Luke 9.1 when he had called unto him his twelve disciples he gave them power ‖ Or over against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these The first Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother James the son of Zebedee and John his brother 3 Philip and Bartholomew Thomas and Matthew the publican James the son of Alpheus and Lebbeus whose surname was Thaddeus 4 Simon the Canaanite and Judas Iscariot who also betrayed him 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not 6 * Act. 13.46 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel 7 And as ye go preach saying * Luk. 10.9 The kingdom of heaven is at hand 8 Heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead cast out devils freely ye have received freely give 9 * Mar. 6.8 Luke 9.3 and 22.35 ‖ Or get Provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses 10 Nor scrip for your journey neither two coats neither shoes nor yet staves * Luk. 10.7 1 Tim. 5.18 for the workman is worthy of his meat 11 * Luk. 10.8 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter enquire who in it is worthy and there abide till ye go thence 12 And when ye come into an house salute it 13 And if the house be worthy let your peace come upon it but if it be not worthy let your peace return to you 14 * Mar. 6.11 And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart out of that house or city * Act. 13.51 shake off the dust of your feet 15 Verily I say unto you It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgement then for that city 16 ¶ * Luk. 10.3 Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and ‖ Or simple harmless as doves 17 But beware of men for they will deliver you up to the councils and they will scourge you in their synagogues 18 And ye shall be brought before governours and kings for my sake for a testimony against them and the Gentiles 19 * Mark 13.11 Luk. 12.11 But when they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak 20 For it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you 21 * Luke 21 1â— And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the childe and the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake * Mark 13.13 but he that endureth to the end shall be saved 23 But when they persecute you in this city flee ye into another for verily I say unto you ye shall not ‖ Or â—nd or finish have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of man be come 24 * Luk. â— 40 Joh. 13.16 The disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his lord 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his lord if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold 26 Fear them not therefore * Mar. 4.22 Luk. 8.17 and 12.2 for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hid that shall not be known 27 What I tell you in darkness that speak ye in light and what ye hear in the ear that preach ye upon the house-tops 28 * Luk. 12 4. And fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a ‖ It is 〈◊〉 value half-peny farthing in the original as being the tenth part of the Roman peny farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father 30 * 2 Sam. 14.11 Act. 27.34 But the very hairs of your head are all numbred 31 Fear ye not therefore ye are of more value then many sparrows 32 * Luk. 12.8 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven 33 * Mar. 8 3â— Luk. 9.26 2 Tim. 2.12 But whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also denie before my Father which is in heaven 34 * Luke 12.51 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth I came not to send peace but a sword 35 For I am come to set a man at variance * Mic. 7.5 against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in law against her mother in law 36 And a mans foes shall be they of his own houshold 37 * Luke 14.26 He that loveth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me and he that loveth son or daughter more then me is not worthy of me 38 * Chap. 16.24 Mar. 8 3â— Luke 9.23 And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me 39 * Joh. 1â— 25 He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall finde it 40 ¶ * Luke 10.16 Joh. 13 2â— He that receiveth you receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me 41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophets reward and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous mans reward 42 * Mar. 9 4â— And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water onely in the name of a disciple verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward CHAP. XI 2 John sendeth his disciples to Christ 7 Christs testimony concerning John 18 The opinion of the people both concerning John Christ 20 Christ upbraideth the unthankfulness and unrepentance of Chorazin Betosaida and Capernaum 25 and praising his Fathers wisdom in revealing the gospel to the simple 28 be calleth to him all such as feel the burden of their sins ANd it came to pass when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities 2 * Luke 7.18
22 But when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions 23 ¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven 24 And again I say unto you It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God 25 When his disciples heard it they were exceedingly amazed saying Who then can be saved 26 But Jesus beheld them and said unto them With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible 27 ¶ * Mat. 10.28 Luk. 18.28 Then answered Peter and said unto him Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee what shall we have therefore 28 And Jesus said unto them Verily I say unto you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory * Luke 22.30 ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life 30 * Ch. 20.16 Mar. 10.31 Luk. 13.30 But many that are first shall be last and the last shall be first CHAP. XX. 1 Christ by the similitude of the labourers in the vineyard sheweth that God is debter unto no man 17 foretelleth his passion 20 by answering the mother of Zebedees children teacheth his disciples to be lowly 30 and giveth two blinde men their sight FOr the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an housholder which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a ‖ The Remane peny is the eighth part of an ounce which after five shâ—llings the ounce is seven pence half-peny peny a day he sent them into his vineyard 3 And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place 4 And said unto them Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right I will give you And they went their way 5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour did likewise 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and saith unto them Why stand ye here all the day idle 7 They say unto him Because no man hath hired us He saith unto them Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right that shall ye receive 8 So when even was come the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward Call the labourers and give them their hire beginning from the last unto the first 9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour they received every man a peny 10 But when the first came they supposed that they should have received more and they likewise received every man a peny 11 And when they had received it they muimured against the goodman of the house 12 Saying These last ‖ Or have â—utiâ—â—ed â—â—e 〈…〉 have wrought but one hour and thou hast made them equal unto us which have born the burden and heat of the day 13 But he answered one of them and said Friend I do thee no wrong didst not thou agree with me for a peny 14 Take that thine is and go thy way I will give unto this last even as unto thee 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own is thine eye evil because I am good 16 * Ch. 19.30 So the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen 17 ¶ * Mat. 10.22 Luk. 18.31 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way and said unto them 18 Behold we go up to Jerusalem and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death 19 * John 18.32 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucifie him and the third day he shall rise again 20 ¶ * Mark 10.35 Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons worshipping him and desiring a certain thing of him 21 And he said unto her What wilt thou She saith unto him Grant that these my two sons may sit the one on thy right hand and the other on the left in thy kingdom 22 But Jesus answered and said Ye know not what ye ask Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with They say unto him We are able 23 And he saith unto them Ye shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father 24 And when the ten heard it they were moved with indignation against the two brethren 25 But Jesus called them unto him and said * Luke 22.25 Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are great exercise authority upon them 26 But it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister 27 And whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant 28 Even as the * Phil. 27. Son of man came not to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many 29 * Mark 10.46 Luk. 18.35 And as they departed from Jericho a great multitude followed him 30 ¶ And behold two blinde men sitting by the way-side when they heard that Jesus passed by cried out saying Have mercy on us O Lord thou son of David 31 And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace but they cried the more saying Have mercy on us O Lord thou son of David 32 And Jesus stood still and called them and said What will ye that I shall do unto you 33 They say unto him Lord that our eyes may be opened 34 So Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes and immediately their eyes received sight and they followed him CHAP. XXI 1 Christ rideth into Jerusalem upon an ass 12 driveth the buyers and sollers out of the temple 17 curseth the fig-tree 23 putteth to silence the priests and elders 28 and rebuketh them by the similitude of the two sons 33 and the husbandmen who shew such as were sent unto them ANd * Mar. 11.1 Luk. 19.29 when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage unto the mount of Olives then sent Jesus two disciples 2 Saying unto them Go into the village over against you and
him his disciples and saith unto them Verily I say unto you that this poor widow hath cast more in then all they which have cast into the treasury 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance but she of her want did cast in all that she had even all her living CHAP. XIII 1 Christ foretelleth the destruction of the temple 9 the persecutions for the gospel 10 that the gospel must be preached to all nations 14 that great calamities shall happen to the Jews 24 and the manner of his coming to judgement 32 The hour whereof being known to none every man is to watch and pray that we be not found unprovided when he cometh to eath one particularly by death ANd * Mat. 24. ◠as he went out of the temple one of his disciples saith unto him Master see what manner of stones and what buildings are hero 2 And Jesus answering said unto him Seest thou these great buildings there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately 4 * Mat. 24.3 Tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the signe when all these things shall be fulfilled 5 And Jesus answering them began to say Take heed lest any man deceive you 6 For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many 7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars be ye not troubled for such things must needs be but the end shall not be yet 8 For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be earth-quakes in divers places and there shall be famines and troubles these are the beginnings of ‖ The word in the original importeth the pains of a woman in travail sorrows 9 ¶ But take heed to your selves for they shall deliver you up to councils and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten and ye shall be brought before rulers kings for my sake for a testimony against them 10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations 11 * Mat. 10.19 But when they shall lead you and deliver you up take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak neither do ye premeditate but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour that speak ye for it is not ye that speak but the holy Ghost 12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death and the father the son and children shall rise up against their parents and shall cause them to be put to death 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake but he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved 14 ¶ * Mat. 24.15 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Damel the prophet standing where it ought not let him that readeth understand then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains 15 And let him that is on the house-top not go down into the house neither enter therein to take any thing out of his house 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment 17 But wo to them that are with childe and to them that give suck in those days 18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter 19 For in those days shall be affliction such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time neither shall be 20 And except that the Lord had shortned those days no flesh should be saved but for the elects sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortned the days 21 * Mat. 24.23 And then if any man shall say to you Lo here is Christ or lo he is there beleeve him not 22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall shew signs and wonders to seduce if it were possible even the elect 23 But take ye heed behold I have foretold you all things 24 ¶ * Mat. 24.29 But in those days after that tribulation the sun shall be darkned and the moon shall not give her sight 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory 27 And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven 28 Now learn a parable of the fig-tree When her branch is yet tender and putteth sorth leaves ye know that summer is near 29 So ye in like manner When ye shall see these things come to pass know that it is nigh even at the doors 30 Verily I say unto you that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away 32 ¶ But of that day and that hour knoweth no man no not the angels which are in heaven neither the Son but the Father 33 * Mat. 24.42 Take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not when the time is 34 For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey who lest his house and gave authority to his servants and to every man his work and commanded the porter to watch 35 Watch ye therefore for ye know not when the master of the house cometh at even or at midnight or at the cock-crowing or in the morning 36 Lest coming suddenly he finde you sleeping 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all Watch. CHAP. XIV 1 A conspiracy against Christ 3 Precious ointment is poured on his head by a woman 10 Judas selleth his Master for money 12 Christ himself foretelieth how he shall be betrared of one of his disciples 22 after the pass-over prepared and eaten instituteth his supper 26 declareth aforehand the flight of all his disciples and Peters denial 43 Judas betrayeth him with a kiss 46 He is apprehended in the garden 55 falsly accused and impiously condemned of the Jews council 65 shamefully abused by them 66 and thrice denied of Peter AFter * Mat. 26.2 two days was the feast of the pass-over and of unleavened bread and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death 2 But they said Not on the feast day lest there be an uproar of the people 3 ¶ * Mat. 26.6 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper as he sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster-box of ointment of ‖ Or part nard or liquid nard spikenard very precious and she brake the box and poured it on his head 4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said Why was this waste of the
fields * Mat. 9.37 for they are white already to harvest 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoyce together 37 And herein is that saying true One soweth another reapeth 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour other men laboured and ye are entred into their labours 39 ¶ And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which testified He told me all that ever I did 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him they besought him that he would tarry with them and he abode there two days 41 And many mo believed because of his own word 42 And said unto the woman Now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world 43 ¶ * Mat. 13.57 Now after two days he departed thence went into Galilee 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honour in his own countrey 45 Then when he was come into Galilee the Galileans received him having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast for they also went unto the feast 46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee * Chap. 2.1 where he made the water wine And there was a certain ‖ Or courtier or ruler noble man whose son was sick at Capernaum 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee he went unto him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son for he was at the point of death 48 Then said Jesus unto him Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not beleeve 49 The noble man saith unto him Sir come down ere my childe die 50 Jesus saith unto him Go thy way thy son liveth And the man beleeved the word that Jesus had spoken unto him he went his way 51 And as he was now going down his servants met him and told him saying Thy son liveth 52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend and they said unto him Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in the which Jesua said unto him Thy son liveth himself beleeved his whole house 54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did when he was come out of Judea into Galilee CHAP. V. 1 Jesus on the sabbath daâ— cureth him that was diseased eight and thirty years 10 The Jews therefore cavilâ— and persecute him for it 17 He answereth for himself and reproveth them shewing by the testimony of his Father 32 of John 36 of his works 39 and of the scriptures who he is AFter * Levit. 23.2 Deut. 16. this there was a feast of the Jews Jesus went up to Jerusalem 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep ‖ Or gate market a pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda having five porches 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blinde halt withered waiting for the moving of the water 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepred in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had 5 And a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty eight years 6 When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time in that case he saith unto him Wilt thou be made whole 7 The impotent man answered him Sir I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool but while I am coming another steppeth down before me 8 Jesus saith unto him Rise take up thy bed and walk 9 And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked and on the same day was the sabbath 10 ¶ The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured It is the sabbath-day * Jet 17.22 it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed 11 He answered them He that made me whole the same said unto me Take up thy bed and walk 12 Then asked they him What man is that which said unto thee Take up thy bed and walk 13 And he that was healed wist not who it was for Jesus had conveyed himself away ‖ Or from the multitude that was a multitude being in that place 14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him Behold thou art made whole sin no more left a worse thing come unto thee 15 The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the sabbath-day 17 ¶ But Jesus answered them My Father worketh hitherto and I work 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not onely had broken the sabbath but said also that God was his Father making himself equal with God 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them Verily verily I say unto you The Son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father do for what things soever he doeth these also doeth the Son likewise 20 For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things that himself doeth and he will shew him greater works then these that ye may marvel 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickneth them even so the Son quickneth whom he will 22 For the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement unto the Son 23 That all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him 24 Verily verily I say unto you He that heareth my word and beleeveth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life 25 Verily verily I say unto you The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voyce of the Son of God and they that hear shall live 26 For as the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgement also because he is the Son of man 28 Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voyce 29 And shall come forth * Mat. 25. â—6 they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of dammation 30 I can of mine own self do nothing as I hear I judge and my judgement is just because I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which hath sent me 31 * Cha. 8.14 If I bear
them that perish 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death to the other the savour of life unto life and who is sufficient for these things 17 For we are not as many which ‖ Or deal deceitfully with * Chap. 4.2 corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ CHAP. III. 1 Lest their false teachers should charge him with vain-glory he sheweth the faith and graces of the Corinthians to be a sufficient commendation of his ministery 6 Whereupon entring a comparison between the ministers of the law and of the gospel 12 he proveth that his ministery is so far the more excellent as the gospel of life and liberty is more glorious then the law of condemnation DO we begin again to commend our selves or need we as some others epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known read of all men 3 For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministred by us written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshly tables of the heart 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward 5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth but the spirit ‖ Or quickneth giveth life 7 But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to be done away 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory that excelleth 11 For if that which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious 12 Seeing then that we have such hope we use great ‖ Or boldness plainness of speech 13 And not as Moses * Exod. 34.33 which put a vail over his face that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished 14 But their mindes were blinded for until this day remaineth the same vail untâ—ken away in the reading of the old testament which vail is done away in Christ 15 But even unto this day when Moses is read the vail is upon their heart 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord the vail shall be taken away 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 18 But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as ‖ Or of the Lord the Spirit by the Spirit of the Lord. CHAP. IV. 1 He declareth how he hath used all sincerity and faithful diligence in preaching the â—ospel 7 and how the troubles and persecutions which be daily endureth for the same did redound to the praise of Gods power 12 to the benefit of the church 16 and to the apostle's own eternal glory THerefore seeing we have this ministery as we have received mercy we faint not 2 But have renounced the hidden things of †Or. shâ—me dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God 3 But if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeve not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them 5 For we preach not our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake 6 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us 8 We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but ‖ Or not altogether without help or means not in despair 9 Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh 12 So then death worketh in us but life in you 13 We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written * Psal 11â— 10 I beleeved and therefore have I spoken we also beleeve and therefore speak 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you 15 For all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God 16 For which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day 17 For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 18 While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal CHAP. V. 1 That in his assured hope of immortal glory 9 and in expâ—ctance of it and of the general judgement he laboureth to keep a good conscirence 12 not that he may herein boast of himself 14 but as one that having received life from Christ endeavoureth to live as a new creature to Christ onely 18 and by his ministery of reconciliation to reconcile others also in Christ to God FOr we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 2 For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened not for that we would be unclothed but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the self same thing is God who also hath given unto us the earnest of
wives unto others and their fields to them that shall inherit them for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to * Isa 56.11 Ch. 6.13 covetousness from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsly 11 For they have * Ch. 6 1◠healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying * Ezek. 13.10 Peace peace when there is no peace 12 Were they * Chap. 3.3 and 6.15 ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore shall they fall among them that fall in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down saith the LORD 13 ¶ ‖ Or In gathering I will consume I will surely consume them saith the LORD there shall be no grapes * Isa 5.1 〈◊〉 on the vine nor figs on the * Mat. 21 1◠Luk. 13 ◠c. fig-tree and the leaf shall fade and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them 14 Why do we sit still assemble your selves and let us enter into the defenced cities and let us be silent there for the LORD our God hath put us to silence and given us * Ch. 9.15 23.15 water of ‖ Or poison gall to drink because we have sinned against the LORD 15 We * Ch. 14.10 looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from * Ch. 4.15 Dan the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones for they are come and have devoured the land and †Heb. the fulness thereof all that is in it the city and those that dwell therein 17 For behold I will send serpents cockatrices among you which will not be * Ps 58.4.5 charmed and they shall bite you saith the LORD 18 ¶ When I would comfort my self against sorrow my heart is faint †Heb. upon in me 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people †Heb. because of the countrey of them that are far off because of them that dwell in a far countrey Is not the LORD in Zion is not her king in her why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities 20 The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am black astonishment hath taken hold on me 22 Is there no * Ch 46.11 balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people †Heb. gone up recovered CHAP. IX 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold sins 9 and for their judgement 12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity 17 He exhorteth to mourn for their destruct on 22 and to trust not in themselves but in God 25 He threatneth both Jews and Gentiles †Heb. Who will give my head c. OH * Isa 22.4 Chap. 4.19 that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and assembly of treacherous men 3 And they bend their tongues like their howe for lies but they are are valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me saith the LORD 4 * Ch. 12.6 Mic. 7.5 6. Take ye heed every one of his ‖ Or friend neighbour and trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbour will walk with slanders 5 And they will ‖ Or mock deceive every one his neighbour and will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lies and weary themselves to commit iniquity 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit they refuse to know me saith the LORD 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will melt them and try them for how shall I do for the daughter of my people 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh * Psal 12.2 120.3 deceit one speaketh * Psal 28.3 peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but †Heb. in the midst of him in heart he layeth ‖ Or wait for him his wait 9 ¶ * Chap. 5.9 29. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing and for the ‖ Or pastures habitations of the wilderness a lamentation because they are ‖ Or desolate burnt up so that none can pass through them neither can men hear the voice of the cattel †Heb. from the fowl even to c. both the fowl of the heavens and the breast are fled they are gone 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps and * Chap. 10.22 a den of dragons and I will make the cities of Judah †Heb. desolation desolate without an inhabitant 12 ¶ Who is the wise man that may understand this and who is be to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken that he may declare it for what the land perisheth and is burnt up like a wilderness that none passeth through 13 And the LORD saith Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked therein 14 But have walked after the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination of their own heart and after Baalim which their fathers taught them 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will feed them even this people * Chap. 8.14 23.15 with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink 16 I will * Levit. 26.33 scatter them also among the heathen whom neither they nor their fathers have known and I will send a sword after them till I have consumed them 17 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts Consider ye and call for the mourning-women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come 18 And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eye-lids gush out with waters 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion How are we spoiled we are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land because our dwellings have cast us out 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD O ye women and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and every one her neighbour lamentation 21 For death is come up into our
windows and is entred into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets 22 Speak Thus saith the LORD Ever the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvest-man and none shall gather them 23 ¶ Thus saith the LORD Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches 24 But * 1 Cor. 1.21 2 Cor. 10.17 let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the LORD which exercise loving kindness judgement and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight saith the LORD 25 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will †Heb. visit upon punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised 26 Egypt and Judah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab and all that are †Heb. cut off into corners or having the corners of their hair polled in the * Chap. 25.23 utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are * Rom. 2.28 29. uncircumcised in the heart CHAP. X. 1 The unequal comparison of God and idols 17 The prophet exhorteth to flee from the calamity to come 19 He lamenteth the spoil of the tabernacle by foolish pastours 23 He maketh an bumble supplication HEar ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you O house of Israel 2 Thus saith the LORD Learn not the way of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven for the heathen are dismayed at them 3 For the †Heb. statutes or ordinances are vanity customs of the people are vain for one cutteth a tree out of the forest the work of the hands of the workman with the ax 4 They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not 5 They are upright as the palm-tree * Ps 15.5 but speak not they must needs be * Isa 45.1 7. born because they cannot go be not afraid of them for * Isa 41.13 they cannot do evil neither also is it in them to do good 6 Forasmuch as there is none * Psal 86.1 10. like unto thee O LORD thou art great and thy name is great in might 7 * Rev. 15.4 Who would not fear thee O king of nations for ‖ Or it liketh thee to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee 8 But they are †Heb. in one or at once altogether * Isa 41 2â— Hab. 2.18 Zec. 10.2 brutish and foolish the stock is a doctrine of vanities 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz the work of the work man and of the hands of the founder blue and purple is their clothing they are all the work of cunning men 10 But the LORD is the †Heb. God of truth true God he is the living God and an †Heb. King of eternity everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation 11 Thus shall ye say unto them The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens 12 He * Gen. 1.1 6. Ch. 51.15 hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion 13 When he uttereth his voice there is a ‖ Or nâ—ise multitude of waters in the heavens and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings ‖ Or for rain with rain and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures 14 Every man ‖ Or is more brutish then to know is * Chap. 51.17 18. brutish in his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image for his molten image is falshood and there is no breath in them 15 They are vanity and the work of errours in the time of their visitation they shall perish 16 * Chap. 51.19 The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things and Israel is the rod of his inheritance the LORD of hosts is his name 17 ¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land O †Heb. inhabitress inhabitant of the fortress 18 For thus saith the LORD Behold I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once and will distress them that they may finde it so 19 ¶ Wo is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but I said Truly this is a grief and I must bear it 20 My tabernacle is spoiled and all my cords are broken my children are gone forth of me and they are not there is none to stretch forth my tent any more and to set up my curtains 21 For the pastours are become brutish and have not sought the LORD therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered 22 Behold the noise of the bruit is come and a great commotion out of the * Chap. 1.15 5.15 6.22 north-countrey to make the cities of Judah desolate and a * Chap. 9.11 den of dragons 23 ¶ O LORD I know that the * Prov. 16.1 20.24 way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps 24 O LORD * Psal 6.1 38. â— Chap. 30.11 correct me but with judgement not in thine anger lest thou †Heb. diminish me bring me to nothing 25 * Psal 79.6 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not and upon the families that call not on thy name for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have made his habitation desolate CHAP. XI 1 Jeremiah proclaimeth Gods covenant 8 rebuketh the Jews disobeying thereof 11 prophesieth evils to come upon them 18 and upon the men of Anathoth for conspiring to kill Jeremiah THe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant and speak unto the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem 3 And say thou unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel * Deut. 27.26 Gal. 3.10 Curled be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt from the iron furnace saying * Lev. 26.3 12. Obey my voice and do them according to all which I command you so shall ye be my people and I will be your God 5 That I may perform the * Deut. 7 1â— oath which I have sworn unto your