resurrection of the dead 22 For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive 23 But * 1 Thess 4.15 every man in his own order Christ the first-fruits afterward they that are Christs at his coming 24 Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power 25 For he must reign * Psal 110.1 till he hath put all enemies under his feet 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death 27 For he * Psal 8.6 hath put all things under his feet But when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all 29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour 31 I protest by ‖ Some read our your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord I die daily 32 If ‖ Or to speak after the manner of men after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not * Isa 22.23 let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die 33 Be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners 34 Awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame 35 But some man will say How are the dead raised up and with what body do they come 36 Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickned exceptit die 37 And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body 39 All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kinde of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds 40 There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another 41 There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption 43 It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power 44 It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body 45 And so it is written The first man Adam * Gen. 1.7 was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickning spirit 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual 47 The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord from heaven 48 As is the earthy such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly 49 And as we have born the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly 50 Now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption 51 Behold I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed 52 In a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last * Matth. 24.31 1 Thess 4.16 trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written * Isa 25.8 Hos 13.14 Death is swallowed up in victory 55 O death where is thy sting O ‖ Or hell grave where is thy victory 56 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law 57 But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 58 Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. CHAP. XVI 1 He exhorteth them to relieve the want of the brethren at Jerusalem 10 commendeth Timothy 13 and after friendly admonitions 16 shutteth up his epistle with divers salutations NOw concerning the collection for the saints as I have given order to the churches of Galatia even so do ye 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come 3 And when I come whomsoever you shall approve by your letters them will I send to bring your †Gr. â—ife liberality unto Jerusalem 4 And if it be meet that I go also they shall go with me 5 Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through Macedonia for I do pass through Macedonia 6 And it may be that I will abide yea and winter with you that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go 7 For I will not see you now by the way but I trust to tarry a while with you if the Lord permit 8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost 9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me and there are many adversaries 10 Now if Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do 11 Let no man therefore despise him but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me for I look for him with the brethren 12 As touching our brother Apollos I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren but his will was not at all to come at this time but he will come when he shall have convenient time 13 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong 14 Let all your things be done with charity 15 I beseech you brethren ye know the house of Stephanas that it is the first-fruits of Achaia and that they have addicted themselves to the ministery of the saints 16 That ye submit your selves unto such and to every one that helpeth with us and laboureth 17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied 18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours therefore acknowledge ye
end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that onely which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all 17 As it is written * Gen. 27.5 I have made thee a father of many nations ‖ Or like unto him before him whom he beleeved even God who quickneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were 18 Who against hope beleeved in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken * Gen. 15.5 So shall thy seed be 19 And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred year old neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to God 21 And being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him 24 But for us also to whom it shall be imputed it we beleeve on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead 25 Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification CHAP. V. 1 Being justified by faith we have peace with God 2 and joy in our hope 8 that sith we were reconciled by his bloud when we were enemies 10 we shall much more be saved being reconciled 12 As sin and death came by Adam 17 so much more righteousness and life by Jesus Christ 20 Where sin abounded grace did superabound THerefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 2 * Eph. 2.18 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God 3 And not onely so but we glory in tribulations also * James 1.3 knowing that tribulation worketh patience 4 And patience experience and experience hope 5 And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us 6 For when we were yet without strength ‖ Or according to the time in due time Christ died for the ungodly 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die 8 But God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us 9 Muâ—h more then being now justified by his bloud we shall be saved from wrath through him 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life 11 And not onely so but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement 12 Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men ‖ Or in whom for that all have sinned 13 For until the saw sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression who is the figure of him that was to come 15 But not as the offence so also is the free gift For if through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many 16 And not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift for the judgement was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many offences unto justification 17 For if ‖ Or by one offence by one mans offence death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ 18 Therefore as ‖ Or by one offence by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation even so ‖ Or by one righteousness by the rigiteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life 19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many he made righteous 20 Moreover the law entred that the offence might abound But where sin abounded grace did much more abound 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VI. 1 We may not live in sin 2 for we are dead unto it 3 as appeareth by our baptism 12 Let not sin reign any more 18 because we have yeelded our selves to the service of righteousness 23 and for that death is the wages of sin WHat shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound 2 God forbid how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein 3 Know ye not that * Gal. 3.27 so many of us as ‖ Or art were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death 4 Therefore we are * Col. 2.12 buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection 6 Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin 7 For he that is dead is †Gr. justified freed from sin 8 Now if we be dead with Christ we beleeve that we shall also live with him 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him 10 For in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God 11 Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but a live unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof 13 Neither yeeld ye your members as †Gr. arms or weapons instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yeeld your selves unto God as those that are a live from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace 15 What then shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace God forbid 16 Know ye not that * Joh. 8.34 2 Pet. 2.19 to whom ye yeeld your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin
unto death or of obedience unto righteousness 17 But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine †Gr. whereto ye were delivered which was delivered you 18 Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yeelded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yeeld your members servants to righteousness unto holiness 20 For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free †Gr. to righteousness from righteousness 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life 23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII 1 No law hath power over a man longer then he liveth 4 But we are dead to the law 7 Yet is not the law sin 12 but holy just good 16 as I acknowledge who am grieved because I cannot keep it KNow ye not brethren for I speak to them that know the law how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth 2 For * 1 Cor. 7.39 the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband 3 So then if while her husband liveth she be married to another man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man 4 Wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God 5 For when we were in the flesh the †Gr. passions motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death 6 But now we are delivered from the law ‖ Or being dead to that that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter 7 What shall we say then Is the law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known ‖ Or concupiscence lust except the law had said * Ex. 20.17 Deut. 5.21 Thou shalt not cover 8 But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence For without the law sin was dead 9 For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death 11 For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me 12 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me God forbid But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful 14 For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal sold under sin 15 For that which I do I †Gr. know allow not for what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not I consent unto the law that it is good 17 Now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 18 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I finde not 19 For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do 20 Now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 21 I finde then a law that when I would do good evil is present with me 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man 23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my minde and bringing me into â—aptivity to the law of sin which is in my members 24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from ‖ Or this body of death the body of this death 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the minde I my self serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin CHAP. VIII 1 They that are in Christ and live according to the Spirit are free from condemnation 5 13 What harm cometh of the flesh 6 14 and what good of the Spirit 17 and what of being Gods children 19 whose glorious deliverance all things long for 29 It was beforehand dâ—creed from God 38 What can sever us from his love THere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and ‖ Or by a sacrifice for sin for sin condemned sin in the flesh 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 5 For they that are after the flesh do minde the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit 6 For †Gr. the minding of the flesh to be carnally minded is death but †Gr. the minding of the Spirit to be spiritually minded is life and peace 7 Because †Gr. the minding of the flesh the carnal minde is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his 10 And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies ‖ Or because of his Spirit by his Spirit that dwelleth in you 12 Therefore brethren we are debters not to
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
10.2 Chap. 3.4 1 Chr. 24 2. Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD 62 And those that were numbred of them were twenty and three thousand all males from a moneth old and upward for they were not numbred among the children of Israel because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel 63 ¶ These are they that were numbred by Moses and Eleazar the priest who numbred the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbred when they numbred the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai 65 For the LORD had said of them They * Ch. 14.28 1 Co. 10.5 ◠shall surely die in the wilderness And there was not left a man of them save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. CHAP. XXVII 1 The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance 6 The law of inheritances 12 Moses being told of his death sueth for a successour 18 Joshua is appointed to succeed him THen came the daughters of * Ch. 26.33 Josh 17.3 Zelophehad the son of Hepher the son of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph and these are the names of his daughters Mahlah Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah 2 And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the princes and all the congregation by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation saying 3 Our father * Ch. 14.35 26.64 65. died in the wilderness and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah but died in his own sin and had no sons 4 Why should the name of our father be †Heb. diminished done away from among his family because he hath no son Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father 5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD 6 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their fathers brethren and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them 8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying If a man die and have no son then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter 9 And if he have no daughter then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren 10 And if he have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his fathers brethren 11 And if his father have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family and he shall possess it and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgement as the LORD commanded Moses 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses * Deut. 32.49 Get thee up into this mount Abarim and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel 13 And when thou hast seen it thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people as * Ch. 20.24 Aaron thy brother was gathered 14 For ye * Ch. 20.24 rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin in the strife of the congregation to sanctifie me at the water before their eyes that is the * Ex. 17.7 water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin 15 ¶ And Moses spake unto the LORD saying 16 Let the LORD the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation 17 Which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd 18 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Take thee Joshua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him 19 And set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight 20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest who shall ask counsel for him * Exod. 28.30 after the judgement of Urim before the LORD at his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in both he and all the children of Israel with him even all the congregation 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest before all the congregation 23 And he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses CHAP. XXVIII 1 Offerings are be observed 3 The continual burnt-offering 9 The offering on the sabbath 11 on the new-moons 16 at the pass-over 26 in the day of first-fruits ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel and say unto them My offering and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire for †Heb. a savour of my rest a sweet savour unto me shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season 3 And thou shalt say unto them * Exod. 29.38 This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD two lambs of the first year without pot †Heb. in a day day by day for a continual burnt-offering 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning and the other lamb shalt thou offer †Heb. between the two evenines at even 5 And a tenth part of an Ephah of flour for a * Lev. 2.1 meat-offering mingled with the fourth part of an * Ex. 29.40 hin of beaten oyl 6 It is a continual burnt-offering which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD 7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering 8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even as the meat-offering of the morning and as the drink-offering thereof thou shalt offer it a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 9 ¶ And on the sabbath-day two lambs of the first year without spot and two tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl and the drink offering thereof 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath beside the continual burnt-offering and his drink offering 11 ¶ And in the beginnings of your moneths ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto the LORD two young bullocks and one ram seven lambs of the first year without spot 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl for one
LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto all his land 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signs and those great miracles 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day 5 And I have led you fourty years in the wilderness your clothes are not waxen old upon you and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot 6 Ye have not eaten bread neither have you drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God 7 And when ye came unto this place Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us unto battel and we smote them 8 And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh 9 * Ch. 4.6 Josh 1.7 1 King 2 3. Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that ye may prosper in all that ye do 10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God your captains of your tribes your elders and your officers with all the men of Israel 11 Your little ones your wives and thy stranger that is in thy camp from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water 12 That thou shouldest †Heb pass enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hatâ— sworn unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you onely do I make this covenant and this oath 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God and also with him that is not here with us this day 16 For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we came through the nations which ye passed by 17 And ye have seen their abominations and their †Heb. dungy gods idols wood and stone silver and gold which were among them 18 Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations lest there should be among you a root that heareth ‖ Or a poysonful herb †Heb. râ—sk gall and wormwood 19 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination or mine heart to add †Heb. the drunken to the thirsty drunkenness to thirst 20 The LORD will not spare him but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that †Heb. is wriâ—ten are written in this book of the law 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up aftâ—r you and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses †Heb. wherewith the LORD hath made it sick which the LORD hath laid upon it 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning that it is not sown nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein * Gen. 19.24 25. like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah Admah and Zeboim which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath 24 Even all nations shall say * 1 Kin. 9.8 Jer. 22.8 Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land what meaneth the heat of this great anger 25 Then men shall say Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt 26 For they went and served other gods and worshipped them gods whom they knew not and ‖ Or who had not given to them any portion whom he had not †Heb. divided given unto them 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land as it is this day 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law CHAP. XXX 1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant 11 The commandment is manifest 15 Death and life are set before them ANd it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee and thou shalt call them to minde among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day thou and thy children with all thine heart and with all thy soul 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee 4 * Neh. 1 9â— If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all-thy soul that thou mayest live 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that hate thee which persecuted thee 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day 9 * Chap. 28.11 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattel and in the fruit of thy land for good for the LORD will again rejoyce over thee for good as he rejoyced over thy fathers 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to
bless thee 5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers Whose damsel is this 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the countrey of Moab 7 And she said I pray you let me glean and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaves so she came and hath continued even from the morning until now that she tarried a little in the house 8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth Hearest thou not my daughter Go not to glean in another field neither go from hence but abide here fast by my maidens 9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap and go thou after them have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee and when thou art athirst go unto the vessels and drink or that which the young men have drawn 10 Then she tell on her face and bowed her self to the ground and said unto him Why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me seeing I am a stranger 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her It hath fully been shewed me all tha thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother and the land of thy nativity and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore 12 The LORD recompense thy work and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel under whose wings thou art come to trust 13 Then she said ‖ Or I finde favour Let me finde favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken †Heb. to the heart friendly unto thine hand-maid though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens 14 And Boaz said unto her At meal-time come thou hither and eat of the bread and dip thy morsel in the vineger And she sat beside the reapers he reached her parched corn and she did eat was sufficed and left 15 And when she was risen up to glean Boaz commanded his young men saying Let her glean even among the sheaves and †Heb. shame her not reproach her not 16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them that she may glean them and rebuke her not 17 So she gleaned in the field until even and beat out that she had gleaned and it was about an ephah of barley 18 ¶ And she took it up and went into the city and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned and she brought forth and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed 19 And her mother in law said unto her Where hast thou gleaned to day and where wroughtest thou blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought and said The mans name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz. 20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law Blessed be he of the LORD who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead And Naomi said unto her The man is near of kin unto us ‖ Or one that hath richt to redeem one of our next kinsmen 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said He said unto me also Thou shalt keep fast by my young men until they have ended all my harvest 22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law It is good my daughter that thou go out with his maidens that they ‖ Or fall upon thee meet thee not in any other field 23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley-harvest and of wheat-harvest and dwelt with her mother in law CHAP. III. 1 By Naomi her instruction 5 Ruth lieth at Boaz his feet 8 Boaz acknowledgeth the right of a kinsman 14 He sendeth her away with six measures of barley THen Naomi her mother in law said unto her My daughter shall I not seek rest for thee that it may be well with thee 2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred with whose maidens thou wast Behold he winnoweth barley to night in the threshing-floor 3 Wash thy self therefore and anoint thee and put thy raiment upon thee and get thee down to the floor but make not thy self known unto the man until he shall have done eating and drinking 4 And it shall be when he lieth down that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie and thou shalt go in and ‖ Or lift up the clothes that are on his feet uncover his feet and lay thee down and he will tell thee what thou shalt do 5 And she said unto her All that thou sayest unto me I will do 6 ¶ And she went down unto the floor and did according to all that her mother in law bade her 7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn and she came soltly and uncovered his feet and laid her down 8 ¶ And it came to pass at midnight that the man was afraid and ‖ Or took hold on turned himself and behold a woman lay at his feet 9 And he said who art thou And she answered I am Ruth thine hand-maid spread therefore thy skirt over thine hand-maid for thou art ‖ Or one that hath right to redeem a near kinsman 10 And he said Blessed be thou of the LORD my daughter for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end then at the beginning inasmuch as thou followedst not young men whether poor or rich 11 And now my daughter fear not I will do to thee all that thou requirest for all the †Heb. gate city of my people doth know that thou art a vertuous woman 12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman howbeit there is a kinsman nearer then I. 13 Tarry this night and it shall be in the morning that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman well let him do the kinsmans part but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee as the LORD liveth lie down until the morning 14 ¶ And she lay at his feet until the morning and she arose up before one could know another And he said Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor 15 Also he said Bring the ‖ Or sheet or apron vail that thou hast upon thee and hold it And when she held it he measured six nuasâ—res of barley and said it on her and she went into the city 16 And when she came to her mother in law she said Who art thou my daughter and she told her all that the man had done to her 17 And she said These six measures of barley gave he me
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
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
free will to go up to Jerusalem go with thee 14 Forasmuch as thou art sent †Cald. from before the king of the king and of his * Est 3.14 seven counsellours to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand 15 And to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counsellours have freely offered unto the God of Israel whose habitation is in Jerusalem 16 * Chap. â— 25 And all the silver and gold that thou canst finde in all the province of Babylon with the free-will-offering of the people and of the priests offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem 17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks rams lambs with their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem 18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and gold that do after the will of your God 19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem 20 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God which thou shalt have occasion to bestow bestow it out of the kings treasure-house 21 And I even I Artaxerxes the king do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river that whatsoever Ezra the priest the scribe of the law of the God of heaven shall require of you it be done speedily 22 Unto an hundred talents of silver and to an hundred †Cald. â—â—rs measures of wheat and to an hundred baths of wine and to an hundred baths of oâ—l and salt without prescribing how much 23 †Heb. whatsoever is of thâ—◠〈◊〉 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons 24 Also we certifie you that touching any of the priests and Levites singers porters Nethinims or ministers of this house of God it shall not be lawful to impose toll tribute or custom upon them 25 And thou Ezra alter the wisdom of thy God that is in thine hand set magistrates and judges which may judge all the people that are beyond the river all such as know the laws of thy God and teach ye them that know them not 26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king let judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or †Cald. to rooting out to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment 27 ¶ Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers which hath put such a thing as this in the kings heart to beautifie the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem 28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king and his counsellours and before all the kings mighty princes and I was strengthned as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me CHAP. VIII 1 The companions of Ezra who returned from Babylon 15 He sendeth to Iddo for ministers for the temple 21 He keepeth a fast 24 He committeth the treasures to the custody of the priests 31 From Ahava they come to Jerusalem 33 The treasure is weighed in the temple 36 The commission is delivered THese are now the chief of their fathers and this is the genealogie of them that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king 2 Of the sons of Phinehas Gershom of the sons of Ithamar Daniel of the sons of David Hattush 3 Of the sons of Shechaniah of the sons of Pharosh Zechariah and with him were reckoned by genealogie of the males an hundred and fifty 4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred males 5 Of the sons of Shechaniah the son of Jahaziel and with him three hundred males 6 Of the sons also of Adin Ebed the son of Jonathan and with him fifty males 7 And of the sons of Elam Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah and with him seventy males 8 And of the sons of Shephatiah Zebadiah the son of Michael and with him fourscore males 9 Of the sons of Joab Obadiah the son of Jehiel and with him two hundred and eighteen males 10 And of the sons of Shelomith the son of Josiphiah and with him an hundred and threescore males 11 And of the sons of Bebai Zechariah the son of Bebai and with him twenty and eight males 12 And of the sons of Azgad Johanan ‖ Or the youngest son the son of Hakkatan and with him an hundred and ten males 13 And of the last sons of Adonikam whose names are these Eliphelet Jeiel and Shemaiah and with them threescore males 14 Of the sons allo of Bigvai Uthai and ‖ Or Zaccur as some read Zabbud and with them seventy males 15 ¶ And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava and there ‖ Or pitched abode we in tents three days and I viewed the people and the priests and found there none of the sons of Levi. 16 Then sent I for Eliezer for Ariel for Shemaiah and for Elnathan and for Jarib and for Elnathan and for Nathan and for Zechariah and for Meshullam chief men also for Joiarib and for Elnathan men of understanding 17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia and †Heb. I put words in their mouth I told them what they should say unto Iddo and to his brethren the Nethinims at the place Casiphia that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God 18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi the son of Israel and Sherebiah with his sons and his brethren eighteen 19 And Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari his brethren and their sons twenty 20 * See chap. 2.43 Also of the Nethinims whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites two hundred and twenty Nethinims all of them were expressed by name 21 ¶ Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava that we might afflict our selves before our God to seek of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of souldiers and hors-men to help us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken unto the king saying The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him 23 So we fasted and besought
rosteth not that which he took in hunting but the substance of a diligent man is precious 28 In the way of righteousness is life and in the path-way thereof there is no death CHAP. XIII A Wise son heareth his fathers instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke 2 * Chap. 12.14 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth but the soul of the transgressours shall eat violence 3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction 4 The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat 5 A righteous man hateth lying but a wicked man is loathsom and cometh to shame 6 * Chap. 11.3 5 6. Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way but wickedness overthroweth †Heb. sin the sinner 7 There is that maketh himself rich yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor yet hath great riches 8 The ransom of a mans life are his riches but the poor heareth not rebuke 9 The light of the righteous rejoyceth * Job 1â— 6 21.17 but the ‖ Or candle lamp of the wicked shall be put out 10 Onely by pride cometh contention but with the well-advised is wisdom 11 * Ch. 10 2. and 20.21 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but he that gathereth †Heb. with the hand by labour shall increase 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick but when the desire cometh it is a tree of life 13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he that feareth the commandment ‖ Or shall be in peace shall be rewarded 14 * Ch. 14.27 The law of the wise is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death 15 Good understanding giveth favour but the way of transgressours is hard 16 * Ch. 12.23 and 15.2 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge but a fool †Heb. spreadeth layeth open his folly 17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief but a faithful ambassadour is health 18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured 19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil 20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools †Heb. shall be broken shall be destroyed 21 Evil pursueth sinners but to the righteous good shall be repayed 22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children and the * Job 27.17 wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just 23 * Ch. 12.11 Much food is in the tillage of the poor but there is that is destroyed for want of judgement 24 * Chap. 23.13 He that spareth his rod hateth his son but he that loveth him chastneth him betâ—mes 25 * Ps 34.10 37.3 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul but the belly of the wicked shall want CHAP. XIV EVery wise woman buildeth her house but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands 2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD * Job 12.4 but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him 3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride but the lips of the wise shall preserve them 4 Where no oxen are the crib is clean but much increase is by the strength of the ox 5 * Ex 20 16. 23.1 Ch. 6.19 12.17 A faithful witness will not lie but a false witness shall utter lies 6 A scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not but * Ch. 8.9 knowledge is easie unto him that understandeth 7 Go from the presence of a foolish man when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way but the folly of fools is deceit 9 * Chap. 10.23 Fools make a mock at sin but among the righteous there is favour 10 The heart knoweth †Heb. the bitterness of his soul his own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown but the rabernacle of the upright shall flourish 12 * Chap. 16.25 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful and the end of that mirth is heaviness 14 The backslider in heart shall be * Chap. 1.31 filled with his own ways and a good man shall be satisfied from himself 15 The simple beleeveth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going 16 A wise man feareth and departeth from evil but the fool rageth and is confident 17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly and a man of wicked devices is hated 18 The simple inherit folly but the prudent are crowned with knowledge 19 The evil bow before the good and the wicked at the gates of the righteous 20 * Ch. 19.7 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour but †Heb many are the lovers of the rich the rich hath many friends 21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth * Psal 112.9 but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he 22 Do they not err that devise evil but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good 23 In all labour there is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth onely to penury 24 The crown of the wise is their riches but the foolishness of fools is folly 25 * Verse 5. A true witness delivereth souls but a deceitful witness speaketh lies 26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence and his children shall have a place of refuge 27 * Chap. 13.14 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death 28 In the multitude of people is the kings honour but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding but he that is †Heb. short of spirit hasty of spirit exalteth folly 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh but envy the rostenness of the bones 31 * Chap. 17.5 Matt. 25.40 45. He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness but the righteous hath hope in his death 33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding but that which is in the midst of fools is made known 34 Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach †Heb. to nations to any people 35 The kings favour is toward a wise servant but his wrath is against him that causeth shame CHAP. XV. A * Ch. 25.15 Soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger 2 The tongue of the wise useth
Saddue the son of Achitob the son of Amarias the son of ‖ Oâ—ias Ezias the son of ‖ Meraioth Memeroth the son of Zaraias the son of ‖ Vzzi Some copies want these three names Savias the son of Boccas the son of Abisum the son of Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron †Heb. was first Ezra 7.1 the chief priest 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon as a scribe being very ready in the law of Moses that was given by the God of Israel 4 And the king did him honour for he found grace in his sight in all his requests 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel of the priests of the Levites of the holy singers porters and ‖ Or Nethinims ministers of the temple unto Jerusalem 6 In †See Ezra 7.7 8 9. the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes in the fifth moneth this was the kings seventh year for they went from Babylon in the first day of the first moneth and came to Jerusalem according to the ‖ Or saâ—â—sâ— prosperous journey which the Lord gave them 7 For Esdras had very great skill so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements 8 Now the copy of the ‖ Or â—â—râ—e commission which was written from Artaxerxes the king and came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord is this that followeth 9 King Artaxerxes unto Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord sendeth greeting 10 Having determined to deal graciously I have given order that such of the nation of the Jews and of the priests and Levites being within our realm as are willing and desirous should go with thee unto Jerusalem 11 As many therefore as have a minde thereunto let them depart with thee as it hath seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counsellours 12 That they may look unto the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord 13 And carry the gifts unto the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem which I and my friends have vowed and all the gold and silver that in the countrey of Babylon can be ‖ Or gâ—t found to the Lord in Jerusalem 14 With that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God at Jerusalem and that silver and gold may be collected for bullocks rams and lambs and things thereunto appertaining 15 To the end that they may offer sacrifices unto the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God which is in Jerusalem 16 And whatsoever thou and thy brethren will do ‖ Or with the rest of Ezra 7.18 with the silver and gold that do according to the will of thy God 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord which are given thee for the use of the temple of thy God which is in Jerusalem thou shalt set before thy God in Jerusalem 18 And whatsoever thing else thou shalt remember for the use of the temple of thy God thou shalt give it out of the kings treasury 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phenice that whatsoever Esdras the priest and the reader of the law of the most high God shall send for they should give it him with speed 20 To the sum of an hundred talents of silver likewise also of wheat even to an hundred ‖ Or measures or salt Ezra 7.22 cors and an hundred pieces of wine and other things in abundance 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently unto the most high God that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons 22 I command you also that ye require no tax nor any other imposition of any of the priests or Levites or holy singers or porters or ministers of the temple or of any that have doings in this temple and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them 23 And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice †Heb. of those that know Ezra 7.25 all those that know the law of thy God and those that know it not thou shalt teach 24 And * Ezra 7.25 whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God and of the king shall be punished diligently whether it be by death or other punishment by penalty of money or by imprisonment 25 ¶ Then said Esdras the scribe Blessed be the onely Lord God of my fathers who hath put these things into the heart of the king to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem 26 And hath honoured the in the sight of the king and his counsellours and all his friends and nobles 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God and gathered together men of Israel to go up with me 28 And these are the chief according to their families and several dignities that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes 29 Of the sons of Phinees Gerson of the sons of Ithamar ‖ Or. Daniel Gamael of the sons of David ‖ Or Chattus Lettus * Ezra 8 â— of the sons of Shecaniah of the sons of Parosh the son of Sechenias 30 Of the sons of Pharez Zacharias and with him were counted an hundred and fifty men 31 Of the sons of Pahath Moab Eliaonias the son of ‖ Zerachaiah Zaraias and with him two hundred men 32 ‖ Or of the sons of Shechaniah the son of Jahaziel Of the sons of Zathoe Sechenias the son of Jezelus and with him three hundred men of the sons of Adin Obeth the son of Jonathan and with him †Heb. fifty men two hundred and fifty men 33 Of the sons of Elam Josias son of ‖ Or Athaliah Gotholias and with him seventy men 34 Of the sons of Saphatias ‖ Or Zebadiah Zaraias son of Michael and with him ‖ Or fourscore men threescore and ten men 35 Of the sons of Joab ‖ Or Obadiah Abadias son of ‖ Or Jebiel Jezelus and with him two hundred and ‖ Or eighteen men twelve men 36 ‖ Or of the sons of Shelomith the son of Josiphiah Of the sons of Banid Assalimeth son of Josaphias and with him an hundred and threescore men 37 Of the sons of Babi Zacharias son of Bebai and with him twenty and eight men 38 Of the sons of ‖ Or. Azead Astath Johannes son of ‖ Or Catan Acatan and with him an hundred and ten men 39 Of the sons of Adonicam the last and these are the names of them Eliphalet Jeuel and ‖ Or Shemaia Samaias and with them ‖ Or sixty men seventy men 40 Of the sons of †Heb. â—igval Bago Uthi the son of
life have received benefits and have not known me 11 And they that have lothed my law while they had yet liberty and when as yet place of repentance was open unto them understood not but despised it 12 The same must know it after death by pain 13 And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished and when but enquire how the righteous shall be saved whole the world is and for whom the world is created 14 Then answered I and said 15 I have said before and now do speak and will speak it also hereafter that there be many mo of them which perish then of them which shall be saved 16 Like as a wave is greater then a drop 17 And he answered me saying Like as the field is so is also the seed as the Howers be such are the colours also such as the workman is such also is the work and as the husbandman is himself so is his husbandry also for it was the time of the world 18 ‖ And now because the time of the world was come when I was preparing the world c. And now when I prepared the world which was not yet made even for them to dwell in that now live no man spake against me 19 For then every one obeyed ‖ but when the world was made both now and then the manners of every one created were corrupted by a never-failing harvest and a law unsearchable but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves 20 So I considered the world and behold there was peril because of the devices that were come into it 21 And I saw and spared it greatly and have kept me a ‖ Or grain grape of the cluster and a plant of a great people 22 Let the multitude perish then which was born in vain and let my ‖ Or grain grape be kept my plant for with great labour have I made it perfect 23 Nevertheless if thou wilt cease yet seven days mo but thou shalt not fast in them 24 But go into a field of flowers where no house is builded and eat onely the flowers of the field taste no flesh drink no wine but eat flowers onely 25 And pray unto the Highest continually then will I come and talk with thee 26 So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath like as he commanded me and there I sat amongst the flowers and did eat of the herds of the field and the meat of the same satisfied me 27 After seven days I sat upon the grass and my heart was vexed within me like as before 28 And I opened my mouth and began to talk before the most High and said 29 O Lord thou that shewest thy self unto us thou wast * Ex. 19.9 and 24.3 Deut. 4.12 shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness in a place where no man ‖ Or coâ—â—th treadeth in a barren place when they came out of Egypt 30 And thouspakest saying Hear me O Israel and mark my words thou seed of Jacob. 31 For behold I sow my law in you and it shall bring fruit in you and ye shall be honoured in it for ever 32 But our fathers which received the law kept it not and observed not thy ordinances and though the fruit of thy law did not perish neither could it for it was thine 33 Yet they that received it perished because they kept not the thing that was sown in them 34 And so it is a custom when the ground hath received seed or the sea a ship or any vessel meat or drink that that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into 35 That thing also which was sown or cast therein or received doth perish and remaineth not with us but with us it hath not hapned so 36 For we that have received the law perish by sin and our heart also which received it 37 Notwithstanding the law perisheth not but remaineth in his force 38 And when I spake these things in my heart I looked back with mine eyes and upon the right side I saw a woman and behold she mourned and wept with a loud voice and was much grieved in heart and her clother were rent and she had ashes upon her head 39 Then let I my thoughts go that I was in and turned me unto her 40 And said unto her Wherefore weepest thou why art thou so grieved in thy minde 41 And she said unto me Sir let me alone that I may bewail my lelf and add unto my sorrow for I am sore vexed in my minde and brought very low 42 And I said unto her What aileth thee tell me 43 She said unto me I thy servant have been barren and had no childe though I had an husband thirty years 44 And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night and every hour but make my prayer to the Highest 45 After thirty years God heard me thine hand-maid looked upon my misery considered my trouble and gave me a son and I was very glad of him so was my husband also and all my neighbours and we gave great honour unto the Almighty 46 And I nourished him with great travel 47 So when he grew up and came to the time that he should have a wife I made a feast CHAP. X. 1 He comforteth the woman in the field 17 She vanisheth away and a city appeareth in her place 40 The angel declareth these visions in the field ANd it so came to pass that when my son was entred into his wedding-chamber he fell down and died 2 Then we all overthrew the lights and all my ‖ Or countrey-men Lat. citizens neighbours rose up to comfort me so I took my rest unto the second day at night 3 And it came to pass when they had all left off to comfort me to the end I might be quiet then rose I up by night and fled and came hither into this field as thou seest 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city but here to stay and neither to eat nor drink but continually to mourn and to fast until I die 5 Then left I the ‖ Or speeches meditations wherein I was and spake to to her in anger saying 6 Thou foolish woman above all other seest thou not our mourning and what hapneth unto us 7 How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness and much humbled mourning very sore 8 And now seeing we all mourn and are sad for we are all in heaviness art thou grieved for one son 9 For ask the earth and she shall tell thee that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her 10 For out of her came all at the first and out of her shall all others come and behold they walk almost all into destruction and a multitude of them is
father 8 Then he said unto him Go and tarry not So he went in and said to his father Behold I have found one which will go with me Then he said Call him unto me that I may know of what tribe he is and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee 9 So he called him and he came in and they saluted one another 10 Then Tobit said unto him Brother shew me of what tribe and family thou art 11 To whom he said Dost thou seek for a tribe or family or an hired man to go with thy son Then Tobit said unto him I would know brother thy kindred and name 12 Then he said I am Azarias the son of Ananias the great and of thy brethren 13 Then Tobit said Thou art welcome brother be not now angry with me because I have enquired to know thy tribe and thy family for thou art my brother of an honest and good stock for I know Ananias and Jonathas sons of that great Samaias as we went together to Jerusalem to worship and offered the first-born and the tenths of the fruits and they were not seduced with the errour of our brethren my brother thou art of a good stock 14 But tell me what wages shall I give thee wilt thou a drachme a day and things necessary as to mine own son 15 Yea moreover if ye return safe I will add something to thy wages 16 So they were well pleased Then said he to Tobias Prepare thy self for the journey and God send you a good journey And when his son had prepared all things for the journey his father said Go thou with this man and God which dwelleth in heaven prosper your journey and the angel of God keep you company So they went forth both and the young mans dog with them 17 But Anna his mother wept and said to Tobit Why hast thou sent away our son is he not the staff of our hand in going in and out before us 18 ‖ Let not money be added but be the offscouringâ— of our son Be not greedy to add money to money but let it be as refuse in respect of our childe 19 ‖ Or So long as God bath granted us to live this is sufficient For that which the Lord hath given us to live with doth suffice us 20 Then said Tobit to her Take no care my sister he shall return in safety and thine eyes shall see him 21 For the good angel will keep him company and his journey shall be prosperous and he shall return safe 22 Then the made an end of weeping CHAP. VI. 4 The angel biddeth Tobias to take the liver heart and gall out of a fish 10 and to marry Sara the daughter of Raguel 16 and teacheth how to drive the wicked spirit away ANd as they went on their journey they came in the evening to the river Tigris and they lodged there 2 And when the young man went down to wash himself a fish leaped out of the river and would have devoured him 3 Then the angel said unto him Take the fish and the young man laid hold of the fish and ‖ Or cast it upon the â—and drew it to land 4 To whom the angel said Open the fish and take the heart and the liver and the gall and put them up safely 5 So the young man did as the angel commanded him and when they had rosted the fish they did eat it then they both went on their way till they drew near to Ecbatane 6 Then the young man said to the angel Brother Azarias to what use is the heart and the liver and the gall of the fish 7 And he said unto him Touching the heart and the liver if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman and the party shall be no more vexed 8 As for the gall it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes and he shall be healed 9 And when they were come near to Rages 10 The angel said to the young man Brother to day we shall lodge with Raguel who is thy cousin he also hath one onely daughter named Sara I will speak for her that she may be given thee for a wife 11 For to thee doth the ‖ Or inheritance * Num. 27.8 36.8 right of her appertain seeing thou onely art of her kindred 12 And the maid is fair and wise now therefore hear me and I will speak to her father and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses but he shall be guilty of death because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee then to any other 13 Then the young man answered the angel I have heard brother Azarias that this maid hath been given to seven men who all died in the marriage-chamber 14 And now I am the onely son of my father and I am afraid lest if I go in unto her I die as the other before for a wicked spirit loveth her which hurteth no body but those which come unto her wherefore I also fear lest I die and bring my fathers and my mothers life because of me to the grave with sorrow for they have no other son to bury them 15 Then the angel said unto him Dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred wherefore hear me O my brother for she shall be given thee to wife and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage 16 And when thou shalt come into the marriage-chamber thou shalt take the ‖ Or embers ashes of perfume and shalt lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish and shalt make a smoke with it 17 And the devil shall smell it and flee away and never come again any more but when thou shalt come to her rise up both of you and pray to God which is merciful who will have pity on you and save you fear not for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning and thou shalt preserve her and she shall go with thee moreover I suppose that she shall bear thee children Now when Tobias had heard these things he loved her and his heart was ‖ Or vehemently effectually joyned to her CHAP. VII 11 Raguel telleth Tobias what had happened to his daughter 12 and giveth her in marriage unto him 17 She is conveyed to her chamber and weepeth 18 Her mother comforteth her ANd when they were come to Ecbatane they came to the house of Raguel and Sara met them and after they had saluted one another she brought them into the house 2 Then said Raguel to Edna his wife How like is this young man to Tobit my cousin 3 And Raguel asked them From whence
he put him aside and commanded to bring the other and said unto him O thou seed of Chanaan and not of Juda beauty hath deceived thee and lust hath perverted thine heart 57 Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel and they for fear companied with you but the daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness 58 Now therefore tell me Under what tree didst thou take them companying together Who answered Under a ‖ Or kinde of oak holm-tree 59 Then said Daniel unto him Well thou hast also lied against thine own head for the angel of God waiteth with the sword to cut thee in two that he may destroy you 60 With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice and praised God who saveth them that trust in him 61 And they rose against the two elders for Daniel had convctied them of false witness by their own mouth 62 And according to the law of Moses * Deut. 19.19 Prov. 19.5 they did unto them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour and they put them to death Thus the innocent bloud was saved the same day 63 Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna with Joacim her husband and all the kindred because there was no dishonesty found in her 64 From that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people ¶ The history of the destruction of †Gr. Bels dragon Bel and the Dragon cut off from the end of DANIEL 19 The fraud of Bels priests is discovered by Daniel 27 and the dragon slain which was worshipped 33 Daniel is preserved in the lions â—en 42 The king doth acknowledge the God of Daniel and casteth his enemies into the same den ANd king Astyages was gathered to his fathers and Cyrus of Persia received his kingdom 2 And Daniel ‖ Or liveâ— with the king conversed with the king and was honoured above all his friends 3 Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel. and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour and fourty sheep and six vessels of wine 4 And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it but Daniel worshipped his own God And the king said unto him Why dost not thou worship Bel 5 Who answered and said Because I may not worship idols made with hands but the living God who hath created the heaven and the earth and hath sovereignty over all flesh 6 Then said the king unto him Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living god seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day 7 Then Daniel smiled and said O king be not deceived for this is but clay within and brass without and did never * Ecclus 30.19 eat or drink any thing 8 So the king was wroth and called for his priests and said unto them If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these expenses ye shall die 9 But if you can certifie me that Bel devoureth them then Daniel shall die for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bel. And Daniel said unto the king Let it be according to thy word 10 Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten beside their wives and children and the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel. 11 So Bels priests said Lo we go out but thou O king set on the meat and make ready the wine and shut the door fast and seal it with thine own signet 12 And to morrow when thou comest in if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all we will suffer death or else Daniel that speaketh falsly against us 13 And they little regarded it for under the table they had made a privy entrance whereby they entred in continually and consumed those things 14 So when they were gone forth the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone then went they out and shut the door and sealed it with the kings signet and so departed 15 Now in the night came the priests with their wives and children as they were wont to do and did eat and drink up all 16 In the morning betime the king arose and Daniel with him 17 And the king said Daniel are the seals whole And he said Yea O king they be whole 18 And assoon as he had opened the door the king looked upon the table and cried with a loud voice Great art thou O Bel and with thee is no deceit at all 19 Then laughed Daniel and held the king that he should not go in and said Behold now the pavement and mark well whose footsteps are these 20 And the king said I see the footsteps of men women and children And then the king was angry 21 And took the priests with their wives and children who shewed him the privy doors where they came in and consumed such things as were upon the table 22 Therefore the king slew them and delivered Bel into Daniels power who destroyed him and his temple 23 ‖ Some add this title Of the dragon And in that same place there was a great dragon which they of Babylon worshipped 24 And the king said unto Daniel Wilt thou also say that this is of brass so he liveth he eateth and drinketh thou canst not say that he is no living god therefore worship him 25 Then said Daniel unto the king I will worship the Lord my God for he is the living God 26 But give me leave O king and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff The king said I give thee leave 27 Then Daniel took pitch and fat and hair and did seethe them together and made lumps thereof this he put in the dragons mouth and so the dragon burst in sunder and Daniel said ‖ Or Behold what you worship Lo These are the gods you worship 28 When they of Babylon heard that they took great indignation and conspired against the king saying The king is become a Jew and he hath destroyed Bel he hath slain the dragon and put the priests to death 29 So they came to the king and said Deliver us Daniel or else we will destroy thee and thine house 30 Now when the king saw that they pressed him sore being constrained he * Dan 6.16 delivered Daniel unto them 31 Who cast him into the lions den where he was six days 32 And in the den there were seven lions and they had given them every day ‖ Or two slaves two carcases and two sheep which then were not given to them to the intent they might devour Daniel 33 Now there was in Jewry a prophet called Habbacuc who had ‖ Or sod made pottage and had broken bread in a bowl and was going into the field for to bring it to the reapers 34 But the angel of the Lord said unto Habbacuc Go
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
law The Jews therefore said unto him It is not lawful for us to put any man to death 32 * Mat. 20.19 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spake signifying what death he should die 33 * Mat. 27.11 Then Pilate entred into the judgement-hall again and called Jesus and said unto him Art thou the king of the Jews 34 Jesus answered him Sayest thou this thing of thy self or did others tell it thee of me 35 Pilate answered Am I a Jew Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me What hast thou done 36 Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now is my kingdom not from hence 37 Pilate therefore said unto him Art thou a king then Jesus answered Thou sayest that I am a king To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice 38 Pilate saith unto him What is truth And when he had said this he went out again unto the Jews and saith unto them I finde in him no fault at all 39 * Mat. 27.15 But ye have a custom that I should release unto you one at the pass-over will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews 40 * Act. 3.14 Then cried they all again saying Plot this man but Barabbas Now Barabbas was a robber CHAP. XIX 1 Christ is scourged crowned with thorns and beaten 4 Pilate is desirous to release him but being overcome with the outrage of the Jews he delivered him to be crucified 23 They cast lots for his garments 26 He commendeth his mother to John 28 He dieth 31 His side is pierced 38 He is buried by Joseth and Nicodemus THen * Mat. 27.26 Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him 2 And the souldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head and they put on him a purple robe 3 And said Hail king of the Jews and they smote him with their hands 4 Pilate therefore went forth again and saith unto them Behold I bring him forth to you that ye may know that I finde no fault in him 5 Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe And Pilate saith vnto them Behold the man 6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him they cried out saying Crucifie him crucifie him Pilate saith unto them Take ye him and crucifie him for I finde no fault in him 7 The Jews answered him We have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God 8 ¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying he was the more afraid 9 And went again into the judgement-hall and saith unto Jesus Whence art thou but Jesus gave him no answer 10 Then saith Pilate unto him Speakest thou not unto me knowest thou not that I have power to crucifie thee and have power to release thee 11 Jesus answered Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin 12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him but the Jews cried out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Cesars friend whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Cesar 13 ¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgement-seat in a place that is called the Pavement but in the Hebrew Gabbatha 14 And it was the preparation of the pass-over and about the sixth hour and he saith unto the Jews Behold your king 15 But they cried out Away with him away with him crucifie him Pilate saith unto them Shall I crucifie your king The chief priests answered We have no king but Cesar 16 * Mat. 27.31 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified And they took Jesus and led him away 17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a scull which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha 18 Where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one and Jesus in the midst 19 ¶ And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS 20 This title then read many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latine 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate Write not The king of the Jews but that he said I am king of the Jews 22 Pilate answered What I have written I have written 23 ¶ * Mat. 27.35 Then the souldiers when they had crucified Jesus took his garments and made four parts to every souldier a part and also his coat now the coat was without seam ‖ Or wrought woven from the top throughout 24 They said therefore among themselves Let us not rend it but cast lots for it whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith * Ps 22.18 They parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they did cast lots These things therefore the souldiers did 25 ¶ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mothers sister Mary the wife of ‖ Or Clopas Cleophas and Mary Magdalene 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved he saith unto his mother Woman behold thy son 27 Then saith he to the disciple Behold thy mother And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home 28 ¶ After this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished * Psa 69.21 that the scripture might be fulfilled saith I thirst 29 Now there was set a vessel full of vineger and they filled a spunge with vineger and put it upon hyssop and put it to his mouth 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vineger he said It is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost 31 The Jews therefore because it was the preparation that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day for that sabbath-day was an high day besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away 32 Then came the souldiers and brake the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified with him 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already they brake not his legs 34 But one of the souldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out bloud and water 35 And he that saw it bare record and his record is true and he knoweth that he saith true that ye might beleeve 36 For these things were done * Ex. 12.46 Num.
6.5 which was one of the seven and abode with him 9 And the same man had four daughters virgins which did prophesie 10 And as we tarried there many days there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus 11 And when he was come unto us he took Pauls girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said Thus saith the holy Ghost So shall the Jews at Jerusalem binde the man that oweth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles 12 And when we heard these things both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem 13 Then Paul answered What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus 14 And when he would not be perswaded we ceased saying The will of the Lord be done 15 And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem 16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Cesarea and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus an old disciple with whom we should lodge 17 And when we were come to Jerusalem the brethren received us gladly 18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James and all the elders were present 19 And when he had saluted them he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministery 20 And when they heard it they glorified the Lord and â—aid unto him Thou seest brother how many thousands of Jews there are which beleeve and they are all zealous of the law 21 And they are informed of thee that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses saying that they ought not to curcumcise their children neither to walk after the customs 22 What is it therefore the multitude must needs come together for they will hear that thou art come 23 Do therefore this that we say to thee we have four men which have a vow on them 24 Them take and purifie thy self with them and be at charges with them that they may * Num. 6.18 Ch. 18.18 shave their heads and all may know that those things whereof they were informed concerning thee are nothing but that thou thy self also walkest orderly and keepest the law 25 As touching the Gentiles which beleeve * Ch. 15.20 we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing save onely that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from bloud and from strangled and from fornication 26 Then Paul took the men the next day purifying himself with them entred into the temple * Num. 6.13 to signifie the accomplishment of the days of purification until that an offering should be offered for every one of them 27 And when the seven days were almost ended the Jews which were of Asia when they saw him in the temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him 28 Crying out Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people the law this place further brought Greeks also into the temple and hath polluted this holy place 29 For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephelian whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple 30 And all the city was moved and the people ran together and they took Paul drew him out of the temple forthwith the doors were shut 31 And as they went about to kill him tidings came unto the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was in an uproar 32 Who immediately took souldiers and centurions and ran down unto them and when they saw the chief captain and the souldiers they left beating of Paul 33 Then the chief captain came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded who he was and what he had done 34 And some cried one thing some another among the multitude and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult he commanded him to be carried into the castle 35 And when he came upon the stairs so it was that he was born of the souldiers for the violence of the people 36 For the multitude of the people followed after crying Away with him 37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle he said unto the chief captain May I speak unto thee Who said Canst thou speak Greek 38 * Chap. 5.36 Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days madest an uproar and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers 39 But Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city and I beseech thee suffer me to speak unto the people 40 And when he had given him license Paul stood on the stairs and beckned with the hand unto the people and when there was made a great silence he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue saying CHAP. XXII 2 Paul declareth at large how he was converted to the faith 17 and called to his apostleship 22 At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim on him 24 He should have been scourged 25 but claiming the priviledge of a Roman he escapeth MEn brethren and fathers hear ye my defence which I make now unto you 2 And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them they kept the more silence and he saith 3 * Chap. 21.39 I am verily a man which am a Jew born in Tarsus a city in Cilicia yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers and was zealous towards God as ye all are this day 4 * Chap. 8.3 And I persecuted this way unto the death binding and delivering into prisons both men and women 5 As also the high priest doth hear me witness and all the estate of the elders from whom also I received letters unto the brethren and went to Damascus to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem for to be punished 6 And it came to pass that as I made my journey and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me 7 And I fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying unto me Saul Saul why persecutest thou me 8 And I answered Who art thou Lord And he said unto me I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest 9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light and were afraid but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me 10 And I said What shall I do Lord And the Lord said unto me Arise and go into Damascus and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do 11 And when I could not see for the glory of
to go to Cesarea and hors-men threescore and ten and spearmen two hundred at the third hour of the night 24 And provide them beasts that they may set Paul on and bring him safe unto Felix the governour 25 And he wrote a letter after this manner 26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governour Felix sendeth greeting 27 This man was taken of the Jews and should have been killed of them then came I with an army and rescued him having understood that he was a Roman 28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him I brought him forth into their council 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds 30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man I sent straightway to thee and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him Farewel 31 Then the souldiers as it was commanded them took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris 32 On the morrow they left the hors-men to go with him and returned to the castle 33 Who when they came to Cesarea and delivered the epistle to the governour presented Paul also before him 34 And when the governour had read the letter he asked of what province he was And when he understood that he was of Cilicia 35 I will hear thee said he when thine accusers are also come And he commanded him to be kept in Herods judgement-hall CHAP. XXIV 1 Paul being accused by Tertullus the oratour 10 answers for his life and doctrine 24 He preacheth Christ to the governour and his wife 26 The governour hopeth for a brise but in vain 27 At last going out of his of fice he leaveth Paul in prison ANd after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain oratour named Tettullus who enformed the governour against Paul 2 And when he was called forth Tettullus began to accuse him saying Sâ—eing that by thee we enjoy great quietness and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence 3 We accept it always and in all places most noble Felix with all thankfulness 4 Notwithstanding that I be not further tedious unto thee I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words 5 For we have found this man a Pestilent fellow and a mover of feastion among all the Jews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens 6 Who also â—ath gone about to profane the temple whom we took and would have judged according to our law 7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us and with great violence took him away out of our hands 8 Commanding his accuser to come unto thee by examining of whom thy sell may it take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him 9 And the Jews also assented saying that these things were so 10 Then Paul after that the governour had beckned unto him to speak answered Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation I do the more cheerfully answer for my self 11 Because that thou mâ—yest understand that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship 12 And they neither sound me in the temple disputing with any man neither raning up the people neither in the synagogues nor in the city 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me 14 But this I conâ—ess unto thee that alter the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers beleeving all things which are written in the law and the prophets 15 And have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust 16 And herein do I exercise my self to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men 17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings 18 * Chap. 21.17 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia sound me purified in the temple neither with multitude not with tumult 19 Who ought to have been here before thee and object if they had ought against me 20 Or else let these same here say if they have sound any evil-doing in me while I stood before the council 21 Except it be for this one voice that I cried standing among them * Chap. 23.5 Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day 22 And when Felix heard these things having more perfect knowledge of that way he deferred them and said When Lysias the chief captain shall come down I will know the uttermost of your matter 23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him 24 And after certain days when Felix came with his wife Drusilla which was a Jewess he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ 25 And as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgement to come Felix trembled and answered Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee 26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul that he might loose him wherefore he sent for him the oftner and communed with him 27 But alter two years Porcius Festus came into Felix room and Felix willing to shew the Jews a pleasure left Paul bound CHAP. XXV 2 The Jews accuse Paul before Festus 8 He answereth for himself 11 and appealeth unto Cesar 14 Afterwards Festus openeth his matter to king Agrippa 23 and â—e is brought forth 25 Festus cleareth him to have done nothing worthy of death NOw when Festus was come into the province after three days he ascended from Cesarea to Jerusalem 2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews enformed him against Paul and besought him 3 And desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem laying wait in the way to kill him 4 But Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Cesarea and that he himself would depart shortly thither 5 Let them therefore said he which among you are able go down with me and accuse this man it there be any wickedness in him 6 And when he had tarried among them ‖ Or as some copies read no more then eiâ—gt no ten days more then ten days he went down unto Cesarea and the next day sitting in the judgement-seat commanded Paul to be brought 7 And when he was come the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about and said many and grievous complaints against Paul which they could not prove 8 While he answered for himself Neither against the law of the Jews neither against the temple nor yet against Cesar have I
equal with God 7 But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the ‖ Or habit likeness of men 8 And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Chist is Lord to the glory of God the Father 12 Wherefore my beloved as ye have always obeyed not as in my presence onely but now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings 15 That ye may be blameless and ‖ Or sincere harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ‖ Or â—â—ine ye ye shine as lights in the world 16 Holding forth the word of life that I may rejoyce in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain neither laboured in vain 17 Yea and if I be †Gr. poured forth offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith I joy and rejoyce with you all 18 For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoyce with me 19 ‖ Or Moreover But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state 20 For I have no man ‖ Or so dear unto me like-minded who will naturally care for your state 21 For all * 1 Cor. 10.24 seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs 22 But ye know the proof of him that as a son with the Father he hath served with me in the gospel 23 Him therefore I hope to send presently so soon as I shall see how it will go with me 24 But I trust in the Lord that I also my self shall come shortly 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour and fellow-souldier but your messenger and he that ministred to my wants 26 For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness because that ye had heard that he had been sick 27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death but God had mercy on him and not on him onely but on me also lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow 28 I sent him therefore the more carefully that when ye see him again ye may rejoyce and that I may be the less sorrowful 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and ‖ Or honour â—â—th hold such in reputation 30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death not regarding his life to supply your lack of service toward me CHAP. III. 1 He warneth them to beware of the false teachers of the circumcision 4 shewing that himself hath greater cause then they to trust in the righteousness of the law 7 which notwithstanding he counteth as dung loss to gain Christ and his righteousness 12 therein acknowledging his own imperfection 15 He exhorteth them to be thus minded 17 and to imitate him 18 and to decline the ways of carnal Christians FInally my brethren rejoyce in the Lord. To write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe 2 Beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision 3 For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh I more 5 Circumcised the eighth day * 2 Cor. 11.22 of the stock of Israel of the tribe of Bâ—njamin an Hebrew of the Hebrews as touching the law * Act. 2â— 6 a Pharisee 6 Concerning zeal persecuting the church touching the righteousness which is in the law blameless 7 But what things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ 8 Yea doubtless and I count all things bâ—t loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things do count them but dung that I may win Christ 9 And be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith 10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead 12 Not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow alter if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus 13 Brethren I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behinde and reaching forth unto those things which are before 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus 15 Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you 16 Nevertheless whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us minde the same thing 17 Brethren be followers together of me and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample 18 For many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ 19 Whos 's end is destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who minde earthly things 20 For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we * 1 Cor. 1.7 Tit. 2.13 look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ 21 Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to sâ—bdue all things unto himself CHAP. IV. 1 From particular admonitions 4 he proceedeth to general exhortations 10 shewing how be rejoyced at their liberality towards him lying in prison not so much for the supply of his own wants as for the grace of God in them 19 and so he concludeth with prayer and salutations THerefore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for my joy and crown so stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved 2 I beseech Euodias and beseech Syntyche that they be of the same minde in the Lord. 3 And I intreat thee also true yoke-fellow help those women which laboured